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Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans — Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …
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| New York Times: |
Sources describe in detail the failed talks between Anthropic and the DOD, and how US officials at some agencies like the CIA still hope for a peace agreement — The Pentagon and Anthropic were close to agreeing on the use of artificial intelligence. But strong personalities, mutual dislike and a rival company unraveled a deal.
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| Sarah Shoker / fishbowlification: |
Frontier AI labs' policies around military use of their AI tools are incoherent, vague, and often prone to change, allowing leadership to preserve “optionality” — I led the Geopolitics Team at OpenAI for approximately three years and then joined two other teams before deciding to leave in June 2025.
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
MWC 2026: a look at Lenovo's concept devices, including a Framework-like modular laptop with swappable parts and a gaming handheld with a folding display — At MWC 2026, the company also showed off a dual-screen Yoga Book with 3D capabilities, and the Legion Go Fold—a gaming handheld …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Lenovo's Motorola partners with GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused, de-Googled version of Android, to preinstall GrapheneOS on upcoming Motorola smartphones — Following rumors swirling for quite some time, Motorola has announced a partnership with GrapheneOS that will see the privacy-focused … | Reuters: |
AWS says “objects” struck one of its data centers in the UAE, impacting its mec1-az2 availability zone, and that connectivity will take several hours to restore — Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit, AWS, said on Sunday that power to its data center in the United Arab Emirates was shut …
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| J. Scott Davis / Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas: |
Early data show wages are rising for AI-exposed jobs that place a high value on a “worker's tacit knowledge and experience”, as textbook knowledge loses value — Artificial intelligence's impact on the labor market will depend on whether the technology automates or augments worker tasks.| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Ted Sarandos discusses the scenario planning Netflix did before Paramount's final WBD bid, how if Paramount's deal closes there will be cuts of $16B+, and more — When Netflix Inc. dropped out of the bidding for Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. on Feb. 26, the news came as a surprise to many in Hollywood.
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| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
| Om Malik / On my Om: |
Block is a poster child for the lack of operational discipline common among mid-tier public tech companies that lived on the largesse of cloud, mobile, and ZIRP — Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block (the company formerly known as Square), went on X (the company formerly known as Twitter … | Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Vitalik Buterin outlines a two-part plan to overhaul Ethereum's execution layer with a binary state tree and eventually move beyond the Ethereum virtual machine — Quick Take — Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin laid out a detailed case for two sweeping execution layer changes …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the research into using metal-organic frameworks as photoresists for cutting-edge silicon etching, as ASML aims to move from EUV to X-ray lithography — We are now one generation of technological alchemy away from the smallest possible silicon microchips| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israel-based Guidde, which is developing a platform to accelerate the adoption of AI in organizations, raised a $50M Series B led by PSG Equity — The Israeli startup's platform turns employee workflows into structured knowledge for automation. — Guidde, a startup developing a platform … | Sharon Klyne / Bloomberg: |
Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus signs a multi-billion deal with an unnamed customer to build a Melbourne data center with 18,400 Nvidia GB300 chips — Australian artificial-intelligence startup Firmus Technologies Pty. has signed a new agreement with a global technology firm … | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Nvidia partners with Cisco, Nokia, and others to build 6G networks based on open, software-defined AI radio access networking (AI-RAN) architecture — Nvidia Corp. early Sunday announced ahead of the MWC Barcelona conference that its joining global telecom leaders in a commitment to build 6G …
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