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Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft fixed a vulnerability in Notepad in Windows 11 allowing attackers to execute remote programs by tricking users into clicking malicious Markdown links  —  Microsoft has fixed a “remote code execution” vulnerability in Windows 11 Notepad that allowed attackers to execute local …
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Elon Musk announces an xAI reorganization that “required parting ways with some people”, after two xAI co-founders announced they were leaving this week  —  SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday announced the the company's xAI artificial intelligence venture implemented a reorganization that …
Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg:
xAI will be organized into four core areas: Grok's chatbot and voice products, Coding, Imagine, and Macrohard, which will build digital agents to run companies  —  Elon Musk said he restructured xAI, his artificial intelligence startup, following the exit of two of its co-founders earlier this week.
New York Times:
xAI all-hands meeting: Elon Musk told employees that xAI needs a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space
New York Times:
Social media addiction trial: Adam Mosseri says social media is not “clinically addictive” and that Meta was careful to test features used by young people  —  Instagram's chief executive said on Wednesday that social media was not “clinically addictive,” refuting claims …
Z.ai:
Z.ai launches GLM-5, its flagship open-weight model, saying it has best-in-class performance among open-source models in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks  —  We are launching GLM-5, targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks.  Scaling is still one of the most important ways …
Jared Perlo / NBC News:
Anthropic says it will upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases to minimize the effects of its data centers  —  Leading AI company Anthropic said it would upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's Siri upgrade has run into snags recently, possibly pushing some personalized Siri and other features from iOS 26.4 to iOS 26.5, due in May  —  Apple Inc.'s long-planned upgrade to the Siri virtual assistant has run into snags during testing in recent weeks …
Financial Times:
BlockFills, a crypto liquidity provider and lender to ~2K institutional clients, halts deposits and withdrawals, citing “recent market and financial conditions”  —  Move comes during period of sustained volatility in digital asset markets  —  Susquehanna-backed crypto lender BlockFills …
Reuters:
Sources: the Pentagon is pushing OpenAI, Anthropic, and others to make their AI tools available on classified networks without the standard user restrictions  —  The Pentagon is pushing the top AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic to make their artificial-intelligence tools available …
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
OpenAI announced Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT via GenAI.mil; sources say the move came after months of deliberation among employees
CoinDesk:
Robinhood launches a public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network on Arbitrum supporting 24/7 trading, with a broader rollout later in 2026  —  The Robinhood Chain, built on Ethereum-based Arbitrum, aims to become key plumbing for around-the-clock trading and plugging tokenized stocks into DeFi.
Zoë Hitzig / New York Times:
An OpenAI researcher who helped shape how models were built and priced says she quit after two years due to “deep reservations” about ads and OpenAI's strategy  —  This week, OpenAI started testing ads on ChatGPT.  I also resigned from the company after spending two years …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Source: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team in recent weeks and transferred its employees; team lead Joshua Achiam will take on a “chief futurist” role
Michael Acton / Financial Times:
US FTC chair urges Tim Cook to review Apple News' terms and curation after a study claimed the app promoted “leftist outlets” and suppressed conservative ones  —  US regulator issues warning to iPhone maker about its News platform following controversy over Super Bowl half-time show
Joe Rivano Barros / Mission Local:
YC's Garry Tan launches “Garry's List”, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting “moderate/pragmatic” political candidates and pro-growth policies in California  —  New operation is part-PAC, part-blog, part incubator for Silicon Valley politics — and latest entry in big-money network
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The US DOJ says Peter Williams, former boss of L3Harris' Trenchant, stole and sold tools that can hack millions of computers worldwide to a Russian broker  —  The former boss of a U.S. maker of hacking and surveillance tools stole and sold technology that can hack millions of computers and people worldwide …
Dell Cameron / Wired:
The US CBP signs a one-year Clearview AI deal, granting access to its facial recognition tool for “tactical targeting” and “strategic counter-network analysis”  —  US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.
More: FedScoop.  Bluesky: @markriedl, @newshoundellen, @dell, @rmac, @couts, and @dell
Forums: r/politics and r/fednews
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta launches an AI feature that lets Threads users temporarily personalize their feed by specifying topics in a public post that begins with “Dear Algo”  —  Meta on Wednesday debuted an AI feature called “Dear Algo” that lets Threads users personalize their content-recommendation algorithms.
Will Shanklin / Engadget:
Anthropic says Claude users on the free plan can now create files, connect to external services, use skills, and more  —  You no longer need a subscription to create files or use Connectors and Skills in Claude.  —  Anthropic is upgrading Claude's free tier, apparently to capitalize …
More: Moneycontrol, CNET, MacRumors, and Claude
X: @claudeai and @claudeai.  LinkedIn: Claude
Forums: r/technews and r/technology
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Cisco reports Q2 revenue up 10% YoY to $15.35B, vs. $15.12B est., and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS only in line with estimates; CSCO drops 7%+ after hours  —  Cisco reported better-than-expected quarterly results on Wednesday, but the stock dropped about 7% in extended trading as earnings guidance …

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Pew Research Center:
Survey: 80% of Americans say being informed about the news is essential to voting, but only 8% say people in the US have a responsibility to pay for news

Michael Savage / The Guardian:
In written testimony, a private investigator says Mail titles remained his “best customers” for two years after his 2005 conviction for disclosing private info

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Fox-owned podcasting company Red Seat Ventures acquires subscription monetization company Supercast, as it ramps up its podcasting efforts

More News

Financial Times:
Russia removes WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram from a Roskomnadzor-run online directory, essentially blocking them in the country without workarounds
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, expected to be operational at the end of 2027 or in early 2028

Earlier Picks

Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Austin-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised $520M led by Google and others at a $5.5B+ valuation, up ~3x from when it raised $415M in February 2025
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
T-Mobile announces a network-level, AI-based Live Translation feature for phone calls on 4G LTE and 5G, supporting 50+ languages, coming “this spring” in beta
Alex Heath / Sources:
Q&A with Fidji Simo on ChatGPT ads, OpenAI's efforts to ship a new model soon to end Sam Altman's Code Red, Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Sora, Codex, and more
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