Michelle Stephens

If you're going to be around DC on Sunday March 22nd (leading into the Hill & Valley Forum), I'd love to see you at the next @ACTS17org event with legendary human rights activist @Ayaan Hirsi Ali and former NIH Director, Dr. Francis Collins. Unfortunately, they are going to have to deal with yours truly moderating the conversation, entitled, "What Can Sustain Truth, Moral Courage, and Human Dignity in the Modern World?" Should be a really fun conversation. Registration link threaded below.

BREAKING: Sam Altman told OpenAI employees at an all-hands meeting on Friday afternoon that a potential agreement is emerging with the Department of War to use the startup’s AI models and tools, according to a source present at the meeting and a summary of the meeting seen by Fortune. The contract has not yet been signed. The meeting came at the end of a week where a conflict between Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and OpenAI rival Anthropic burst into public acrimony, ending with the apparent end of Anthropic’s contracts with the Pentagon and with the federal government in general. Altman said the government is willing to let OpenAI build their own “safety stack”—that is, the layered system of technical, policy, and human controls that sit between a powerful AI model and real-world use—and that if the model refuses to do a task, then the government would not force OpenAI to make it do that task. fortune.com/2026/02/27/ope…