This video shows the sidewalk outside of Anthropic AI’s San Francisco office today as people covered it in chalk messages to show support for the company during its growing fight with the U.S. Department of Defense over how its AI can be used. The Pentagon has been running Anthropic’s Claude system on classified networks under a deal worth up to $200 million, but officials want freedom to use it for “all lawful purposes.” Anthropic has refused to remove its guardrails, saying the AI can’t be use

Many local contractors at work on our lot to get curbing, sidewalk and parking ready on the east side. Thank you to these hard working, skilled tradesmen! • Duininck (Prinsburg)- Site prep and asphalt • BG Amundson Construction (Benson)- Curbing • Freetly Electric (Kerkhoven)- Lighting • Haats Masonry (Sunburg)- Sidewalk concrete • Magnuson Sheet Metal (Willmar)- In-concrete snow melt • Joel Johnson Construction (Pennock)- General contracting • Don's Building Center (Kerkhoven)- Building supplie