150: Pentagon vs Anthropic, AI Does Half UK Students' Homework, Claude Crashes IBM Stock

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First aired: 25 February 2026

Summary: Anthropic are having a rough week. The Pentagon have given them until Friday to strip Claude's safety guardrails for military use (think autonomous weapons and mass surveillance) or face being labelled a US supply chain risk, a designation normally reserved for Chinese companies. It's an extraordinary situation, and the irony isn't lost on me: Anthropic spent yesterday warning the world about Chinese labs stealing their models on national security grounds, and today they're being threatened by their own government. OpenAI, Google and xAI took the contracts and quietly complied. Anthropic are the only ones drawing a line.

Elsewhere, Claude Code quietly knocked 13% off IBM's stock price, its worst crash in 25 years, simply by refactoring legacy COBOL applications. If the code moves off COBOL, the mainframes that run it become redundant, and IBM's entire core business starts looking shaky. One blog post did that. And on the education front, UK students are now using AI for nearly half of all their study tasks, double the figure from last year and the highest of any country surveyed. Teachers increasingly can't tell the difference. The education system hasn't caught up and, frankly, it's not clear it knows how to.

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00:00 Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Friday Deadline Could End AI Giant 10:18 Are AI Benchmarks Meaningless? The Problem with Self-Made Tests 11:09 What "Supply Chain Risk" Means and Why It Could Destroy Anthropic 15:10 Coursera Report: UK Students Now Using AI for 48% of Study Tasks 22:36 Claude Code Remote Control: Code From Your Phone Anywhere 26:01 Cursor's New Agent Tests Your App and Records Bug Videos 28:46 Zero Claw vs OpenClaw: Lightweight AI Assistant Alternatives 30:44 How to Get Into AI: Best Tools at Every Price Point 32:20 CloudFlare Engineer Rebuilt Next.js in One Week for $1,000 34:23 Claude Code Refactors COBOL and Crashes IBM Stock 13% 38:21 AI Trailers: A New Way to Fund Films and Anime Projects 41:39 Why Distribution Beats Building in the AI Age 46:49 How to Validate a Business Idea Before You Build It 50:42 Upcoming Webinars and Where to Find Everything

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