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February 26, 2026, 6:10 AM

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Ian King / Bloomberg:
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, above $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% YoY to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates  —  Nvidia Corp., the dominant maker of artificial intelligence processors, failed to impress investors with its latest sales forecast …
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Google launches task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26, enabling Gemini to autonomously perform tasks using apps like Uber and DoorDash  —  Gemini's in the driver's seat. … Google's Gemini AI is getting one step closer to being more like an actual assistant.
Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET:
Samsung unveils the $1,299+ Galaxy S26 Ultra with a Privacy Display that limits side-angle screen legibility, a new agentic AI, improved night mode, and more  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — Samsung's Galaxy S26 series sports a much-needed design upgrade.  — Top features include Privacy Display and truly useful AI.
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
New York's AG sues Valve over its use of loot boxes, accusing the game developer of violating state gambling laws and threatening to addict children to gambling  —  New York's attorney general sued Valve, a video game developer whose franchises include Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Dota …
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Cisco warns of a critical SD-WAN bug that was actively exploited in zero-day attacks since 2023; CISA and its international partners issue emergency directives  —  Cisco is warning that a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, tracked as CVE-2026-20127 …
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $11.2B, above $11.18B est., forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, and announces a $50B share repurchase program  —  Salesforce (CRM.N) forecast first-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, betting on strong demand …
Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch:
Alphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google, but will remain a distinct entity and work with Google DeepMind  —  Google is moving further into physical AI by bringing a familiar robotics software platform under its wing.
Tim Anderson / The Register:
A Cloudflare engineer rebuilt Next.js from scratch in one week using AI, reimplementing 94% of its API and spending $1,100 on Claude tokens  —  Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in  —  A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude …
Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
The US FTC says it won't enforce COPPA against companies using age verification tools as long as they use the collected data only to verify a user's age  —  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday issued a policy statement advising industry that it will not bring enforcement actions …
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Kalshi says it has suspended an editor for MrBeast and a former GOP California gubernatorial candidate for insider trading, its first public enforcement action  —  An editor who works for YouTube's biggest creator, MrBeast, has been suspended from the prediction market platform Kalshi …
Jason Hiner / The Deep View:
Perplexity launches Perplexity Computer, “a general-purpose digital worker” that can route work across 19 AI models, available initially for Max subscribers  —  Claude Code and OpenClaw have taken 2026 by storm by offering the first glimpses of personal AI agents.
Financial Times:
Analysis: super PACs for and against AI regulation have raised $265M ahead of the midterms, with pro-AI groups significantly outraising pro-regulation groups  —  Silicon Valley rivals in spending blitz for control of Congress and state capitols  —  Alex Bores was on the way to his wedding …
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Anthropic acquires Vercept, whose Vy desktop agent lets users control a Mac or PC with natural language, to “advance Claude's computer use capabilities”  —  Anthropic is acquiring Vercept, a Seattle startup founded by alumni of the Allen Institute for AI, in a move that illustrates …
Claude / @claudeai:
Anthropic unveils scheduled tasks in Cowork, enabling Claude to complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically  —  New in Cowork: scheduled tasks. Claude can now complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically: a morning brief, weekly spreadsheet updates, Friday team presentations. [video]
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Open-source tool Scrapling gains traction with OpenClaw users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission and has 200K+ downloads since its release  —  An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.
More: Fast Company
Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal:
Baidu reports Q4 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$4.8B, its third consecutive quarter of revenue decline, and net profit down 66% YoY to ~$259M, below ~$374M est.  —  Fourth-quarter net profit dropped 66% from a year earlier  —  Baidu reported sharply lower profit, with revenue declining for a third consecutive quarter.
More: Bloomberg and Reuters
Axios:
Sources: the DOD asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to assess their reliance on Claude, a first step toward blacklisting Anthropic; Lockheed confirms DOD contact  —  The Pentagon asked two major defense contractors on Wednesday to provide an assessment of their reliance on Anthropic's AI model …
Alex Heath / Sources:
Q&A with Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak on building a general-purpose brain for robots, standing out among big tech's robotics efforts, the path to AGI, and more  —  Deepak Pathak has spent 15 years trying to solve one of the hardest problems in AI: getting machines to move through and manipulate the physical world.

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