OpenAI's Pentagon Deal Fallout, Meta's $100B AMD Bet & Nvidia's Light Speed

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Today on AI RADAR: **OpenAI** CEO Sam Altman admits the company's new Pentagon deal was "rushed" and is scrambling to amend terms to prohibit domestic surveillance, all while the administration officially blacklists rival **Anthropic**. In hardware news, the chip wars escalate as **Meta** signs a historic $100 billion agreement with **AMD** to break free from **Nvidia's** dominance. Nvidia is countering immediately with a $4 billion investment in photonics to speed up data centers using light.Plus: **Perplexity** launches its agentic "Computer" platform, and **Google DeepMind** unveils "Gemini Deep Think."Sources:• Axios: https://www.axios.com/2026/03/02/treasury-terminates-anthropic-ai-trump• Marketplace: https://www.marketplace.org/2026/02/24/meta-100-billion-deal-buys-freedom-from-nvidia-dependence/• Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-invest-4-billion-lumentum-coherent-2026-03-02/• Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/perplexity-ai-launches-computer-agentic-platform-2026-2• Google DeepMind: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gemini-deep-think-redefining-scientific-research/

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