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| Ross Andersen / The Atlantic: |
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 …
More: The Information, The Free Press, Rohan's Bytes, and Fortune
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Forums: Hacker News, r/neoliberal, and r/technology
| New York Times: |
Sources describe in detail the failed talks between Anthropic and DOD, and how officials at agencies, including 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.
More: The Economic Times, The Indian Express, Gamereactor UK, and Mercury News
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| Sam Altman / @sama: |
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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 said 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 down temporarily …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/aws, r/news, r/programming, r/PrepperIntel, and r/aws
| 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 interview on the scenario planning Netflix did before Paramount's final WBD bid, how if Paramount's deal closes there'll 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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Bluesky: @nextdoorsv, @nextdoorsv, and @carnage4life
Threads: @gregoryellwood and @gk_ventures
Forums: r/DC_Cinematic, r/entertainment, r/boxoffice, and r/MediaMergers
| 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 … | Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Israel-based Guidde, which is developing a platform to accelerate the adoption of AI in organizations, raised a $50M Series B round led by PSG Equity — The Israeli startup's platform turns employee workflows into structured knowledge for automation. — Guidde, a startup developing … | Sharon Klyne / Bloomberg: |
Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus signed 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 …
More: T3, Electronics Weekly, Nvidia Newsroom, Fierce Network, Tech in Asia, DigiTimes, TelecomTV, Telecompaper, Mobile World Live, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Light Reading, and The Fast Mode. LinkedIn: Kanika Atri
| Nicole Cobler / Axios: |
A Waymo robotaxi stopped in the middle of a road and blocked an ambulance near a mass shooting site in Austin; Waymo confirms it was en route for rider pickup — A Waymo robotaxi picking up a passenger near Sunday morning's mass shooting in Austin blocked an ambulance from reaching the scene, according to a bystander video.
More: MySanAntonio.com, New York Post, and Breitbart
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Austin, r/ems, r/mildlyinfuriating, r/waymo, and r/ThatsInsane
| Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg: |
India, home to one of the world's biggest AI user bases, should treat local datasets for AI as a strategic asset to avoid training Silicon Valley for free — India is fast becoming one of the world's biggest AI user bases. The question now is how it can turn that scale into superpower status rather …
LinkedIn: HariKrishnan S
| Byron Kaye / Reuters: |
Australia's eSafety Commissioner threatens action against app stores and search engines if AI services operating in Australia don't verify user ages by March 9 — Australia's internet regulator said it may push search engines and app stores to block artificial intelligence services that fail … Sponsor Posts
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