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Leaked Friday memo: Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal “safety theater” and said DOD dislikes Anthropic in part for not giving Trump “dictator-style praise” — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck …
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Forums: r/politics, r/singularity, and r/technology
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models — Dario Amodei is meeting deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology
More: The Verge, Benzinga, CNBC, Gizmodo, The Economic Times, CBS News, The Information, Tech Times, Digit, Business Today, Crypto Briefing, and Tech in Asia
Forums: r/singularity, r/technology, r/ClaudeAI, and r/OpenAI
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| Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: |
Google announces an Android app store program and lower developer fees to resolve Epic's antitrust litigation and comply with new rules in Europe and elsewhere — Alphabet Inc.'s Google unveiled a new system for apps on its Android phones and tablets Wednesday, agreeing to easier access …
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LinkedIn: Aurash Mahbod and Lee Rawles
Bluesky: @moomanibe, @carnage4life, @nicetopatrick, and @zhugeex.com
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/Android
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google's Epic settlement term sheet prohibits Tim Sweeney from criticizing Google's app policies until at least September 2032 and mandates he praise them — Google has finally muzzled Tim Sweeney. … Epic CEO Tim Sweeney might be one of the most outspoken people in the history of the world.
More: Engadget, Digital Trends, Silicon Canals, Digit, and Associated Press
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
A Europol-coordinated law enforcement operation disrupts Tycoon2FA, a phishing-as-a-service platform linked to tens of millions of phishing messages each month — An international law enforcement operation coordinated by Europol has disrupted Tycoon2FA, a major phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) … | Reuters: |
Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others sign a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers — Google (GOOGL.O), Microsoft (MSFT.O), Meta (META.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and several artificial intelligence companies signed a pledge …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google expands its AI-powered Canvas workspace to everyone in the US using AI Mode in Search, letting them get information, organize plans, draft docs, and more — Canvas in AI Mode now supports tasks related to creative writing and coding, too. … Google is bringing Canvas to everyone in the US using AI Mode in Search.| Reuters: |
Staff memo: Alibaba says it is setting up a new task force to accelerate foundation AI model development, after the resignation of Qwen AI head Lin Junyang — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (9988.HK) said on Thursday it would set up a new task force to accelerate foundation model development …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, The Information, South China Morning Post, Tech in Asia, Reuters, and TechCrunch. Mastodon: @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
| Ivan Levingston / Financial Times: |
A look at Munich's UnternehmerTUM, which tops the FT ranking of Europe's startup hubs for a third straight year and has supported 1,000+ companies since 2002 — Centre tops the FT's ranking of Europe's leading start-up hubs for the third time — A trip to Stanford University …
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| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI hit $25B annualized revenue by February's end, up from $21.4B at 2025's end; OpenAI annualizes by multiplying the last four weeks' revenue by 12 — OpenAI topped $25 billion in annualized revenue as of the end of last month, according to a person familiar with the figure.
More: Benzinga, Reuters, Tech in Asia, and The Business Times
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Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements about the deal before acquiring Twitter in 2022 — A defiant Elon Musk on Wednesday took the stand in a jury trial to defend himself against accusations that he engaged in a pattern … | Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
OpenAI releases a dedicated Codex app for Windows with native sandboxing and support for PowerShell developer environments, after launching on macOS in February — At the start of February, OpenAI upgraded its Codex coding app to give it the ability to manage multiple AI agents.
More: Digital Trends, TestingCatalog, Thurrott, PCWorld, The Decoder, The New Stack, and Neowin
| Tom's Hardware: |
Apple unveils the $599+ MacBook Neo, with a 13-inch Liquid Retina display, an A18 Pro chip, side-firing speakers, a 1080p webcam, two USB-C ports, and Touch ID — Apple debuts a new entry-level MacBook at just the right time — Apple finally took the wraps off its long-rumored budget laptop.
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| Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, and others are among the broad coalition of leaders signing the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human AI Declaration — An eclectic group including Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck, Richard Branson, Ralph Nader, Susan Rice and Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu signed the letter.
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Bluesky: @anildash.com and @yoshuabengio
| Matt Kapko / CyberScoop: |
Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K+ members — The marketplace was one of the world's largest hubs for cybercrime with more than 142,000 members.
More: Europol, US Department of Justice, The Record, BleepingComputer, Help Net Security, DutchNews.nl, The Cyber Express, and Cyber Security News
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Bluesky: @arbiteriapetus and @europol.europa.eu
Forums: r/hacking and r/cybersecurity
| Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: |
Apple Music introduces Transparency Tags, a metadata system for music distributors and labels to disclose AI-generated creative elements like artwork or lyrics — Apple Music is introducing a new set of metadata requirements designed to bring greater transparency around AI-generated content to the music industry.
More: MacRumors, TechCrunch, Mashable, Music Ally, Tech in Asia, AppleInsider, Happy Mag, 9to5Mac, and CNET. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Keely Quinlan / StateScoop: |
A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed professionals like doctors and lawyers and giving “substantive response, information, or advice” — A bill under consideration in New York would provide a private right of action, allowing people to file lawsuits against chatbot owners who violate the law.
More: Law360 and Reason
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| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI has picked two law firms to prepare its IPO, which could come as soon as Q4, in one of its first concrete steps toward a public listing — OpenAI has picked two law firms, Cooley and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, to prepare for an initial public offering that could come as soon as this year …
More: The Asia Business Daily
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
| CNBC: |
Broadcom reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to $19.31B, above $19.18B est., AI revenue up 106% YoY to $8.4B, and announces a $10B share buyback program — Broadcom reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue and issued a strong forecast for the current period as the chipmaker continues … | The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B — OpenAI has held early talks to partner with The Trade Desk, a publicly traded ad tech company, to help the ChatGPT maker sell ads …
Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| The Information: |
OpenAI is scaling back shopping directly inside ChatGPT via Instant Checkout by having checkouts instead take place in the specific apps that plug into ChatGPT — OpenAI is scaling back its plan to introduce shopping directly inside ChatGPT, marking a change in its high-profile effort to put checkouts inside the chatbot.| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Nintendo's software sales are under threat from soaring NAND prices; in December, the average game sales per console were 2.18, down from 3.88 in 2018 — Demand for Nintendo Co.'s profit-earning game software is under threat from soaring prices for data storage … | Bloomberg: |
China's Hang Seng Tech Index, which includes Chinese tech giants like Tencent and Alibaba, is down 28% since October 2025, shedding nearly $600B in market value — The ongoing selloff in China's megacap technology stocks shows little sign of easing, as investors fret over spiraling spending amid heated competition.
More: Barron's Online
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