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The Future We Feared Is Already Here — AI the News That's Fit to Prompt #4

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SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2026 · VOL. 1, NO. 4 · 21 STORIES
Lead · Opinion
The Future We Feared Is Already Here

Ezra Klein argues that the showdown between the Pentagon and Anthropic reveals a deeper crisis: the institutions governing AI's most consequential applications have no framework for doing so. Who decides what these systems should and shouldn't do?

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AI Policy
A High-Profile OpenAI Departure Points Straight at the Pentagon Deal
Podcast · AI Policy
Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: Inside the Battle Over A.I. Warfare (NYT Daily)
Opinion
There Are No Heroes in Commercial AI (Gary Marcus)
Economy · AI
Economist Dambisa Moyo: CEOs Must Sustain the Consumer Class as AI Eliminates Jobs
Opinion · AI Safety
Based on Its Own Charter, OpenAI Should Surrender the Race
Research
Reasoning Models Struggle to Control Their Chains of Thought
Robotics
Ex-Google Researcher Seeks to Transform Japan's Robots With AI
Markets · China
OpenClaw AI Mania Fires Up Chinese Tech Leaders, Cloud Stocks
Developer Tools
Agent Safehouse — macOS-Native Sandboxing for Local AI Agents
AI History
We Should Revisit Literate Programming in the Agent Era
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