☕️ Trump bans Anthropic from US federal agencies

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🚫 Trump bans Anthropic from US federal agencies

🏛️ OpenAI signs AI deal with Pentagon

👀 Jeff Bezos seeks billions to buy industrial companies disrupted by AI

🇮🇳 India blocks developer platform Supabase

🚀 Nvidia plans new chip to speed AI processing

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🚫 Trump bans Anthropic from US federal agencies LINK

President Trump ordered all federal agencies to immediately stop using Anthropic's technology, escalating a dispute over the company's refusal to let the Pentagon use its AI for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons.

Defense Secretary Hegseth declared Anthropic a "supply chain risk," which would force companies like Nvidia, Amazon, and Google to cut ties with Anthropic if they want to keep doing military business.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned in an internal memo that the threat to invoke the Defense Production Act against Anthropic is "an issue for the whole industry," not just one company's contract dispute.

🏛️ OpenAI signs AI deal with Pentagon LINK

OpenAI announced a deal with the Pentagon to run its AI models on classified military networks, but the company has no infrastructure on those systems and the timeline for actual deployment remains unclear.

The agreement bars domestic mass surveillance and requires human oversight for autonomous weapons — terms nearly identical to the ones Anthropic insisted on before being blacklisted as a supply chain risk hours earlier.

Whether OpenAI's contract includes the "all lawful uses" clause that broke Anthropic's talks has not been disclosed, and federal contracting experts say Anthropic's blacklisting lacks clear legal grounding so far.

👀 Jeff Bezos seeks billions to buy industrial companies disrupted by AI LINK

Jeff Bezos's AI lab, Project Prometheus, is raising "tens of billions of dollars" to acquire companies expected to be disrupted by AI and then apply the technology to improve their margins.

Project Prometheus raised $6.2 billion last year at a $30 billion valuation, and this marks the first time Bezos has taken an official operational role in a company since leaving Amazon.

The company has hired nearly 100 employees, including researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta, and already acquired computer agent maker General Agents late last year.

🇮🇳 India blocks developer platform Supabase LINK

India's government has ordered internet providers to block Supabase, a popular developer database platform, under Section 69A of its Information Technology Act, causing patchy access across multiple networks.

The government did not publicly cite a reason for the block, and Supabase's developer infrastructure — not its main website — is what became inaccessible, disrupting new sign-ups and production work for Indian startups.

India is Supabase's fourth-largest source of traffic at about 9% of global visits, and the incident raises concerns about the country's opaque website blocking regime affecting developers who rely on such platforms.

🚀 Nvidia plans new chip to speed AI processing LINK

Nvidia is working on a new processor built for "inference" computing, designed to help OpenAI and other customers run AI systems that respond to queries more quickly and efficiently.

The new platform, which will include a chip designed by startup Groq, is set to be shown at Nvidia's GTC developer conference in San Jose next month.

Nvidia previously struck a $20-billion licensing deal with Groq, which ended OpenAI's own talks with the startup about getting chips for faster inference processing.

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