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Bloomberg:
Sources: Oracle and OpenAI abandoned plans to expand a Stargate Texas data center amid financing disputes; Meta considers leasing the planned expansion site  —  Oracle Corp. and OpenAI have scrapped plans to expand a flagship artificial intelligence data center in Texas after negotiations dragged …
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Google and Amazon join Microsoft in saying they will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk  —  Google said it will continue offering Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology for clients, excluding for defense work …
Pirate Wires:
Interview with Pentagon AI head Emil Michael on his view that Anthropic leaked negotiations to the press to win anti-Trump users, dealing with Amodei, and more  —  despite anthropic frustrating the admin with its blogging and very slow ‘politburo’ of ethicists, emil michael, the pentagon's head of ai, says he's still ‘open’ to a deal
Noah Smith / Noahpinion:
The Pentagon is right in trying to coerce Anthropic as AI may become a superweapon and nation-states must have a monopoly on the use of force
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Microsoft says it will keep Anthropic's AI tools embedded in its client products, after its lawyers concluded the DOD's designation is only for defense projects
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Mozilla says Claude Opus 4.6 found 100+ bugs in Firefox in two weeks in January, 14 of them high-severity, more than the bugs typically reported in two months  —  New AI-powered tools are increasingly adept at spotting flaws.  Hacking experts worry they will be good at exploiting them, too.
Wall Street Journal:
How prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket are aggressively targeting college students through fraternity partnerships and student influencers  —  Kalshi and Polymarket pour money into deals with social-media influencers and students, who try to parlay rumors, insider information into cash; 'We know this shouldn't be allowed'
Forbes:
How Cursor is evolving through its Composer coding models built on Chinese open models, as coding agents like Claude Code threaten to make code editors obsolete  —  After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality: developers may no longer need a code editor at all.
Steven Levy / Wired:
Q&A with Block CEO Jack Dorsey on laying off 40% of the company's workers, wanting Block to “feel like a mini AGI”, his take on Elon Musk's X, and more  —  In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block's cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”
Nicole Carpenter / Aftermath:
Nintendo of America sues the US government, seeking a refund with interest for tariffs that the company says Trump implemented in “unlawful” EOs  —  Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year …
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Anthropic launches Claude Marketplace, letting companies buy third-party software using some of their committed annual spending on Anthropic's services  —  Anthropic PBC is launching a new platform for its corporate customers to purchase third-party software, broadening the AI developer's offerings …
Bloomberg:
Sources: SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of up to $40B, its largest-ever borrowing denominated solely in dollars, to help finance its investment in OpenAI  —  SoftBank Group Corp. is seeking a loan of as much as $40 billion to mostly help finance its investment in US tech giant OpenAI …
Alex Heath / Sources:
OpenAI says it is delaying the launch of ChatGPT Adult Mode, originally planned for Q1, to focus on higher priorities, like gains in intelligence  —  “People's habits are not solidified” Liz Reid has one of the hardest jobs in tech.  She runs Google Search, arguably the best business ever built …
Sam Sabin / Axios:
OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved from its research project Aardvark to automate vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation  —  OpenAI is rolling out Codex Security, an AI-powered application security agent that finds, validates and proposes fixes for vulnerabilities.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
IDC: India's PC market had its strongest year on record in 2025, with shipments up 10.2% YoY to 15.9M units; commercial buyers accounted for 52.9% of shipments  —  India's PC market had its strongest year on record in 2025, surpassing the surge in demand during the COVID-19 pandemic as millions …
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Associated Press:
Indonesia says it will ban “high-risk” platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, and Roblox, for children under 16 from March 28  —  Indonesia will ban social media for children under 16, Communication and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid said Friday.
Alexandra Alper / Reuters:
Pentagon names ex-DOGE employee Gavin Kliger as Chief Data Officer to lead its AI efforts; Kliger previously reposted white supremacist Nick Fuentes' content  —  The Pentagon on Friday named as Chief Data Officer a computer scientist who aided billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to overhaul …

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Ben Dummett / Wall Street Journal:
Axel Springer agrees to buy the Telegraph for £575M, ending the proposed acquisition by the DMGT, and plans to “turbocharge” the Telegraph's presence in the US

Richard Tofel / Nieman Lab:
Q&A with Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro on her new report, to be published next week, which argues local news funders should pick winners, scale up, and force mergers

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: a coalition of states including California, Colorado, and New York prepares to sue on antitrust grounds if the Nexstar-Tegna deal gets FCC approval

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Manya Saini / Reuters:
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Financial Times:
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Financial Times:
Sources: the UK plans to delay making copyright rule changes for AI training after responses to its two-month consultation did not favor any of its proposals
Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat:
An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google-Epic settlement, how the Play Store changes impact developers, why Epic's case against Apple is different, and more

Earlier Picks

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
Filing: the US SEC settles with Tron founder Justin Sun over a 2023 case that alleged securities fraud; Tron-affiliated company Rainberry will pay the $10M fine
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
The US Senate passed COPPA 2.0 again, which would create new protections for young users online; the bill now heads to the House, where it has struggled to pass
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Microsoft's new gaming CEO, Asha Sharma, teases the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, saying it “will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games”
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
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
AWS launches Amazon Connect Health, an agentic AI tool that automates clinical documentation, billing and procedure coding, and patient identity verification
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