Maximilian Schreiner

Mar 3, 2026

Several US federal agencies are already dropping Anthropic's AI products and switching to competitors like OpenAI. According to Reuters, the shift currently affects the State Department, Treasury Department, Department of Health and Human Services, the Pentagon, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. President Trump ordered all agencies on Friday to phase out Anthropic products within six months. The Department of Defense had previously classified Anthropic as a supply chain risk and signed a deal with OpenAI.

The switch isn't exactly an upgrade, though - at least not yet. The State Department is replacing Anthropic's Claude models in its internal chatbot with OpenAI's outdated GPT-4.1 model.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Mar 3, 2026

AI in practice

A calendar invite is all it took to hijack Perplexity's Comet browser and steal 1Password credentials

Security researchers demonstrate how a manipulated calendar invite can trick Perplexity’s agentic Comet browser into stealing local files and taking over a full 1Password account.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Mar 2, 2026

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ASML, the world's sole manufacturer of EUV lithography machines used to produce advanced chips, is looking to expand beyond its core business. That's according to a Reuters report citing ASML Chief Technology Officer Marco Pieters.

The Dutch company is specifically planning to move into advanced packaging - a technique where multiple specialized chips are connected and stacked on top of each other. This approach is critical for modern AI chips and the high-bandwidth memory that feeds them. TSMC already uses advanced packaging to build Nvidia's most powerful AI processors, among others.

Pieters told Reuters that ASML is planning 10 to 15 years ahead, studying what kinds of machines the industry will need for packaging and bonding. The company is also exploring whether chips can be printed beyond their current size limit. On top of that, ASML wants to use AI to speed up the control software running its machines and improve quality checks during chip manufacturing.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Mar 2, 2026

AI in practice

Thousands of procurement documents show how China's army wants to weaponize AI

Researchers at Georgetown University have analyzed thousands of procurement requests from China’s People’s Liberation Army. The documents reveal how broadly Beijing is already experimenting with military AI, from drone swarms and deepfake tools to autonomous decision-making systems.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Mar 2, 2026

AI and society

Inside the Anthropic-Pentagon breakdown: mass surveillance, autonomous weapons, and a rival deal waiting in the wings

Maximilian Schreiner

Feb 22, 2026

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AI in practice

Hollywood's MPA calls Bytedance's Seedance 2.0 a machine built for "systemic infringement"

Hollywood is done asking nicely. First Netflix, then Warner Bros., Disney, Paramount, and Sony. Now the MPA itself. Hollywood is closing ranks against Bytedance’s Seedance 2.0, arguing the AI video generator was built on stolen content. The API launch might already be on hold.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Feb 20, 2026

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Nvidia is close to investing $30 billion in OpenAI, Reuters reports, citing a person familiar with the matter. The investment is part of a funding round in which OpenAI aims to raise more than $100 billion total - a deal that would value the ChatGPT maker at roughly $830 billion, making it one of the largest private fundraises in history.

SoftBank and Amazon are also expected to participate in the round. OpenAI plans to spend a significant portion of the new capital on Nvidia chips needed to train and run its AI models.

According to the Financial Times, the investment replaces a deal announced in September, under which Nvidia was set to provide up to $100 billion to support OpenAI's chip usage in data centers. That original agreement took longer to finalize than expected.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Feb 20, 2026

AI and society

Microsoft's research argues AI media authentication doesn't work reliably, yet new laws assume it does

The UK is planning a new law against sexually explicit deepfakes. Both the creation and distribution of such AI-generated images will be punishable in future.

Maximilian Schreiner

Feb 20, 2026

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Anthropic brings Claude's PowerPoint integration to Pro subscribers. Max, Team, and Enterprise customers get access too. The feature is currently in beta as a Research Preview.

Claude can create, edit, and generate full presentations from text descriptions directly inside PowerPoint. The model reads layouts, fonts, and colors from the slide master, so changes match the existing design. The add-in is available through the Microsoft Marketplace.

That said, users on the Marketplace are already reporting error messages and other issues. Anthropic itself notes that Claude can make mistakes and recommends reviewing all results.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Feb 20, 2026

AI in practice

AWS AI coding tool decided to "delete and recreate" a customer-facing system, causing 13-hour outage, report says

Amazon’s cloud division AWS experienced at least two outages involving its own AI tools, according to a Financial Times report. Amazon denies the connection and blames user error.

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