Julie Chang

That's according to people familiar with the matter.

The warnings preceded the Pentagon's decision this week to put XAI at the center of some of the nation's most sensitive and secretive operations by allowing its chatbot Grok to be used in classified settings.

Anthropic was the only developer approved for classified use before the deal between XAI and the military, but sources say some U.S.

officials view Anthropic as too woke.

and prefer Grok for its looser controls and Musk's stance on free speech.

Other officials questioned whether Grok presents risks.

Paramount has won the bidding war for Warner Bros.

Discovery after Netflix declined to match Paramount's $31 per share offer.

And President Trump's media company is discussing spinning off businesses, including social media platform Truth Social, into a new publicly traded company following its merger with TAE Technologies.

In December, Trump Media agreed to merge with fusion energy company TAE Technologies in a $6 billion deal.

In a potential transaction, shares of the newly formed company would be distributed to Trump Media and technology shareholders before the TAE merger closes.

The new company would then merge with a special purpose acquisition company.

The companies said discussions about the potential spinoff are ongoing and that no definitive agreements have been reached.

Any transaction would be subject to approvals.

And that's it for your TMB Tech Minutes.

Check back Monday morning for another Quick Tech Update.

Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Friday, February 27th.

I'm Julie Chang for The Wall Street Journal.

OpenAI has secured $110 billion in new funding.

The deal values the company at $730 billion before the investment, and this round of financing includes $30 billion from SoftBank, $50 billion from Amazon, and $30 billion from Nvidia.