The Neural Daily 2026-02-28: Blacklisted Bots and Billionaire Wars

The Pentagon just blacklisted Anthropic for having a spine, leaving OpenAI to collect a $110 billion windfall and a direct line to the Department of Defense. Dive into the fallout of the "Friday Night Massacre" alongside a look at Perplexity’s new autonomous digital workforce and MIT’s liquid-metal robots patrolling the deep. In the high-stakes intersection of silicon and sovereignty, the "safe" AI era is over—and the agentic revolution is just getting started.