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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, saying it is its “most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work” and its first with native computer use capabilities — The latest model comes with native computer use capabilities, allowing it to take on jobs across your device and applications.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, and r/singularity
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
OpenAI says GPT-5.4 produces presentations with stronger, more varied aesthetics and makes more effective use of its image generation tools — OpenAI is releasing a new model today, and like GPT-5.2 before it, GPT-5.4 is all about professional work. OpenAI is calling GPT-5.4 …
More: The Information
| Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: |
A senior defense official says Pentagon has formally notified Anthropic that the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk — The Pentagon said it has formally notified Anthropic PBC that it's determined the company and its products pose a risk to the US supply chain …
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| 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
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Forums: r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, r/technology, r/OpenAI, and r/Anthropic
| The Information: |
Memo: Dario Amodei said OpenAI's DOD deal is “safety theater” and the DOD dislikes Anthropic in part because it hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump” — 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, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google's Epic settlement term sheet prohibits Tim Sweeney from criticizing Google's app practices until at least September 2032 and mandates that 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.
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Forums: r/AndroidGaming, r/fuckepic, Slashdot, and Slashdot
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google expands its Canvas workspace to everyone in the US using Google Search's AI Mode so they can get the latest info to 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.
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X: @wesroth, @glenngabe, @google, and @google
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Oracle plans thousands of job cuts as soon as this month as part of its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort — Oracle Corp. is planning to ax thousands of jobs, among its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort.
More: Reuters, The Information, ZeroHedge News, and Barchart.com
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Apple's MacBook Neo is a serious threat to OEMs like HP, Lenovo, and Dell, as their $599 laptops seem inferior and Windows 11's reputation is at an all-time low — MacBook Neo is official. It's $599, with an efficient A18 Pro SoC that offers M1-level performance in an affordable package that prioritizes style above all else.
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| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
The FBI arrests the son of a federal contractor who managed critical services and charges him with stealing ~$46M in crypto from the US Marshals Service — John Daghita was publicly accused of the crime by blockchain sleuth ZachXBT in January. — In brief| Reuters: |
China's new five-year blueprint introduces an “AI+ action plan”, mentions AI 50+ times, and outlines investments in quantum computing, 6G, embodied AI, and more — China's new five-year policy blueprint laid out its ambitions to aggressively adopt artificial intelligence throughout …
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Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence and r/tech
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on a production's dailies to be used in postproduction — In a rare acquisition, Netflix has bought InterPositive, a start-up founded by Ben Affleck that makes AI-powered tools for filmmakers.
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Forums: r/television and r/DC_Cinematic
| Reuters: |
Staff memo: Alibaba says it is setting up a new task force to accelerate foundation model development, after the resignation of its 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, Benzinga, KrASIA, Blockonomi, and TechCrunch
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| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Roblox launches real-time AI “chat rephrasing”, which replaces banned words with “more respectful language”, instead of using the traditional # symbol — Real-time chat rephrasing removes or alters banned words and phrases in messages.| 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) …
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
AWS launches Amazon Connect Health, an agentic AI tool that automates clinical documentation, billing and procedure coding, and patient identity verification — Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud unit is launching AI tools for medical practices, the company's latest effort to broaden the reach …
More: About Amazon, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Benzinga, Digital Trends, Constellation Research, GeekWire, MobiHealthNews, HIT Consultant, Cord Cutters News, and Healthcare Dive. Bluesky: @battles
| 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: Fortune, Gulf Business, RTÉ, Benzinga, The Business Times, and Reuters
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
NYSE parent company ICE invests in crypto exchange OKX at a $25B valuation, without sharing the investment's size or terms, and will take a seat on OKX's board — Last summer, Haider Rafique flew out to Atlanta to meet with the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange.
More: OKX United States, Benzinga, DL News, Business Wire, Barron's Online, Ledger Insights, Blockonomi, Decrypt, CoinDesk, Bitcoin Insider, Blockchain.News, CoinGape, crypto.news, Bitcoin News, Bitcoin Magazine, The Crypto Times, The Information, The Block, Coinpedia Fintech News, Reuters, Fast Company, CryptoPotato, and Bloomberg
| Orlando Crowcroft / Financial Times: |
Many of Stockholm's thriving tech businesses consider relocating as they look to scale up, amid growing US interest in Swedish AI startups Lovable and Legora — Many of Stockholm's thriving tech businesses consider relocating as they look to scale up — Ask anyone in Stockholm to account … | 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: @annakornbluh, @rweingarten, @anildash.com, and @yoshuabengio
| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
Apple implemented geoblocking in January to prevent US-based users from downloading or updating ByteDance's Chinese apps, even with a Chinese Apple account — In January, after TikTok announced a deal to transfer its US operations, Apple began blocking people in the US from downloading …
More: Cult of Mac
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: US officials propose expanding AI chip export controls globally, requiring Commerce Department approval for Nvidia and AMD shipments to any country — Nvidia Corp. has long been the world's AI kingmaker. Now, the Trump administration is considering taking a formal role in the industry …
More: TheStreet, Capital Brief, ZeroHedge News, and Barron's Online
Forums: r/worldnews, r/StockMarket, and r/wallstreetbets
| 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
X: @akm515, @matthew_meyers5, @emmarosepb, @daveshapi, @m_cottone, and @moreperfectus. Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app. Forums: r/singularity
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: soaring NAND prices threaten Nintendo's software sales; the average games purchased per console came to 2.18 in December 2025, vs. 3.88 in March 2018 — Demand for Nintendo Co.'s profit-earning game software is under threat from soaring prices for data storage …
More: iPhone in Canada, Tom's Hardware, and Tech4Gamers
X: @nintyprime and @6d6f636869
Forums: r/nintendo, r/Handhelds, and r/Games
| Associated Press: |
Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements before trying to stop the acquisition in July 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 … | 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.
More: Mobile Dev Memo, The Aisle, and The Decoder
| 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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X: @xai, @quinnypig, @oracle, @whitehouse, @senkatiebritt, @metanewsroom, @nathanleamerdc, @joel_kaplan, @rapidresponse47, @rapidresponse47, @rapidresponse47, @rapidresponse47, @whostp47, @sentomcotton, @rapidresponse47, @aripeskoe, @aripeskoe, @aripeskoe, and @dinapowellmcc. LinkedIn: Anthony Johnson. Mastodon: @andrew@esq.social
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Iran's state media says Iran targeted Amazon's Bahrain data center on Sunday because of the company's support of “US military and intelligence activities” — Amazon's data center in Bahrain was targeted by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the company's support of the U.S. military … | Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Stockholm-based Validio, whose agentic platform autonomously detects and resolves data quality issues, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total raised to $47M — Validio, an agentic data management platform, raised a $30 million Series A led by Plural, co-founder and CEO Patrik Liu Tran tells Axios Pro exclusively.
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