Anthropic Stands Up To Trump Despite The Cost | News Round-Up

In this news round-up for the week of 27 February 2026: If 2025 was about corporate cowardice and capitulation to the Trump revolution, 2026 is seeing more and more standing up to the bullying. So the AI company Anthropic - threatened with massive sanction by the Pete Hegseth's Pentagon - has regardless refused to give it the right to use its models for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Netflix publicly defied President Trump over a board member not to his liking because, and walked away from a major merger deal after meeting the White House. And Nearly two thousand companies are looking for payback from Trump for his illegal tariffs, suing the government for refunds that it doesn't want to give, following the Supreme Court reversal. But are Trump's new tariffs similarly doomed to failure in the courts? Support Mallen's work on Patreon! https://patreon.com/mallenbaker [ please use the website, not Apple IOS Patreon app, as Apple takes a big slice of money from the latter ] Support Mallen via Paypal https://paypal.me/mallenbaker The ‘Faultlines’ channel by Mallen Baker covers news, current affairs, science and politics. A rational, reasoned and non-partisan approach to some of the difficult issues of our time, looking for how we can best survive and thrive in the modern world. Prefer it on podcast? Audio versions are available wherever you get your podcasts, or see https://the-mallen-baker-podcast.simplecast.com/ Quotes reported in this video should not be taken as an implication of their author’s endorsement or involvement in this video.