# AI News Digest - 2026-09-26

1. Anthropic was barred from U.S. military contracts after a federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon's security supply chain risk designation, and the company said the designation had already cost it billions. Anthropic also signed a seven‑year, $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai and reportedly pushed its compute spending past $500 billion within 11 months.

2. Microsoft split its Copilot app into Home, Code, and a new Autopilot agent, introduced usage‑based billing for Autopilot and Code, and described Autopilot as an OpenClaw‑built agent that could run continuously in the cloud to monitor Teams channels and complete tasks autonomously.

3. Meta gave Muse users a free cloud computer running Ubuntu Linux where users could install software, write code, and browse the web; the product included a Sentinel process to monitor sensitive actions, allowed users to inspect every file, and reached over 500,000 users in its first week.

4. The Department of Defense requested $30.3 million over five years for "Polygraph+" to modernize federal polygraph and credibility‑assessment technologies using AI and standoff sensing, to be run by the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency for vetting and insider‑threat detection, while experts and past government reports had characterized polygraph evidence as weak.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/pentagon-was-right-to-slap-anthropic-with-a-security-supply-chain-risk-label-federal-court-says/](https://the-decoder.com/pentagon-was-right-to-slap-anthropic-with-a-security-supply-chain-risk-label-federal-court-says/)

[Pentagon was right to slap Anthropic with a security supply chain risk label, federal court says](https://the-decoder.com/pentagon-was-right-to-slap-anthropic-with-a-security-supply-chain-risk-label-federal-court-says/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-signs-11-6-billion-cloud-deal-with-akamai-pushing-its-compute-spending-past-500-billion-in-under-a-year/](https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-signs-11-6-billion-cloud-deal-with-akamai-pushing-its-compute-spending-past-500-billion-in-under-a-year/)

[Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai, pushing its compute spending past $500 billion in under a year](https://the-decoder.com/anthropic-signs-11-6-billion-cloud-deal-with-akamai-pushing-its-compute-spending-past-500-billion-in-under-a-year/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-gives-copilot-another-makeover-adding-an-autopilot-agent-and-usage-based-billing/](https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-gives-copilot-another-makeover-adding-an-autopilot-agent-and-usage-based-billing/)

[Microsoft gives Copilot another makeover, adding an Autopilot agent and usage-based billing](https://the-decoder.com/microsoft-gives-copilot-another-makeover-adding-an-autopilot-agent-and-usage-based-billing/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/metas-muse-agent-gives-every-user-a-full-cloud-computer-running-ubuntu-linux/](https://the-decoder.com/metas-muse-agent-gives-every-user-a-full-cloud-computer-running-ubuntu-linux/)

[Meta's Muse agent gives every user a full cloud computer running Ubuntu Linux](https://the-decoder.com/metas-muse-agent-gives-every-user-a-full-cloud-computer-running-ubuntu-linux/)

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/25/1145144/pentagon-ai-lie-detector/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/25/1145144/pentagon-ai-lie-detector/)

[The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/25/1145144/pentagon-ai-lie-detector/)

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