🤖 Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: Who controls military AI?

🛡️ OpenAI signs Pentagon deal with safety rules

📉 Block cuts 40% of staff, cites AI-driven restructuring

🤑 Meta signs multibillion-dollar AI chip deal with Google

🤖 Honor enters the humanoid robot race

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Anthropic is refusing to let its AI models be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, arguing its systems aren’t capable enough to safely support those high-stakes applications.

The Pentagon says it should be able to use Anthropic’s models for any “lawful purpose,” and has threatened to label the company a supply chain risk or invoke the Defense Production Act if it doesn’t comply.

At stake is a much bigger question: whether AI companies can enforce usage limits on powerful models once they’re deployed by the government — or whether national security demands override corporate safeguards.

Sam Altman said OpenAI reached a deal that lets the US Department of Defense use its AI models on classified systems, after rival Anthropic failed to agree on limits around surveillance and autonomous weapons.

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei argued that some military uses of AI could harm democratic values, while President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth criticized the company and moved to phase out its work with the military.

Altman said the agreement includes clear safeguards, such as banning domestic mass surveillance and requiring human control over use of force, and that OpenAI can build its own safety controls so its models can refuse certain tasks.

Block, the fintech company behind Square and Cash App, is laying off 40% of its workforce — over 4,000 employees — with CEO Jack Dorsey attributing the move to advances in AI tools that change how companies are built and operated.

Dorsey said the company chose to make a decisive cut now rather than implement gradual layoffs over time, framing the shift as part of a broader AI-first strategy.

Despite the cuts, Block reported $6.25B in Q4 revenue (beating expectations), and shares jumped more than 20% in after-hours trading following the announcement and a stronger 2026 profit outlook.

Meta has signed a multibillion-dollar agreement to rent Google Cloud’s custom AI chips (TPUs) to train and run its next-generation large language models.

The move reduces Meta’s reliance on Nvidia, adding Google TPUs to recent major purchases of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin GPUs and AMD’s Instinct MI400 series chips.

Google and Meta are also reportedly in talks over a separate deal that could see Meta buy millions of TPUs for its own data centers, though that agreement hasn’t been finalized.

Chinese smartphone brand Honor will unveil its first humanoid robot for home and retail use at next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, joining companies like Xiaomi in expanding beyond phones.

The robot is designed to act as a household helper powered by agentic AI, showing how smartphone makers are betting on smart assistants that can perform real world tasks.

Honor says the robot will connect with its new “Robot Phone,” creating a broader AI ecosystem that goes beyond traditional mobile devices.

A) It could improve customer service - 29%

B) It feels overly intrusive - 71% 🏆