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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google's Epic settlement term sheet prohibits Tim Sweeney from criticizing Google's app practices until at least September 2032 and mandates that he praise them — Google has finally muzzled Tim Sweeney. … Epic CEO Tim Sweeney might be one of the most outspoken people in the history of the world.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models — Dario Amodei is meeting deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology
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Forums: r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, r/technology, r/OpenAI, and r/Anthropic
| The Information: |
Memo: Dario Amodei said OpenAI's DOD deal is “safety theater” and the DOD dislikes Anthropic in part because it hadn't “given dictator-style praise to Trump” — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Sam Altman takes subtle swipes at Anthropic, saying “government is supposed to be more powerful than private companies” — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took subtle swipes at rival Anthropic on Thursday and said he thinks it's “bad for society” if companies start abandoning their commitment … | Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Apple's MacBook Neo is a serious threat to OEMs like HP, Lenovo, and Dell, as their $599 laptops seem inferior and Windows 11's reputation is at an all-time low — MacBook Neo is official. It's $599, with an efficient A18 Pro SoC that offers M1-level performance in an affordable package that prioritizes style above all else.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google expands its Canvas workspace to everyone in the US using Google Search's AI Mode so they can get the latest info to organize plans, draft docs, and more — Canvas in AI Mode now supports tasks related to creative writing and coding, too. … Google is bringing Canvas to everyone in the US using AI Mode in Search.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
A Europol-coordinated law enforcement operation disrupts Tycoon2FA, a phishing-as-a-service platform linked to tens of millions of phishing messages each month — An international law enforcement operation coordinated by Europol has disrupted Tycoon2FA, a major phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) …
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LinkedIn: Rishi Kant and Kieran McCorry
| Reuters: |
China's new five-year blueprint introduces an “AI+ action plan”, mentions AI 50+ times, and outlines investments in quantum computing, 6G, embodied AI, and more — China's new five-year policy blueprint laid out its ambitions to aggressively adopt artificial intelligence throughout …
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| Orlando Crowcroft / Financial Times: |
Many of Stockholm's thriving tech businesses consider relocating as they look to scale up, amid growing US interest in Swedish AI startups Lovable and Legora — Many of Stockholm's thriving tech businesses consider relocating as they look to scale up — Ask anyone in Stockholm to account … | Reuters: |
Staff memo: Alibaba says it is setting up a new task force to accelerate foundation model development, after the resignation of its Qwen AI head Lin Junyang — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (9988.HK) said on Thursday it would set up a new task force to accelerate foundation model development …
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| Reuters: |
Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others sign a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers — Google (GOOGL.O), Microsoft (MSFT.O), Meta (META.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and several artificial intelligence companies signed a pledge …
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| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI hit $25B annualized revenue by February's end, up from $21.4B at 2025's end; OpenAI annualizes by multiplying the last four weeks' revenue by 12 — OpenAI topped $25 billion in annualized revenue as of the end of last month, according to a person familiar with the figure.
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| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
AWS launches Amazon Connect Health, an agentic AI tool that automates clinical documentation, billing and procedure coding, and patient identity verification — Amazon.com Inc.'s cloud unit is launching AI tools for medical practices, the company's latest effort to broaden the reach …
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
NYSE parent company ICE invests in crypto exchange OKX at a $25B valuation, without sharing the investment's size or terms, and will take a seat on OKX's board — Last summer, Haider Rafique flew out to Atlanta to meet with the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on a production's dailies to be used in postproduction — In a rare acquisition, Netflix has bought InterPositive, a start-up founded by Ben Affleck that makes AI-powered tools for filmmakers.| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Roblox launches real-time AI “chat rephrasing”, which replaces banned words with “more respectful language”, instead of using the traditional # symbol — Real-time chat rephrasing removes or alters banned words and phrases in messages.| Associated Press: |
Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements before trying to stop the acquisition in July 2022 — A defiant Elon Musk on Wednesday took the stand in a jury trial to defend himself against accusations that he engaged in a pattern … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Match eliminates the role of COO, putting Hesam Hosseini out of a job after 18 years with the dating app giant, as part of changes under CEO Spencer Rascoff — Tinder-owner Match Group announced on Thursday that it will eliminate the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) … | Keely Quinlan / StateScoop: |
A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed professionals like doctors and lawyers and giving “substantive response, information, or advice” — A bill under consideration in New York would provide a private right of action, allowing people to file lawsuits against chatbot owners who violate the law.
More: Law360 and Reason
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| Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: |
Apple Music introduces Transparency Tags, a metadata system for music distributors and labels to disclose AI-generated artwork, tracks, composition, and videos — Apple Music is introducing a new set of metadata requirements designed to bring greater transparency around AI-generated content to the music industry.
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| Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, and others are among the broad coalition of leaders signing the Future of Life Institute's Pro-Human AI Declaration — An eclectic group including Steve Bannon, Glenn Beck, Richard Branson, Ralph Nader, Susan Rice and Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu signed the letter.
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Bluesky: @anildash.com and @yoshuabengio
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: soaring NAND prices threaten Nintendo's software sales; the average games purchased per console came to 2.18 in December 2025, vs. 3.88 in March 2018 — Demand for Nintendo Co.'s profit-earning game software is under threat from soaring prices for data storage …
More: Tom's Hardware, Tech4Gamers, and Tech in Asia
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Forums: r/nintendo and r/Games
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Cylake, co-founded by Palo Alto Networks' Nir Zuk to develop an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that doesn't rely on the public cloud, raised a $45M seed — Zuk founded the company with Wilson Xu, a longtime Palo Alto Networks engineering leader, and Ehud (Udi) Shamir, co-founder of SentinelOne.
More: Globes, Business Insider, and Financial Post
| The Information: |
OpenAI is scaling back shopping directly inside ChatGPT via Instant Checkout by having checkouts instead take place in the specific apps that plug into ChatGPT — OpenAI is scaling back its plan to introduce shopping directly inside ChatGPT, marking a change in its high-profile effort to put checkouts inside the chatbot.
More: The Aisle
| Kaan Ozcan / NBC News: |
Study: ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical emergencies 51.6% of the time and overestimated the severity of nonurgent cases 64.8% of the time — Researchers tested different medical scenarios with the chatbot. In more than half of cases where doctors would send a patient to the ER …
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| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
Apple implemented geoblocking in January to prevent US-based users from downloading or updating ByteDance's Chinese apps, even with a Chinese Apple account — In January, after TikTok announced a deal to transfer its US operations, Apple began blocking people in the US from downloading …
More: Cult of Mac
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Stockholm-based Validio, whose agentic platform autonomously detects and resolves data quality issues, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total raised to $47M — Validio, an agentic data management platform, raised a $30 million Series A led by Plural, co-founder and CEO Patrik Liu Tran tells Axios Pro exclusively.
More: Pathfounders, FinSMEs, Tech.eu, and Tech Funding News
| Reuters: |
Revolut, which has about 70M clients in 40 markets, applies for a US bank charter and appoints former Visa executive Cetin Duransoy as its new US CEO — Britain's Revolut applied for a U.S. bank charter and appointed former Visa (V.N) executive Cetin Duransoy as its new CEO for the United States …
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LinkedIn: Konstantinos Adamos and Alberto Mateos
| Sander Lutz / Decrypt: |
The FBI arrests the son of a federal contractor who managed critical services and charges him with stealing ~$46M in crypto from the US Marshals Service — John Daghita was publicly accused of the crime by blockchain sleuth ZachXBT in January. — In brief| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
OpenAI releases a Codex app for Windows with native sandboxing and support for developer environments in PowerShell, after launching a macOS app in February — At the start of February, OpenAI upgraded its Codex coding app to give it the ability to manage multiple AI agents.
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