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The Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic — first US company ever labeled a 'supply chain risk.' Palmer Luckey said Anthropic's constitutional AI red lines are 'untenable.' Anthropic is suing.
Anduril got a $20B Army contract — largest procurement vehicle in the service's history. Luckey's post about 'getting weapons into hands of people who need them' drew 28K likes and 12K quote tweets, sharply divided between defense hawks and autonomous-weapons critics.
Senator Blackburn released the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act discussion draft. It would preempt state AI laws from California to Colorado. Libertarians love it, progressives hate it, constitutional lawyers are terrified.
Russian-linked hackers deployed DarkSword — a zero-click iPhone exploit — on Ukrainian websites. If you visited certain sites on an unpatched iPhone, it was probably compromised. The malware steals crypto, messages, everything.
OpenAI signed with AWS to provide AI for Pentagon classified networks. The timing: hours after Anthropic was blacklisted and accused the Pentagon of punishing its defense AI limits. Critics frame it as the defense industry picking winners.
X went dark globally on March 17 — third outage in three months. During the Iran war. When millions depend on it for real-time updates. Musk blamed a 'server migration that went sideways.' Users blamed Musk.