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⚔️ Anthropic won’t budge as Pentagon escalates AI dispute

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⚠️ Anthropic drops hard safety limits from its AI policy

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• Anthropic is refusing to back down as the Pentagon threatens to declare it a "supply chain risk" or invoke the Defense Production Act to force unrestricted military access to its AI model.
• Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic a Friday deadline to comply, while the company maintains it won't allow its technology to be used for mass surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.
• Anthropic is currently the only frontier AI lab with classified DOD access, leaving the Pentagon with no backup option and limited leverage despite its aggressive posture, according to policy experts.

• Apple's MacBook Pro is expected to gain touch-screen support and OLED displays by the end of 2026, though the company will not position the feature as a touch-first experience for users.
• The new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros will look similar to current models but add a Dynamic Island at the top center, building on macOS Live Activities already pulled from iPhone.
• When users tap the screen, the interface will swap to a touch-friendly mode with pinch-to-zoom, fast scrolling, and larger tap targets, since many new Mac buyers come from touch-first platforms.

• Stripe is reportedly in early discussions about acquiring PayPal, which would bring two of the biggest traditional payments companies involved in crypto and stablecoin infrastructure under one roof.
• The talks come after Stripe posted $1.9 trillion in annual payment volume, made a $159 billion employee tender offer, and secured a U.S. national bank trust charter for its stablecoin subsidiary Bridge.
• A combined company could unify fragmented digital asset payments through their stablecoin and on-ramp infrastructure, though analysts warn that integrating two different technical debts remains a major constraint.

• A federal judge dismissed xAI's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, ruling that Elon Musk's startup failed to plead enough facts connecting OpenAI itself to any alleged theft by former employees.
• The judge found xAI's complaint focused on former employees' behavior rather than misconduct by OpenAI, noting the company didn't allege OpenAI induced or directed anyone to steal trade secrets.
• xAI has until March 17 to file a revised complaint, but legal experts say it will need much more detailed, fact-based allegations tying OpenAI directly to specific misuse of proprietary information.

• Anthropic has removed the core promise from its Responsible Scaling Policy that blocked the company from training AI models unless it could guarantee its safety measures were good enough beforehand.
• Co-founder Jared Kaplan said the change reflects a world where no federal AI law exists, competitors are racing ahead, and the science of AI evaluations turned out fuzzier than expected.
• A METR policy official called the move understandable but warned it could enable a "frog-boiling" effect, where danger slowly increases without a single clear moment that triggers alarms.

• HP said memory now makes up 35 percent of the cost to build a PC, roughly double the 15 to 18 percent it represented last quarter, and the company expects that share to keep rising.
• To manage rising memory costs, interim CEO Bruce Broussard said HP has signed long-term supply agreements, qualified new suppliers, built strategic inventory positions, and cut material qualification time in half.
• CFO Karen Parkhill warned full-year results will likely land closer to the lower end of guidance as HP deals with rising memory prices and a tumultuous business environment.

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