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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.
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 …
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:
The Pentagon's fight with Anthropic sparks fears in Silicon Valley and the Capitol of a fundamental shift in the balance of power between DC and the AI industry
Wired:
After DOD's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk on social media, contract experts weigh in on the ramifications for the company and its customers
Bloomberg:
Two coalitions of workers, including employees of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, ask their companies to join Anthropic in refusing DOD's demands
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
@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.
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.
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, r/ChatGPT, r/politics, r/accelerate, and r/technology
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 …
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.
More: Business Today.  LinkedIn: Prabhudev Konana and Paul Mozur
Bluesky: @sumitapahwa and @justinhendrix.  Forums: r/india
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
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 …
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
About Amazon:
Amazon will invest $15B in OpenAI initially, followed by $35B if certain conditions are met; OpenAI commits to consuming ~2 GW of Trainium capacity through AWS

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Memo: Skydance offers certain employees a voluntary buyout in a “one-time offer” and moves to a mandatory five-days-per-week in-office policy

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Netflix hires Steve Wilson, who formerly managed partner relations at Apple Podcasts, as a consultant to oversee podcast content acquisition

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Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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