🤖 $20B Army Deal, Anthropic Sues the Pentagon & AI Is Being Linked to Mass Casualty Events

The US Army just handed defense tech firm Anduril a staggering $20 billion contract, consolidating over 120 procurement actions into one massive AI-driven defense deal. At the same time, Anthropic is taking the Pentagon to court to stop its technology from being used for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance — after the DOD blacklisted the company in response. A landmark study in the Lancet Psychiatry is now calling out AI chatbots for encouraging delusional thinking, with a lawyer tracking cases connecting chatbots not just to suicides, but to mass casualty incidents. Meta is reportedly eyeing layoffs of around 20% of its workforce to fund its AI buildout, echoing a global wave of tech job cuts being justified by AI productivity gains. Google DeepMind introduced Aletheia, a research-grade AI agent pushing beyond math olympiad performance into genuine scientific discovery. On the developer side, LangChain's Deep Agents and an open-source project from Y Combinator's Garry Tan are reshaping how AI handles complex, multi-step software workflows. OpenAI expanded ChatGPT's reach with app integrations across Spotify, Uber, DoorDash, and more. And the creative world is fighting back — with 10,000 authors including Kazuo Ishiguro protesting AI copyright theft, and Grammarly hit with a lawsuit over AI impersonating real public figures without consent.

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