The Pentagon gives Anthropic an ultimatum; Paramount raises Warner bid, and more
The World in Brief from The Economist
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're listening to the free edition of the world in brief from The Economist. |
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| 0:35.0 | This is the world in brief from The Economist. |
| 0:41.3 | Our top stories. |
| 0:44.3 | Pete Hegseth, America's Secretary of War, gave Anthropic an AI lab |
| 0:49.3 | until Friday to allow the Pentagon freer access to its clod models. |
| 0:55.5 | Meeting Dario Amadai, Anthropics' boss, Mr. Hexeth, threatened to list the company as a supply chain risk, |
| 1:03.4 | a classification that would bar any defence contractor from using Claude, or invoke the |
| 1:09.7 | Defence Production Act to, in effect, |
| 1:12.8 | false anthropic to comply. |
| 1:16.2 | Warner Brothers said Paramount's revised offer to buy the company could, quote, reasonably |
| 1:21.7 | be expected to best Netflix's. |
| 1:25.6 | Paramount, a rival Hollywood studio, |
| 1:28.3 | upped its per share purchase price |
| 1:30.5 | from $30 to $31, among other things. |
| 1:35.1 | After a bidding war, |
| 1:36.5 | Warner Brothers earlier reached a merger deal with Netflix, |
| 1:40.1 | a streaming giant. |
| 1:41.9 | If Warner's board concludes Paramount's offer is superior, |
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