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Business Insider:
The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020  —  - Tech industries are losing their strength.  — One economist said tech job losses outpaced the past two recessions.  — Still, there is weakness in other areas of the job market.
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
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
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the US believes Chinese state-affiliated hackers breached an FBI computer network that holds information related to some domestic surveillance orders  —  The FBI said it has addressed ‘suspicious activities’ on its networks  —  U.S. investigators believe hackers affiliated …
Tim Starks / CyberScoop:
The Trump administration debuts its cyber strategy, outlining priorities including promoting offense operations, securing AI tech, and streamlining regulations  —  The administration also released an executive order on cybercrime and fraud.  —  Learn more.
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow  —  There's one word Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour is loath to say: Polymarket.  —  Like a politician swiping his never-to-be-spoken …
More: Mediaite and Entrepreneur
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Forums: r/NPR and r/technology
Wall Street Journal:
How prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket are aggressively targeting college students through fraternity partnerships and student influencers
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 …
Jessica Lyons / The Register:
Google's TIG documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2025, up from 78 in 2024; commercial spyware vendors and China-linked groups led the abuse  —  Of the 90 zero-days GTIG tracked in 2025, 43 hit enterprise tech  —  Zero-day exploitation targeting enterprise tech products reached …
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.
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 …
Financial Times:
US investors are pushing Asian fund managers to create special vehicles so they can invest in Asia while avoiding US investment restrictions on Chinese tech  —  Institutional clients increasingly want so-called parallel funds that exclude certain assets  —  US investors are increasingly …
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.
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 …
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.”
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.

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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
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
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