The top secret memo from the Deputy Secretary of Defense of the United States has been exposed, officially designating Palantir's Maven AI system as a "Program of Record", making it a core military system of the US military. The system has supported thousands of precision strikes in operations against Iran, integrating Palantir technology with Anthropic's Claude AI model.

Meta Platforms has delayed the release of its next-generation AI model codenamed "Avocado" from March to at least May 2026, after internal testing revealed the model's performance falls short of leading competitors including OpenAI's GPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's latest Gemini models. The New York Times first reported that Meta's AI division leaders are now considering temporarily licensing Google's Gemini to power Meta's AI products. The delay comes as Meta plans to invest up to $135 billion in AI infrastructure in 2026 and reportedly considers layoffs of 20% or more of its workforce to fund aggressive AI spending.

Microsoft has unveiled Copilot Cowork — the most significant evolution of Microsoft 365 Copilot since its launch — a fully autonomous, multi-step task execution agent powered by Anthropic's Claude model and the new Work IQ intelligence layer. Currently in Research Preview with select enterprise customers and expanding via the Frontier program in late March 2026, Cowork marks Microsoft's definitive shift from "AI that answers" to "AI that executes" — running long-horizon tasks across Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint with full enterprise security, human checkpoints, and auditable action trails.