AXIOS (Maria Curi) - Anthropic rejects Pentagon's "final offer" in AI safeguards fight
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Thursday said there has been "virtually no progress" on negotiations with the Pentagon. Why it matters: A deadline of Friday at 5:01pm is fast approaching for Anthropic to let the Pentagon use its model Claude as it sees fit or potentially face severe consequences. What they're saying: "The contract language we received overnight from the Department of War made virtually no progress on preventing Claude's use for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons," Amodei said in a statement. - "New language framed as compromise was paired with legalese that would allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will. Despite DOW's recent public statements, these narrow safeguards have been the crux of…
DAILYCALLER (Anthony Iafrate) - Angry Tim Walz Claims He’s Furious Over Fraud In His State — But Also That The Scandal Is Just Trump ‘Retribution’
'we need the adults in the room'
DAILYCALLER (Audrey Streb) - EXCLUSIVE: Embattled California Republican Leads Charge To Counter China’s Critical Mineral Supremacy
'Shackles'
YOUTUBE (Nellie Miranda) - Ilhan Omar Yelled at Trump | Then Said THIS on CNN
Rep. Ilhan Omar interrupted President Trump during the State of the Union then told CNN she has no regrets. Meanwhile, her invited guest was arrested inside the Capitol. What are your thoughts? Please head to the website to purchase some merch: www.nelliemiranda.com
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Illinois lawmakers push bipartisan energy choice package
State Sen. Javier Cervantes, D-Chicago, said Senate Bill 3979 requires a thorough review of customer bill impacts before large-scale gas transition projects are approved and protects rate-payers from unfair cost increases and shifting.
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Renewable energy program from 2022 law hasn’t launched
The law in question, Assembly Bill 2316, established a renewable energy subscription program for utility ratepayers, as well as a separate community renewable energy program.
SUBSTACK (The Grayzone) - Max Blumenthal: US pushing Israeli first strike to trigger Iran
Max Blumenthal tells Judge Napolitano we’re watching the 1970s CIA terror playbook and the 2003 Iraq WMD hoax rebooted to serve the Greater Israel project.
He links a Miami gusano speedboat raid on Cuba and past Bay of Piglets ops to today’s oil‑embargo siege warfare and regime‑change schemes from Venezuela to Tehran. In the Middle East, he says Tucker Carlson’s demolition of Christian Zionist crank Mike Huckabee briefly blew up the sales pitch for an Iran war that only Israel actually wants. Behind Trump’s “diplomacy,” Blumenthal sees Zionist oligarch capture and a plan to use U.S. troops as trip‑wire corpses so a wildly unpopular regional, possibly nuclear, war can be sold as revenge.Open
NPR (Tamara Keith) - Trump's ballroom project can continue for now, court says
A US District Judge denied a preservation group's effort to put a pause on construction
THENATIONALPULSE (William Upton) - Jack Dorsey’s Block, Inc. Laying Off Almost 50 Percent of Workforce Because of AI.
PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: Block, Inc., the San Francisco-based technology company formerly known as Square—which owns Cash App—and founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey, announced on Thursday that it is laying off nearly half of its workforce.WHO WAS INVOLVED: Jack Dorsey, Jim McKelvey, Block, Inc. employees, Square, Cash App, and artificial intelligence tools.WHEN & […] The post Jack Dorsey’s Block, Inc. Laying Off Almost 50 Percent of Workforce Because of AI. appeared first on The National Pulse .
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Block, Inc., the San Francisco-based technology company formerly known as Square—which owns Cash App—and founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey, announced on Thursday that it is laying off nearly half of its workforce. WHO WAS INVOLVED: Jack Dorsey, Jim McKelvey, Block, Inc. employees, Square, Cash App, and artificial intelligence tools. WHEN & WHERE: The announcement was made on Thursday, February 26, 2026. KEY QUOTE: “We’re not making this decision because we’re in trouble. Our business is strong… but something has changed. We’re already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working…Open