Defense Contractors Purge Claude After Pentagon Blacklist
Lockheed Martin and at least 10 defense-backed startups are actively removing Anthropic's Claude from their operations after the Pentagon designated the company a supply chain risk.
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OpenAI Staff Revolt Over Pentagon Deal as Users Flee
OpenAI employees are fuming about the company's Pentagon contract, ChatGPT uninstalls surged 295%, and 1-star reviews spiked 775% - while Claude downloads soared and hit #1 on the App Store.
Broadcom AI Revenue Doubles to $8.4B, Eyes $100B in 2027
Broadcom's Q1 2026 earnings show AI chip revenue up 106% year-over-year, with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta driving demand toward a $100 billion custom silicon forecast for 2027.
Meta's AI Glasses Send Intimate Footage to Workers in Kenya
A Swedish investigation reveals Meta routes sensitive Ray-Ban smart glasses footage to data annotators in Kenya who see users undressing, having sex, and flashing bank cards - with broken anonymization and no real opt-out.
Federal Clock Runs Out on State AI Laws March 11
The Trump administration's 90-day AI executive order deadline hits this week. Commerce, FTC, and $42B in broadband funding are all on the line.
PersonaPlex 7B Runs Full-Duplex Speech on a Mac
A developer ported NVIDIA's PersonaPlex 7B speech-to-speech model to native Swift using MLX, running full-duplex conversation on Apple Silicon with no cloud, no Python, and faster-than-real-time inference.
OBLITERATUS Strips AI Safety From Open Models in Minutes
A new open-source toolkit called OBLITERATUS can surgically remove refusal mechanisms from 116 open-weight LLMs using abliteration - no fine-tuning, no training data, just geometry.
OpenAI Ships Codex Desktop App for Windows Devs
OpenAI's Codex desktop app hits the Microsoft Store with native Windows sandboxing, PowerShell agents, WinUI skills, and multi-agent parallel execution - no WSL required.
Evo 2 Is the Largest Open-Source Biology AI Ever Built
Arc Institute and NVIDIA release Evo 2, a 40B-parameter open-source AI trained on 9.3 trillion nucleotides from every domain of life, with full weights, code, and training data.
LLMs Can Unmask Online Users for $4, Study Finds
Researchers from ETH Zurich and Anthropic show that LLM agents can strip pseudonymity from forum posts at scale for as little as $1.41 per target - matching what human investigators could do in hours.
AGI in 2026? Andrew Ng Has Some Bad News for Musk
Andrew Ng says AGI is decades away and the real AI bubble risk is in the training layer - not inference. We examine both claims against the data.
MacBook Neo: Apple's iPhone Chip Lands in a $599 Mac
Apple's cheapest Mac ever packs the A18 Pro iPhone chip with a 16-core Neural Engine - but its 60 GB/s memory bandwidth puts a hard ceiling on what local models you can actually run.
