AI & Tech News Digest — March 10, 2026

10 stories · Curated March 10, 2026

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The Anthropic-Pentagon clash dominates the day. The AI company's lawsuit against the Department of Defense, now drawing amicus support from OpenAI and Google DeepMind employees, is shaping up as a defining test of how the Trump administration can treat AI firms it views as adversaries.

Elsewhere, a flurry of large bets on AI infrastructure: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab signed a multibillion-dollar chip deal with Nvidia, Yann LeCun's new startup closed more than $1 billion in its first raise, and legal AI firm Legora tripled its valuation to $5.55 billion.

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  1. Anthropic sued the Department of Defense, arguing that the Trump administration overstepped by escalating a contract dispute into a federal ban on the company's Claude AI. Workers from OpenAI and Google DeepMind filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic. Wired / NYT Technology / Washington Post Tech / AP Technology
  1. Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, signed a multiyear chip supply deal with Nvidia worth tens of billions of dollars, covering more than one gigawatt of next-generation Vera Rubin compute. Nvidia will also make a strategic investment in the one-year-old company as part of the agreement. Financial Times / TechCrunch
  1. AMI Labs, the startup co-founded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun, raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation to build AI systems that understand the physical world rather than language alone. LeCun has long argued that human-level AI will come from mastering the physical world, not language, and AMI Labs is designed to test that thesis. The company has roughly a dozen employees. Wired / TechCrunch / NYT Technology
  1. Google will deploy Gemini AI agents across the Pentagon's 3 million-strong workforce, starting on unclassified networks for administrative tasks such as drafting budgets. The announcement came from Google's Emil Michael. It arrives as Anthropic wages a legal battle against the same department over its own exclusion from federal contracts, putting the two AI companies in sharply different positions. Bloomberg
  1. Amazon will require senior engineers to approve all code changes made by junior and mid-level engineers using AI coding tools, after a spate of outages the company linked to AI-assisted development. An internal memo from Amazon SVP Dave Treadwell described a "trend of incidents" tied to AI-generated code changes. Financial Times / Ars Technica
  1. Swedish legal AI startup Legora raised $550 million in a Series D led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55 billion since its October 2025 funding round, as it expands in the US market. The raise is the latest sign that AI tools aimed at lawyers are attracting capital at a pace few other enterprise verticals can match. Legora's valuation stood at roughly $1.85 billion at its October 2025 round. Bloomberg / TechCrunch
  1. Rhoda AI, a startup developing an AI model for industrial robots trained on publicly available internet video, raised $450 million led by Premji Invest at a $1.7 billion valuation. The approach bets that the vast volume of video already on the web can substitute for the expensive, purpose-built datasets that most industrial robotics companies rely on. The funding gives Rhoda the resources to test that theory at scale. Bloomberg
  1. Meta acquired Moltbook, a social network built for AI agents that went viral largely because of fake AI-generated posts, for an undisclosed sum. Moltbook's founders, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, will join Meta Superintelligence Labs. Axios / TechCrunch
  1. YouTube expanded its likeness detection tool to a select group of government officials, political candidates, and journalists, allowing them to manage unauthorized AI impersonations of themselves. YouTube did not say how many public figures are included in the pilot or when it might open more broadly. Axios / NYT Technology / TechCrunch
  1. Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down, with venture capitalist Toni Schneider taking over as interim chief executive while the company's board searches for a permanent replacement. The reason for her departure was not disclosed. Wired

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