On Our "Virtual Route 99" (Weekly Edition): On the Prowl As March 2026 Is Before Us....

 Welcome to March here in the Daily Outsider.  It has been a breathless few weeks.

ParamountSkyDance has won the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery, Anthornpic said no to  the US Department of War (Defense) , Jack Dorsey laid off almost 4,000 at Square to underscore the profound impact of Artificial Intelligence, A Compasion of Elon Musk's Optimus and Hyundai's Atlas Robots & further highlights courtesy the team at the Information:

Exclusive Anthropic Research Memo Shows Focus on Rogue Agents, Scheming Models By Rocket Drew Talent Tracker The 17 People Crucial to AI Shopping By Ann Gehan The Big Read Military Worries Simmer at OpenAI, Google As Anthropic Hits Stalemate With Pentagon By Erin Woo The Briefing Nvidia and Salesforce Show Different Sides of AI By Martin Peers

Exclusive Amazon’s $50 Billion Investment in OpenAI Could Hinge on IPO, AGI By Sri Muppidi, Anissa Gardizy and Aaron Holmes Exclusive Autonomous Warship Startup Saronic Raising at $7.5 Billion Valuation By Cory Weinberg and Katie Roof Dealmaker OpenAI Builds an M&A War Chest By Katie Roof True Value Alphabet and Other Big Tech Could Borrow Hundreds of Billions Each By Anita Ramaswamy