AI Intelligence Weekly | 2026-03-02

AI Intelligence Weekly: 2026-03-02

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Week ending 2026-03-01

This historical AI Intelligence brief records three distinct developments published during the reporting window. Each source is linked below and the selection excludes canonical URLs and normalized topics already used by Cyber Intel or AI Intelligence.

### 1. Facebook owner Meta to buy AI chips from AMD in deal worth up to $100 billion

Meta Platforms signed a strategic agreement with AMD worth up to $100 billion to purchase MI540 GPUs and custom CPUs, aiming to reduce its dependency on Nvidia for AI infrastructure.

[Read the Associated Press source](https://apnews.com/article/amd-meta-ai-facebook-2ac7d0a302d291dbce8ed23b78722abd)

### 2. Datadog and Sakana AI Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance AI Innovation and Observability for Enterprises

Datadog and Sakana AI entered a strategic partnership to collaborate on AI research and product innovation, focusing on providing observability into the performance and reliability of enterprise AI applications.

[Read the Datadog source](https://www.datadoghq.com/about/latest-news/press-releases/datadog-sakana-ai-strategic-partnership/)

### 3. Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly refused a Department of War request to remove safety guardrails for military applications, citing risks to the Fourth Amendment and autonomous weapon concerns.

[Read the Anthropic source](https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war)

Sources

1. [Associated Press: Facebook owner Meta to buy AI chips from AMD in deal worth up to $100 billion](https://apnews.com/article/amd-meta-ai-facebook-2ac7d0a302d291dbce8ed23b78722abd), published February 24, 2026.
2. [Datadog: Datadog and Sakana AI Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance AI Innovation and Observability for Enterprises](https://www.datadoghq.com/about/latest-news/press-releases/datadog-sakana-ai-strategic-partnership/), published February 25, 2026.
3. [Anthropic: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War](https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war), published February 26, 2026.