This Period at a Glance Between April 14-17, the AI industry was nonstop: OpenAI dropped Codex as an all-purpose platform, GPT-Rosalind for life sciences, and a cybersecurity model; Amazon reportedly made an $80 billion play for Anthropic while acquiring satellite company Globalstar; Google pushed both Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS and AI Mode in Chrome; and Allbirds made a wild pivot from sneakers to AI compute. OpenAI Goes All-In: Codex, Rosalind, Cyber Codex for (Almost) Everything Source: OpenAI

This edition covers news from Feb 27–28 🏛️ AI & Government Trump Administration Bans Anthropic from Government Systems, Pentagon Designates Supply Chain Risk Source: NPR Arguably the biggest AI story of the week. President Trump signed an executive order banning US government use of Anthropic’s products, while the Pentagon simultaneously designated Anthropic as a “supply chain risk entity”—a label historically reserved for US adversaries and never before publicly applied to an American company.