📅 ThursdAI - Feb 26 - The Pentagon wants War Claude, every benchmark collapsed, and a solo founder hit $700K ARR with AI agents

📅 ThursdAI - Feb 26 - The Pentagon wants War Claude, every benchmark collapsed, and a solo founder hit $700K ARR with AI agents

From ThursdAI - The top AI news from the past week by From Weights & Biases, Join AI Evangelist Alex Volkov and a panel of experts to cover everything important that happened in the world of AI from the past week

February 26, 2026 · 1h 50m

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This episode discusses significant developments in AI, including military applications and the rise of solo founders leveraging AI agents.

Hey, it’s Alex, let me tell you why I think this week is an inflection point. Just this week: Everyone is launching autonomous agents or features inspired by OpenClaw ( Devin 2.2 , Cursor , Claude Cowork , Microsoft, Perplexity and Nous announced theirs), METR and ArcAGI 2,3 benchmarks are getting saturated , 1 person companies nearing 1M ARR within months of operation by running AI agents 24/7 (we chatted with one of them on the show today, live as he broke $700K ARR barrier) and the US Department of War gives Anthropic an ultimatum to remove nearly all restrictions on Claude for war and Anthropic says NO . I’ve been covering AI for 3 years every week, and this week feels, different. So if we are nearing the singularity, let me at least keep you up to date 😅 Today on the show, we covered most of the news in the first hour + breaking news from Google, Nano Banana 2 is here, and then had 3 interviews back to back. Ben Broca with Polsia, Nader Dabit with Cognition and Philip Kiely with BaseTen. Don’t miss those conversations starting at 1 hour in. Thanks for reading ThursdAI - Highest signal weekly AI news show! This post is public so feel free to share it. Anthropic vs Department…

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Host: Alex Volkov

Guests: Ben Broca, Nader Dabit, Philip Kiely

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Organizations: Anthropic, Department of War, Microsoft, Perplexity, Nous

Products: Claude, OpenClaw, Devin 2.2, Cursor, Claude Cowork, METR, ArcAGI 2,3

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