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President Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic products after the company refused Pentagon demands. OpenAI signed a deal with similar but accepted guardrails within hours.

Anthropic has officially rejected the Pentagon's latest proposal, stating 'We cannot in good conscience accede to their request.' The move underscores Anthropic's position on AI safety principles and the tension between powerful AI capabilities and military applications.

Professor Zico Kolter's 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI at Carnegie Mellon University is now available online for free, including lecture videos, assignments, and autograded submissions — with a 2-week delay from the in-person course.

Developer Eric Holmes argues that MCP is already dying, claiming LLMs already excel at using CLI tools without a special protocol. He makes a strong case that CLIs compose better, debug easier, and work with existing auth systems.

Professor Zico Kolter's 10-202: Introduction to Modern AI at Carnegie Mellon University is now available online for free, including lecture videos, assignments, and autograded submissions — with a 2-week delay from the in-person course.

Developer Eric Holmes argues that MCP is already dying, claiming LLMs already excel at using CLI tools without a special protocol. He makes a strong case that CLIs compose better, debug easier, and work with existing auth systems.

Alphabet's robotics software company Intrinsic moved from 'Other Bets' into Google proper on February 25, gaining direct access to Gemini models, Google Cloud, and DeepMind research. The strategy mirrors Android: one platform running across FANUC, KUKA, and Universal Robots hardware.

Meta struck a multiyear agreement to purchase up to $100B in AMD MI450 AI chips covering ~6GW of data center power demand. Includes warrants for 160M AMD shares and accelerates Meta's 'personal superintelligence' AI roadmap.

MLU-Explain's interactive visualization demonstrates why decision trees remain one of the most powerful and interpretable tools in ML, showing how simple nested if-else rules form the foundation of modern ensemble methods.

A developer built a demo simulating ad-supported AI chat, inserting ads mid-response to illustrate the likely UX of a truly free AI model. The demo sparked 248-point discussion on Hacker News about AI monetization models.

While AI tools have accelerated code production, they have simultaneously expanded engineering responsibilities and raised unspoken expectations, driving burnout and an identity crisis among developers.

Anthropic has launched a memory import feature that lets users bring their preferences and context from other AI providers to Claude with a single copy-paste, available on all paid plans.