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March 6, 2026, 12:40 PM
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Anthropic:
Dario Amodei says Anthropic plans to fight the DOD's risk designation in court, claims the DOD's letter has a “narrow scope”, and apologizes for his leaked memo  —  Yesterday (March 4) Anthropic received a letter from the Department of War confirming that we have been designated …
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Microsoft says it will keep Anthropic's AI tools embedded in its client products, after its lawyers concluded the DOD's designation is only for defense projects  —  Microsoft said Thursday that it will keep startup Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology embedded in its products for clients, excluding the U.S. Department of War.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Microsoft's new gaming CEO, Asha Sharma, teases the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, saying it “will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games”  —  The new Xbox boss Asha Sharma revealed the codename as one of her first big announcements.
Bloomberg:
Sources: SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of up to $40B, its largest-ever borrowing denominated solely in dollars, to help finance its investment in OpenAI  —  SoftBank Group Corp. is seeking a loan of as much as $40 billion to mostly help finance its investment in US tech giant OpenAI …
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
Filing: the US SEC settles with Tron founder Justin Sun over a 2023 case that alleged securities fraud; Tron-affiliated company Rainberry will pay the $10M fine  —  Rainberry, a company affiliated with the Tron network, will pay a $10 million fine.  Charges against Sun will be dismissed.
Ben Patterson / PCWorld:
Google quietly releases an unsupported Workspace CLI, making it easier for agentic AI tools to access Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, and its other apps  —  A new command-line interface for Google Workspace greases the wheels for personal AI assistants like OpenClaw to tap directly into Workspace documents.
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
The US Senate passed COPPA 2.0 again, which would create new protections for young users online; the bill now heads to the House, where it has struggled to pass  —  The measure for protecting children and teens' personal data could once more fail in the House.
Financial Times:
Sources: the UK plans to delay making copyright rule changes for AI training after responses to its two-month consultation did not favor any of its proposals  —  Government goes back to drawing board after its proposals triggered backlash from creative industries

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Abid Rahman / The Hollywood Reporter:
Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico will stream on YouTube, not broadcast TV, due to ABC's fight with the FCC

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
WaPo says it is on track to break even and end 2026 “on its closest path to profitability in five years” and it sold 300K+ subscriptions so far in 2026

Steven Waldman:
A broad coalition of media organizations urges California Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign the Community NEWS Act, which gives tax credits for employing journalists

More News

Associated Press:
Indonesia says it will ban “high-risk” platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, and Roblox, for children under 16 from March 28
Financial Times:
A look at SpaceX's potential IPO, which reportedly aims to raise up to $50B at a $1.75T valuation, more than 7x higher than its ~$200B valuation in October 2024
Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat:
An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google-Epic settlement, how the Play Store changes impact developers, why Epic's case against Apple is different, and more
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Cluely's CEO, Roy Lee, says he lied about its $7M annual recurring revenue in 2025 and that it “is the only blatantly dishonest thing I've said publicly online”
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Sources: the US has drafted a rule that would require countries whose companies buy large volumes of Nvidia and AMD AI chips to invest in US AI infrastructure

Earlier Picks

Courtenay Brown / Axios:
Anthropic debuts an early-warning system for potential AI-driven destruction of white-collar jobs and says it shows “limited evidence” of AI-led job loss so far
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
X revamps its Creator Subscriptions with exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, a new dashboard, a shareable subscriptions card, and more
Emma Roth / The Verge:
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, saying it is its “most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work” and its first with native computer use capabilities
Sander Lutz / Decrypt:
The FBI arrests the son of a federal contractor who managed critical services and charges him with stealing ~$46M in crypto from the US Marshals Service
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix acquires InterPositive, a 16-person startup founded by Ben Affleck that builds AI models based on a production's dailies for later use in postproduction
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
AWS launches Amazon Connect Health, an agentic AI tool that automates clinical documentation, billing and procedure coding, and patient identity verification
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