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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/Conservative, and r/slatestarcodex
| 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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LinkedIn: David Hershey, Dustin L., Nick Lewis, and Riccardo Patana
Forums: Hacker News, r/worldnews, r/cybersecurity, r/JoeRogan, r/Anthropic, r/Conservative, and r/singularity
| 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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Bluesky: @davidimel.com, @cara.city, @dorismatsui, @seldo.com, @fry69.dev, and @houseforeign. Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump …
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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 …
More: New York Times, The Verge, notdivided.org, No Tech For Apartheid Campaign, ABC News, and New York Times
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| Washington Post: |
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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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Forums: r/PersonOfInterest and r/accelerate
| 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: |
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Forums: r/politics, r/accelerate, r/singularity, r/ClaudeAI, r/Anthropic, r/ChatGPT, Slashdot, and Slashdot
| 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
More: Reuters, Blockonomi, Livemint, Key Context, Fortune India, and Tom's Guide
Forums: r/NVDA_Stock and r/AMD_Stock
| Manish Singh / India Dispatch: |
AI's deflationary impact on India's IT industry, which has never seen a decline in software exports in 24 years, will likely take years to fully materialize — The cost of electricity does not run an enterprise. — A post written as a fictional memo from June 2028 by short-seller Citrini … | 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 …
More: OpenAI, The Economic Times, The Japan Times, and The Information
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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
| Financial Times: |
Sources: DeepSeek plans to release its multimodal model V4 next week and worked with Huawei and Chinese AI chipmaker Cambricon to optimize V4 for their products — Chinese AI group has worked with Huawei to cut reliance on Nvidia chips — Eleanor Olcott in Istanbul and Zijing Wu in Sapporo
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/singularity
| 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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| 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 … | 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: Hacker News, r/SnyderCut, r/DC_Cinematic, r/Fauxmoi, r/HBOMAX, and r/hbo
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Source: India issued a blocking order on February 24 to restrict access to developer database service Supabase; the government did not publicly cite a reason — Supabase, a popular developer database platform, is facing disruptions in India — one of its key markets — has been blocked in India, TechCrunch has learned.
More: Tech in Asia. X: @supabase, @zaidmukaddam, @supabase, @anurag_bhatia, @psomkar1, @pseudo_sid26, @supabase, @nixxin, @pranvtwt, @sunithvs_, and @supabase. Forums: r/Supabase
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