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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/programare, and r/OpenAI
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
More: Moneycontrol, Simon Willison's Weblog, OpenAI, Blockchain.News, Tom's Guide, Decrypt, eWeek, The Decoder, Thurrott, and iClarified. X: @dejavucoder
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
More: PYMNTS.com, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, Neowin, The New Stack, Inc.com, OpenAI Developers, and Blockonomi. Forums: Slashdot
| Anthropic: |
Dario Amodei says Anthropic plans to fight the DOD's risk designation in court, claims the DOD's letter has a “narrow scope”, and apologizes for the leaked memo — Yesterday (March 4) Anthropic received a letter from the Department of War confirming that we have been designated …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeCode, and r/ClaudeAI
| Bloomberg: |
The US DOD says it has “officially informed Anthropic leadership the company 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 a risk to the US supply chain …
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Forums: r/technology, r/singularity, r/artificial, r/law, r/accelerate, and Slashdot
| 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, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, Noahpinion, New York Post, Breitbart, PRNEWS, TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, and Axios
| 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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Forums: r/XboxGamePass and r/steammachine
| 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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| 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: |
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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.
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LinkedIn: John Mannino and Yuri Mushkin
| 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| 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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| Anna Washenko / Engadget: |
The US Senate passed COPPA 2.0 again, which would create new protections for young users; the bill now heads to the House, where it has struggled to pass — The measure for protecting children and teens' personal data could once more fail in the House. — Today the US Senate unanimously … | Ben Patterson / PCWorld: |
Google has quietly released an unsupported Workspace CLI, making it easier for agentic AI tools to access Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, and other apps — A new command-line interface for Google Workspace greases the wheels for personal AI assistants like OpenClaw to tap directly into Workspace documents.
More: Justin Poehnelt, VentureBeat, and Android Authority
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Forums: Hacker News and r/ClaudeCode
| 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.
More: Anthropic and SiliconANGLE
| 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 … | 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 … | 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 …
More: PYMNTS.com, Axios, American Banker, Blockonomi, and Telegraph
LinkedIn: Konstantinos Adamos and Alberto Mateos
| 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
| 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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X: @google, @wesroth, @glenngabe, and @google
| 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: On my Om, BBC, Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, GOV.CN, 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
| 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, @duderichy, @sporadica, @mil0theminer, @willmanidis, and @mattturck
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Sources: OpenAI employees claim the DOD tested Microsoft's Azure version of OpenAI models before OpenAI lifted its blanket ban on military use in January 2024 — Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft's version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications.| 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 … | New York Times: |
A look at Cloverleaf, which strikes deals with utility companies and secures land for AI companies and their data center needs; the company has raised $300M — Brian Janous, a former Microsoft executive, and his firm Cloverleaf have become modern-day land men, packaging electricity and land for data centers.| 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 … | 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.
More: Decrypt, Benzinga, Roblox, GamesBeat, MediaPost, Dexerto, and TechCrunch. Bluesky: @jesseltaylor
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