Monday, 2 March 2026
Welcome to today's roundup of the most interesting developments in AI and technology.
Top Stories
Google looks to tackle longstanding RCS spam in India — but not alone
Google is integrating carrier-level filtering into RCS in India through a partnership with Airtel to strengthen protections against spam.
Read moreOpenAI reveals more details about its agreement with the Pentagon
By CEO Sam Altman’s own admission, OpenAI’s deal with the Department of Defense was “definitely rushed,” and “the optics don’t look good.”
Read moreAnthropic’s Claude rises to No. 1 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute
Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.
Read moreSaaS in, SaaS out: Here's what's driving the SaaSpocalypse
What's behind the SaaSpocalypse? It simply seems a new supreme has risen.
Read moreThe billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom
Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.
Read moreOpenAI’s Sam Altman announces Pentagon deal with ‘technical safeguards’
OpenAI's CEO claims its new defense contract includes protections addressing the same issues that became a flashpoint for Anthropic.
Read morePentagon moves to designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk
"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post.
Read moreAnthropic vs. the Pentagon: What’s actually at stake?
Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and who sets the rules for military AI.
Read moreIndustry
ChatGPT reaches 900M weekly active users
OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding.
Read moreAI music generator Suno hits 2M paid subscribers and $300M in annual recurring revenue
Suno lets users create music using natural language prompts, making it possible for people with little experience to generate audio with little effort.
Read moreEmployees at Google and OpenAI support Anthropic's Pentagon stand in open letter
While Anthropic has an existing partnership with the Pentagon, the AI company has remained firm that its technology not be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weaponry.
Read morePoor implementation of AI may be behind workforce reduction
Many organisations are eroding the foundations of business – productivity, competitiveness, and efficiency. This is happening due to poor implementation of human-AI collaboration, according to cloud data and AI consultancy, Datatonic. The company says in the next phase of enterprise AI, succes
Read moreResearch & Products
Perplexity's new Computer is another bet that users need many AI models
Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, "unifies every current AI capability into a single system."
Read moreUpgrading agentic AI for finance workflows
Improving trust in agentic AI for finance workflows remains a major priority for technology leaders today. Over the past two years, enterprises have rushed to put automated agents into real workflows, spanning customer support and back-office operations. These tools excel at retrieving information,
Read moreASML's high-NA EUV tools clear the runway for next-gen AI chips
The machine that will make tomorrow’s AI chips possible has just been declared ready for mass production – and the clock for the industry’s next leap has officially started. ASML, the Dutch company that holds a global monopoly on commercial extreme ultraviolet lithography equipment, conf
Read morePolicy & Ethics
The trap Anthropic built for itself
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly. Now, in the absence of rules, there's not a lot to protect them.
Read moreMusk bashes OpenAI in deposition, saying 'nobody committed suicide because of Grok'
In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with nonconsensual nude images.
Read moreWho's really running AI? Inside the billion-dollar battle over regulation with Alex Bores
The Pentagon is playing chicken with Anthropic over who gets to control how the military uses AI while communities across the country are blocking data center construction. As the AI debate has been flattened to “doomers versus boomers,” one state legislator is attempting to walk a middle road. On t
Read moreOpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in history
The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.
Read moreGoldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank test agentic AI for trade surveillance
Banks are testing a new type of artificial intelligence, like agentic AI, that does more than scan for keywords or follow preset rules. Instead of relying only on static alerts, some trading desks are beginning to use systems designed to reason through patterns in real time and flag conduct that may
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