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| Axios: |
Sources: DOD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access …
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Forums: r/neoliberal, r/technology, r/Military, r/Anthropic, r/PoliticalOptimism, r/ClaudeAI, r/centrist, and Slashdot
| David Jeans / Reuters: |
Source: Anthropic has no intention of easing Claude usage restrictions for military purposes, following Dario Amodei's meeting with Pete Hegseth — Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic has no intention of easing its usage restrictions for military purposes, a person familiar with the matter …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Stripe, which is privately held, has expressed preliminary interest in a potential acquisition of PayPal or its assets; PYPL closed up 6.7% — Payment processing firm Stripe Inc. is considering an acquisition of all or parts of PayPal Holdings Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: MacBook Pros with touch screens, due this fall, will have a Dynamic Island and a refreshed, dynamic UI optimized for touch or point-and-click input — Apple Inc.'s long-awaited foray into touch-screen laptops will bring major changes to the Mac interface, including the addition …
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Discord says it won't roll out age verification globally next month as previously announced, delaying the change until H2 after it adds verification options — Now it will hold off on expansion until it adds more verification options, vendor transparency, and other changes.
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Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk, @mikestabile, and @lunazera
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Meta agrees to acquire up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs in a deal valued at $100B+ that could see Meta own up to 10% of AMD; Meta plans to deploy 1GW in 2026 — The deal could result in Meta owning as much as 10% of AMD's stock as the chip maker seeks to challenge Nvidia
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple will block users in Australia, Brazil, and Singapore from downloading apps rated 18+ without age assurance and rolls out new age assurance tools for devs — Apple is rolling out new age assurance tools for developers in regions including Brazil, Australia, Singapore, and parts of the US …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube updates its $7.99-per-month Premium Lite subscription to let users download videos for offline access and play videos in the background — YouTube is expanding its more affordable, $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription service with new features, including the ability to download videos … | Bloomberg: |
Anthropic unveils Claude Cowork updates, including new plugins for HR, investment banking, design, and other fields, plus tools to help companies customize them — Anthropic PBC is expanding the reach of its Claude chatbot into new sectors, weeks after the startup sparked a market meltdown …
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| Billy Perrigo / Time: |
Anthropic updates its Responsible Scaling Policy, including separating the safety commitments it'll make unilaterally and its recommendations for the industry — Anthropic, the wildly successful AI company that has cast itself as the most safety-conscious of the top research labs …
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| New York Times: |
DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein ingratiated himself with top Microsoft executives, aiding his return to society after his release from prison in 2009 — For more than two decades, the convicted sex offender developed a network at the tech giant, making him privy to succession discussions and other business.| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of US teens: 57% use AI chatbots to search for info, 54% use them to do schoolwork, 47% for fun or entertainment, 12% for emotional support, and more — Just over half of U.S. teens say they have used chatbots for help with schoolwork, and 12% say they've gotten emotional support.
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
A California judge dismisses a lawsuit from xAI that accused OpenAI of stealing its trade secrets, with permission for xAI to refile the case at a later date — A California judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit from Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI that accused rival Sam Altman's OpenAI … | Greg Otto / CyberScoop: |
A US judge sentences ex-L3Harris exec Peter Williams to over 7 years in prison, after he pleaded guilty in 2025 to theft of trade secrets and selling exploits — Additionally, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned the Russian zero-day brokerage that Peter Williams sold the exploits to. — Learn more.| 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 …
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| Akila Quinio / Financial Times: |
Stripe hits a $159B valuation after an employee share sale to investors like Thrive, Coatue, and a16z, a 70% jump from its $92B valuation in February 2025 — Deal will allow payments company to stay private for longer — Stripe's valuation has soared by more than 70 per cent to $159bn …
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LinkedIn: Ashye Marcus, Stephen Kelly, Cassius Jones, Chris Jacques, Zach Abrams, Kevin Keohane, and Paul Hudson
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
The US Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker Operation Zero, its founder Sergey Zelenyuk, and others for acquiring and reselling stolen US defense exploits — The U.S. government announced on Tuesday sanctions against two companies that acquire and resell zero-day exploits …
More: U.S. Department …, iTnews, Decrypt, Cyber Security News, Nextgov/FCW, and CoinDesk
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Waymo opens its robotaxi service to “select riders” in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando, expanding its operations to 10 US cities — Alphabet-owned Waymo on Tuesday opened its robotaxi service to some public passengers in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Orlando, the company announced.
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| Claude / @claudeai: |
Anthropic starts rolling out Remote Control for Claude Code, letting users control a session begun in the terminal from the Claude mobile app or the web — New in Claude Code: Remote Control. Kick off a task in your terminal and pick it up from your phone while you take a walk or join a meeting. Claude keeps running on your machine, and you can control the session from the Claude app or https://claude.ai/code [video]
| Richard Valdmanis / Reuters: |
SOTU: Trump says he told tech companies they must build their own power plants for their data centers; sources: the WH expects to formalize the effort in March — President Donald Trump said on Tuesday during his State of the Union address that his administration has told major technology companies …
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X: @4americanenergy and @anni_sen
| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
CrowdStrike says the average breakout time for attackers moving from intrusion to other network systems fell to 29 minutes in 2025, a 65% YoY increase in speed — The average time from intrusion to network movement in 2025 was 29 minutes, a 65% increase in speed from the year prior. — Learn more.
More: CrowdStrike, ITPro, CSO, and ZDNET
X: @adam_cyber, @anthonyspiteri, and @crowdstrike. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social. Forums: Slashdot
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
David Luan, the head of Amazon's AGI lab, is leaving the company less than two years after he joined through an acqui-hire deal of his startup Adept — The head of Amazon's artificial general intelligence lab is leaving the company less than two years after joining through a so-called acqui-hire deal of his startup Adept.| Tom Singleton / BBC: |
The UK ICO fines Reddit £14.47M for unlawfully using children's personal information; Reddit began verifying user ages in July 2025 to comply with the UK OSA — Reddit has been fined £14.47m by the UK's data watchdog for unlawfully using children's personal information.
More: UK ICO, Ars Technica, The Record, Sky News, The Guardian, and Reclaim The Net
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Forums: r/technology and r/ukpolitics
| Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI hires Arvind KC as chief people officer, replacing Julia Villagra who left in August 2025; KC has held senior roles at Roblox, Google, Palantir, and Meta — OpenAI said Tuesday it has appointed Arvind KC as chief people officer, tapping the former Roblox Corp. executive to oversee hiring … | Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
Koah, which embeds sponsored ads directly into AI chatbots and aims to build an AdSense for AI, raised a $20.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures — The two-sided marketplace connects AI apps with advertisers, betting that native ads-not subscriptions- will fund generative AI's future
| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
HP reports Q1 revenue up 6.9% YoY to $14.44B, vs. $13.94B est., and expects FY 2026 results to be at the low end of its forecasts; HPQ drops 6%+ after hours — HP Inc (HPQ.N) said it expects fiscal 2026 results to be at the low end of its forecasts, as the personal computer maker grapples …
More: Reuters, SiliconANGLE, DigiTimes, HP, and Bloomberg
| Bloomberg: |
SambaNova, which says its SN50 AI chip runs 5x faster than its rivals and will be deployed by SoftBank, raised a $350M Series E led by Vista Equity and Cambium — Artificial intelligence chip startup SambaNova Systems Inc. raised $350 million in a new funding round and said that customers …
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LinkedIn: Kevork Kechichian, Anil Nanduri, Annie Shea Weckesser, and Jeff McVeigh
| Financial Times: |
London-based self-driving startup Wayve raised a $1.2B Series D at an $8.6B post-money valuation, with Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and Nissan among investors — Self-driving group valued at $8.6bn as it gears up to launch robotaxi service in London this year| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at how both small and large companies are tracking and enforcing employees' AI usage and considering it during performance reviews — From small startups to giants including Meta and Google, tech companies are factoring AI use into performance reviews and trying to track productivity gains| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google says AI music generation platform ProducerAI is joining Labs and will be powered by a Lyria 3 preview version; ProducerAI was developed alongside artists — ProducerAI will use Google's Lyria 3 AI model to help users generate sounds, workshop lyrics, remix songs, and more.
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LinkedIn: Jeff Chang, Elias Roman, Katie Kozuki, and Hayk Martiros
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