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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, saying it is its “most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work” and its first with native computer use capabilities — The latest model comes with native computer use capabilities, allowing it to take on jobs across your device and applications.
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X: @openai, @openai, @deryatr_, @steipete, @rhyssullivan, @reach_vb, @binarybits, @scaling01, @polynoamial, @openaidevs, @altryne, @bindureddy, @scobleizer, @dabit3, @ml_angelopoulos, @altryne, @brendanfoody, @thsottiaux, @scaling01, @levie, @elaina43114880, @openaidevs, @emollick, @sama, @openai, @mattshumer_, @sama, @chatgptapp, @cursor_ai, @kylebrussell, @windsurf, @fidjissimo, @skirano, @cryptopunk7213, @deryatr_, and @openaidevs. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/programare, and r/OpenAI
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
More: Ars Technica, eWeek, Neowin, Digital Trends, The New Stack, Inc.com, OpenAI Developers, and Blockonomi. Forums: Slashdot
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
More: OpenAI, Decrypt, Thurrott, The Decoder, Tom's Guide, eWeek, The Hans India, Nate's Substack, and iClarified. X: @dejavucoder
| Bloomberg: |
A senior US defense official says the Pentagon formally told Anthropic that the startup and its products “are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately” — The Pentagon said it has formally notified Anthropic PBC that it's determined the company and its products pose …
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Forums: r/law and r/artificial
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Sam Altman takes swipes at Anthropic, saying it's “bad for society” if companies abandon their commitment to the democratic process based on who is President — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took subtle swipes at rival Anthropic on Thursday and said he thinks it's “bad for society” …
More: The Information, Gizmodo, Wall Street Journal, Breitbart, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, and Axios
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic says Claude's free active users grew 60%+ and daily signups grew 4x since the start of the year, with Monday being its strongest day ever — The Claude maker gains new traction with everyday users while its enterprise business is under pressure — Anthropic is gaining ground … | Financial Times: |
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Forums: r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, r/technology, r/OpenAI, and r/Anthropic
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Microsoft's new gaming CEO, Asha Sharma, teases the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, saying it “will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games” — The new Xbox boss Asha Sharma revealed the codename as one of her first big announcements.
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Oracle is planning to cut thousands of jobs as soon as March, among its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort — Oracle Corp. is planning to ax thousands of jobs, among its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort.
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Bluesky: @prietschka and @jessefelder
Forums: r/employeesOfOracle, r/wallstreetbets, and r/technology
| 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.
More: Engadget, Gizmodo, Silicon Canals, Engadget, and Bloomberg
X: @timsweeneyepic, @maxrovensky, @halfbakedsteve, @gamedevmicah, and @anthonyronning. Bluesky: @gateklons
Forums: r/AndroidGaming, r/fuckepic, Slashdot, and Slashdot
| Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
Sources: the US is considering requiring countries whose companies buy large volumes of Nvidia and AMD AI chips to invest in US AI infrastructure — Draft rule would require countries to invest in America in exchange for advanced semiconductors — The US commerce department … | Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
More: Tom's Hardware, Axios, Reuters, TechCrunch, The Information, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Motley Fool, The Asia Business Daily, Forbes, Newsmax, and Capital Brief
Forums: r/SubredditSimulator, r/worldnews, r/wallstreetbets, and r/StockMarket
| Courtenay Brown / Axios: |
Anthropic launches an early-warning system for potential AI-driven destruction of white-collar jobs, says it shows “limited evidence” of AI-led job loss so far — - An occupation's specific tasks; — An estimate of which of those tasks can be performed by large language models.
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| 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| 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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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix acquires InterPositive, a 16-person startup founded by Ben Affleck that builds AI models based on a production's dailies for later use in postproduction — In a rare acquisition, Netflix has bought InterPositive, a start-up founded by Ben Affleck that makes AI-powered tools for filmmakers.
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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 … | Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Roblox launches “real-time chat rephrasing”, an AI feature that replaces banned words with “more respectful language”, instead of showing profanities as “####” — Real-time chat rephrasing removes or alters banned words and phrases in messages.| 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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| 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 …
More: Gizmodo, BBC, On my Om, GOV.CN, The Quantum Insider, Tom's Hardware, The Guardian, Financial Times, and Reuters
X: @laurimyllyvirta, @asimali6, @globaltimesnews, @yanqinyq, @chinamissiongva, @berthofmanecon, and @shen_shiwei. Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social
Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence and r/tech
| The Information: |
Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise ~$1B at a $7.5B pre-money valuation, up from $3.3B in 2025; its annualized revenue has hit ~$1B, up 3x+ from mid-2025 — Together AI, one of several up-and-coming cloud providers renting out Nvidia chip servers to AI developers …
X: @swyx
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Cluely's CEO, Roy Lee, says he lied about its $7M annual recurring revenue last year, calling it “the only blatantly dishonest thing I've said publicly online” — The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely co-founder and CEO Roy Lee shared with TechCrunch last summer was a lie …
X: @im_roy_lee, @mattturck, @sporadica, @mil0theminer, and @willmanidis
Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com and @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
Apple implemented geoblocking in January 2026 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 … | 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.
More: OKX United States, Blockchain.News, Business Wire, CoinDesk, CoinGape, Blockonomi, crypto.news, Bitcoin News, Bitcoin Magazine, The Crypto Times, Barron's Online, Coinpedia Fintech News, Benzinga, DL News, Bitcoin Insider, CryptoPotato, Decrypt, Ledger Insights, and Bloomberg
LinkedIn: John Mannino and Yuri Mushkin
| 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 …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, The Information, South China Morning Post, and KrASIA
X: @poezhao0605, @elliotarledge, @osanseviero, @surmenok, and @natolambert. Mastodon: @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net. Forums: Hacker News
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Iran's state media says Iran targeted Amazon's Bahrain data center on March 1 because of the company's support of “US military and intelligence activities” — Amazon's data center in Bahrain was targeted by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for the company's support of the U.S. military … | Ike Swetlitz / Bloomberg: |
Brain tech startup Science Corp. raised $230M, a source says at a $1.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $489M, to commercialize its implant for blindness — Neurotechnology company Science Corp. raised $230 million from investors to commercialize its implant for blindness and develop even more advanced brain devices.
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X: @paulbz, @sciencecorp_, @business, @ycombinator, @techcrunch, @lightspeedvp, and @maxhodak_
LinkedIn: Khosla Ventures, IQT, Y Combinator, Ike Swetlitz, Darius Shahida, Chris Newmarker, Ben Mahdavi, linkedin.com, and RRE Ventures
| Sydney Bradley / Business Insider: |
Meta says it hired the engineering team from Atma Sciences, the startup that makes the vibe coding app Gizmo, earlier in 2026 to join its Superintelligence Labs — - Meta hired the engineers behind the vibe-coding app Gizmo. — The app lets people use AI to create and share interactive content, like mini apps or games.| 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.
More: Human Statement, The Verge, and TechCrunch
X: @mherskovitz, @tegmark, @xuanalogue, @sensanders, @adamthierer, @theaiobserverx, @mrewanmorrison, @jointorchbearer, @mikeanissimov2, @anthonynaguirre, @allinallnotbad, @m_shalia, @realhumansfirst, @davidskrueger, @romanyam, @fli_org, @the_yanco, @justinbullock14, @perrymetzger, and @heatherashleyb_
Bluesky: @rweingarten, @annakornbluh, @anildash.com, and @yoshuabengio
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X revamps its Creator Subscriptions with exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, a new dashboard, a shareable subscriptions card, and more — Elon Musk-owned X announced on Thursday that it's revamping the social network's Creator Subscriptions offering with a number of new features … Sponsor Posts
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