March 5, 2026
Today's Top Stories
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Anthropic & Pentagon Resume Talks — Dario Amodei is back at the table with DoD's Emil Michael, pushing for a deal that "works for us and works for them." The standoff may be closer to resolution than it looks.
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Web Search & Code Execution Hit GA — No beta headers required anymore. Web search, web fetch, and programmatic tool calling are now generally available on the Claude API, with free code execution bundled with search.
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OpenAI Walks Back Pentagon Deal — Sam Altman admits the deal was "opportunistic and sloppy" and says OpenAI is renegotiating. Anthropic's principled stand is reshaping the whole AI-defense conversation.