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This was the week the bewilderment arrived. A Fed governor admitted powerlessness. A speculative report moved billions. A CEO fired 40 percent of his people and the stock surged. And the government tried to force an AI company to remove its safety guardrails.
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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.
AI Policy
For £45, a website called Objector.ai will kill a housing project. The UK startup launched in late 2025 with a simple pitch: paste in a planning application, and the AI scans it for vulnerabilities. Within minutes, it generates an objection letter, ranks the arguments most likely to succeed, and
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Three infrastructure stories today. No new models. Just the money, the geography, and the policy shaping where AI gets built.
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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.
AI Safety
An AI agent is only as trustworthy as the instructions governing it. This is our first public identity drift report.