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| 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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| 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| New York Times: |
More: Just Security, The Indian Express, The Economic Times, Gamereactor UK, and Axios
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| Sarah Shoker / fishbowlification: |
More: OpenAI. X: @jenzhuscott, @zeffmax, @foomagemindset, @sarahshoker, and @sarahshoker. Bluesky: @tcarmody
| 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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| 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: |
Qualcomm forms a “strategic coalition” to launch 6G in 2029 and unveils FastConnect 8800, an “AI-native” Wi-Fi 8-ready NIC that doubles peak speeds over Wi-Fi 7 — Qualcomm's taking Mobile World Congress by storm, with a collection of networking-centric announcements set … | 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
| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
Anthropic says “a fix is being implemented” after elevated errors on claude.ai and Claude Code, starting at 11:49 UTC, and some API methods “are not working” — Claude appears to be having a major outage right now, with elevated errors reported across all platforms.
More: Mashable, PYMNTS.com, TechCrunch, Capital Brief, Bloomberg, Help Net Security, Blockonomi, Newsweek, BeInCrypto, and Claude. X: @gergelyorosz
| 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| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Nvidia says it plans to invest $2B each in photonic product makers Lumentum and Coherent to support the companies' R&D and manufacturing operations in the US — Nvidia (NVDA.O) will invest $2 billion each in photonic product makers Lumentum (LITE.O) and Coherent (COHR.N) …
More: Reuters, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Proactive, Nvidia Newsroom, Bloomberg, and Blockonomi
| 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: Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, The Crypto Times, BeInCrypto, and Blockchain.News
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| Cristina Cueto / DatacenterDynamics: |
AWS plans to invest €18B more in Aragon, Spain, taking its investment in the region to €33.7B; its Aragon facilities have used 100% renewable energy since 2022 — Including facilities for the manufacture, assembly, storage, and recycling of servers
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