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February 24, 2026, 7:05 AM
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Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products  —  The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve models
More: Anthropic, Decrypt, TechCrunch, Mashable, The Verge, The Hacker News, Gizmodo, Moneycontrol, CNN, Business Today, Neowin, Latent.Space, Business Standard, The Economic Times, The Deep View, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Tom's Hardware, New York Times, PCMag, The Asia Business Daily, The Information, Fox News, Reuters, Implicator.ai, Tech.co, Rohan's Bytes, Engadget, Business Insider, and Reuters
X: @anthropicai, @anthropicai, @elonmusk, @anthropicai, @theprimeagen, @teknium, @suhail, @hkydlicek, @theo, @jaredkubin, @mert, @vasuman, @timnitgebru, @maharshii, @autismcapital, @alexpalcuie, @adxtyahq, @rnaudbertrand, @firt, @firstadopter, @iamemily2050, @abcampbell, @kenwheeler, @_its_not_real_, @goodalexander, @0xsero, @ivylala, @timfduffy, @timnitgebru, @healthranger, @cryptopunk7213, @luke_metro, @0xqtpie, @kenwheeler, @yuchenj_uw, @heyshrutimishra, @headinthebox, @ai_emeraldapple, @adxtyahq, @luciascarlet, @beffjezos, @sashayanshin, @morqon, @theo, @zivdotcat, @xenoimpulse, @firstadopter, @princevogel, @tetsuoai, @edzitron, @morqon, @tensor_rotator, @ankkala, @antoniogm, @evanwritesonx, @forgebitz, @jackellis, @nc_renic, @tekbog, @gergelyorosz, @jackfriks, @teortaxestex, @hsvsphere, @yacinemtb, @krishnanrohit, @wesbos, @hxiao, @gothburz, @initjean, @timfduffy, @anthonyronning, @mitsuhiko, @theahmadosman, @sigkitten, @__tinygrad__, @chribjel, @timfduffy, @ivanfioravanti, and @tommyfalkowski
Bluesky: @jenka, @parismarx.com, @seldo.com, @peark.es, and @mclean
Forums: r/BetterOffline and r/singularity
Reuters:
A Trump administration official says DeepSeek's new model, expected next week, was trained on Nvidia Blackwell chips, in a potential US export control violation
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Apple says it plans to move some Mac mini production to Houston from Asia later in 2026, as part of its efforts to invest $600B in the US over four years  —  The company will move some production of the desktop computer to Foxconn facility in Texas  —  Apple will move some production …
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Apple's efforts to reshore the US chip supply chain, as the company commits to buying 100M+ chips from TSMC Arizona in 2026, amid US-China tensions  —  The iPhone maker wants more supply based in U.S., which remains years behind Asia  —  PHOENIX—On a desolate stretch of land dotted …
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
How Silicon Valley has long ignored China's looming Taiwan invasion and its chip supply impact; US officials warned Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm about China's plans  —  Federal officials have for years tried to wean Silicon Valley from its dependence on Taiwan, an island democracy roughly the size …
Pia Singh / CNBC:
IBM shares closed down 13.15% after Anthropic outlined in a blog post how Claude Code can automate the exploration and analysis phases of COBOL modernization  —  International Business Machines stock is getting slammed Monday, becoming the latest perceived victim of rapidly developing AI technology …
Jack Pitcher / Wall Street Journal:
Software stocks like AppLovin and CrowdStrike extended their weeks-long selloff; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in Citrini Research's post  —  The weeks-long selloff in software stocks deepened Monday amid general unease about the threat posed by AI.
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
A court-appointed administrator winding down Terraform Labs sues Jane Street, alleging it engaged in insider trading to profit from and hasten Terraform's fall  —  The court-appointed administrator of Do Kwon's Terraform Labs alleged that Jane Street used nonpublic information from Terraform insiders to trade
Wall Street Journal:
How Binance staffers found $1B was sent to sanctioned Iranian entities via the exchange, which dismantled their probe and suspended them after Trump pardoned CZ  —  Weeks after Trump pardoned Binance's founder, the company dismantled probe and suspended the investigators; Binance denied inquiry ended or staff fired for the concerns
Reuters:
Filings: some Meta execs warned in 2019 that adding E2E encryption to Facebook and Instagram messaging would hinder the ability to flag CSAM to law enforcement  —  Meta (META.O) executives proceeded with a plan to encrypt the messaging services connected to its Facebook and Instagram apps …
Axios:
A DOD official says xAI has agreed to let the military use Grok in classified systems and agreed to the “all lawful use” standard, which Anthropic has refused  —  But the Pentagon is threatening Anthropic in a dispute over safeguards and may soon need a replacement.
Bloomberg:
Sources: PayPal is attracting takeover interest after a stock slide over the past year wiped out almost half of its market value; PYPL closed up 5.76%  —  PayPal Holdings Inc., the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slide wiped …
Anthropic:
Anthropic introduces “persona selection model”, a theory to explain AI's human-like behavior, and details how AI personas form in pre-training and post-training  —  AI assistants like Claude can seem surprisingly human.  They express joy after solving tricky coding tasks.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Discord says it “ran a limited test of Persona in the UK” to verify user ages and “that test has since concluded”, distancing itself from Persona amid backlash  —  The messaging platform says its ‘limited test’ of Persona in the UK has come to an end.

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Joe Sonka / Louisville Public Media:
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New York Times:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bill that prohibits social media platforms from offering addictive features to users under 16, the first such law in the US

More News

Josh Dzieza / The Verge:
A look at the challenges some AI developers face in building models to extract trillions of high-quality tokens from PDFs, which are hard to parse, for training
Bloomberg:
Sources: Anthropic has lined up $5B to $6B for an employee share sale at a ~$350B valuation; outside investors, not Anthropic, will buy up the insider shares
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon plans to invest $12B in new data centers in Louisiana and says it worked with the local utility “to ensure we pay 100% of the costs” tied to the campus

Earlier Picks

Anthropic:
Anthropic details the AI Fluency Index, tracking 11 behaviors that represent human-AI collaboration and measure how people collaborate with AI
More: Axios.  X: @emollick, @himanshustwts, and @anthropicai
LinkedIn: Julie Schell and Pooja Palod.  Bluesky: @timkellogg.me.  Forums: Hacker News
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances, entering into multiyear deals with Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, and McKinsey to help deploy its enterprise platform Frontier
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: some Xbox staffers say they are relieved that Sarah Bond is leaving, after she led a pivot away from the console with the “Xbox everywhere” strategy
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