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February 26, 2026, 7:45 AM

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Ian King / Bloomberg:
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, above $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% YoY to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates  —  Nvidia Corp., the dominant maker of artificial intelligence processors, failed to impress investors with its latest sales forecast …
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Google launches task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26, enabling Gemini to autonomously perform tasks using apps like Uber and DoorDash  —  Gemini's in the driver's seat. … Google's Gemini AI is getting one step closer to being more like an actual assistant.
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
New York's AG sues Valve over its use of loot boxes, accusing the game developer of violating state gambling laws and threatening to addict children to gambling  —  New York's attorney general sued Valve, a video game developer whose franchises include Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Dota …
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Cisco warns of a critical SD-WAN bug that was actively exploited in zero-day attacks since 2023; CISA and its international partners issue emergency directives  —  Cisco is warning that a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, tracked as CVE-2026-20127 …
Tim Anderson / The Register:
A Cloudflare engineer rebuilt Next.js from scratch in one week using AI, reimplementing 94% of its API and spending $1,100 on Claude tokens  —  Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in  —  A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia  —  Meta is planning something similar for its chatbots later this year.  —  Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents …
Suzanne Smalley / The Record:
The US FTC says it won't enforce COPPA against companies using age verification tools as long as they use the collected data only to verify a user's age  —  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday issued a policy statement advising industry that it will not bring enforcement actions …
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Anthropic:
Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new “retirement interview” process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter  —  As we develop increasingly capable AI models, it's currently necessary to deprecate and retire our past models due …
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Kalshi says it has suspended an editor for MrBeast and a former GOP California gubernatorial candidate for insider trading, its first public enforcement action  —  An editor who works for YouTube's biggest creator, MrBeast, has been suspended from the prediction market platform Kalshi …
Jason Hiner / The Deep View:
Perplexity launches Perplexity Computer, “a general-purpose digital worker” that can route work across 19 AI models, available initially for Max subscribers  —  Claude Code and OpenClaw have taken 2026 by storm by offering the first glimpses of personal AI agents.
Claude / @claudeai:
Anthropic unveils scheduled tasks in Cowork, enabling Claude to complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically  —  New in Cowork: scheduled tasks. Claude can now complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically: a morning brief, weekly spreadsheet updates, Friday team presentations. [video]
Reece Rogers / Wired:
Open-source tool Scrapling gains traction with OpenClaw users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission and has 200K+ downloads since its release  —  An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Anthropic acquires Vercept, whose Vy desktop agent lets users control a Mac or PC with natural language, to “advance Claude's computer use capabilities”  —  Anthropic is acquiring Vercept, a Seattle startup founded by alumni of the Allen Institute for AI, in a move that illustrates …
Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy:
AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning “programming is becoming unrecognizable”  —  It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the …
Mathieu Dion / Bloomberg:
Montreal-based Stay22, which helps publishers and creators earn money from online sales, raised $122M from Summit Partners and reports $1B+ in 2025 transactions  —  Private equity firm Summit Partners is investing $122 million in Montreal's Stay22 Technologies Inc., a startup that offers technology …
The Information:
OpenAI hires Meta AI researcher Ruoming Pang, who joined Meta from Apple about seven months ago for a pay package reportedly worth $200M+ over several years  —  OpenAI has hired a high-profile AI researcher at Meta Platforms who had joined the company from Apple about seven months ago, a spokesperson from OpenAI confirmed.

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