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Anthropic Refuses Pentagon Ultimatum as AI Governance Battle Reaches Deadline

The 5:01pm deadline lands today as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly refused the Pentagon's "best and final offer" demanding unrestricted military use of Claude. Amodei says he "cannot in good conscience" remove safeguards against autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of Americans, even as Defense Secretary Hegseth threatens to invoke the Cold War-era Defense Production Act or blacklist Anthropic from all US defence supply chains. Meanwhile xAI has already signed a Pentagon deal for classified access to Grok under the "all lawful purposes" standard Anthropic refuses to accept.

Samsung Launches Galaxy S26 as the World's First Agentic AI Phone

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S26 series at Galaxy Unpacked in San Francisco, branding it the first agentic AI smartphone. The device runs three AI engines simultaneously - Google's Gemini 3, Perplexity and an upgraded Bixby - with Gemini able to autonomously execute multi-step tasks across third-party apps in a background virtual window while the phone remains fully usable. Pre-orders open today with global sales starting March 11 across 120 countries.

Hundreds of AI-Generated Videos Target Singapore PM in Major Disinformation Campaign

An investigation by Singapore's CNA has uncovered nearly 300 AI-generated Chinese-language YouTube videos targeting Prime Minister Lawrence Wong as part of what researchers describe as one of the largest coordinated disinformation campaigns ever aimed at Singapore. Seven in ten videos fabricate narratives about Wong's leadership being under threat or spread conspiracy theories about political infighting. The videos, uploaded by more than 30 channels, have accumulated millions of views since surfacing late last year.