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Rival AI Employees Back Anthropic's Suit Against Pentagon's 'Risk' Label - DTH
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These are the daily tech headlines for Tuesday, March 10, 2026. I'm Rob Dunwoody. Over 30 employees from Google, DeepMind, OpenAI and other rival AI companies filed an amicus brief supporting Anthropic's lawsuit against the US Government. The suit challenges the Pentagon supply chain risk label for Anthropic. The brief supports Anthropic's request for a temporary restraining order to continue military partnerships, arguing the sanctions harms US AI competitiveness. The employee state of blacklisting Anthropic undermines American innovation and chills professional debates, stressing that Anthropic sought after contractual protections against AI misuse are necessary in the absence of public law. AT&T plans a major investment of over $250 billion across the US over five years to significantly expand its network infrastructure. This expansion is driven by the rising data demand from AI, cloud computing and connected devices. The investment will focus on accelerating the deployment of fiber, broadband, 5G home Internet and satellite connectivity to enhance coverage across all regions. The company will also hire thousands of new technicians as part of this initiative. Furthermore, AT&T aims to strengthen its network security, leverage AI driven threat and compete with cable providers using its AST Space mobile partnership to reach remote areas. The oversight board is pressuring Meta to overhaul its AI generated content policies, urging a separate rule from misinformation, better detection tools and improved digital watermarking. This follows the board overturning Meta's failure to label a viral unlabeled AI video about the 2025 Israel Iran conflict. The board criticized Meta's system as inadequate, relying too heavily on user disclosure and fact checkers, and stressed the company must improve internal capacity to counter deceptive AI content, especially from inauthentic networks during crises. Google is deeply integrating the Gemini AI Assistant into its workspace applications for subscribers, adding a dedicated chat window in Google Docs, AI driven spreadsheet generation and a new search feature in drive. The new Gemini Chat in Docs can generate and format full document drafts by pulling information from across the web and workspace, including the ability to match an existing document style. Additionally, collaborative editing is enhanced with a match writing style feature and the ability for Gemini to suggest private inline changes throughout a document based on user prompts. Meta Platforms has acquired Multbook, a social networking platform for AI agents, primarily to hire its co founders Matt Schlitt and Ben Parr for its Meta superintelligence labs. Reflecting the fierce competition for AI talent, Multbook, a niche site for AI bots to exchange code and gossip, quickly grew but faced a major cybersecurity flaw later fixed that exposed over a million credentials through its Vibe coding meth. The acquisition signals that autonomous agents are the next major focus in the tech industry. The FAA launched eight pilot programs across 26 states to fast track advanced air mobility and EVTOL integration, as mandated by a presidential executive order. This three year initiative lets companies like Archer Aviation Beta Technologies and Joby Aviation test applications such as air taxis and cargo delivery as early as this summer, partially bypassing standard regulations. The programs, in partnership with local governments, aim to develop SAFET standards and a scalable framework to ensure U.S. leadership in the new technology. Adobe is significantly enhancing its Creative Cloud suite with agentic AI features, allowing users to edit images and documents through descriptive prompts. This includes the public beta launch of an AI assistant in Photoshop on web and mobile for tasks like removing distractions and changing backgrounds, following similar releases for Express and Acrobat. Additionally, Adobe is integrating Express and Acrobat directly into Microsoft Copilot service for enterprise customers, enabling conversational adjustments within the Microsoft platform, Zoom is significantly expanding its AI features, launching photorealistic avatars for meetings and video messaging, and introducing new proprietary AI productivity applications in preview this spring. The company is also enhancing its platform with deepfake detection, a voice translator, and an AI agent builder for custom agent creation. Furthermore, Zoom's AI Companion 3.0 is being integrated into the desktop app and Workvivo, connecting with services like Slack and Gmail, and the company is unifying its design across platforms for easier access to these new AI tools. And finally, BlueSky CEO Jay Graeber is transitioning to chief Innovation Officer, with advisor and investor Tony Schneider taking over as interim CEO. Graeber, who led the decentralized social platform's growth to 43 million users since 2021, stated that the company now needs an experienced operator like Schneider, the former Automatic CEO, to focus on scaling while the board searches for a permanent replacement. Graeber will remain on the board and focus on new developments in her new role. For more analysis of the tech news of the day, subscribe to dailytechnews show.com and if you enjoy the show, remember to tell a friend to check us out. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you next time.
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