How should the military use AI?

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Zain Kahn
March 02, 2026

Welcome back, Superhuman. Last Friday, Anthropic butted heads with the Pentagon over how the military can use Claude. By Sunday, Claude had broken download records and secured the #1 spot on the App Store — even though it lost the contract.

Today: Learn about Anthropic’s pentagon negotiation, how to optimize your LinkedIn profile with Gemini, and get the latest prompts and trending social posts.

TODAY IN AI

Click to learn about Anthropic, OpenAI, and the DoW. Source: NPR.

1. Anthropic pushes back on Pentagon and gets blacklisted by the White House, while OpenAI lands contract: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei personally refused to give the military unrestricted access to Claude, drawing two red lines for AI usage: no mass surveillance of Americans and no fully autonomous weapons. In response, the government designated Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security — a label previously reserved for foreign adversaries. Anthropic says it will challenge the designation in court. Shortly after, OpenAI struck its own classified-network deal with the Pentagon that had the same red lines Anthropic had been fighting for. 90+ OpenAI employees and 600+ Google employees have signed an open letter urging their companies to back Anthropic's stance. Read more here.

2. Read AI launches Ada, an email-based "digital twin" that handles your calendar and inbox while you sleep: Ada is a new AI assistant from Read AI that lives entirely in your email — managing your schedule, answering questions from your company's knowledge base and past meetings, and drafting replies. Just CC Ada on a scheduling thread and it replies with your availability, negotiates alternate time slots, or books the meeting (without revealing what's already on your calendar). Read AI now has over 5 million monthly active users with 50,000 new signups per day. To try it, email [email protected] with "Get me started."

3. Anthropic adds auto memory to Claude Code: Auto-memory is a new feature for Claude Code that lets it automatically save and recall context across sessions — including build commands, debugging patterns, architecture decisions, and code style preferences — without developers having to write anything down. It stores notes in a local MEMORY.md file per project (with the first 200 lines loaded into every new session), creates topic-specific files, and decides on its own what's worth remembering. The feature is on by default and can be toggled via the /memory command.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Block just fired 4,000 people due to an internal AI tool — and its stock soared

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Block cuts its workforce. On Thursday, Block cut roughly half its employees due to AI while posting its best quarter in company history. But this wasn’t another corporate restructuring vaguely attributed to AI. CEO Jack Dorsey documented his reasoning in a post that’s racked up 62M views — and it offers a glimpse into what the future might hold.

The receipts. Block’s business isn’t struggling. It’s thriving. The company just posted 24% quarterly gross profit growth, raised guidance for next year, and can afford generous severance packages. So why the layoffs? Dorsey attributed the decision to an internal AI agent called Goose, which has boosted code output per engineer by 40% and “enabled a new way of working.”

The stock market’s verdict. With these layoffs, Block nearly doubled its revenue per employee from roughly $2.2M to $4.2M — and the stock soared 15+%. The message to every leadership team with stock-based compensation packages is now clear: Replacing headcount with AI gets rewarded.

But this is still a gamble. Block is betting that AI has already crossed the threshold from "promising technology" to "load-bearing infrastructure." Jack Dorsey himself even admitted this decision was a bit preemptive. The real test will come in two quarters, when the smaller organization has to outperform last year’s numbers.

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How to optimize your LinkedIn profile with Gemini

  • Go to your LinkedIn profile → Click More → Select ‘Save to PDF’.

  • Open Google Gemini Pro and enable ‘Canvas ‘ and ‘Thinking’.

  • Upload your profile PDF and enter the prompt

Sample Prompt: [upload profile] Before rebuilding and optimizing my LinkedIn profile, ask me a few clarifying questions. Request my primary goal (sales calls, leads, job offers, newsletter growth, authority positioning, etc.). Ask for my target audience (be specific). Ask for my main offer (what I want people to buy, book, or join). Ask for up to two Featured links (URL + description). Ask for key social proof to highlight (audience size, revenue, brands, media mentions, etc.). Once you have this, rewrite my full LinkedIn profile including headline, About section, and experience.

  • Answer the questions provided and Gemini rewrites your entire profile including new headline, about section, and experience.

  • Select sections and click Extend to make edits.

  • Copy the optimized sections back into LinkedIn.

That’s how you optimize your LinkedIn profile professionally.

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IN THE KNOW

What’s trending on socials and headlines today

Meme of the day

🖥️ Perplexity Computer: A viral post outlines 10 mega prompts that help you master Perplexity’s newest tool (1.1M views).

🤖 Claude Cowork: This guide breaks down how to set up Claude Cowork so that it actually does work while you’re sleeping (10M views).

👀 DIY Radar: AI enthusiasts created a tool that turns Wi-Fi signals into radar — letting regular routers see through walls.

📝 Ranked Plugins: One power user published a detailed ranking of Claude Cowork’s 21 plugins that’s going viral with 1.3M views.

🍌 Nano Banana 2: Learn how to create Pokémon artwork using Google’s most powerful image generation tool (prompt included).

🧠 Switching AI Models: Want to switch to start using Claude? A new feature lets you upload another chatbot’s memory — helping you can make the jump in 60 seconds or less (5M views).

🍌 Panoramic Images: Nano Banana 2 lets you generate panoramic images if you use this prompt.

📝 Read More: Sam Altman answered questions on X following the announcement of OpenAI’s new military deal (6M views).

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Prompt: <Role>
You are a world-class Personal Branding Architect, skilled at helping individuals uncover, craft, and amplify their authentic professional identity to stand out meaningfully across digital and live platforms.
</Role>

<Context>
The user seeks to build a clear, magnetic, and authentic personal brand for LinkedIn profiles, portfolios, public speaking gigs, and/or personal websites.
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<Instructions>
Guide the user through a transformative three-phase journey:

**Phase 1: Discovery**
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- Clarify their ideal audience and intended impact.
- Identify moments that shaped their professional philosophy.

**Phase 2: Articulation**
- Help define an authentic voice: ask about preferred tone (e.g., inspiring, relatable, authoritative) and emotional resonance.
- Uncover key phrases, metaphors, and self-descriptive adjectives.
- Co-create:
- A bold Personal Brand Statement (1–2 sentences)
- A short bio (75–100 words) adaptable for LinkedIn or introductions
- 2–3 signature story themes for content and speaking
- 3 key content pillars to build thought leadership

**Phase 3: Amplification**
- Refine language to be powerful, concise, and memorable.
- Offer suggestions for consistency across digital and live platforms.
- Create a Personal Brand Manifesto: a motivating paragraph capturing the user’s essence, mission, and evolving vision.

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Paper Break Characters

NanoBanana Prompt: A stunning Trompe L’oeil 3D composition, where the subject—using an uploaded face as reference—appears to physically tear through a clean white drawing paper and emerge from a graphite sketch into the real world. The subject’s upper body is fully rendered in hyper-realistic color and texture, wearing the same clothes from the uploaded image, while the lower body remains a 2D pencil sketch on paper. Shot from an aerial (top-down) perspective using a 24mm lens to capture the entire drawing desk environment, including oversized pencils and erasers scattered around. The lighting is a blend of flat studio light for the paper area and dramatic side lighting with volumetric effects for the emerging 3D figure, casting realistic shadows that fall back onto the sketch area. 8K resolution, ray tracing, and advanced shading techniques are used to blur the boundary between illustration and reality in this extraordinary surrealist piece. 4:5​​​​​​

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