Anthropic filed sworn declarations in federal court yesterday establishing that the company has no kill switch, no backdoor, and no technical ability to alter Claude’s behavior once deployed inside a classified, air-gapped military system. The declarations also revealed that a Pentagon official emailed Anthropic’s CEO calling the two sides “very close” on the contested surveillance and autonomous weapons issues the day after the supply-chain risk designation was finalized - the same designation the government is now defending in court as a genuine national security judgment. Judge Rita Lin will hear preliminary injunction arguments on Tuesday. The sworn record going into that hearing is specific: the capability the government cited as a security risk is one the company cannot technically exercise, and the government’s own negotiator believed agreement was imminent the day the designation was imposed.
The White House released a national AI legislative framework yesterday calling on Congress to preempt state AI laws and avoid creating new regulatory bodies, positioning federal authority as the sole governance layer for AI development. The framework declares that training AI on copyrighted material does not violate copyright law - on the same day authors filed for final approval of a $1.5 billion settlement with Anthropic over exactly that issue. Four states have already passed comprehensive AI legislation that the framework would constrain. On the scientific and infrastructure side: the University of Geneva’s MangroveGS system predicted cancer metastasis risk with 80% accuracy across colon, lung, stomach, and breast tumors by reading gene expression patterns - and the gene signatures generalized across tumor types without retraining. A Phase III trial of enlicitide, an oral PCSK9 inhibitor tested in 2,909 patients, matched injectable cholesterol therapies for the first time in pill form, removing the primary barrier to population-scale cardiovascular prevention. Terabase Energy began commercial shipments of its Terafab V2 robotic solar construction system, which installs solar equipment on a two-minute cycle and operates at a rate exceeding 1 GW per factory-year. BAIC Group completed a sodium-ion battery prototype achieving 170 Wh/kg energy density and 11-minute full recharge - arriving just weeks after CATL’s mass-production debut in the same chemistry.
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Additional Reading:
* Wired - Anthropic Denies It Could Sabotage AI Tools During War: https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-denies-sabotage-ai-tools-war-claude/
* TechCrunch - Pentagon Told Anthropic the Two Sides Were Nearly Aligned: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/20/new-court-filing-reveals-pentagon-told-anthropic-the-two-sides-were-nearly-aligned-a-week-after-trump-declared-the-relationship-kaput/
* The Verge - Trump Takes Another Shot at Dismantling State AI Regulation: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/898055/trump-new-ai-policy-framework
* Electrek - A 24/7 Solar Farm-Building Robot Just Hit the Market: https://electrek.co/2026/03/20/a-24-7-solar-farm-building-robot-just-hit-the-market/
* Shared Sapience - The Last Difficult Decade 2025-2035: https://sharedsapience.com/the-last-difficult-decade-2025-2035/
* Shared Sapience - The Century Report February 27, 2026: https://sharedsapience.com/the-century-report-february-27-2026/
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