- WSJ: Anthropic Pushes Claude Deeper Into Knowledge Work (Feb. 24, 2026)
Anthropic updated Claude Cowork with Google apps, Gmail, DocuSign, LegalZoom, and new plug-ins for finance, legal, and other workflows, pitching it as a central AI brain for knowledge work. - NY Times Opinion: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy? (Feb. 24, 2026)
Klein interviews Anthropic co-founder, Jack Clark. AI has moved from chatbots to agents that act for you, write code, and run other agents, reshaping software work and markets. - WSJ: Viral Doomsday Report Lays Bare Wall Street’s Deep Anxiety About AI Future (Feb. 23, 2026)
- Dean W. Ball: Anthropic/DoD situation (Feb. 24, 2026)
DoD and Anthropic have a contract that prohibits domestic surveillance of Americans, and forbids using Claude in autonomous lethal weapons. - Transformer: The DoD fight is about much more than Anthropic (Feb. 24, 2026)
Anthropic resists a Pentagon demand to allow “all lawful” uses of its AI, refusing autonomous weapons, domestic mass surveillance, and targeted repression, and may face a supply-chain risk label. Other firms seem ready to agree, risking democratic abuse. - Brian Sozzi : JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon at an investor cocktail event (Feb. 24, 2026)
Jamie Dimon warned AI could displace two million US truckers, cutting average earnings of $120,000 to replacement jobs paying about $25,000, causing serious social harm. - Derek Thompson: AI & Jobs (Feb. 24, 2026)
“That’s not to say I think the technology is a parlor trick. But rather that the level of uncertainty is so high, and the quality and supply of real-world, real-time information about AI’s macroeconomic effects so paltry, that very serious conversations about AI are often more literary than genuinely analytical. “ - WSJ: Jamie Dimon Dismisses Fears Over How AI Will Hit JPMorgan (Feb. 23, 2026)
Jamie Dimon said AI fears that hurt JPMorgan’s stock were overblown, and the bank will use AI to its advantage. - Simon Willison: How I think about Codex (Feb. 22, 2026)
Codex combines a model, an open-source harness of instructions and tools, and interaction surfaces, with model+ harness forming an agent and surfaces enabling use. Models are trained with the harness, so tool use and execution are learned behaviors. - WSJ: Meta and AMD Agree to AI Chips Deal Worth More Than $100 Billion (Feb. 24, 2026)
Meta will buy 6 gigawatts of AMD AI compute, in a deal worth over $100 billion, with warrants to buy 10% of AMD if milestones are met. The pact boosts AMD against Nvidia, and helps Meta diversify its AI chips. - Susam Pal : Attention Media ≠ Social Networks (Jan. 20, 2026)
Social networks shifted from choice-driven, friend-focused feeds to attention-seeking platforms with infinite scroll, bogus notifications, and algorithmic, stranger-filled timelines. Mastodon restores a calm, predictable timeline, showing only posts from people you follow, not content designed to capture attention.