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Anthropic's $60B+ in funding, half of which came just last month, from over 200 investors is now at risk due to the company's contract dispute with the Pentagon (Dan Primack/Axios)

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Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2B+ at a $20B+ valuation, after raising $2B at an $8B valuation in October (Financial Times)

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X announces a "Paid Partnership" label that creators can apply to their posts to indicate they're ads; until now, creators relied on hashtags to label posts (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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SCOTUS declines to hear a dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material, in a case where a computer scientist was denied a copyright for AI-generated art (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

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The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity (Dean W. Ball/Hyperdimensional)

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A look at the rights AI companies have in US government contracts, such as the "any lawful use" standard, amid the Anthropic-DOD dispute and the OpenAI-DOD deal (Jessica Tillipman)

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Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data (Hayden Field/The Verge)

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Sources: at Apple's request, Google investigated hosting servers inside its data centers to run a Gemini-based Siri while abiding by Apple's privacy standards (The Information)

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Apple updates the iPad Air with M4, featuring an 8-core CPU, 9-core GPU, 12GB of unified memory, an N1 networking chip, for $599+ and $799+ in 11" or 13" sizes (Apple)

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Apple unveils the iPhone 17e, offering a 6.1-inch display, a 3nm A19 chip, a C1X modem, a 48MP Fusion camera, and more, for $599+ and shipping from March 11 (Apple)

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AWS plans to invest €18B more in Aragon, Spain, taking its investment in the region to €33.7B; its Aragon facilities have used 100% renewable energy since 2022 (Cristina Cueto/DatacenterDynamics)

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Nvidia says it plans to invest $2B each in photonic product makers Lumentum and Coherent to support the companies' R&D and manufacturing operations in the US (Reuters)

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Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

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Qualcomm forms a "strategic coalition" to launch 6G in 2029 and unveils FastConnect 8800, an "AI-native" Wi-Fi 8-ready NIC that doubles peak speeds over Wi-Fi 7 (Will Sattelberg/9to5Google)

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Anthropic says "a fix has been implemented" at 15:25 UTC after elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and some API methods starting at 11:49 UTC (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

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Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour says the company would void certain bets related to Iran's Ali Khamenei and claims it doesn't "list markets directly tied to death" (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

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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 (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

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The US-led Iran bombing campaign causes longer delivery times for Amazon, Shein, and others in the Middle East, one of the fastest-growing e-commerce markets (Bloomberg)

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Anthropic launches a tool to bring a user's preferences and context from other AI platforms to Claude with one copy-paste command, available on all paid plans (Claude)

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A draft of Changpeng Zhao's unpublished memoir, "Freedom of Money", details the secret negotiations in 2023 that led to his imprisonment and a run-in with ICE (New York Times)

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Shanghai-based MiniMax reports 2025 revenue up 159% YoY to $79M, above $71.4M est., and a $1.87B net loss, up from a $465.2M net loss in 2024, after its IPO (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)

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Q&A with Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor on modernizing the platform, attracting new creators, managing a fully remote, four-day-per-week workplace, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)

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Chinese military procurement documents show the PLA's efforts to use AI to assist in drone piloting, cyberattacks, decision-making, and disinformation campaigns (Foreign Affairs)

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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 (Matt Swider/The Shortcut)

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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 (Zack Abrams/The Block)

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Frontier AI labs' military usage policies for their AI tools are incoherent, vague, and often change, which allows company leadership to preserve "optionality" (Sarah Shoker/fishbowlification)

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A look at the research into using metal-organic frameworks as photoresists for cutting-edge silicon etching, as ASML aims to move from EUV to X-ray lithography (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

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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 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

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Lenovo's Motorola partners with GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused, "de-Googled" version of Android, to preinstall GrapheneOS on upcoming Motorola smartphones (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

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Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus signs a multi-billion deal with an unnamed customer to build a Melbourne data center with 18,400 Nvidia GB300 chips (Sharon Klyne/Bloomberg)

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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 (J. Scott Davis/Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)

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A Waymo robotaxi stopped in the middle of a road and blocked an ambulance near a mass shooting site in Austin; Waymo confirms it was en route for rider pickup (Nicole Cobler/Axios)

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A profile of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who is facing a probe in France on a dozen preliminary charges and a Russian criminal case for "aiding terrorism" (Financial Times)

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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 (Reuters)

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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 (Om Malik/On my Om)

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Ted Sarandos discusses the scenario planning Netflix did before Paramount's final WBD bid, how if Paramount's deal closes there will be cuts of $16B+, and more (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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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 (Catherine Thorbecke/Bloomberg)

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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 (Byron Kaye/Reuters)

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Israel-based Guidde, which is developing a platform to accelerate the adoption of AI in organizations, raised a $50M Series B led by PSG Equity (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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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 (New York Times)

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Chinese matchmaking apps like Wanmei Qinjia, which has 50M users and lets parents look for spouses for their children, surge as marriage rates continue to fall (Kohei Fujimura/Nikkei Asia)

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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 (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)

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Nvidia partners with Cisco, Nokia, and others to build 6G networks based on open, software-defined AI radio access networking (AI-RAN) architecture (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

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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 (Hyonhee Shin/Bloomberg)

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How some companies are trying to become the "Strava of tennis" by offering match video, stats, highlights, social features, and performance analysis for players (Charlie Eccleshare/The Athletic)

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Inside the world's largest crypto casino Stake, which claims ~4% of all BTC transactions, with popularity boosted by celebs like Drake and influencers on Kick (Bloomberg)

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[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 (Sam Altman/@sama)

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Netflix actually won by walking away from the WBD bid, collecting a $2.8B termination fee and driving up the price and debt load of the Paramount-WBD merger (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)

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Multiple AWS developers say they are asked to take on new roles with AI tools' assistance, and engineers are now required to complete technical writing tasks (Financial Times)

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Block's plan to lay off over 4,000 employees, citing AI work automation, adds to growing angst among white-collar workers over AI's potential for job disruption (Chip Cutter/Wall Street Journal)

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