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This week was chaos.
OpenAI signed a classified military deal with the Pentagon, just hours after Trump blacklisted Anthropic from all federal agencies. ChatGPT uninstalls surged. Protesters showed up at OpenAI's office. And somehow, in the middle of all of it, Anthropic doubled its revenue to nearly $20 billion.
Oh, and an AI just outperformed genetic testing at predicting breast cancer.
It was a lot. Let's break it down.
In this issue:
🏛️ OpenAI signed a Pentagon deal, and the backlash was instant
🔬 An AI tool predicts breast cancer more accurately than genetics
📈 Anthropic just hit $20B in revenue while being banned by the US government
Plus: Perplexity launches a 19-model AI agent
Read time: 5 minutes.
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The AI Field: OpenAI signed a deal with the Pentagon to deploy AI in classified military environments. The timing made it worse. It came just hours after the Trump administration ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's tools and labeled the company a "supply chain risk." The irony? OpenAI's deal includes almost the exact same restrictions Anthropic had demanded before being rejected.
Key details:
The deal came hours after Trump blacklisted Anthropic from all federal agencies, labeling them a "supply chain risk"
OpenAI's contract includes restrictions on mass domestic surveillance, autonomous weapons, and high-stakes automated decisions, nearly identical to the terms Anthropic proposed and the Pentagon rejected
ChatGPT uninstalls surged across both app stores, and protesters showed up outside OpenAI's San Francisco HQ
Claude overtook ChatGPT as the number one app on the App Store during the backlash
Sam Altman publicly admitted the rollout was "opportunistic and sloppy" and revised the contract language
Altman asked the Pentagon to offer Anthropic the same deal terms and said the "supply chain risk" label was wrong
Why This Matters: OpenAI got the contract and took a reputational hit. Anthropic lost the contract and won the PR war. But the bigger picture is that AI companies are now political players whether they like it or not. The same terms got accepted from one company and rejected from another, which means this was never really about the terms. It was about leverage, timing, and politics. That's the new reality for the entire industry.
Read more 👉 The Hill | CNBC | OpenAI's Statement
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The AI Field: A new AI tool called BRAIx can predict whether a woman will develop breast cancer in the next four years, using nothing but a standard mammogram. And it is more accurate than the methods doctors currently rely on, including family history and breast density.
Key details:
Trained on mammograms from nearly 400,000 women in Australia, tested on 96,000 women, then validated again on a separate Swedish population
For the top 2% of women flagged as highest risk, nearly 1 in 10 were diagnosed with breast cancer within four years, despite being given the all-clear by traditional screening
That detection rate is higher than what you would see in women who carry BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations, the most well-known genetic risk factors
The FDA has given Breakthrough Device designation to a similar AI tool from WashU Medicine, and another platform called Clairity Breast just received full FDA approval
Published in The Lancet Digital Health, one of the most respected medical journals in the world
Why This Matters: A routine mammogram, something millions of women already get, could become a personalized early warning system powered by AI. No extra blood tests. No genetic screening. Just an algorithm seeing patterns that human eyes miss. We don't talk enough about AI in healthcare. This might save more lives than any chatbot ever will.
Read more 👉 The Lancet Digital Health | The Conversation | Xinhua
The AI Field: While the Pentagon was labeling Anthropic a "supply chain risk," the company quietly crossed $19 billion in annualized revenue, more than doubling from $9 billion at the end of 2025. That is not growth. That is a vertical line on a chart.
Key details:
Revenue run rate: $9B (end of 2025) to $14B (a few weeks ago) to nearly $20B (now)
Claude Code, Anthropic's programming tool, hit $2.5B in annualized revenue by itself in February, more than doubling since January
Closed a $30 billion Series G funding round on February 12 at a $380 billion valuation
Claude shot to number one on the App Store during the Pentagon controversy, driven by a wave of users switching from ChatGPT in protest
Anthropic called the Pentagon's "supply chain risk" designation "legally unsound" and said it would fight it
Why This Matters: The company that the US government just called a security risk is now one of the fastest-growing technology companies in history. And the timing of the Pentagon drama might have actually helped. Sometimes the best marketing is having your competitor take a bad deal. The bigger signal: developer adoption of Claude Code is accelerating fast, and that is the kind of growth that compounds. Revenue from developers tends to be stickier than consumer signups.
Read more 👉 Bloomberg
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🔥THE AI FIELD'S TAKE
This week made one thing clear: AI is no longer just a technology story. It is a political story. A military story. A trust story.
OpenAI signed a deal that its own CEO called sloppy. Anthropic got blacklisted by the government and responded by doubling its revenue. And somewhere in Australia, an AI is catching breast cancers that doctors are missing.
The gap between "AI that changes everything" and "AI that causes problems" has never been smaller. Both things are happening at the same time. That is the reality we are in now, and it is only going to get more complicated.
Pay attention to who you trust, and why.
Perplexity launched "Computer," a super agent that coordinates 19 AI models. It can build websites, write reports, generate datasets, and run complex workflows for hours or even months in the background. The reasoning engine runs on Claude Opus 4.6, Google's Gemini handles deep research, Grok takes lightweight tasks, and GPT-5.2 manages long-context recall. Available on Perplexity Max ($200/month). This is the multi-model future playing out in real time. → Read more
Google just gave Gemini control of your phone. The March 2026 Pixel Feature Drop lets Gemini book rides, order food, and buy groceries by actually tapping, scrolling, and typing inside apps on your behalf. You can watch it work in real time or let it run in the background. This is agentic AI moving from chatbots to your home screen. → Read more
Nvidia GTC 2026 kicks off March 16. Jensen Huang's keynote in San Jose is expected to reveal next-gen chip architectures and a big push into physical AI and robotics. If you follow AI hardware, this is the event of the quarter. → Read more
Apple launched the MacBook Air M5 with 4x faster AI performance. The new MacBook Air delivers up to 4 times faster AI performance than the M4, thanks to a Neural Accelerator built into every GPU core. Starting at $1,099 with 512GB storage. Pre-orders open today, shipping March 11. Apple is quietly building the hardware layer for Apple Intelligence to run on. → Read more
WRAP-UP
That's all for todays roundup!
🏛️ OpenAI just signed a deal with the Pentagon and the internet lost it
🔬 AI now predicts breast cancer better than genetic testing
📈 Anthropic hit $20B revenue while being banned by the US government
What did you think of today’s edition?
Until next time!
Olle | Founder of The AI Field