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Ross Andersen / The Atlantic:
Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans  —  Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …
New York Times:
Sources describe in detail the failed talks between Anthropic and the DOD, and how US officials at some agencies like the CIA still hope for a peace agreement  —  The Pentagon and Anthropic were close to agreeing on the use of artificial intelligence.  But strong personalities, mutual dislike and a rival company unraveled a deal.
Sarah Shoker / fishbowlification:
Frontier AI labs' policies around military use of their AI tools are incoherent, vague, and often prone to change, allowing leadership to preserve “optionality”
Reuters:
AWS says “objects” struck one of its data centers in the UAE, impacting its mec1-az2 availability zone, and that connectivity will take several hours to restore  —  Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit, AWS, said on Sunday that power to its data center in the United Arab Emirates was shut …
Matt Swider / The Shortcut:
Qualcomm unveils the 3nm Snapdragon Wear Elite SoC for smartwatches, offering a Hexagon NPU that it says can run on-device AI models with up to 2B parameters  —  Six things to know about Qualcomm's new 3nm wearable platform that brings on-device AI, satellite messaging, and 5G to your wrist
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Lenovo's Motorola partners with GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused, “de-Googled” version of Android, to preinstall GrapheneOS on upcoming Motorola smartphones  —  Following rumors swirling for quite some time, Motorola has announced a partnership with GrapheneOS that will see the privacy-focused …
Julian Chokkattu / Wired:
MWC 2026: a look at Lenovo's concept devices, including a Framework-like modular laptop with swappable parts and a gaming handheld with a folding display  —  At MWC 2026, the company also showed off a dual-screen Yoga Book with 3D capabilities, and the Legion Go Fold—a gaming handheld …
Max A. Cherney / Reuters:
ASML CTO Marco Pieters says ASML plans to expand beyond EUV into advanced packaging, bonding, and connecting, and is building AI-based machine inspection tools  —  ASML Holding (ASML.AS) has ambitious plans to expand its line of chipmaking equipment into several new products to capture …
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Claude:
Anthropic launches a tool to bring a user's preferences and context from other AI platforms to Claude via one copy-paste command, available on all paid plans  —  Bring your preferences and context from other AI providers to Claude.  With one copy-paste, Claude updates its memory and picks up right where you left off.
Zack Abrams / The Block:
Vitalik Buterin outlines a two-part plan to overhaul Ethereum's execution layer with a binary state tree and eventually move beyond the Ethereum virtual machine  —  Quick Take  — Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin laid out a detailed case for two sweeping execution layer changes …
J. Scott Davis / Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas:
Early data show wages are rising for AI-exposed jobs that place a high value on a “worker's tacit knowledge and experience”, as textbook knowledge loses value  —  Artificial intelligence's impact on the labor market will depend on whether the technology automates or augments worker tasks.
New York Times:
An unpublished draft of Changpeng Zhao's memoir, “Freedom of Money”, details secret negotiations in 2023 that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE  —  In a draft of his memoir, Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, laid out the secret negotiations that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE.
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