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| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI is amending its DOD contract to ensure “the AI system” is not “intentionally used for domestic surveillance of US persons and nationals” — Sam Altman says company is working with defence department on provisions covering mass surveillance
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
OpenAI and the DOD agree to add more surveillance protections to the recent AI deal; sources say Sam Altman approached the DOD's Emil Michael to rework the deal — OpenAI and the Pentagon have agreed to strengthen their recently agreed contract, following widespread backlash … | Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Sam Altman says the DOD affirmed that OpenAI's tools wouldn't be used by agencies like the NSA, and services to them would need a further contract modification — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that the company “shouldn't have rushed” its recent deal with the U.S. Department of Defense and outlined revisions to the agreement.
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| Sam Altman / @sama: |
Sam Altman says “the democratic process must stay in control, and we must democratize AI” and no private company should decide the fate of the world — (I also would like to share this, which I wrote after thinking a little more.) There is a lot we will talk about in the coming days …
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| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech — Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete …
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data — On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …
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| Reuters: |
The US Treasury Department, State Department, and federal housing agency are ending their use of Anthropic products; the State Department will switch to OpenAI — The U.S. Treasury Department, State Department and the federal housing agency are terminating all use of Anthropic products …
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| Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: |
The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity — On Anthropic and the Department of War — I. — A little more than a decade ago, I sat with my father and watched him die.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
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| Jessica Tillipman: |
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
AWS says its facilities in the Middle East are facing power and connectivity issues after drone strikes impacted its infrastructure in the UAE and Bahrain — Amazon Web Services said late Monday two of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and a facility in Bahrain were damaged by drone strikes, taking the facilities offline.
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
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| Bloomberg: |
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| Apple: |
Apple unveils the $599+ iPhone 17e, offering a 60Hz 6.1-inch display, a 3nm A19 chip, a C1X modem, MagSafe, and a 48MP Fusion camera, shipping from March 11 — iPhone 17e delivers incredible value with faster performance, an advanced camera system, enhanced durability, the magic of MagSafe, and double the starting storage at 256GB
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| Apple: |
Apple updates the iPad Air with M4, featuring an 8-core CPU, 9-core GPU, 12GB of unified memory, an N1 networking chip, for $599+ and $799+ in 11" or 13" sizes — With blazing performance, more memory, enhanced connectivity, and game-changing iPadOS 26 features, iPad Air is a fantastic value
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Source: Cursor's annualized revenue topped $2B in February, doubling from three months earlier, and about 60% of the revenue is coming from corporate customers — Cursor's annualized revenue topped $2 billion in February, according to a person familiar with the matter … | Eliot Chen / The Wire China: |
A look at the US DOJ's December lawsuit alleging a smuggling ring illegally exported or tried to export at least $160M in advanced Nvidia AI chips to China — When President Donald Trump announced last December that Washington would let Nvidia sell its advanced H200 chips to China …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: X and xAI are set to repay ~$17.5B of debt in full; X took on ~$12.5B of debt during Musk's purchase, and xAI borrowed $5B via bonds and loans in June — The roughly $17.5 billion of debt tied to Elon Musk's social network X and artificial intelligence startup xAI is set to be paid back in full …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba releases the open-weight Qwen3.5 Small Model Series in 0.8B, 2B, 4B, and 9B sizes, claiming the 9B model rivals OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on some benchmarks — Earlier today, e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen Team of AI researchers, focused primarily on developing and releasing to the world … | Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: |
Filing: PayPay is seeking to raise up to $1.1B at a valuation of up to $13.4B in its US IPO, selling nearly 55M shares priced between $17 and $20 apiece — PayPay and a selling shareholder are aiming to raise as much as $1.1 billion in an initial public offering in the United States … | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Anthropic brings Claude's memory feature to free users, after launching it for paid users in 2025 — It's the latest upgrade to arrive for free users. — Anthropic is bringing another paid feature to Claude's free tier. The next time you chat with Claude, you'll have the option … | Claude: |
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