Peter Thiel Plans to Sell $280 Million in Palantir Stock

March 3 – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt ?avu?o?lu said Gulf countries have not released a formal statement, but there are claims neighboring nations are retaliating against Iran. “We’ve also heard these claims; this could be true,” he noted. (FX678)

March 3 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he expects the war with Iran to last no more than a few years. As the conflict escalates, Israel has struck Iran-backed Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, while Iran has targeted Gulf states hosting U.S. military bases. On the other hand, U.S. President Trump initially expected the war to last four to five weeks but has since sought legitimacy for a broad, indefinite conflict with Iran.

**Anthropic Unselected for Pentagon’s $100M Drone Swarm Challenge; OpenAI Secures New Classified DoD AI Deal** Anthropic submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete in the Pentagon’s $100 million Orchestrator Prize Challenge, which aims to develop voice-controlled autonomous drone swarm technology. The challenge—led by the Defense Autonomous Warfare Group (DAWG) under U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)—includes five phases: starting with software development, advancing to live-fire tests, and later focusing on “target perception and sharing” and “from launch to effects.” Anthropic’s pitch centered on its Claude AI, which translates commander intent into digital commands to coordinate drone swarms. The plan excluded autonomous targeting or weapon decisions, with human oversight required at all times. The company also proposed a joint research effort with the Pentagon to securely develop and assess autonomous weapon capabilities, arg

March 3rd — Bitcoin briefly dropped below $67,000, according to HTX market data, and was last trading at $67,011.41 with a 1.7% hourly decline.

March 3rd — Amid a crypto bear market, on-chain AI agent infrastructure is still booming thanks to the ongoing AI wave. BlockBeats rounds up key updates for Solana, BSC, and Base below: ### **Solana** Solana — known for sub-second finality, low fees, and high throughput — has emerged as the **go-to execution layer** for AI agents, ideal for high-frequency microtransactions and autonomous operations. On March 3rd, it launched its AI Agent Registry trust layer on mainnet, with native identity verification integration. Agent deployments on Solana have topped 9,000. Ecosystem standouts include: - x402 payments - MCP servers (agent self-deployed tokens) - The Claw tool suite Top projects: SendAI’s Solana Agent Kit (most popular toolkit), ElizaOS, and the Rig framework. ### **Base** Base — boosted by the x402 protocol — is one of the most mature, active AI agent ecosystems right now. Coinbase launched x402 in May 2025, and it’s now the core infrastructure for Base’s age