The White House approves a secret $9 billion request for spy-agency AI chips and finalizes a classified contract keeping the NSA on Anthropic's model — three weeks after the Pentagon ejected the company as a supply-chain threat. Jonas Vale walks the arc from "any lawful use" to the carve-out the administration wants to standardize.Also: the compute shortage as a national-security choke point and the private money locking up capacity; the NTSB pulls its accident docket offline after AI reconstructs the voices of dead pilots from a spectrogram; thousands rally in Taipei after the US pauses a $14 billion arms sale; and two brain implants restore partial sight to blind patients — the same capability, pointed at repair instead of leverage.White House clears $9B for spy agencies' AI chipsWhite House and Anthropic near a deal for spy agencies to use AIPentagon's AI deals and Anthropic's safety limitsDario and Daniela tell Oprah they'd rather let Anthropic failAll-In: Gavin Baker reads the SpaceX S-1 on Anthropic's compute commitmentAI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilotsThousands rally in Taiwan to boost defence spending amid China tensionsA new brain implant helps restore vision by communicating directly with the brain
