Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Apple filed legal briefs today in support of Anthropic’s federal lawsuit against the Pentagon’s supply-chain risk designation - the broadest institutional coalition ever assembled around a single AI governance question, now including the chip manufacturer that built the infrastructure the entire field runs on, the civil liberties organizations that have long scrutinized these same companies, and retired military leaders arguing in federal court that punishing safety commitments threatens national security. The same edition covers Nvidia’s $26 billion, five-year open-weight AI commitment and the release of Nemotron 3 Super; the first sodium-ion battery deployment on the MISO grid; EPB of Chattanooga’s 29 MW microgrid buildout targeting 150 MW within three years; and two scientific breakthroughs detecting Alzheimer’s and depression through biological signals that were always present but invisible to prior diagnostic frameworks.
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Additional Reading:
* BBC - Big Tech Backs Anthropic in Fight Against Trump Administration: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g7k7zdd0zo
* Wired - Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models: https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/
* Electrek - Sodium-Ion Batteries Hit the Midwestern Grid in First-of-Its-Kind Pilot: https://electrek.co/2026/03/11/sodium-ion-batteries-hit-the-midwestern-grid-in-first-of-its-kind-pilot/
* ScienceDaily - A Surprising Blood Protein Pattern May Reveal Alzheimer’s: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260312020104.htm
* Shared Sapience - The Last Difficult Decade: 2025-2035: https://sharedsapience.com/the-last-difficult-decade-2025-2035/
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