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| Anthropic: |
Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded — I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources detail how the standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic escalated after discussions about using Claude during hypothetical nuclear missile attacks — Start-up Anthropic and the U.S. military are careening toward a clash over government use of artificial intelligence — and whether it should be allowed to kill.
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| 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 — The Trump administration has decided to blacklist Anthropic in the most consequential and controversial policy decision to date …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: multiple federal agencies raised concerns about Grok's safety and reliability in recent months, before DOD approved Grok for use in classified settings — Warnings about xAI's safety and reliability preceded Pentagon decision to approve Grok for use in classified settings.
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| Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News: |
| CNBC: |
OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary financing in Oct.; Amazon invested $50B, Nvidia and SoftBank invested $30B each — OpenAI announced a $110 billion funding round on Friday, a financing that's more than double the size of its last raise a year ago …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900M+ weekly active users, 50M+ consumer subscribers, and weekly Codex users have more than tripled since the start of the year to 1.6M — AI demand is surging across consumers, developers, and businesses. Meeting that demand and providing everyone access …
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| Axios: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines with respect to AI use by the military, which are “an issue for the whole industry” — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a memo to staff that he will draw the same red lines that sparked a high-stakes fight between rival Anthropic …
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| Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal: |
Note to staff: Sam Altman says OpenAI seeks a DOD deal, except for use cases like domestic surveillance, and wants to “help de-escalate” DOD-Anthropic fight — Anthropic has spent weeks at odds with the Pentagon over the scope of how its Claude AI tools can be used
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| Bloomberg: |
Two coalitions of workers, including employees of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, ask their companies to join Anthropic in refusing DOD's demands — Anthropic PBC got a vote of support from Silicon Valley workers for its increasingly contentious public-relations battle with the Pentagon … | Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
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| 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 — Amazon Web Services (AWS) and OpenAI will co-create a Stateful Runtime Environment powered by OpenAI models …
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| 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 …
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| 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 — My word, the torrent of news keeps coming. You have hardly had time to digest the news of the $30 billion raise by Anthropic … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Security researchers detail AirSnitch, a series of attacks that bypass Wi-Fi client isolation, enabling machine-in-the-middle attacks in modern Wi-Fi networks — That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think. — It's hard to overstate the role that Wi-Fi plays in virtually every facet of life.
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
India-based Ultrahuman launches the $479 Ring Pro, available for pre-order globally, excluding the US, after the ITC ruled in favor of Oura in a patent dispute — Ultrahuman on Friday unveiled a new smart ring with longer battery life and a redesigned form factor, as the Bengaluru-based wearable maker seeks …
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| The Atlantic: |
Court docs from a New Mexico trial reveal internal divisions at Meta as Instagram teen safety initiatives conflicted with growth and engagement goals — Not so long ago, Mark Zuckerberg was working in overdrive to convince the world that his company was doing everything it could to protect children.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
In a newly released deposition in Elon Musk's case against OpenAI, Musk attacked OpenAI's safety record, saying nobody “committed suicide because of Grok” — In a newly released deposition filed in Elon Musk's case against OpenAI, the tech executive attacked OpenAI's safety record … | Kristin Robinson / Billboard: |
Suno CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman says the AI music company hit 2M paid subscribers and $300M ARR; pitch deck: it had 1M paid subscribers in November 2025 — The AI startup reports rapid growth, strong retention rates and rising engagement. … On Wednesday, Suno CEO … | Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
OpenAI fired an employee for insider trading on prediction markets like Polymarket; Unusual Whales has flagged 77 suspected insider trades around OpenAI events — Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is raising tens of billions to buy companies hit by AI; it was valued at ~$30B in November 2025 when it raised $6.2B — Project Prometheus in new talks with Abu Dhabi and JPMorgan over vehicle to buy up businesses disrupted by the technology| Christine Wang / Axios: |
TMTG says it is in talks to spin off Truth Social into a public company, following the close of its previously announced merger with nuclear fusion startup TAE — Trump Media & Technology Group said Friday it is in talks to spin off Truth Social into a new publicly traded company.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX weighs filing confidentially for an IPO as soon as March, targeting a June listing that could raise up to $50B at a $1.75T valuation — SpaceX is targeting filing confidentially for an initial public offering as soon as next month, according to people familiar with the matter … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Flux, which offers an AI-powered platform to design PCBs for electronic devices, raised $37M, including a $27M Series B led by 8VC and a $10M Series A — Senior Finance Reporter And Author Of Term Sheet — In 2018, Matthias Wagner was leading a 100-person Burning Man camp called Hotel California.| Reuters: |
Block reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $6.25B, gross profit up 24% to $2.87B, driven by a 33% surge in Cash App, and forecasts Q1 gross profit up 22% to $2.8B — Block (XYZ.N) on Thursday said it will cut over 4,000 jobs, nearly half its workforce, as part of an overhaul …
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