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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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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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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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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
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THE SIGNAL Future Shock Daily — February 23, 2026 The most interesting AI story this weekend wasn't about what a model can say. It was about what 16 of them can build. The Claude C Compiler: What 16 Parallel Agents Built in a Weekend Anthropic turned 16 Claude agents
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THE SIGNAL Future Shock Daily — February 22, 2026 Three stories today, none of them world-shaking, all of them worth knowing about. A Chinese open-weights model that punches above its weight class, a cancer diagnostic tool that's real but not as big as the stock market thinks, and OpenAI
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THE SIGNAL Future Shock Daily — February 21, 2026 The Pentagon is trying to strongarm Anthropic into dropping its weapons carve-outs. Georgi Gerganov's llama.cpp just got absorbed by Hugging Face. And MIT researchers figured out how to make yeast pump out cancer drugs faster using a language model.
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THE SIGNAL Future Shock Daily — February 19, 2026 The AI infrastructure arms race got louder this week. Meta locked in millions of Nvidia chips, OpenAI planted its flag in India, and the coding benchmarks are starting to plateau. Here's what matters. Meta and Nvidia Seal a Massive Multi-Year
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THE SIGNAL Future Shock Daily — February 18, 2026 Two new flagship models dropped within days of each other, and Meta is buying chips like they're going out of style. The AI arms race had a busy weekend. Anthropic Ships Claude Sonnet 4.6 — And It Might Make Opus