Trump signs a national security memorandum seeking to "accelerate the use of AI across intelligence and warfighting domains in line with American values" (Reuters)

Sources and docs detail defense tech startup Shield AI's struggles to overcome years of technical hitches and safety concerns with its V-BAT autonomous drone (David Jeans/Reuters)

Sources: Apollo and Blackstone finalized a $35B package for Anthropic to lease TPUs; Broadcom is backstopping payments on the debt's largest senior portions (Bloomberg)

Source: OpenAI and White House are discussing a government stake in the company, to seed something like the "Public Wealth Fund" that OpenAI outlined earlier (CNBC)

In an internal message, Satya Nadella rebuked an internal memo that said Microsoft needs to "make people addicted" to its new AI agent product called Scout (Aaron Holmes/The Information)

Allen Control Systems, which makes AI-powered gun turrets for shooting down drones, raised a $200M Series B led by Smash Capital at a $2.2B post-money valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)

Starlink says that it has 12M+ "active customers" across 160+ countries, territories, and other markets, up from 9M in December 2025 (@starlink)