Sources: DoD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a "supply chain risk", if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/24/anthropic-pentagon-claude-hegseth-dario
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The first AI-assisted drive on another planet:
Claude helped NASA’s Perseverance rover travel four hundred meters on Mars.
https://www.anthropic.com/features/claude-on-mars
IBM crashes because we’re gonna YOLO a replacement for banking and credit-card back-ends, replacing billions of lines of COBOL with vibe code. Uh…
https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ibm-crashes-11-as-anthropic-threatens-cobol-empire
Anthropic introduces "persona selection model", a theory to explain AI's human-like behavior, and details how AI personas form in pre-training and post-training (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-selection-model
Software stocks rebound as Anthropic announces partnerships integrating its AI tools with enterprise apps, including Slack, Intuit, Docusign, and FactSet (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/software-stocks-anthropic-ai.html
Sources: DOD asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to assess their reliance on Claude, a first step toward blacklisting Anthropic; Lockheed confirms it was contacted (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/25/anthropic-pentagon-blacklist-claude