Asteroid mining is the obvious one. That said as part of looking into SpaceX's business I learned that currently the TAM for launching other people's stuff into space is under $10 billion. SpaceX already owns most of that market. Their own focus on data centers in space IMO speaks for itself.

After a contract had been negotiated with the exact terms that Anthropic pushed to keep in place.

We don't have the actual contracts publicly. So I bet it has terms that let the government do what it wants ultimately by naming exceptions. That way OpenAI can claim it has some controls in place while the military has the freedom it needs practically.

I'm referring to the contract between Anthropic and the DoD from July 2025 in which both parties agreed to Anthropic's acceptable user policies which then later were seen as unacceptable despite the same admin having signed them.

Well, regulating doomsday devices is a reasonable thing to want. A reasonable regulation of such devices would call for proper safeguards and safety testing. I think Anthropic would have been fine with that.

Instead what happened is a one-off nationalist decree that solves none of the two concerns.

They didn't slam on the brakes though. They asked access to be limited to US citizens which ended up being hard to implement but is implementable and IMO addresses zero real concerns.

It's not even that. If Anthropic finds a way to variate citizenship the cat is back out of the bag. None of the AI-related worries I've ever heard about are addressed by limiting access to US citizens.

It's true that the initial tool response still has the same amount of tokens but it doesn't keep dragged along in the longer-lived top context.

Don't you resend after every turn, so splitting it avoids the n^2 token usage (granted it's cached so there's some optimal amount here)

Yes, exactly. You resend it on every turn (assuming no cache hits). This is why using the shorter-lived subagent to take in that context and only return the useful result back to the longer-lived context safes tokens.

That's assuming that this undermining of trust won't result in reduced willingness to share accurate data.

It's already a federal crime to lie to the census bureau, it's just not prosecuted for discretionary reasons.

This seems to be a new iteration of what IMO made frontend work somewhat painful for almost the entire time I've been building software. It used to take the form that people did something with html that it wasn't designed to do. That thing looked cool and so everyone wanted it. This lead to pain and the perception that the tool is inadequate. So we eventually got CSS. And it continued there. Someone figured out a way to get cool dropshadows and rounded corners. These were cumbersome to implement. And so on.

And that's ten minutes every time someone orders a dish with hollandaise because it really breaks when reheating as well. Given how much cost of labor is a factor it's easy to see why hardly any restaurant will serve real hollandaise. Perfect Baumol cost disease example. Maybe something like a Thermomix could solve the economic problem of hollandaise.

Isn't this because there otherwise wouldn't be allowed to fly into US airspace?

I mean for a flight that doesn't go to/from the US.

The US requirement is that passengers on flights to the USA have been processed in conformance with US regulations _and_ since that processing have not had any contact with passengers processed otherwise. It's not in itself a stupid rule but does make the US rules contagious, since either other airports re-build to keep the US-bound and other passengers segregated or they have to apply US rules to all.

This hit Auckland International badly: it had a lovely open atrium with a garden but the rules forced a forest of partitioning walls since passengers were transferring from smaller airports that couldn't quickly adopt the US rules.

I often fly from Milan Malpensa airport, and I’ve noticed there are two separate security areas: one for people flying to the US or Israel, and one for everyone else. I’d always wondered why this was the case, and now I get it.