Meta's $100B deal 💰, Pentagon threatens Anthropic 🏛️, chinese vibe coders 🧑‍💻

The Pentagon has given Anthropic a deadline to allow its models for all lawful use cases including mass surveillance and autonomous weapons — non-compliance risks contract cancellation and being designated a supply-chain risk, blocking other Pentagon contractors from using Claude. A developer essay explicitly names Claude Code as a one-shot project builder at an "inflection point" in AI coding, while a companion piece surveys the vibecoding boom in China including hit apps built solo with AI tools. Meta's $100B+ AMD chip deal and tech firms tracking/enforcing employee AI usage round out a digest dense with signals relevant to AI builders.