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Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards; Anthropic says only mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons are off limits — The Pentagon is considering severing its relationship with Anthropic over the AI firm's insistence on maintaining some limitations …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple tweaked its Maps app for Tesla before the EV maker's planned addition of CarPlay; low-cost MacBook will get an aluminum chassis in playful colors — Tesla's plan to start supporting CarPlay in its vehicles has been held back by the need for changes in iOS 26's Maps app.
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| Margaret-Anne Storey: |
As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt — The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder …
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| Financial Times: |
Abhishek Singh, CEO of IndiaAI Mission, says India will seek international agreement on a “global AI commons” at this week's AI Impact Summit in New Delhi — New Delhi to focus on wielding emerging technology for social ends at global summit — John Reed in New Delhi and Krishn Kaushik in Mumbai| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman says that India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, the app's second-largest userbase after the US, ahead of the AI Impact Summit — India has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, making the country one of OpenAI's largest markets globally, CEO Sam Altman said ahead of a government-hosted AI summit.
More: Times of India, Livemint, Hindustan Times, Digit, and The Economic Times
| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor — NPR's David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he's suing over it.
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| Counterpoint Research: |
Analysis: DRAM and NAND memory prices have jumped 600%+ over the past year for routers and set-top boxes, hitting telcos targeting aggressive broadband rollouts — MS Hwang is a research director at Counterpoint, specializing in memory semiconductor research.
| The Information: |
Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source — OpenAI is in advanced discussions to hire OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger and a handful of other people helping … | Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic partners with CodePath to help redesign computer coding curricula at hundreds of US community and state colleges, integrating Claude AI tools — The company behind Claude forges an alliance to put its AI tools in the hands of students at hundreds of community and state colleges| Muhammad Zuhair / Wccftech: |
Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had “pretty much sold out” its 2026 HDD capacity, and that the consumer sector accounted for 5% of total revenue — HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to Western Digital's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out.
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| Rani Molla / Sherwood News: |
Amazon stock fell for the ninth straight day on Friday, its longest losing streak since 2006, opening at $244.98 on Feb. 3 and closing at $198.79 on Feb. 13 — Amazon shares marked their ninth straight day of losses — the company's longest losing streak since 2006.| Peter Wayner / New York Times: |
Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic experimental computer networks helped define the evolution of the early internet, died on February 7 at age 91 — A researcher, professor and federal policy adviser, he guided students who went on to do groundbreaking work in connecting the world online.
More: Wikipedia, Internet Hall of Fame, Stevens Institute …, and ISC
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Sources: the WH is pressuring Utah Republican State Rep. Doug Fiefia to abandon HB 286, an AI transparency and kids' safety bill similar to California's AI law — The White House is pressuring a Utah Republican state legislator to abandon AI transparency and kids' safety legislation, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent now handles ~33% of its customer support issues in North America, and it is preparing to roll out the feature globally — Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent is now handling roughly a third of its customer support issues in North America, and it's preparing to roll out the feature globally.Sponsor Posts
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