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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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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
AWS says its facilities in the Middle East are facing power and connectivity issues after drones “directly struck” 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 …
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| Chainalysis: |
Iranian cryptoasset outflows reached ~$10.3M between February 28 and March 2 amid US and Israeli strikes; in 2025, Iran's crypto ecosystem was worth $7.8B — TL;DR — On-chain data shows a sharp increase in activity from major Iranian exchanges in the hours following the February 28 …
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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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| 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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| Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg: |
Senator Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, vows to “pull out all the stops” to fight back after the US moved to bar Anthropic — Congressional Democrats are vowing to contest the Trump administration's unprecedented actions against the artificial …
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
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| Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: |
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| SvD: |
Investigation: Sama data annotators in Nairobi say they often view private footage from Meta's Ray-Ban glasses, like bathroom visits; some footage is blurred — Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta's new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: in the EU, US criticism over censorship has been met with disbelief and anger, and some Big Tech lobbyists acknowledge US accusations are overstated — EU efforts to regulate the digital sphere are under attack from the Trump administration and, increasingly, Silicon Valley| Eliot Chen / The Wire China: |
A look at the US DOJ's December 2025 lawsuit that alleged a smuggling ring illegally exported or tried to export $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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| 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 … | 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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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Meta is testing a shopping research feature in its Meta AI web browser for select US users, positioning it against e-commerce tools in ChatGPT and Gemini — Meta Platforms Inc. is testing a shopping research feature in its artificial intelligence chatbot, rivaling a similar tool offered by OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.| 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 …
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| Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: |
Filing: Japan's PayPay is seeking to raise up to $1.1B at an up to $13.4B valuation in its US IPO, selling nearly 55M shares priced between $17 and $20 each — PayPay and a selling shareholder are aiming to raise as much as $1.1 billion in an initial public offering in the United States … Sponsor Posts
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