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February 15, 2026, 10:25 AM
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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 …
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 …
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
Peter Wayner / New York Times:
Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic experimental computer networks helped define the evolution of the early internet, died on February 7 at age 91  —  A researcher, professor and federal policy adviser, he guided students who went on to do groundbreaking work in connecting the world online.
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.
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.
More: Bloomberg
Meaghan Tobin / New York Times:
Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, China is expected to produce 2% of global AI chips in 2026 and 70x less memory storage than foreign chipmakers  —  More than a decade into Beijing's push for self sufficiency, Chinese firms are producing fewer, lower-performing chips than their foreign competitors.
More: Globes and Bloomberg.  Forums: r/hardware
Jessica Brice / Bloomberg:
A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups  —  A vast ecosystem supported by the gig economy has sprung up to clean all that cash.  —  The pitch was simple: Crypto for “cold hard cash.”

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From Mediagazer

Max Tani / Semafor:
AP Senior Product Manager for AI Aimee Rinehart told staff that many editors preferred an AI-written article to a human one, and resistance to AI is “futile”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
SEC filing: David Zaslav is selling ~4M shares of WBD stock, with an aggregate market value of just over $114M; Zaslav's 2024 pay rose 4.4% YoY to $51.9M

Committee to Protect Journalists:
Myanmar releases at least four journalists as part of an amnesty of 7,300+ prisoners convicted of terrorism after the military's 2021 coup

More News

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

Earlier Picks

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
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