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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.
More: TechCrunch, New York Times, VentureBeat, KTVU-TV, The Atlantic, Computerworld, Reason, The New Stack, CBS News, Bloomberg Law, The Decoder, Balloon Juice, Flux, Cointelegraph, Blockonomi, Tech in Asia, and Axios
X: @aakashgupta, @hamandcheese, @kevinroose, @zaydante, @adamscochran, @alltheyud, @joshkale, @scaling01, @adamkovac, @adamrackis, @deanwball, @catehall, @deanwball, @sterlingcrispin, @tedsumers, @nickevanjoseph, @paulg, @deedydas, @trq212, @natolambert, @iscienceluvr, @pkafka, @petermccrory, @mikeisaac, @wexler, @uswremichael, @__nmca__, @vkhosla, @alexpalcuie, @kyliebytes, @mikeyk, @vkhosla, @andrewmgrossman, @dee_bosa, @aisafetymemes, @captgouda24, @jerryweiai, @sleepinyourhat, @krishnanrohit, @firstadopter, @daniel_mac8, @avitalbalwit, @aisafetymemes, @sporadica, @daniellefong, @jkeatn, and @growing_daniel
Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/worldnews, r/JoeRogan, r/Anthropic, r/Conservative, r/singularity, and Slashdot
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Claude became the #1 free app in the US App Store on Saturday, after DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk; it hovered in the top 20 for much of February — Anthropic's Claude artificial intelligence assistant app jumped to the No. 1 slot on Apple's chart of top U.S. free apps late on Saturday …
More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, Gizmodo, and XDA Developers
| Jo Ling / CBS News: |
Dario Amodei says “we are patriotic Americans” and Anthropic fears some AI uses could clash with American values as AI's potential gets “ahead of the law” — Add CBS News on Google — Hours after a bitter feud between the Pentagon and Anthropic ended … | Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
More: Washington Post, CNN, The Hill, Tom's Hardware, and New York Times
LinkedIn: Michael Hamel. Bluesky: @alanrozenshtein.com, @glinden, @kenbazinet, and @fightingliberal. Forums: r/politics
| Wired: |
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| Bloomberg: |
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X: @alexpalcuie and @katrinamanson
Forums: r/technology, r/technology, r/AmericanTechWorkers, r/google, and r/ControlProblem
| Axios: |
More: Reuters, New York Times, CNBC, Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, UPI, Inc.com, Breitbart, The Hill, Originally Reported …, Financial Times, Townhall, Digit, BBC, Moneycontrol, Politico, Bloomberg, Freedom Frequency, USA Today, Implicator.ai, Axios, Reuters, Washington Post, and CBS News
X: @uswremichael, @petehegseth, @vikhyatk, @deanwball, @senwarren, @hamandcheese, @kantrowitz, @erikvoorhees, @scholars_stage, @govsherrillnj, @lulumeservey, @hedgeyecomm, @hadas_gold, @aakashgupta, @headinthebox, @danprimack, @terronk, @deanwball, @hamburger, @s_oheigeartaigh, @vikhyatk, @vikhyatk, @alexbores, @luke_metro, @petereharrell, @markwarner, @kevinroose, @chrisharihar, @davidlawler10, @scaling01, @tedlieu, @jhweissmann, @sporadica, @kevinroose, @kimmonismus, @powerbottomdad1, @s_oheigeartaigh, @dee_bosa, @tysonbrody, @liminal_warmth, @adamkovac, @seconds_0, @alvinhsia, @jigarshahdc, @danprimack, @jakuuire, @charliebul58993, @josephpolitano, @danprimack, @m_ccuri, @scaling01, @danprimack, @hadas_gold, @dowresponse, and @secwar
LinkedIn: Jim Calhoun, Bill Schmarzo, and Alex Kantrowitz
Bluesky: @throughthecanon, @scribblegurl, @davidimel.com, @cara.city, @dorismatsui, @seldo.com, @fry69.dev, @houseforeign, and @justinhendrix. Mastodon: @Dhmspector@mastodon.social. Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump …
Forums: r/centrist, r/politics, r/technology, r/StockMarket, r/BBAI, r/Anthropic, and Slashdot
| @openai: |
OpenAI says it does not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and it has made its position on this clear to the Pentagon — We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and we've made our position on this clear to the Department of War.
More: Business Insider, Associated Press, The Next Web, Silver Bulletin, The Information, Semafor, Blockonomi, Techstrong.ai, Business Today, The Hill, and TechCrunch
X: @_nathancalvin, @chrisharihar, @openai, @gauravkapadia, @captgouda24, @terronk, @arthurconmy, @daniellefong, @openai, and @claudia_sahm. LinkedIn: Stefano
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and “has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's” — We think our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's.
More: Bloomberg, DigiTimes, Rohan's Bytes, Dow Jones Newswires, and NewsMax.com
X: @stephenlcasper, @gjmcgowan, @uswremichael, @deredleritt3r, @amasad, @captgouda24, @arozenshtein, @zeffmax, @thezvi, @boazbaraktcs, @boazbaraktcs, @krishnanrohit, @benedictk__, @thdxr, @polynoamial, @krishnanrohit, @neil_chilson, @trekedge, @thezvi, @darlingtondev, @max_spero_, @tysonbrody, @rcbregman, @allinallnotbad, and @kimmonismus. LinkedIn: Katrina Mulligan
Bluesky: @kalihays, @timkellogg.me, @alanrozenshtein.com, and @matthew.flux.community
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/codex, r/ChatGPT, r/technology, and r/singularity
| 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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X: @sama, @sama, @undersecretaryf, @miles_brundage, @mattyglesias, @thezvi, @samfbiddle, @aiamblichus, @zeffmax, @eggerdc, @markvalorian, @garymarcus, @novocrypto, @jasonbotterill, @goddek, @joshkale, @scaling01, @captgouda24, @vxunderground, @jezcorden, @garymarcus, @adamscochran, @rcbregman, @rcbregman, @amy_siskind, @deanwball, @yuzu_4ever, @yixiong_hao, @gailcweiner, @eggerdc, @blackhc, @peterwildeford, @seconds_0, @eggerdc, @aaronregunberg, @provisionalidea, @miles_brundage, @scaling01, @akarlin, @uwukko, @natolambert, @morallawwithin, @hadas_gold, @maxwellfarrens, @wesamo__, @manlikemishap, @donmiami3, @rob_flaherty, @austinc3301, @rasmr_eth, @8teapi, @atlasofcharts, @chrispainteryup, @markvalorian, @boazbaraktcs, @tszzl, @garymarcus, @_nathancalvin, @natolambert, @ns123abc, @liv_boeree, @kevinroose, @krishnanrohit, @dee_bosa, @m_ccuri, @peterwildeford, @danprimack, @thdxr, @ryxcommar, @chrisrmcguire, @uswremichael, @tvietor08, @tysonbrody, @krishnanrohit, @adamscochran, @sammykoppelman, @teortaxestex, @nickadobos, @zeffmax, @mreflow, @theo, @kevinroose, @jakehalloran1, @tedlieu, @linusekenstam, @afinetheorem, @amitisinvesting, @jasonbotterill, @therealadamg, @flowersslop, @arozenshtein, @jakehalloran1, and @deepfates
Forums: r/PersonOfInterest, r/ChatGPT, r/politics, r/accelerate, and r/technology
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Xiaomi launches the €999 Xiaomi 17, the €1,499 17 Ultra, and the €1,999 Leica-branded Leitzphone, all featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, in Europe — It's just launched in Europe, joined by the larger, more photography-focused Xiaomi 17 Ultra.
More: CNET, GSMArena.com, Engadget, Wired, 9to5Google, TechRadar, and PetaPixel
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi launches the €15 Xiaomi tag, an AirTag-like device that works with both Apple Find My and Android Find Hub, and the €300 Xiaomi Watch 5, in Europe — Xiaomi today launched a slew of gadgets ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona including a camera-focused flagship smartphone …
More: The Asia Business Daily, iClarified, PhoneArena, Phandroid, 9to5Mac, Moneycontrol, The Verge, and Notebookcheck. Bluesky: @garvanwalshe.org
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect — Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning urging …
More: Wired Middle East, Nextgov/FCW, and Straight Arrow News
| New York Times: |
How India's outsourcing industry, which employs 6M+ people and is worth nearly $300B, is racing to adapt as AI promises to automate white-collar work — Artificial intelligence promises to automate the white-collar work that made India a tech powerhouse. The country is racing to adapt before it's too late.| Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg: |
AI coding agents are fueling productivity panic among executives and engineers, as a UCB study finds those offloading work to AI are also working longer hours — AI coding agents promised to make software development easier. Instead they've kicked off a high-pressure race to build at any cost.| Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis on plans to use in-house chips, Trainium and Inferentia, to develop AI models more cheaply, and more — Amazon's new artificial intelligence czar, Peter DeSantis, is a larger-than-life figure within the company where he has worked since its early days| Bloomberg: |
China faces a dilemma as it looks to balance productivity gains from AI with labor displacement risks due to automation, which could trigger an economic spiral — Days after back-flipping AI humanoids dazzled China with a new year performance alongside dancers, a small research firm jolted US markets …
More: South China Morning Post
| 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 … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
As part of the Amazon-OpenAI deal, the companies plan a “stateful runtime environment” for AWS, letting agents carry context forward to handle ongoing projects — A deal with OpenAI could put Amazon first to market with a new type of AI service for developers …
More: TechCrunch, Runtime, Motley Fool, Tech in Asia, and OpenAI
Forums: r/theprimeagen and r/AMD_Stock
| Om Malik / On my Om: |
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| About Amazon: |
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LinkedIn: Steve McDonald, Tadahiro Kaburaki, Manu Parbhakar, Julia White, Malcolm Featonby, and Scott Rosecrans. Bluesky: @om.co
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