Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil a new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system will have a Groq-designed chip and OpenAI is a customer  —  Under pressure from rivals, the chip giant is set to offer a new product focused on rapid processing of AI queries for ‘inference’ demand

Sam Altman / @sama:
Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD to deploy its models in DOD's classified network and asks DOD to extend those terms to all AI companies  —  Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of

Fast Company:
A look at a local group's lawsuit against Micron over its $100B New York manufacturing complex, alleging a rushed permitting process and environmental review  —  Lawsuit over Micron's massive Syracuse project raises concerns about toxic risks and alleges a rushed environmental review.

Nearly two hours after President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he was banning Anthropic products from the federal government, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took it one step further and announced that he was now designating the AI company as a "supply-chain risk," which Anthropic says it is willing to challenge in court. […]

Financial Times:
Sources: DeepSeek plans to release its multimodal model V4 next week and worked with Huawei and Chinese AI chipmaker Cambricon to optimize V4 for their products  —  Chinese AI group has worked with Huawei to cut reliance on Nvidia chips  —  Eleanor Olcott in Istanbul and Zijing Wu in Sapporo