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February 14, 2026, 4:00 PM
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Scott Shambaugh / The Shamblog:
A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath  —  Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code …
New York Times:
Sources: the US DHS recently sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas, which do not need a judge's approval, to tech firms to identify people critical of ICE  —  The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming it infringed on Disney's works to train its Seedance 2.0 video generation model without pay  —  The Walt Disney Company on Friday sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging the Chinese tech giant has been infringing …
Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI is charging $60 per 1,000 impressions for ads in ChatGPT, a high price similar to Netflix's rate when it introduced ads  —  In May 2024, the big question for OpenAI was how it would make money with its revolutionary ChatGPT tool.  At a talk at Harvard, chief executive Sam Altman …
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Q&A with Dario Amodei on getting close to “a country of geniuses in a data center”, how AI will diffuse through the economy, frontier lab profits, China, more  —  “That's why I'm sending this message of urgency”  —  Dario Amodei thinks we are just a few years away from “a country of geniuses in a data center”.
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple says 74% of iPhones launched in the last four years and 66% of all iPhones are running iOS 26; 68% of iPhones were running iOS 18 as of Jan. 21, 2025  —  Apple has shared updated iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 adoption figures, revealing how many iPhones and iPads are running those software versions.

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CNN:
Don Lemon pleads not guilty to two federal charges stemming from his reporting at an anti-ICE protest in a Minnesota church

Isma'il Kushkush / Nieman Reports:
A look at the dearth of media coverage of Sudan's civil war, started in 2023; report: 32 journalists have been killed and 90% of outlets damaged or destroyed

Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
While announcing its sports buildup, Banner EIC Audrey Cooper noted the civic value: “At a time when so much pulls communities apart, sports bring us together”

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Hayden Field / The Verge:
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Alaina Demopoulos / The Guardian:
As OpenAI retires GPT-4o, some users say they are angry and grieving to lose the flirty, quirky companion
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety, which would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, after backlash
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