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The week's biggest story: the Pentagon designated Anthropic a 'supply chain risk' for refusing military AI without safety limits. Meanwhile, OpenAI closed the largest private funding round in history, Apple launched seven AI-focused products, and February set an all-time VC record with $189B in global funding.
Anthropic reveals 16 million exchanges stolen by DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot through 24,000 fake accounts, while the Pentagon gives Anthropic a Friday deadline to drop Claude's safety guardrails for military use. Plus: Meta signs a $100B+ AMD chip deal and MatX raises $500M to take on Nvidia.
India's AI Impact Summit draws every major tech CEO to New Delhi. OpenAI's funding round tops $100B, Reliance commits $110B, Google pledges $15B for India, and Altman and Amodei refuse to hold hands for a group photo.
The DoD threatens Anthropic with a label usually reserved for foreign adversaries. Plus: Sonnet 4.6 drops, World Labs raises $1B, NVIDIA and Meta forge a massive infrastructure deal, and the SaaSpocalypse erases $2 trillion in software market cap.
Nearly a quarter of all Super Bowl LX ads featured AI, headlined by Anthropic's direct attack on OpenAI's ad plans. Plus: a $10B AI infrastructure deal in Australia, the EU moves against Meta, and MIT finds LLM rankings are shockingly fragile.
Anthropic finalizes a $20B+ funding round at $350B valuation, the AI-driven SaaS selloff spreads to private markets, Amazon stock drops on $200B AI spending, and the Washington Post reports AI infrastructure is draining resources from the broader economy.
Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3-Codex launch in a historic head-to-head, Anthropic's Cowork plugins trigger a $285B SaaS market rout, and the four tech giants pledge $650 billion in AI spending for 2026.
Anthropic's legal AI tool sends software stocks into freefall, Claude Sonnet 5 leaks surface ahead of an apparent Super Bowl week launch, and Nvidia prepares to pour $20 billion into OpenAI.
SpaceX and xAI merge to create the world's most valuable private company, OpenAI launches a standalone Codex desktop app, and a major international AI safety report warns that safeguards aren't keeping up.
Anthropic targets $20B at a $350B valuation, Google's Gemini 3 Flash outperforms its own Pro model at a fraction of the cost, Moonshot AI open-sources a 1-trillion-parameter model, and OpenAI bets on AI for science.
Claude Code is an AI assistant that takes action on your computer. Learn what it is, how non-technical people use it, and why it's changing productivity.
Sequoia breaks precedent to back Anthropic alongside OpenAI and xAI, Davos 2026 shifts from AI hype to practical adoption challenges, OpenAI confirms ChatGPT hardware device for 2026, and shadow AI becomes enterprise security's biggest headache.
OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Go subscription with upcoming ads, judge rules Musk v. OpenAI fraud trial will proceed with potential $50B+ damages, Anthropic nears $350B valuation, and DeepMind CEO says China is 'months' behind in AI.
Apple announces historic partnership with Google for Gemini-powered Siri, Pentagon deploys Grok alongside Google AI, and the healthcare AI arms race intensifies with multiple product launches.
Meta announces America's largest corporate nuclear energy deal for AI data centers, MIT names Generative Coding a 2026 breakthrough, and Anthropic faces developer backlash over IDE restrictions.
Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over deepfakes, AI memory sells out through 2026 with 50%+ price surges, and Anthropic's enterprise dominance gets the spotlight.
Anthropic nearly doubles its valuation to $350B in just three months, xAI closes a massive $20B round, Meta faces leadership turmoil as Yann LeCun breaks his silence on Llama 4, and CES 2026 continues with major announcements from Nvidia, AMD, and Samsung.
CES 2026 delivers blockbuster announcements: Boston Dynamics partners with DeepMind nearly a decade after Google sold the company, Nvidia unveils the Rubin platform and declares 'the ChatGPT moment for physical AI is here,' and Anthropic prepares for a potential $300B+ IPO.