Given the Anthropic vs. Pentagon divorce last week, we dig into AI surveillance in the United States.
@IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week.
AI surveillance in the United States is rapidly scaling because AI makes it easy to search video, track locations
BIG TECH
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US AI surveillance grows after Anthropic-Pentagon split
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Rachel Metz covers a16z summit amid Pentagon-Anthropic feud tensions
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For my first edition, I'm in DC for @a16z's American Dynamism Summit.@EmilMichael is the event's surprise keynote speaker, here to address the Pentagon/Anthropic feud. Alex Karp is up next. A room full of Pentagon officials and defense tech investors at the dawn of war? Should… https://t.co/3WAbXFhpyb pic.twitter.com/6elOieyvPC
— Julia Black (@mjnblack) 3 mars 2026For my first edition, I'm in DC for @a16z's American Dynamism Summit. @EmilMichael is the event's surprise keynote speaker, here to address the Pentagon/Anthropic feud. Alex Karp is up next. A room full of Pentagon officials and defense tech investors at the dawn of war? Should get interesting. Julia Black (@mjnblack) Big day! You can now SUBSCRIBE to my new weekly @VanityFair newsletter, A Billion to One. I'll be covering big money, big tech, and big personalities from my usual insider-outsider perspective. New issues drop Tuesdays… including today. Don't miss out! vanityfair.com/newsletter/bi… — https://nitter.net/mjnblack/status/2028830797545816390#m
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Physical AI and Technological Innovation at MWC
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LLMs surveillance concerns echo Apple backdoor fears
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Something that didn't fit into this week's newsletter is how new concerns with LLMs echo the same issues Apple feared. 2016: @tim_cook warned forcing Apple to create a backdoor could make it easier for the government to someday also demand that Apple build surveillance software
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Anthropic Pentagon Fight Parallels Apple FBI Historic Dispute
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In today's edition of the @BigTechnology Agenda Setter newsletter, @Kantrowitz and I wrote about the potential fallout from @AnthropicAI
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Anthropic’s Latest Releases: Claude Code, Claude.ai, and Cowork
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It was easy to miss all the stuff we shipped at Anthropic this past week given… everything else that happened. A few of my favorites across Claude Code, claude dot ai, and Cowork:
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Claude’s Explosive Growth Week: App Store Success and Server Overload
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I go offline for one week:
– DoW saga
– everyone from trump to katy perry posts about us
– Claude hits 1 on app store
– sign-up records broken, servers are melting
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Where Does AI Company Authority Come From?
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Where does authority come from? That’s the question AI companies need to grapple with.
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Starlink National Security Asset Biden Administration Discussion
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In fact I talked explicitly about Starlink being a national security asset during the Biden administration
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Power asymmetry: entities with technological control dominate systems
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It’s not a two way street. The entity with the guns has the power. That’s the entire point of the article