Anthropic's clash with the Pentagon pits tech ethics against government demands, raising explosive questions about AI's role in surveillance and weaponry. If you care about who controls the future of artificial intelligence, this episode is a must-listen.

• Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon fight
• The whole thing was a scam
• OpenAI allows NSA to use GPT for surveilling Americans
• Anthropic's Claude hits No. 1 on Apple's top free apps list after Pentagon rejection
• Layoffs at Block
• Crypto exchange Gemini plans to lay off up to 200 staff, exit Europe, and Australia
• Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for Paramount Takeover
• An update on our model deprecation commitments for Claude Opus 3 \ Anthropic
• Keep Android Open
• Colorado moves age checks from websites to operating systems | Biometric Update
• Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification
• New Apple product launch starts Monday, Tim Cook confirms
• Everything announced at Samsung Unpacked: The Galaxy S26 Ultra, Galaxy Buds 4 and more
• Here's how the new Samsung Galaxy S26 compares with last year's S25
• Hacked Prayer App Sends 'Surrender' Messages to Iranians Amid Israeli and US Strikes
• The Big One: The cyberattack scenarios that keep officials up at night
• CISA replaces acting director after a bumbling year on the job
• New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises
• Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn't Support Broad Search of Protesters' Devices and Digital Data
• Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET—scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found
• Americans now listen to podcasts more often than talk radio, study shows | TechCrunch
• Burger King Will Use AI To Check If Employees Say 'Please' and 'Thank You'
• Uber Previews Its Dubai Air Taxi Service - Slashdot
• Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died
• Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, Song of Kali, dead at 77

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What happens when the creator of Stack Overflow decides he's going to take on rural poverty with a guaranteed minimum income—and bankrolls it himself? Find out why Jeff Atwood believes AI and philanthropy might matter more to the American dream than any new software ever could.

• Hegseth gives Anthropic CEO until Friday to back down in AI safeguards fight
• Musk's xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems
• Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude
• How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans
• My first vibe coding project!
• Anthropic Links AI Agent With Tools for Investment Banking, HR
• THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
• QuitGPT is going viral — 700,000 users are reportedly ditching ChatGPT for these AI rivals
• IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat
• OpenAI's first ChatGPT gadget could be a smart speaker with a camera
• ChatGPT spits out surprising insight in particle physics
• "Clavicular was mid jestergooning when a group of Foids came and spiked his Cortisol levels 😭 Is Ignoring the Foids while munting and mogging Moids more useful then SMV chadfishing in the club?"
• Perplexity may have built a better OpenClaw | The Deep View
• Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw
• Gemini 3.1 Pro
• Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
• You can now make Alexa's AI personality more friendly, blunt, or chilled out
• Claude Remote-Control
• Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox
• OpenAI engineer's OpenClaw agent accidentally sends $450K to a Twitter rando
• AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
• More Than Half of Teens Use Chatbots for Schoolwork, Survey Finds
• What's the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?
• AI Now Helps Manage 16% of America's Apartments
• LLM-Generated Passwords Look Strong but Crack in Hours, Researchers Find
• Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude To Steal Sensitive Mexican Data - Slashdot
• Uber employees have an AI clone of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — and use 'Dara AI' before talking to the big boss himself
• Men 'yell' at AI in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS 80% more than women
• It's Called the 'Fitbit for Farts'—and It's No Joke
• I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games | Caleb Leak
• This app alerts you when it detects Meta camera glasses nearby
• Famous Signatures Through History
• Finally got a Fujifilm!
• I'm addicted to NYT Crossplay
• Jeff's new friends
• How far back in time can you understand English?

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Just last week, we asked about Phil Spencer and why he's been so quiet lately. Now we know why! Also, OneDrive for the Mac is finally going to look like it belongs on the Mac. And Google Chrome finally picks up a split view like the rest of the planet, plus a few other new features.

PHIL SPENCER OUT AT XBOX

• Phil Spencer has retired from Microsoft and his heir-apparent, Sarah Bond, left Microsoft as well
• Report details the Xbox reorg
• Ex-Xbox executive issues an old guy shouting at sky assessment
• New Microsoft Gaming CEO discusses "return to Xbox"
• Hot-take: This person seems unqualified to run Xbox/MS Gaming, but let's give her a chance
• Alternative hot-take: She is literally here to wind down this business, which makes no sense... unless there's a spin-off

Windows

• WSJ report sheds some light, and adds a lot of confusion, to Nvidia's Windows PC plans
• Week D arrived on time this month
• Preview of March Patch Tuesday updates
• Network speed test, pan and tilt in Camera settings, sysmon, RSAT improvements, Quick Machine Recovery improvements, WEBP background image support, Emoji 16.0
• And you thought the Canary channel was weird already
  -New builds for Canary, Dev, and Beta. Canary gets features we already saw elsewhere, Dev and Beta get context menu, settings, and Taskbar improvements
• Paul has published (an incomplete version of) De-Enshittify Windows 11
• De-enshittifying Copilot and AI is doable but not yet automated
• What about the alternatives?
• Next step: Security and Apps chapters
• HP revenues up 6.9 percent to $14.4 billion but RAM warning is more dire than expected
• Apple to add multitouch to MacBook Pro lineup in late 2026. Oh the irony

AI

• Xbox February update brings 1440p streaming to Xbox consoles, updates for Xbox ROG Ally, more
• Xbox app is delivering post-game recaps on Windows 11 for Insiders
• EA had the most game downloads on PC and console in 2025, thanks to having the three most popular AAA games of the year (BF6, EA Sports FC 25, and EA Sports FC 26). Microsoft was number two, followed by Take-Two, Ubisoft, and Sony. Fortnite is somehow still the biggest game overall on console, and Counter-Strike 2 (!!!!) is the biggest on PC. 20 million Fortnite players on PS, 15 million on Xbox

Tips and picks

• Tip of the week: OneDrive for the Mac
• App pick of the week: Google Chrome
• RunAs Radio this week: SaaS on Multiple Clouds with Steve Buchanan
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Sons of Vancouver Wheated Rye Whisky

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