AI / Tech: Big Tech to Sign White House Power Pledge TomorrowTrump is convening major tech firms on March 4 to sign a pledge that their new AI data centres will “build, bring, or buy” their own power supply, ensuring Americans’ electricity bills don’t rise from data centre demand growth. In the UK, protesters marched against data centre expansion amid revelations that 140 facilities are seeking grid connections requiring 50 GW of capacity — exceeding the UK’s peak winter demand of 45 GW for the entire grid.New today: The White House energy pledge is tomorrow — a concrete policy action … Continue reading The AI infrastructure buildout is hitting a hard physical constraint — power

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/claude-ai-hit-by-worldwide-out-zQYPbIV0RtK35tqc9vzKrQ Anthropic confirmed the outage at 11:49 UTC on March 2, with users reporting 500 errors, failed logins, and Claude Code going completely offline.[bleepingcomputer +1]• The disruption comes as Claude surged to No. 1 on Apple’s [AAPL +0.75%] App Store after Anthropic walked away from a U.S. military AI deal over safety concerns.[techradar +1]• The outage follows a pattern of recent reliability issues, raising questions about infrastructure resilience as enterprise adoption, including at Microsoft [MSFT +1.82%], grows.[techbuzz] Continue reading Claude AI hit by worldwide outage across all platforms

Source #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anhropic Here’s a factual breakdown of why Anthropic’s AI was being used by the U.S. military, what sources say about that choice, and whether there’s some sort of “LLM trading desk” or governance structure ensuring specific military use cases: 🪖 Why Anthropic Got a U.S. Military Contract 1. Defense Department AI Procurement Strategy In mid-2025, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) awarded large AI contracts (~$200 million each) to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI as part of efforts to integrate advanced AI tools into defense workflows — analytics, decision support, intelligence analysis, etc.  This reflects a broader push … Continue reading Why Anthropic Got a U.S. Military Contract

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN A sprawling Chinese influence operation — accidentally revealed by a Chinese law enforcement official’s use of ChatGPT — focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials, according to a new report from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. The Chinese law enforcement official used ChatGPT like a diary to document the alleged covert campaign of suppression, OpenAI said. In one instance, Chinese operators allegedly disguised themselves as US immigration officials to warn a US-based Chinese dissident that their public statements had supposedly broken the law, according to the ChatGPT user. In another case, they describe an effort to … Continue reading A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT accidentally revealed a global intimidation operation

Anthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition. Continue reading Anthropic loosening its core safety principle

Prepared using ChatGPT What OpenClaw is (and isn’t) OpenClaw is not a “mainstream LLM.” It’s an open-source agent runtime / personal assistant that you run on your own device(s), which can connect to one or more LLMs (Claude/GPT/Gemini/local models) and then take actions: shell commands, file ops, browser automation, email/calendar, messaging channels, etc.  That distinction matters because most of the “difference vs mainstream LLMs” comes from agency + tooling + persistence + policies, not from training a new foundation model. 1) Background, history, and why it’s different vs mainstream LLMs 1.1 Background & origin story (high level) OpenClaw emerged as … Continue reading OpenClaw: comprehensive report (what it is, why it’s different, and what it could unlock)

CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei a Friday deadline to comply with demands to peel back safeguards on its AI model or risk losing a Pentagon contract. Continue reading Friday deadline for Anthropic

When Knowing Loses Its Pace Artificial intelligence dominates the conversation about the future. It is framed as a breakthrough, a threat, a productivity engine, or a moral challenge. What receives far less attention is a quieter but more consequential shift already underway: intelligence now moves faster than the human systems built to absorb it. This series examines what happens when that mismatch becomes structural—when discovery, inference, and action outpace review, coordination, and shared agreement. Each post traces how this pressure propagates through the system, reshaping how knowledge forms, how environments and institutions respond, and how human roles evolve. This first … Continue reading When systems move faster than we can