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Here's your afternoon, T&B Tech Minute, for Friday, February 27th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

We exclusively report that officials and multiple federal agencies have raised concerns about

the safety and reliability of Elon Musk's XAI artificial intelligence tools in recent months.

That's according to people familiar with the matter. The warnings preceded the Pentagon's

decision this week to put XAI at the center of some of the nation's most sensitive and

secretive operations by allowing its chatbot GROC to be used in classified settings.

Anthropic was the only developer approved for classified use before the deal between XAI and

the military, but sources say some U.S. officials view anthropic

as too woke and prefer GROC for its looser controls and Musk's stance on free speech.

Other officials questioned whether Grogh presents risks.

Paramount has won the bidding war for Warner Brothers Discovery after Netflix declined to match

Paramount's $31 per share offer.

The deal will now face scrutiny from federal regulators as it would put two legacy movie and TV

studios under one roof, along with multiple cable networks. Paramount will own not only Warner

Brothers and HBO, but also many popular cable networks including CNN, TNT, TBS, and the Food Network.

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