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February 15, 2026, 10:35 AM
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| Axios: |
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 …
More: Wall Street Journal, The Decoder, The Indian Express, Reuters, The Asia Business Daily, Washington Times, ZeroHedge News, WinBuzzer, and Fox News
X: @ralee85 and @nxthompson
Bluesky: @dburbach, @metacurity.com, @justinhendrix, @themckenziest.gay, and @sambiddle.com. Mastodon: @i47i@hachyderm.io
Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence, r/BetterOffline, r/Anthropic, r/technology, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, and r/politics
| 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 …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, Martin Fowler, and zylstra.org
| 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| 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| 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
| 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.| 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.
More: DigiTimes. X: @whoismyq, @wccftech, @pirat_nation, @zawy3, and @rahll
Forums: r/ItalyHardware, r/pcmasterrace, r/DataHoarder, r/hardware, and r/Amd_Intel_Nvidia
| Business Insider: |
Scale AI is suing the US DoD; Scale AI has several contracts with the department, and a spokesperson says the lawsuit “relates to a recent procurement decision” — - Scale AI is suing the Department of Defense, filing its complaint on January 30.| Financial Times: |
Uber says it plans to launch Uber Eats in Austria and six other European countries in 2026, as it gains market share in the UK, Germany, France, and Spain — Ride-hailing company plans to step up competition to DoorDash-owned rival Wolt in Norway and Finland
More: Reuters, Tech in Asia, Yahoo Finance, and Daily Sabah
| 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.
More: Bloomberg
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 — India has cleared a $1.1 billion state-backed venture capital program that will channel government money into startups through private investors … | Jessica Brice / Bloomberg: |
A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups — A vast ecosystem supported by the gig economy has sprung up to clean all that cash. — The pitch was simple: Crypto for “cold hard cash.”
X: @ryanjamesweeks and @business
LinkedIn: Scott Greytak, Nicola White, Poppy Alexander, Tamer Yalav, and CAT Labs
| Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: |
Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, China is expected to produce 2% of global AI chips in 2026 and 70x less memory storage than foreign chipmakers — More than a decade into Beijing's push for self sufficiency, Chinese firms are producing fewer, lower-performing chips than their foreign competitors.| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Current and former senior employees say AWS is undergoing a strategic shake-up amid fears it is losing ground to competitors in securing corporate AI contracts — Shake-up follows fears tech giant missed early AI boom as Microsoft and Google challenge cloud business
More: Implicator.ai and Yahoo Finance
| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
ByteDance launches Doubao 2.0, an “agent era” upgrade of China's most widely used AI app capable of executing multi-step tasks, ahead of the Lunar New Year — China's ByteDance has rolled out its Doubao 2.0 model, an upgrade of the country's most widely used artificial-intelligence app, the company said on Saturday.
More: Reuters, Caixin Global, Associated Press, DigiTimes, Tech in Asia, TechNode, The Economic Times, and CNBC
| Scott Shambaugh / The Shamblog: |
A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath — Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code …
More: Wall Street Journal, The Decoder, Ars Technica, and I Am Completely Serious
LinkedIn: Alex Salkever, Abhinaba Naskar, Scott Shambaugh, and Scott Shambaugh
Bluesky: @bachynski, @danielaldrich, @shannonvallor, @davidcrespo, @antisomniac, @karlbode.com, @ironyuppie.com, @dancow, and @kendraserra. Mastodon: @acdha@code4lib.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/BetterOffline, r/technology, r/Futurology, r/slatestarcodex, Beehaw, Lobsters, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
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