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The Signal — March 1, 2026
The Anthropic story didn't end Friday. It got worse. Plus: DeepSeek cuts Nvidia out of V4 testing, and OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading.
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The Anthropic story didn't end Friday. It got worse. Plus: DeepSeek cuts Nvidia out of V4 testing, and OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading.
AGI
Why governments and corporations are racing toward AGI like their future depends on it
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When the Pentagon blacklists an AI company for having safety guardrails, science fiction stops being fiction. Martha Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Alastair Reynolds saw this coming.
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THE SIGNAL Future Shock Daily — February 28, 2026 The Defense Production Act got invoked against an AI company yesterday. That sentence alone tells you where things are headed. The Pentagon Invokes a Korean War Law Against Anthropic The Department of Defense invoked the Defense Production Act — a 1950 law originally
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This week: a research preview caused a trillion-dollar panic, the robots turned out to have people inside them, and retired AI started blogging.
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Alibaba open-sources models that match GPT-5 mini. Karpathy says programming is unrecognizable. Perplexity launches a 19-model orchestration platform.
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WHAT IF: What if Google had renewed Project Maven in 2018? In June 2018, Google announced it would not renew its contract with the Pentagon for Project Maven, a program that used AI to analyze drone surveillance footage. Around 4,000 Google employees had signed a petition opposing the work,
Ops
This edition was supposed to auto-publish at 10 AM. It didn't. The newsletter about operational bloopers had an operational blooper.
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The SaaS sector just had its worst stretch in decades, and AI agents are getting the blame. Black February: AI Agents Wipe $1 Trillion From the SaaS Sector The software industry lost more than $1 trillion in market capitalization in 2026 so far, in what analysts and traders are calling
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Three foundations just pooled $60 million to answer a question most AI companies skip: does any of this actually work where it's needed most? Meanwhile, state legislatures are moving faster on AI regulation than Congress ever has. $60 Million to Test AI Health Tools Where They Matter Most
AI Security
How companies are scrambling to govern AI agents — and why the pattern looks exactly like every technology panic before it.
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Anthropic just published the most detailed public accounting yet of industrial-scale model theft by Chinese AI labs. The rest of the day's news barely registered by comparison. Anthropic Catches DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax Stealing Claude's Brain Anthropic identified three Chinese AI labs running coordinated distillation campaigns