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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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| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
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| 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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| 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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| 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” …
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| 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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| 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 …
More: The Information
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: US officials propose expanding AI chip export controls globally, requiring Commerce Department approval for Nvidia and AMD shipments for each country — Nvidia Corp. has long been the world's AI kingmaker. Now, the Trump administration is considering taking a formal role …
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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.
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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| Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: |
An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google/Epic settlement, what Play Store changes mean for developers, why Epic's case against Apple is different, and more — It's been 2,030 days since Fortnite was put in jail, with both Google and Apple pulling it down worldwide on August 13, 2020 …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
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| 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
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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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| 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: |
Sources: the UK plans to delay copyright rule changes for AI training after a two-month consultation failed to land on a favored proposal among stakeholders — Government goes back to drawing board after its proposals triggered backlash from creative industries
More: Reuters
| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI model is held back by limited compute resources that create a bottleneck, forcing users to wait hours to generate a single video — ByteDance's new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company's compute capacity and copyright complaints began piling up.| 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 … | 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
| 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.| 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 …
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| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Cursor launches Automations, a new tool that lets users automatically launch agents triggered through new additions to a codebase, a Slack message, or a timer — As agentic coding spreads, the working life of a software engineer has become dazzlingly complex.| Gyan Vardhan / Entrackr: |
Rozana, which offers rural e-commerce and logistics services to 21,000 villages across India, raised a $31.6M Series B led by Bertelsmann India Investments — Rural omnichannel retail platform Rozana has raised Rs 290 crore ($31.6 million) in a Series B funding round led by Bertelsmann India Investments.
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