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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 …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/neoliberal
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the Pentagon used Claude in its major air attack in Iran, hours after Trump declared that the federal government will end its use of Anthropic's tools — Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic …
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| 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.
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| New York Times: |
Sources describe in detail the failed talks between Anthropic and DOD, and how officials at agencies, including 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.| Sam Altman / @sama: |
[Thread] In an AMA, Sam Altman says DOD blacklisting Anthropic sets an “extremely scary precedent”, OpenAI rushed its deal to “de-escalate things”, and more — I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA.
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| Reuters: |
AWS said 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 down temporarily …
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| Om Malik / On my Om: |
Block is a poster child for the lack of operational discipline common among mid-tier public tech companies that lived on the largesse of cloud, mobile, and ZIRP — Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block (the company formerly known as Square), went on X (the company formerly known as Twitter …
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Polymarket trades on contracts tied to strikes on Iran hit $529M, and six new accounts profited a total of $1M by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28 — As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Ted Sarandos interview on the scenario planning Netflix did before Paramount's final WBD bid, how if Paramount's deal closes there'll be cuts of $16B+, and more — When Netflix Inc. dropped out of the bidding for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. on Feb. 26, the news came as a surprise to many in Hollywood.
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israel-based Guidde, which is developing a platform to accelerate the adoption of AI in organizations, raised a $50M Series B round led by PSG Equity — The Israeli startup's platform turns employee workflows into structured knowledge for automation. — Guidde, a startup developing … | Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
Australia's eSafety Commissioner threatens action against app stores and search engines if AI services operating in Australia don't verify user ages by March 9 — Australia's internet regulator said it may push search engines and app stores to block artificial intelligence services that fail … | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia partners with Cisco, Nokia, and others to build 6G networks based on open, software-defined AI radio access networking (AI-RAN) architecture — Nvidia Corp. early Sunday announced ahead of the MWC Barcelona conference that its joining global telecom leaders in a commitment to build 6G …
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| Hyonhee Shin / Bloomberg: |
A look at Hyundai's Atlas humanoid robot, slated for assembly tasks in 2028; Hyundai has invested billions in robotics since acquiring Boston Dynamics in 2021 — As Hyundai Motor Co. Executive Chair Euisun Chung took the stage at CES 2022 accompanied by “Spot” — a robot dog …
More: Korea Joongang Daily
| Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg: |
India, home to one of the world's biggest AI user bases, should treat local datasets for AI as a strategic asset to avoid training Silicon Valley for free — India is fast becoming one of the world's biggest AI user bases. The question now is how it can turn that scale into superpower status rather … Sponsor Posts
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