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Sources: DOD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access …
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David Jeans / Reuters:
Source: Anthropic has no intention of easing Claude usage restrictions for military purposes, following Dario Amodei's meeting with Pete Hegseth  —  Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic has no intention of easing its usage restrictions for military purposes, a person familiar with the matter …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: MacBook Pros with touch screens, due this fall, will have a Dynamic Island and a refreshed, dynamic UI optimized for touch or point-and-click input  —  Apple Inc.'s long-awaited foray into touch-screen laptops will bring major changes to the Mac interface, including the addition …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Stripe, which is privately held, has expressed preliminary interest in a potential PayPal acquisition or buying its assets; PYPL closed up 6.7%  —  Payment processing firm Stripe Inc. is considering an acquisition of all or parts of PayPal Holdings Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
Stevie Bonifield / The Verge:
Discord says it won't roll out age verification globally in March as previously planned, delaying the change until H2 2026 after it adds verification options  —  Now it will hold off on expansion until it adds more verification options, vendor transparency, and other changes.
Claude / @claudeai:
Anthropic starts rolling out Remote Control for Claude Code, letting users control a session begun in the terminal from the Claude mobile app or the web  —  New in Claude Code: Remote Control. Kick off a task in your terminal and pick it up from your phone while you take a walk or join a meeting. Claude keeps running on your machine, and you can control the session from the Claude app or https://claude.ai/code [video]
Greg Otto / CyberScoop:
A US judge sentences ex-L3Harris executive Peter Williams to 7+ years in prison, after he pleaded guilty in 2025 to theft of trade secrets and selling exploits  —  Additionally, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned the Russian zero-day brokerage that Peter Williams sold the exploits to.  —  Learn more.
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Apple plans to block users in Australia, Brazil, and Singapore from downloading 18+ rated apps without age assurance and rolls out developer age assurance tools  —  Apple is rolling out new age assurance tools for developers in regions including Brazil, Australia, Singapore, and parts of the US …
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
HP says memory now accounts for 35% of its PC bill of materials, up from 15% to 18% in Q4 2025, and expects RAM's share to rise through 2026  —  HP Inc. has revealed that memory now accounts for 35 percent of the cost of materials it needs to build a PC, up from between 15 and 18 percent last quarter.
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Billy Perrigo / Time:
Anthropic updates its Responsible Scaling Policy, including separating the safety commitments it will make unilaterally and its industry recommendations  —  Anthropic, the wildly successful AI company that has cast itself as the most safety-conscious of the top research labs …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube updates its $7.99-per-month Premium Lite subscription to let users download videos for offline access and play videos in the background  —  YouTube is expanding its more affordable, $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription service with new features, including the ability to download videos …
Financial Times:
London-based self-driving startup Wayve raised a $1.2B Series D at an $8.6B post-money valuation, with Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and Nissan among investors  —  Self-driving group valued at $8.6bn as it gears up to launch robotaxi service in London this year
Pew Research Center:
A survey of US teens: 57% use AI chatbots to search for info, 54% use them to do schoolwork, 47% for fun or entertainment, 12% for emotional support, and more  —  Just over half of U.S. teens say they have used chatbots for help with schoolwork, and 12% say they've gotten emotional support.
Jane Ruffino / Wired:
A look at TAT-8, the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable, which went into service in 1988, was retired in 2002, and is now being pulled up for recycling  —  History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor.
A.J. Vicens / Reuters:
Google disrupts Chinese-linked group UNC2814, which breached 53+ organizations across 42 countries and utilized Google Sheets to manage targeting and data theft  —  Google disrupted a Chinese-linked hacking group that breached at least 53 organizations across 42 countries, the company said Wednesday.
Richard Valdmanis / Reuters:
SOTU: Trump says he told tech companies to build their own plants to power data centers; sources say the White House expects to formalize the effort in March  —  President Donald Trump said on Tuesday during his State of the Union address that his administration has told major technology companies …
Blake Brittain / Reuters:
A California judge dismisses a lawsuit from xAI that accused OpenAI of stealing its trade secrets, with permission for xAI to refile the case at a later date  —  A California judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit from Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI that accused rival Sam Altman's OpenAI …
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
The US Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker Operation Zero, its founder Sergey Zelenyuk, and others for acquiring and reselling stolen US defense exploits  —  The U.S. government announced on Tuesday sanctions against two companies that acquire and resell zero-day exploits …
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Zetrix, a publicly traded Malaysian digital infrastructure provider, raised ~$40M from the World Bank's IFC and plans to list its AI unit on Nasdaq by end-2026  —  Zetrix AI Bhd., a publicly traded Malaysian provider of digital infrastructure, raised about $40 million from the World Bank's investment arm …
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