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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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| 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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Forums: r/singularity, r/politics, r/ArtificialInteligence, and r/Military
| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Stripe, which is privately held, has expressed preliminary interest in a potential PayPal acquisition or buying 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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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Discord says it won't roll out age verification globally in March as previously planned, delaying the change until H2 2026 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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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to block users in Australia, Brazil, and Singapore from downloading 18+ rated apps without age assurance and rolls out developer age assurance tools — 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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| Greg Otto / CyberScoop: |
A US judge sentences ex-L3Harris executive Peter Williams to 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.| 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]
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| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
Workday reports Q4 revenue up 14.5% YoY to $2.53B, vs. $2.52B est., and forecasts FY 2027 subscription revenue below estimates; WDAY drops 9%+ pre-market — Workday reported a solid fourth quarter, but its subscription outlook was light. — The company reported fourth quarter earnings … | Billy Perrigo / Time: |
Anthropic updates its Responsible Scaling Policy, including separating the safety commitments it will make unilaterally and its industry recommendations — Anthropic, the wildly successful AI company that has cast itself as the most safety-conscious of the top research labs … | Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
HP says memory now accounts for 35% of its PC bill of materials, up from 15% to 18% in Q4 2025, and expects RAM's share to rise through 2026 — HP Inc. has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 percent of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up from between 15 and 18 percent last quarter.
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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 … | 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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| Jane Ruffino / Wired: |
A look at TAT-8, the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable, which went into service in 1988, was retired in 2002, and is now being pulled up for recycling — History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor.
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| 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
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| Reuters: |
Diplomatic cable: US officials order diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate how US tech companies handle foreigners' data, citing risks to AI services — President Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies' handling …
More: Modern Diplomacy
| 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 …
More: The Verge, Decrypt, Engadget, Benzinga, Moneycontrol, Digit, Reuters, and Courthouse News Service
| 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 …, crypto.news, and Decrypt
| Richard Valdmanis / Reuters: |
SOTU: Trump says he told tech companies to build their own plants to power data centers; sources say the White House 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 … | 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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| William Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Deutsche Bank partners with Google Cloud to build agentic AI to monitor 1TB of daily communications and 40+ channels for market abuse and data loss prevention — Deutsche Bank AG and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are looking to agentic artificial intelligence to help bolster trading surveillance …
More: Business Wire
| 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| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
A top US export control official says Nvidia has yet to sell any H200 chips to China, two months after President Trump's decision to allow AI chip shipments — Nvidia Corp. has yet to sell any of its H200 chips to China two months after President Donald Trump's decision to allow shipments … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Zetrix, a publicly traded Malaysian digital infrastructure provider, raised ~$40M from the World Bank's IFC and plans to list its AI unit on Nasdaq by end-2026 — Zetrix AI Bhd., a publicly traded Malaysian provider of digital infrastructure, raised about $40 million from the World Bank's investment arm …
More: Cryip and Tech in Asia
| Reuters: |
Sources: General Atlantic is selling a stake in ByteDance in a deal that values it at $550B, up 66% since September 2025, the first divestment since its US sale — Investment firm General Atlantic is selling an equity stake in ByteDance in a deal that values the Chinese social media giant at $550 billion …
More: Sharecast and Tech in Asia
| Anuradha Raghu / Bloomberg: |
Malaysia blocks access to Grindr's and Blued's websites and says it may engage with Google and Apple to curb the LGBTQ dating apps in the Muslim-majority nation — Malaysia has blocked access to LGBTQ+ networking and dating sites Grindr and Blued, with authorities reviewing legal measures …
More: The Star, Channel NewsAsia, Malay Mail, The Straits Times, and FMT
| 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 …
More: MediaNews4U, Business Today, The Economic Times, The Verge, and OpenAI
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