The White House approves a secret $9 billion request for spy-agency AI chips and finalizes a classified contract keeping the NSA on Anthropic's model — three weeks after the Pentagon ejected the company as a supply-chain threat. Jonas Vale walks the arc from "any lawful use" to the carve-out the administration wants to standardize.

Also: the compute shortage as a national-security choke point and the private money locking up capacity; the NTSB pulls its accident docket offline after AI reconstructs the voices of dead pilots from a spectrogram; thousands rally in Taipei after the US pauses a $14 billion arms sale; and two brain implants restore partial sight to blind patients — the same capability, pointed at repair instead of leverage.

• White House clears $9B for spy agencies' AI chips
• White House and Anthropic near a deal for spy agencies to use AI
• Pentagon's AI deals and Anthropic's safety limits
• Dario and Daniela tell Oprah they'd rather let Anthropic fail
• All-In: Gavin Baker reads the SpaceX S-1 on Anthropic's compute commitment
• AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots
• Thousands rally in Taiwan to boost defence spending amid China tensions
• A new brain implant helps restore vision by communicating directly with the brain