mAIn Street #180: ​Anthropic’s Claude AI used by US military in Iran strike hours after Trump ban, report says​; ​OpenAI reveals more details about its agreement with the Pentagon​


MARCH 3, 2026

  • PromptCraft: One-Stop-Shop with Ready-Made Prompts for Any Persona
  • THE HEADLINES: ​Anthropic’s Claude AI used by US military in Iran strike hours after Trump ban, report says​; ​OpenAI reveals more details about its agreement with the Pentagon​; ​MyFitnessPal has acquired Cal AI, the viral calorie app built by teens​; ​​​​Burger King is testing AI headsets that will know if employees say ‘welcome’ or ‘thank you’
  • Tool Spotlight: Bring Your ChatGPT Context Into Claude

TODAY: One-Stop-Shop with Ready-Made Prompts for Any Persona

  • Persona Grid catalog of reusable expert roles: Free, no-login webpage listing numbered “expert role” personas across domains (engineering, business, research, writing, health). The idea: reference a persona number or URL parameter in your prompt instead of rewriting role instructions every time. (personagrid.vercel.app)
  • XML template for scenario analysis action plans: XML-style prompt template that separates persona, constraints, tone, scenario, and desired outcome. It instructs the model to produce a numbered, situation-specific action plan with concrete steps and brief pitfalls—useful when you want less generic advice and more executable next actions. (Reddit)
  • Personal operator prompt for ongoing daily triage: Workflow prompt that sets a persistent “personal operator” role, captures your work and tone, and then triages messy pastes into: what it is, what needs action, what to ignore, and a next step. Adds a daily prioritization check-in plus a weekly snapshot reset. (Reddit)

HIGHLIGHTS: ​Anthropic’s Claude AI used by US military in Iran strike hours after Trump ban, report says​; ​OpenAI reveals more details about its agreement with the Pentagon​; ​MyFitnessPal has acquired Cal AI, the viral calorie app built by teens​; ​​​​Burger King is testing AI headsets that will know if employees say ‘welcome’ or ‘thank you’

  1. MyFitnessPal has acquired Cal AI, the viral calorie app built by teens
  2. Anthropic’s Claude AI used by US military in Iran strike hours after Trump ban, report says
  3. A robot arm with puppy dog eyes is just one of Lenovo’s new desktop AI concepts
  4. Amazon increases investment in Spain to €33.7 billion to expand data center infrastructure and drive AI innovation across Europe
  5. OpenAI reveals more details about its agreement with the Pentagon
  6. OpenAI’s Sam Altman announces Pentagon deal with ‘technical safeguards’
  7. Anthropic’s Claude rises to No. 1 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute
  8. Jack Dorsey just halved the size of Block’s employee base — and he says your company is next
  9. Copilot Tasks: From Answers to Actions
  10. Statement from Dario Amodei on Anthropic's discussions with the Department of War
  11. DeepSeek withholds latest AI model from US chipmakers, including Nvidia, sources say
  12. New ways to create and refine content in Flow
  13. 288 new CPT codes cover digital health, AI, and more
  14. House hearing stresses that AI teacher training is a must
  15. Visa Completes Acquisition of Prisma and Newpay
  16. Perplexity Computer: What I Built in One Night (Review, Examples, and How It Compares to OpenClaw and Claude)
  17. Google tests new Learning Hub powered by goal-based actions
  18. AI is getting smarter, but not wiser: A new roadmap aims to fix that gap
  19. Parents in China use AI technology to monitor children’s homework
  20. Can A.I. Be Pro-Worker?
  21. Qualcomm joins the Wi-Fi 8 silliness era.
  22. Is AI already killing people by accident?
  23. Samsung Takes Next Stride Toward AI-Native Software-Driven Networks With NVIDIA
  24. Apple replacing Core ML with modernized Core AI framework for iOS 27 at WWDC
  25. Rebuilding faces and identifying tattoos, AI joins the search for the missing in Mexico
  26. AI is making junior devs useless
  27. Netanyahu addresses Iranians in Persian via AI, calls to break ‘chains of tyranny’
  28. Investors spill what they aren’t looking for anymore in AI SaaS companies
  29. Fed’s Cook says AI triggering big changes, sees possible short-term unemployment rise
  30. World shares retreat from record highs amid concerns about tech valuations
  31. A New AI Influencer Marketing Agency Is Here for the Post-Follower Era
  32. An Ohio newspaper has a new star writer. It isn’t human.
  33. As the price of intelligence collapses, agentic AI is replacing human workers
  34. Lexis+ with Protégé Resources
  35. Skittish investors spooked as dystopian AI outlooks go viral
  36. Fear of AI eliminating jobs makes its way to football
  37. Watch the viral ‘ad’ that imagines aged Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Jeff Bezos promoting a creepy energy source for AI
  38. Connect Claude to your favorite apps
  39. Finance techie says they cloned Bloomberg’s $30k-a-year Terminal with Perplexity’s Computer — project draws both praise and sizable skepticism
  40. Musk’s xAI Loses Its Third Co-Founder This Month
  41. Hyperscaler capex has quadrupled since GPT-4’s release, nearing half a trillion dollars in 2025
  42. Forget IQ: This One Surprising Skill Predicts if You’ll Fall for AI Fakes
  43. US hockey player Brady Tkachuk slams White House TikTok as ‘clearly fake’ after anti-Canada slur
  44. Transforming Pediatric Physical Therapy Education Using Generative AI
  45. AI song generator startups Suno and Udio angered the music industry. Now they’re hoping to join it
  46. Burger King is testing AI headsets that will know if employees say ‘welcome’ or ‘thank you’

Bring Your ChatGPT Context Into Claude

Claude Import Memory is a simple copy‑paste flow that helps you move your preferences and “how you like to work” from another AI assistant into Claude’s Memory, so your first conversations feel more like your hundredth.

It’s most useful for anyone switching tools (especially professionals who’ve built up lots of context) and wants Claude to pick up their tone, priorities, and working style without starting over. I've also tried it on Gemini, and it works pretty well there, too. Always a good idea to set up AI redundancies so you're not offline just because one particular tool is!

Learn More: Claude Import Memory


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