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The Ongoing Clash Over Military Use of AI Key Players - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei – Opposes using Anthropic’s models for mass surveillance of Americans or ful...

Key Metrics - Weekly active users: 900 million announced by OpenAI on Friday – see the official announcementhttps://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-for-everyone/....

Suno co‑founder and CEO Mikey Shulman announced on LinkedIn that the AI music generator has reached 2 million paid subscribers and $300 million in annual recurr...

Apple and Netflix have entered a partnershiphttps://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/formula-1-apple-netflix-drive-to-survive to co‑broadcast the Formula 1 Canadi...

Starting this week, Perplexity subscribers will have a new agentic tool at their disposal. New Perplexity Computer Perplexity Computer “unifies every current AI...

A new set of main series Pokémon games is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 in 2027, marking the 10th installment in the series. In a livestream celebrating the r...

A new set of main‑series Pokémon games is coming to the Nintendo Switch 2 in 2027, marking the 10th installment in the series. The announcement was made during...

Background Anthropic is in a stalemate with the United States Department of War over the Pentagon’s request for unrestricted access to the company’s AI technol...

Background This week it was reported that the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is in dire shape after a year of cuts, layoffs, and fu...

Spotify launches Audiobook Charts in the U.S. and U.K. Spotify announced the rollout of Audiobook Charts for the United States and United Kingdom. Like the pla...

Deepinder Goyal’s $54 M Temple Funding Round Weeks after stepping down as CEO of Zomato and its parent Eternal, Indian entrepreneur Deepinder Goyal announced a...

OpenAI has raised $110 billion in private funding, announced on Friday morning herehttps://openai.com/index/scaling-ai-for-everyone/, marking one of the largest...

A rise in the need for computers and data centers to power AI is causing a massive shortage of RAMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qeO0Ar1XlE, driving memory pr...

Background After years of appeals, Google has finally received conditional approval to export high‑precision geographic information out of South Korea. This mo...

Ultrahuman unveils third‑generation Ring Pro Ultrahuman introduced the Ring Pro, its third‑generation smart ring, featuring up to 15 days of battery life—a sig...

Plaid, a company that connects financial applications to users’ bank accounts—enabling payments and data verification—has allowed employees to sell some of thei...

Overview The bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery WBD has concluded with David Ellison’s Paramount acquiring the company. After Netflix declined to raise its...

Jack Dorsey has long been an open admirer of Elon Musk. Now, it seems, he may have been taking notes. On Thursday, Dorsey announcedhttps://x.com/jack/status/202...

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Overview PayPal may not be pursuing an acquisition, according to Semaforhttps://www.semafor.com/article/02/26/2026/paypal-stripe-not-currently-in-talks, which...

Report Summary PayPal may not be pursuing an acquisition, Semafor reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that...

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Meta could be gearing up to launch a Prada‑branded version of its Meta AI glasses. The speculation began after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla, were spo...

As space companies itch to push the most advanced chips into orbit, the problem of cooling those high‑powered processors is top of mind. > “It’s cold in space…b...

A rise in the need for computers and data centers to power AI is causing a massive shortage of RAMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qeO0Ar1XlE, driving memory pr...

A rise in the need for computers and data centers for AI is causing a massive shortage of RAM, resulting in prices of memory shooting up in multiples. Now, anal...

Enterprises have struggled to find a return on investmenthttps://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf from adopting AI tool...

New DM Shortcut on Threads Meta‑owned Threads is testing a shortcut that makes it easier to start a direct message DM conversation. Users in the test can type...

Overview Read AI’s meeting‑notetaking platform launched an AI‑powered, email‑based assistant called Ada. The tool is marketed as a “digital twin” that can mana...

Meeting notetaker Read AI launched an AI‑powered email‑based assistant called Ada, which helps users manage schedules, answer questions from a company’s knowled...

Bumble announced that it’s adding a series of AI‑driven features intended to help turn matches into lasting connections, including tools that offer feedback and...

Walmart has agreed to pay $100 millionhttps://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/02/walmart-agrees-100-mil%5B%E2%80%A6%5Dettle-ftc-states-charges-...

Funding round Einridehttps://www.einride.tech/ has secured an oversubscribed $113 million PIPE private investment in public equity ahead of its public debuthtt...

Published: 8:03 AM PST · February 26, 2026 Cisco says hackers have been exploiting a bug in one of its popular networking products used by large enterprises for...

Open Source Endowment A group of notable open‑source programmers is teaming up with a VC investor to launch a nonprofit called the Open Source Endowmenthttps:/...

Google today announced the latest version of its popular image‑generation model, Nano Banana 2 technically Gemini 3.1 Flash Image. The new model can create more...

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Posted: 7:10 AM PST · February 26, 2026 !eBay Inc. signage is displayed at the entrance to the company's headquarters in San Jose, Californiahttps://techcrunch....

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!Image Credits: Figmahttps://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Codex-to-Figma-feat.jpg?w=1024 Figma is integrating OpenAI’s AI coding tool, Codex, to le...

Introduction For years, mobile gaming has been dominated by app stores. Developers spend countless hours creating games only to surrender up to 30 % of their e...

For all their potential, AI agents have been slow to make an impact in the enterprise, and one new startup is betting that the reason they haven’t is a lack of...

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Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event in San Francisco on Wednesday saw the Korean tech giant unveil its new S26 series of Galaxy smartphones, a pair of new earbuds,...

Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event in San Francisco on Wednesday saw the Korean tech giant unveil its new S26 series of Galaxy smartphones, a pair of new earbuds,...

Overview Instagram will start alerting parents if their teen repeatedly tries to search for terms related to suicide or self‑harm within a short period of time...