The end of voluntary pauses
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Transformer Weekly: Anthropic vs the Pentagon, Trump’s power pledge, and Meta’s chip deals
The end of voluntary pauses Transformer Weekly: Anthropic vs the Pentagon, OpenAI raises $110b, and Trump’s power pledge Shakeel Hashim , Veronica Irwin , and Celia Ford Feb 27, 2026 10 1 Share Welcome to Transformer, your weekly briefing of what matters in AI. And if you’ve been forwarded this email, click here to subscribe and receive future editions. NEED TO KNOW Pentagon CTO Emil Michael called Dario Amodei “a liar [with] a God-complex” after Anthropic refused the Pentagon’s demands to use Claude for “all lawful uses.” OpenAI raised $110b at a $730b valuation . AI companies and hyperscaler
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