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| Apple: |
Apple updates the iPad Air with M4, featuring an 8-core CPU, 9-core GPU, 12GB of unified memory, an N1 networking chip, for $599+ and $799+ in 11" or 13" sizes — With blazing performance, more memory, enhanced connectivity, and game-changing iPadOS 26 features, iPad Air is a fantastic value
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| Apple: |
Apple unveils the iPhone 17e, offering a 6.1-inch display, a 3nm A19 chip, a C1X modem, a 48MP Fusion camera, and more, for $599+ and shipping from March 11 — iPhone 17e delivers incredible value with faster performance, an advanced camera system, enhanced durability, the magic of MagSafe, and double the starting storage at 256GB
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| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow US laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data — On Friday evening, amidst fallout from a standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities — Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. — ― Pericles| Ross Andersen / The Atlantic: |
A source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected from 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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| Sarah Shoker / fishbowlification: |
Frontier AI labs' military usage policies for their AI tools are incoherent, vague, and often change, which allows company 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.
| New York Times: |
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| Dean W. Ball / Hyperdimensional: |
The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity — On Anthropic and the Department of War — I. — A little more than a decade ago, I sat with my father and watched him die.
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| Jessica Tillipman: |
A look at the rights AI companies have in US government contracts, such as the “any lawful use” standard, amid the Anthropic-DOD dispute and the OpenAI-DOD deal — It Depends on the Acquisition Pathway, the Contract Type, and the Contract Terms.
More: Metacurity, Don't Worry About the Vase, The Argument, and OpenAI
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| 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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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour says the company would void certain bets related to Iran's Ali Khamenei and claims it doesn't “list markets directly tied to death” — Users say rules barring ‘profiting from death’ are unclear. … In a statement on X, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour …
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| Matt Swider / The Shortcut: |
Qualcomm unveils the 3nm Snapdragon Wear Elite SoC for smartwatches, offering a Hexagon NPU that it says can run on-device AI models with up to 2B parameters — - ⌚ Qualcomm's first new wearable platform tier in 3 years debuted at MWC 2026 — 🧠 First-ever NPU in a wearable chip …
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| Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google: |
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Lenovo's Motorola partners with the GrapheneOS Foundation to preinstall the privacy-focused, “de-Googled” version of Android on upcoming Motorola smartphones — Following rumors swirling for quite some time, Motorola has announced a partnership with GrapheneOS that will see the privacy-focused …
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
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| Claude: |
Anthropic launches a tool to bring a user's preferences and context from other AI platforms to Claude with one copy-paste command, available on all paid plans — Bring your preferences and context from other AI providers to Claude. With one copy-paste, Claude updates its memory and picks up right where you left off.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Anthropic
| The Information: |
Sources: at Apple's request, Google investigated hosting servers inside its data centers to run a Gemini-based Siri while abiding by Apple's privacy standards — In January, when Apple announced an agreement to use Google's Gemini models in Apple products, it was an admission that the iPhone maker …
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and XDA Developers
| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
Anthropic says “a fix has been implemented” at 15:25 UTC after elevated errors on claude.ai, Claude Code, and some API methods starting at 11:49 UTC — Claude appears to be having a major outage right now, with elevated errors reported across all platforms.
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X: @theprimeagen, @gergelyorosz, and @tlakomy
| Foreign Affairs: |
Chinese military procurement documents show the PLA's efforts to use AI to assist in drone piloting, cyberattacks, decision-making, and disinformation campaigns — The PLA's Tech Strategy Is Working — At China's Victory Day parade in September 2025, it was not the marching troops … | Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
SCOTUS declines to hear a dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material, in a case where a computer scientist was denied a copyright for AI-generated art — The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence …
More: Bloomberg Law
| 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 …
More: Bitcoin Insider, The Crypto Times, and Cointelegraph
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