TNB Tech Minute: Pentagon Gives Anthropic Ultimatum in AI Use Impasse
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, February 24th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:08.4 | Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth has given Anthropic CEO Dario Amade until Friday to comply with the Pentagon's demands on using its AI models or face cancellation of the company's contract. |
| 0:20.3 | People familiar with the matter say |
| 0:21.8 | the ultimatum came at a Pentagon meeting today that ended in a stalemate. Axios previously reported |
| 0:27.0 | on today's meeting. If Anthropic doesn't show more flexibility working with the military, |
| 0:32.0 | Heggsad said he could label the company a supply chain risk or invoke the Defense Production Act |
| 0:36.8 | to essentially force the company to work more collaborative or invoke the Defense Production Act to essentially force the |
| 0:37.9 | company to work more collaboratively with the Pentagon. |
| 0:41.7 | Stripe is seeing more successful and high-growth businesses join the platform. |
| 0:46.2 | That's according to the company's annual shareholder letter. |
| 0:48.5 | The payment processing platform says that in 2025, a record number of new companies joined |
| 0:54.0 | Stripe and that this cohort |
| 0:55.5 | is growing around 50% faster than the 2024 cohort. It said the number of companies reaching |
| 1:01.2 | $10 million annual recurring revenue within three months of launch was double the 2024 count. |
| 1:07.0 | It attributes that growth partly to advancements in large language models, which are accelerating |
| 1:11.7 | entrepreneurship by making it easier to build apps and code. The number of iOS apps released in |
| 1:17.3 | December rose 60% year-over-year, while code writing platform GitHub saw its uploads jump 41% between |
| 1:24.4 | the third quarters of 2024 and of 2025. |
| 1:34.0 | And Chinese auto giant BYD logged a nearly three-fold increase in European sales last month, |
| 1:37.2 | topping more than 18,000 new car registrations. |
| 1:46.1 | That's up from nearly 6,900 in January last year, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association. BYID outsold Tesla in the region last month, with new car registrations for Tesla sliding 17% to just under 8100 units |
| 1:52.7 | in January. Plus, European carmakers, Volkswagen, BMW, and Renault also reported sales declines. |
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