- Of the top four "frontier" LLMs, only one insisted that its tools not be used by the government to surveil Americans or to develop autonomous (no human input) wartime weapons: Anthropic. The government is punishing it, and OpenAI is deciding maybe it should resist, too.
K. Roose and C Newton (Hosts), “Is AI eating the labor market? The latest on the Pentagon, OpenClaw and Alpha School,” Hard Fork (Podcast), New York Times. Feb. 27, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/podcasts/is-ai-eating-the-labor-market-the-latest-on-the-pentagon-openclaw-and-alpha-school.html. Accessed: Feb. 27, 2026.
- Hard Fork hosts interview an economist about possible future labor disruptions of unrestrained AI.
A. Z. Rozenshtein, K. Frazier, and A. Askell, “Scaling Laws: Claude’s Constitution, with Amanda Askell,” Lawfare: Scaling Laws
[Podcast]. Feb. 20, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/scaling-laws--claude%27s-constitution--with-amanda-askell. Accessed: Feb. 27, 2026.
- Scaling Law hosts interview Amanda Askell, author of the "Claude Constitution," which guides the LLM's "personality." Their questions are pertinent to law.
Gates Foundation, “Philanthropic Partnership Backs Country-Led Research to Guide the Use of AI in Health,” Gates Foundation (Press Release), Feb. 20, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases/2026/02/ai-impact-health. Accessed: Feb. 27, 2026.
- The Gates Foundation and other philanthropists are contributing $60 million to study the impact of AI on health in low- and medium-income countries as part of the Evidence for AI in Health (EVAH) initiative.
M. Shumer, “Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided,” Fortune, Feb. 11, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://fortune.com/2026/02/11/something-big-is-happening-ai-february-2020-moment-matt-shumer/. Accessed: Feb. 27, 2026.
- This viral article written by a software developer extrapolates the job losses he sees in his field to all white collar work; he caused a drop in the stock market with his arguments.
L. Harrell, “How AI trained on birds is surfacing underwater mysteries,” Google Research Blog, Feb. 9, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://research.google/blog/how-ai-trained-on-birds-is-surfacing-underwater-mysteries/. Accessed: Feb. 27, 2026.
- Scientists discovered that their AI tool, trained on birds, can help them classify whale songs, too.
E. Peck, “AI legal advice is driving lawyers bananas,” Axios, Feb. 9, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/09/ai-chatgpt-lawyer-legal-help. Accessed: Feb. 27, 2026.
- Law firms are having a "WebMD" moment: clients are using LLMs to do their own legal work, and lawyers are wondering how this will impact billable hours.
G. Lewis-Kraus, “What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either,” The New Yorker, Feb. 9, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know-either. Accessed: Feb. 27, 2026.
- An profile of Anthropic's LLM "Claude," their research study with "Claudius," and their relentless search to discover how LLMs work, and if they "think."
S. J. Dubner, “661. Can A.I. Save Your Life?,” Freakonomics Radio, Jan. 30, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/can-a-i-save-your-life/. Accessed: Feb. 27, 2026.
Metz, C., "Can AI Generate New Ideas?" New York Times. (15 Jan. 2026). Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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Using mathematical problem solving as a case study, Metz interviews mathematicians about whether AI's math problem solving skills are new or not.
