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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directs the DOD to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, barring military contractors from doing business with the company — This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon. Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says it'll challenge “any supply chain risk designation in court” and that the designation would only affect contractors' use of Claude on DOD work — Earlier today, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared on X that he is directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk.
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| Axios: |
President Trump calls Anthropic a “radical left, woke company” and says he is directing every federal agency in the US to stop using its products — The Trump administration has decided to blacklist Anthropic in the most consequential and controversial policy decision to date …
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| Bloomberg: |
Two coalitions of workers, including employees of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, ask their companies to join Anthropic in refusing DOD's demands — Anthropic PBC got a vote of support from Silicon Valley workers for its increasingly contentious public-relations battle with the Pentagon …
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Forums: r/ControlProblem and r/google
| Washington Post: |
Sources detail how the standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic escalated after discussions about using Claude during hypothetical nuclear missile attacks — Start-up Anthropic and the U.S. military are careening toward a clash over government use of artificial intelligence — and whether it should be allowed to kill.
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| Sam Altman / @sama: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD to deploy its models in DOD's classified network and asks DOD to extend those terms to all AI companies — Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of
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| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
Source: Sam Altman told employees the DOD is willing to let OpenAI build its own “safety stack” and won't force OpenAI to comply if its model refuses a task — Sam Altman told OpenAI employees at an all-hands meeting on Friday afternoon that a potential agreement is emerging …
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| Axios: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines with respect to AI use by the military, which are “an issue for the whole industry” — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a memo to staff that he will draw the same red lines that sparked a high-stakes fight between rival Anthropic …
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| CNBC: |
OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary financing in Oct.; Amazon invested $50B, Nvidia and SoftBank invested $30B each — OpenAI announced a $110 billion funding round on Friday, a financing that's more than double the size of its last raise a year ago …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/news, r/wallstreetbets, and r/OpenAI
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900M+ weekly active users, 50M+ consumer subscribers, and weekly Codex users have more than tripled since the start of the year to 1.6M — AI demand is surging across consumers, developers, and businesses. Meeting that demand and providing everyone access …
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| Om Malik / On my Om: |
Amazon is paying ~16x Microsoft's price per OpenAI percentage point, while getting none of Microsoft's exclusives, showing the cost of being late in AI — My word, the torrent of news keeps coming. You have hardly had time to digest the news of the $30 billion raise by Anthropic …
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| About Amazon: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: multiple federal agencies raised concerns about Grok's safety and reliability in recent months, before DOD approved Grok for use in classified settings — Warnings about xAI's safety and reliability preceded Pentagon decision to approve Grok for use in classified settings.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil a new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system will have a Groq-designed chip and OpenAI is a customer — Under pressure from rivals, the chip giant is set to offer a new product focused on rapid processing of AI queries for ‘inference’ demand| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
OpenAI fired an employee for insider trading on prediction markets like Polymarket; Unusual Whales has flagged 77 suspected insider trades around OpenAI events — Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.
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Bluesky: @carnage4life and @knibbs
Forums: r/technology, r/OpenAI, and Slashdot
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Dell stock closes up 22%, its biggest single-day gain since March 1, 2024, after the company gave an outlook for sales of its AI servers that exceeded estimates — Dell Technologies Inc. shares jumped the most in two years after the company gave an outlook for sales of its artificial intelligence servers …
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| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Paramount agrees to acquire WBD, paying $31 per share in cash, giving WBD an enterprise value of $110B; Paramount paid a $2.8B breakup fee to Netflix — Netflix backed away from its $87.2 billion deal on Thursday. … The two companies formally unveiled the deal Friday after Netflix formally bowed …
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Forums: r/Fauxmoi, r/DC_Cinematic, r/HBOMAX, and r/hbo
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
A federal judge issues a preliminary injunction blocking Virginia from enforcing a new law restricting children's social media use, on First Amendment grounds — A federal judge on Friday blocked Virginia from enforcing a new law that aimed to protect children from being addicted to social media …
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| Reuters: |
Coupang reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.8B, below $8.9B est., and a net loss of $26M, versus $131M net profit in Q4 2024, hurt by fallout from a data breach — E-commerce giant Coupang (CPNG.N) swung to a fourth-quarter loss on Thursday and reported revenue below analysts' estimates … | Tim Culpan / Culpium: |
Sources: TSMC urges clients to apply for N2 production allocation as far out as Q2 2027, with large capacity allotments nearly sold out for the next two years — [Exclusive] Clients are being asked to finalize their requirements into mid 2027, with larger customers already booking capacity over the next two to three years.| Fast Company: |
A look at a local group's lawsuit against Micron over its $100B New York manufacturing complex, alleging a rushed permitting process and environmental review — Lawsuit over Micron's massive Syracuse project raises concerns about toxic risks and alleges a rushed environmental review.
More: Pirate Wires. X: @semianalysis_, @semianalysis_, @semianalysis_, @semianalysis_, and @semianalysis_. LinkedIn: Drew Scheberle
| Dell Cameron / Wired: |
US Congressional Joint Economic Committee report: US consumers lost $20.9B nominally to identity theft from four major data broker breaches over the past decade — A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats … Sponsor Posts
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