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AWS says “objects” struck one of its data centers in the UAE, impacting its mec1-az2 availability zone, and that connectivity will take several hours to restore — Amazon's (AMZN.O) cloud unit, AWS, said on Sunday that power to its data center in the United Arab Emirates was shut …
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| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour says the company would void certain bets related to Iran's Ali Khamenei and claims it doesn't “list markets directly tied to death” — Users say rules barring ‘profiting from death’ are unclear. … In a statement on X, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour …
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| Ross Andersen / The Atlantic: |
A source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans — Right up until the moment that Pete Hegseth moved to terminate the government's relationship with the AI company Anthropic …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities — Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. — ― Pericles| New York Times: |
Sources detail how the Anthropic and DOD talks fell apart and how officials at US intelligence agencies, including the CIA, still hope for a peace agreement — The Pentagon and Anthropic were close to agreeing on the use of artificial intelligence. But strong personalities, mutual dislike and a rival company unraveled a deal.
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| Sarah Shoker / fishbowlification: |
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| Matt Swider / The Shortcut: |
Qualcomm unveils the 3nm Snapdragon Wear Elite SoC for smartwatches, offering a Hexagon NPU that it says can run on-device AI models with up to 2B parameters — - ⌚ Qualcomm's first new wearable platform tier in 3 years debuted at MWC 2026 — 🧠 First-ever NPU in a wearable chip …
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| Will Sattelberg / 9to5Google: |
Qualcomm forms a “strategic coalition” to launch 6G in 2029 and unveils FastConnect 8800, an “AI-native” Wi-Fi 8-ready NIC that doubles peak speeds over Wi-Fi 7 — Qualcomm's taking Mobile World Congress by storm, with a collection of networking-centric announcements set … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Lenovo's Motorola partners with GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused, “de-Googled” version of Android, to preinstall GrapheneOS on upcoming Motorola smartphones — Following rumors swirling for quite some time, Motorola has announced a partnership with GrapheneOS that will see the privacy-focused …
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| Julian Chokkattu / Wired: |
MWC 2026: a look at Lenovo's concept devices, including a Framework-like modular laptop with swappable parts and a gaming handheld with a folding display — At MWC 2026, the company also showed off a dual-screen Yoga Book with 3D capabilities, and the Legion Go Fold—a gaming handheld …
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| Claude: |
Anthropic launches a tool to bring a user's preferences and context from other AI platforms to Claude via one copy-paste command, available on all paid plans — Bring your preferences and context from other AI providers to Claude. With one copy-paste, Claude updates its memory and picks up right where you left off.
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| Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: |
Anthropic says “a fix is being implemented” after elevated errors on claude.ai and Claude Code, starting at 11:49 UTC, and some API methods “are not working” — Claude appears to be having a major outage right now, with elevated errors reported across all platforms.
More: TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Blockonomi, Newsweek, BeInCrypto, and Claude
| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
ASML CTO Marco Pieters says ASML plans to expand beyond EUV into advanced packaging, bonding, and connecting, and is building AI-based machine inspection tools — ASML Holding (ASML.AS) has ambitious plans to expand its line of chipmaking equipment into several new products to capture …
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Vitalik Buterin outlines a two-part plan to overhaul Ethereum's execution layer with a binary state tree and eventually move beyond the Ethereum virtual machine — Quick Take — Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin laid out a detailed case for two sweeping execution layer changes …
More: Bitcoinist.com, Cointelegraph, The Crypto Times, BeInCrypto, and Blockchain.News
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| Foreign Affairs: |
Chinese military procurement documents show the PLA's efforts to use AI to assist in drone piloting, cyberattacks, decision-making, and disinformation campaigns — The PLA's Tech Strategy Is Working — At China's Victory Day parade in September 2025, it was not the marching troops … | Om Malik / On my Om: |
Block is a poster child for the lack of operational discipline common among mid-tier public tech companies that lived on the largesse of cloud, mobile, and ZIRP — Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block (the company formerly known as Square), went on X (the company formerly known as Twitter …
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