1. The Pentagon Commits $20B to Anduril as Meta Eyes 20% Staff Cuts for AI Two numbers landed in the same week. The U.S. Army awarded Anduril a contract worth up to $20 billion. Meta began considering layoffs affecting 20 percent of its workforce.

2. Spielberg Drew a Line on AI. Netflix Crossed It the Same Week Steven Spielberg stood on a SXSW stage and declared he has never used AI in any of his films.

3. Microsoft Launches an AI That Reads Your Blood Work A patient opens Microsoft Copilot this week, navigates to a new section called Copilot Health, and asks what last month's elevated LDL cholesterol means for their statin prescription.

In Brief

• Lawyer Links AI Chatbots to Mass Casualty Cases The attorney behind multiple AI-psychosis lawsuits says chatbots are now appearing in mass casualty incidents, not just individual suicides. Safeguards lag well behind deployment speed. TechCrunch

• NanoClaw Creator Lands Docker Partnership Six Weeks After Launch Gavriel Cohen's open-source project went from debut to Docker deal in under two months. The partnership gives NanoClaw distribution through Docker's developer ecosystem. TechCrunch

• Nyne Raises $5.3M to Feed Human Context Into AI Agents The father-son-founded startup builds data infrastructure that supplies agents with context they lack about human intent. Wischoff Ventures and South Park Commons led the seed round. TechCrunch

• Simon Willison Outlines Stages of Developer AI Adoption In a fireside chat at the Pragmatic Summit, Willison walked through the phases programmers go through when adopting AI coding tools — from first experiments to full agentic workflows. Full video available on YouTube. Simon Willison

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