Ollama has added the "ollama launch pi" command to easily start the Minimal Programming Agent.

Nvidia announced on March 3 separate multi-year strategic partnerships with photonics device manufacturers Lumentum and Coherent, committing $2 billion to each—totaling $4 billion in investments. The funds will support joint research and development, manufacturing capacity expansion, and U.S.-based operations for both companies, with Lumentum planning to build a new wafer fabrication facility (fab). The non-exclusive agreements also include multi-billion-dollar procurement commitments and rights to future capacity for advanced laser and optical networking products. Shares of both Lumentum and Coherent surged sharply following the announcement, according to CNBC.

On March 3, data from GMGN indicates a meme coin named after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi launched on the Solana ecosystem 6 days earlier. It opened with a market cap of $27.72 million but plummeted amid shrinking trading volume, now standing at $6.6 million. Beyond its post-launch decline, the token has drawn notable controversy over its distribution—with the top 10 addresses holding 42.6% of the total supply. Yesterday, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi took to X (formerly Twitter) to clarify: “I have no knowledge of this token, and my office has never received any notification about it. We have not approved its creation either.” BlockBeats urges users to exercise caution: celebrity-themed meme coins carry substantial investment risks.

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.