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Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source — Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple tweaked its Maps app for Tesla before the EV maker's planned addition of CarPlay; low-cost MacBook will get an aluminum chassis in playful colors — Tesla's plan to start supporting CarPlay in its vehicles has been held back by the need for changes in iOS 26's Maps app.
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| Axios: |
Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards; Anthropic says only mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons are off limits — The Pentagon is considering severing its relationship with Anthropic over the AI firm's insistence on maintaining some limitations …
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| Financial Times: |
Abhishek Singh, CEO of IndiaAI Mission, says India will seek international agreement on a “global AI commons” at this week's AI Impact Summit in New Delhi — New Delhi to focus on wielding emerging technology for social ends at global summit — John Reed in New Delhi and Krishn Kaushik in Mumbai
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman says that India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, the app's second-largest userbase after the US, ahead of the AI Impact Summit — India has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, making the country one of OpenAI's largest markets globally, CEO Sam Altman said ahead of a government-hosted AI summit.
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| Margaret-Anne Storey: |
As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt — The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder …
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| Counterpoint Research: |
Analysis: DRAM and NAND memory prices have jumped 600%+ over the past year for routers and set-top boxes, hitting telcos targeting aggressive broadband rollouts — MS Hwang is a research director at Counterpoint, specializing in memory semiconductor research.
| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor — NPR's David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he's suing over it.
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| Muhammad Zuhair / Wccftech: |
Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had “pretty much sold out” its 2026 HDD capacity, and that the consumer sector accounted for 5% of total revenue — HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to Western Digital's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out.
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Sources: the WH is pressuring Utah Republican State Rep. Doug Fiefia to abandon HB 286, an AI transparency and kids' safety bill similar to California's AI law — The White House is pressuring a Utah Republican state legislator to abandon AI transparency and kids' safety legislation, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.| Bloomberg: |
A look at a new generation of Chinese billionaire AI entrepreneurs who keep a low profile, with fortunes entwined with China's push for tech independence — Four years ago, as Yan Junjie pitched his vision for artificial intelligence startup MiniMax Group Inc. to China's largest internet companies …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic partners with CodePath to help redesign computer coding curricula at hundreds of US community and state colleges, integrating Claude AI tools — The company behind Claude forges an alliance to put its AI tools in the hands of students at hundreds of community and state colleges| New York Times: |
Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters — As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet …
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| Rani Molla / Sherwood News: |
Amazon stock fell for the ninth straight day on Friday, its longest losing streak since 2006, opening at $244.98 on Feb. 3 and closing at $198.79 on Feb. 13 — Amazon shares marked their ninth straight day of losses — the company's longest losing streak since 2006.Sponsor Posts
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