AI Intelligence Weekly | 2026-03-09

AI Intelligence Weekly: 2026-03-09

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Week ending 2026-03-08

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. State Department switches to OpenAI as US agencies start phasing out Anthropic

The U.S. Departments of State, Treasury, and Health and Human Services began phasing out Anthropic's Claude models following a directive from President Trump, citing disagreements over military and surveillance use-case restrictions.

[Read the Reuters source](https://www.reuters.com/business/us-treasury-ending-all-use-anthropic-products-says-bessent-2026-03-02/)

### 2. OpenAI amends Pentagon deal as Sam Altman admits it looks ‘sloppy’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that the company's recent contract with the U.S. Department of Defense was "sloppy" and announced amendments to explicitly bar the use of its AI for domestic mass surveillance.

[Read the The Guardian source](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/openai-pentagon-ceo-sam-altman-chatgpt)

### 3. Introducing GPT-5.4

OpenAI released GPT-5.4, a new frontier model optimized for professional knowledge work and agentic workflows, featuring native computer-use capabilities and a 1-million token context window.

[Read the OpenAI source](https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4/)

Sources

1. [Reuters: State Department switches to OpenAI as US agencies start phasing out Anthropic](https://www.reuters.com/business/us-treasury-ending-all-use-anthropic-products-says-bessent-2026-03-02/), published March 2, 2026.
2. [The Guardian: OpenAI amends Pentagon deal as Sam Altman admits it looks ‘sloppy’](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/openai-pentagon-ceo-sam-altman-chatgpt), published March 3, 2026.
3. [OpenAI: Introducing GPT-5.4](https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4/), published March 5, 2026.