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Anthropic:
Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth  —  Earlier today, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shared on X that he is directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk.  This action follows months of negotiations that reached an impasse over two exceptions …
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Washington Post:
Pentagon declares Anthropic a threat to national security  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a “supply-chain risk,” blocking all federal agencies and contractors from doing business with the company.  —  The Trump administration placed AI firm Anthropic …
Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
‘Attempted corporate murder’: Trump's threats against Anthropic chill AI industry … The dispute has opened up a wider debate on AI's potential for enabling mass surveillance of U.S. citizens and computer-directed killing, two behaviors that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said his company would not allow in its work with the Pentagon.
Maria Curi / Axios:
Anthropic to take Trump's Pentagon to court over AI dispute
New York Times:
Pentagon Standoff Is a Decisive Moment for How A.I. Will Be Used in War
Associated Press:
Israel launches attack on Iran's capital with US help as tensions high over nuclear talks  —  Israel launched a daylight attack Saturday on Iran's capital, with a cloud of smoke rising from the city's downtown.  The first apparent strike happened near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S., Israel Strike Iran: Live Updates  —  The strikes target military assets to blunt Iran's ability to respond  —  The U.S. and Israel said they launched an attack on Iran on Saturday, a joint operation that risks a wider regional conflict in one of the most economically sensitive parts of the world.
CNN:
Trump claimed Iran is building missiles that could soon hit the US. Sources say that's not backed up by US intelligence.
Discussion: Axios
Coral Murphy Marcos / The Guardian:
‘Not a done deal’: California vows ‘vigorous’ review of Paramount-Warner Bros takeover  —  Attorney general says $111bn deal will be investigated amid concerns over monopoly power and job losses  —  Rob Bonta, California's attorney general, said his office will investigate …
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Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Democratic lawmakers push back on Paramount's potential takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren called the deal an “antitrust disaster,” while California's attorney general vowed a “vigorous” investigation.  — ADD NBC NEWS TO GOOGLE
David Dayen / American Prospect:
States Can Block the Paramount-Warner Deal
Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
KAMALA HARRIS MAKES LAST-MINUTE PITCH FOR JASMINE CROCKETT WITH ROBOCALL  —  HTML PLAIN TEXT  —  Former Vice President Kamala Harris has recorded a robocall for U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett to turn out voters for the Dallas congresswoman in Tuesday's hard-fought Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.
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Aaron Pellish / Politico:
Kamala Harris backs Jasmine Crockett in bitter Texas Democratic Senate primary
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Hegseth cancels troop attendance at top-ranked schools  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the cancellation of members of the military attending some of the country's top-ranked colleges and universities on Friday, beginning academic year 2026-2027, arguing the schools are teaching the …
Erin Reed / Erin In The Morning:
SecDef Hegseth Announces Trans Scouts In Scouting America Will Be Outed, Segregated  —  Erin In The Morning is a reader-supported publication.  To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a subscriber.  —  Nine years ago, the Boy Scouts of America announced …
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Natalie Neysa Alund / USA Today:
Scouting America to end DEI efforts in deal with Pentagon
Wall Street Journal:
Classified Report Finds Kristi Noem Created Security Vulnerabilities at Airports  —  Noem's handling of issue related to allowing travelers to keep shoes on at checkpoints fits pattern of incidents that have alarmed some national-security officials  —  Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Independent
New York Post:
Bill Clinton denies having sex with unidentified hot tub female during Epstein files deposition  —  CHAPPAQUA, NY — Former President Bill Clinton denied having sex with a mystery woman photographed with him in a hot tub as part of the Jeffrey Epstein files release and insisted he did “nothing wrong.”
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Sarah Fitzpatrick / The Atlantic:   The ‘Crazy’ Plot to Release the Epstein Files
Irie Sentner / Politico:
A president, deposed  —  Presented by With help from Makayla Gray  —  THE CATCH-UP
Yunior Rivas / Democracy Docket:
Voting rights groups sue Georgia for refusing to release voter purge records  —  Pro-voting groups sued Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for refusing to turn over key records related to his office's sweeping 2025 voter roll purge — a purge that canceled nearly 471,000 registrations, about 6% of the state's voters.
Democracy Docket:
Read the draft emergency executive order for Trump to take control of elections  —  A draft emergency executive order to declare a national emergency to allow President Donald Trump to take unprecedented control over voting is being circulated by anti-voting activists who said they are in coordination with the White House.
Politico:
FEMA taps billions for disasters, warning Democrats of ‘dire’ shutdown impact  —  The Trump administration spent more than half of the balance in the nation's disaster relief fund this week, pointing to that dwindling aid as means to pressure Democrats into yielding in Department of Homeland Security funding negotiations.
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Politico:
Trump administration delivers latest DHS funding offer
NBC News:
Trump told FBI Director Kash Patel he didn't like his Olympics hijinks  —  Trump told Patel directly that he wasn't pleased about his viral locker-room partying with the U.S. men's hockey team, as well as his use of a government jet to travel to Italy.  — ADD NBC NEWS TO GOOGLE
Discussion: DNYUZ, The Hill, Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:
Departing CBS News producer claims political bias as Paramount poised to buy Warner Bros  —  Mary Walsh, leaving after 46 years, says staffers told to ‘aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum’  —  A veteran CBS News producer who is leaving the network after 46 years …
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders  —  SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community. … Gabriel's mother called him crying on Thursday with some news: A new Kansas law invalidating …
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Matt Heilman / KBSL-TV:
2 transgender Kansans suing state over law invalidating driver's licenses, enforcing restroom change
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Judges question Pam Bondi's social media posts on Minnesota arrests … The judge said Bondi's posting of the names and arrest photos undercut prosecutors' request for an order to prohibit defense attorneys from publicly disclosing personal information about immigration agents involved in the case against Flores.
Cedar Attanasio / Associated Press:
Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead  —  Press 2 for Spanish ... accent?  For months, callers to the Washington state Department of Licensing who have requested automated service in Spanish have instead heard an AI voice speaking English in a strong Spanish accent.
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
RFK Jr. suggests buying liver or ‘cheap cuts’ instead of steak  —  Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday suggested people eat liver or “cheap cuts” in response to the high cost of beef.  —  “This is true all over the country.  There's a lot of good food in grocery stores that goes away.
 
 
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Matt Cohen / Democracy Docket:
Dems demand records from anti-voting groups on DOGE ‘voter data agreement’
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Public Notice:
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Discussion: Raw Story
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@secwar:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directs the DOD to designate Anthropic as a supply chain risk, barring military contractors from doing business with the company

Sam Altman / @sama:
Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD to deploy its models in DOD's classified network and asks DOD to extend those terms to all AI companies

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil a new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system will have a Groq-designed chip and OpenAI is a customer
 
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