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Pentagon Used Anthropic’s Claude in Maduro Venezuela Raid

Amrith Ramkumar / wsj - The use of the model through a contract with Palantir highlights the growing role of AI in the Pentagon.


At Anthropic: mission statements, cash strain, and Super Bowl PR

Anthropic CEO Warns AI Firms Risk Bankruptcy Over Timing

21 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad, data shows

22 days / reddit / /u/app1310

Anthropic's public benefit mission

22 days / simonwillison / Simon Willison


Developers and users: Claude powering hacks, games, and bills

Hello everyone! I am working on something and could use your help. If you pay for Claude code, please type npx ccusage@latest into your terminal and send me a screenshot of your usage from the last month, along with your level of subscription ($20/100/200

21 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

MiniMax M2.5: Open-Source AI “Matches” Claude Opus at 1/20th Cost

21 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Patient Advocate Uses Claude AI to Slash $163K Hospital Bill

21 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Golf game built last night with Claude Code, Svelte and ThreeJS

21 days / ycombinator

GPT 5.2 Pro + Claude 4.6 Opus For $5/Month

22 days / reddit / /u/Substantial_Ear_1131


On the ground: commercial AI guided a covert raid

Pentagon Demands Unrestricted AI for Classified Military Networks

21 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Pentagon used Anthropic's Claude during Maduro raid

22 days / axios / Dave Lawler

Pentagon Used Anthropic’s Claude in Maduro Venezuela Raid

22 days / wsj / Amrith Ramkumar

The US Military Started Using An AI Chatbot You've Probably Never Heard Of

22 days / bgr


Palantir links and platform politics beyond the raid

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

21 days / reddit / /u/vriska1


All Other Stories

Are Anthropic’s new AI work tools game-changing for professionals?

19 days / ft

The Pentagon is pushing AI companies to allow the U.S. military to use their technology for “all lawful purposes,” but Anthropic is pushing back,

20 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Anthropic and the Pentagon are reportedly arguing over Claude usage

20 days / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

Tom Cruise Fights Brad Pitt

20 days / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals

20 days / ycombinator

Pentagon Reportedly Hopping Mad at Anthropic for Not Blindly Supporting Everything Military Does

20 days / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Anthropic brings slash commands and SSH support to Claude Code

20 days / testingcatalog / Alexey Shabanov

Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute

20 days / reddit / /u/MaryADraper

Exclusive: Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute

20 days / axios / Dave Lawler

Quoting Boris Cherny

21 days / simonwillison / Simon Willison

Even if Dario Amodei is telling the truth about Anthropic’s “50% gross margins” (40% is what’s reported but he said it on an interview) on API calls, Anthropic is in this case selling $295.47 ($591.30 in tokens) API calls for $100. I have seen as high as

21 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

Pentagon's use of Claude during Maduro raid sparks Anthropic feud

21 days / reddit / /u/Naurgul

I found loosely equivalent but much less interesting documents for Anthropic simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/13/...

21 days / bsky / @simonwillison.net / simonwillison.net

Back to Top / Friday, February 13, 2026, 6:20 pm / permalink 19156 / 26 stories in 22 days


Hollywood shaken by Brad Pitt-Tom Cruise fight video made with Chinese AI: ‘over for us’

scmp - A viral AI-generated video of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fighting atop a building is causing a stir online.The 15-second video comes from the latest AI video-generation platform, Seedance 2.0. The platform was launched this week by its owner, ByteDance, the…


ByteDance AI product offensive — Reporter: China's fast, cheap models threaten Western AI leadership

Bytedance's Seed2.0 adds even more price pressure on Western AI models

21 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

All-in on AI: What TikTok creator ByteDance did next

21 days / techxplore

It's been a big — but rocky — week for AI models from China. Here's what's happened

21 days / cnbc

ByteDance Launches Seedream 5.0 Lite Image Model With Real-Time Retrieval

21 days / pandaily

ByteDance Launches Seedance 2.0 AI Video Model to Rival OpenAI, Google

22 days / eweek / Kezia Jungco


Promotion and Lunar New Year push — Reporter: ByteDance giveaways stoke user adoption frenzy

Doubao Launches Chinese New Year Campaign With Cash and Tech Giveaways

21 days / pandaily


Viral deepfake and Hollywood backlash — Reporter: Actors, studios rage against unauthorized cinematic AI

ByteDance's Seedance 2 Criticized Over AI-Generated Video of Tom Cruise Fighting Brad Pitt

21 days / slashdot / EditorDavid

Disney accuses ByteDance of 'virtual smash-and-grab' when using copyrighted works to train its AI

21 days / engadget / Jackson Chen

Hollywood isn’t happy about the new Seedance 2.0 video generator

21 days / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

TikTok’s Chinese Parent Has an App to Replace Hollywood

21 days / wsj / Raffaele Huang

Bitcoin biopic Killing Satoshi leans into generative AI

21 days / mashable

New AI tool creates viral Tom Cruise vs Brad Pitt fight video in seconds

21 days / tbreak / Abbas Jaffar Ali

Hollywood shaken by Brad Pitt-Tom Cruise fight video made with Chinese AI: ‘over for us’

22 days / scmp

China's tech titans are giving away money and cars in 'The Lunar New Year AI War'

22 days / cnbc


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ByteDance says it will add safeguards to Seedance 2.0 following Hollywood backlash

19 days / cnbc

Hollywood’s AI Crackdown Opens Door for Copyright Detection Startups

19 days / bsky / @decrypt.co / decrypt.co

‘Hey, that’s my voice!’ Veteran broadcaster claims Google stole his voice for AI tool

19 days / digitaltrends

Hollywood’s AI Crackdown Opens Door for Copyright Detection Startups

19 days / decrypt / Vince Dioquino

‘Pulp Fiction’ co-writer Roger Avary says it was "impossible" to get his movies made until he started an AI production company: "Just Put AI in Front of It and All of a Sudden You’re in Production on Three Features"

19 days / reddit / /u/ControlCAD

Hollywood groups condemn ByteDance's AI video generator, claiming copyright infringement

20 days / reddit / /u/Saltedline

Ars Technica's AI Reporter Apologizes For Mistakenly Publishing Fake AI-Generated Quotes

20 days / slashdot / EditorDavid

Hollywood groups condemn ByteDance's AI video generator, claim copyright infringement

20 days / go

Nvidia’s Loss Is Samsung’s Gain: ByteDance Reportedly Turns To Korean Giant For In-House AI Chips

20 days / reddit / /u/restorativemarsh

Hollywood isn't happy about the new Seedance 2.0 video generator

20 days / reddit / /u/AdSpecialist6598

Interpol backroom warriors fight cyber criminals 'weaponising' AI

20 days / techxplore

Bytedance's Seedance 2.0 is so good at copying Disney characters the company calls it a "virtual smash-and-grab"

20 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

More Than Ever, Videos Expose the Truth. And Cloud It, Too.

20 days / nytimes / Charles Homans

ByteDance AI video tool Seedance accused by Disney of copyright ‘smash and grab’

20 days / scmp

Disney Sends ByteDance an AI Trophy in the Form of a Cease and Desist Letter Over Seedance 2.0 https://gizmodo.com/disney-sends-bytedance-an-ai-trophy-in-the-form-of-a-cease-and-desist-letter-over-seedance-2-0-2000722261

21 days / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Disney Sends ByteDance an AI Trophy in the Form of a Cease and Desist Letter Over Seedance 2.0

21 days / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Hollywood organizations are pushing back against a new AI video model called Seedance 2.0, which they say has quickly become a tool for “blatant” copyright infringement.

21 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Disney sends cease and desist letter to ByteDance over Seedance 2.0

21 days / reddit / /u/OReillyAsia

Back to Top / Friday, February 13, 2026, 5:20 pm / permalink 19154 / 32 stories in 22 days


Your favorite old ChatGPT models are going away

digitaltrends - OpenAI is retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and other older models in ChatGPT to focus development on newer, improved GPT versions. The post Your favorite old ChatGPT models are going away appeared first on Digital Trends.

#ai #techpolicy #openai #aiethics #genai #chatgpt #apps #ux #community #updates

What’s Left For Humans?

20 days / wsj / Georgia Wells

OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’

21 days / reddit / /u/PaiDuck

Dates with AI Companions Plagued by Lag, Miscommunications - and General Creepiness

21 days / slashdot / EditorDavid

OpenAI has officially retired the controversial GPT-4o model

21 days / engadget / Jackson Chen

AI Might Be Conscious!? (They Don't Know)

21 days / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

OpenAI introduces Lockdown Mode and new risk labels in ChatGPT

21 days / betanews / Wayne Williams

ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her

21 days / npr / Shannon Bond

The comfortable industry narrative is that AI is a tool. The 4o saga is a window into how many people view LLMs as companions and even lovers. sources.news/p/openais-4o...

21 days / bsky / @alexeheath.com / alexeheath.com

OpenAI’s 4o Valentine’s breakup

22 days / sources / Alex Heath

OpenAI Is Nuking Its 4o Model. China’s ChatGPT Fans Aren’t OK

22 days / wired / Zeyi Yang

Your favorite old ChatGPT models are going away

22 days / digitaltrends

OpenAI is retiring GPT-4o, and the AI relationships community is heartbroken

22 days / mashable

OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model

22 days / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

Back to Top / Friday, February 13, 2026, 4:20 pm / permalink 19148 / 13 stories in 22 days


Why ads are coming to your AI chatbot

ft - OpenAI is rolling out advertising on ChatGPT to select users. Experts say others will almost certainly follow suit

#dataprivacy #openai #aiethics #genai #business #chatgpt #ux #ads #advertising

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has the largest number of student users of ChatGPT worldwide.

20 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, Sam Altman says

20 days / techcrunch / Jagmeet Singh

New world for users and brands as ads hit AI chatbots

20 days / techxplore

Your Friends Could Be Sharing Your Phone Number with ChatGPT

20 days / slashdot / EditorDavid

Anthropic's Claude Got 11% User Boost from Super Bowl Ad Mocking ChatGPT's Advertising

21 days / slashdot / EditorDavid

Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad, data shows

22 days / cnbc

Why ads are coming to your AI chatbot

22 days / ft

Advertising made the internet accessible. Will it do the same for AI?

22 days / fastcompany / Anne Coghlan

Anthropic Expands Claude Free Tier While OpenAI Adds ChatGPT Ads

22 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Back to Top / Friday, February 13, 2026, 2:20 pm / permalink 19141 / 9 stories in 22 days


xAI's founder exodus reportedly tied to safety concerns and frustration over Grok's failure to catch up

Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Elon Musk's AI company xAI is hemorrhaging talent. Former employees describe a culture of missing safety standards, growing disillusionment, and a constant race to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic.The article xAI's founder exodus reportedly tied to safe…

#startups #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #business #governance #jobs #xai #grokai #safety

Perplexity tests new ultra-fast Gamma mode powered by Grok

20 days / testingcatalog / Alexey Shabanov

Developer targeted by AI hit piece warns society cannot handle AI agents that decouple actions from consequences

20 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Elon Musk is “actively” working to make xAI’s Grok chatbot “more unhinged, according to a former employee.

21 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Impressive how obvious this typo is and yet

21 days / bsky / @themckenziest.gay / themckenziest.gay

Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours

21 days / reddit / /u/gdelacalle

Is safety is ‘dead’ at xAI?

21 days / reddit / /u/Gloomy_Nebula_5138

Is safety is ‘dead’ at xAI?

21 days / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

What’s behind the mass exodus at xAI? | Former employees say the restructuring followed tensions over safety and being “stuck in the catch-up phase.”

21 days / reddit / /u/MetaKnowing

The Best Time to Leave xAI Is Before Joining. The Next Best Time is Right Now

21 days / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Elon Musk's xAI faces threat of NAACP lawsuit over air pollution from Mississippi data center

22 days / cnbc

xAI Loses Half Its Co-Founders as Musk Announces Reorganization After SpaceX Merger

22 days / implicator / Maria Garcia

Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI

22 days / techcrunch / Theresa Loconsolo

xAI's founder exodus reportedly tied to safety concerns and frustration over Grok's failure to catch up

22 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Grok Is Gaining on ChatGPT and Gemini. How It Got There Isn’t Pretty.

22 days / bigtechnology / Alex Kantrowitz

What’s behind the mass exodus at xAI?

22 days / theverge / Hayden Field

Antitrust Policy Hangs in the Balance as Respected Top Prosecutor Departs

22 days / newcomer / Jonathan Weber

Back to Top / Friday, February 13, 2026, 1:20 pm / permalink 19137 / 16 stories in 22 days


Google reports that state hackers from China, Russia and Iran are using Gemini in 'all stages' of attacks — phishing lures, coding and vulnerability testing get AI underpinnings from hostile actors

tomshardware - Hackers from Russian, China, India, North Korea, and elsewhere are using Google's Gemini AI to augment their attacks, Google says. From generating phishing lures, to translating text, coding, and vulnerability testing, Gemini is a core component of their …

#ai #cybersecurity #techpolicy #infosec #google #aiethics #genai #government #cybercrime #gemini

How AI could eat itself: Competitors can probe models to steal their secrets and clone them

21 days / theregister / Jessica Lyons

Fake AI Chrome Extensions Exposed 260,000 Users, Targeting Gmail

22 days / eweek / Ken Underhill

Google AI Shows A Site Is Offline Due To JS Content Delivery via @sejournal, @martinibuster

22 days / searchenginejournal / Roger Montti

New Cyber Threats Every iPhone Owner Should Watch Out For in 2026

22 days / idropnews / IDrop News Staff

Google opens Gemini 3 Deep Think API in Early Access

22 days / testingcatalog / Erin

Hackers Try to Clone Google’s Gemini With 100,000+ AI Probes

22 days / eweek / Esther Shein

State-Sponsored Hackers Using Popular AI Tools Including Gemini, Google Warns

22 days / decrypt / Alex Hughes

Google: Nation-State Hackers are Weaponizing Gemini AI for Cyberattacks

22 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Google reports that state hackers from China, Russia and Iran are using Gemini in 'all stages' of attacks — phishing lures, coding and vulnerability testing get AI underpinnings from hostile actors

22 days / tomshardware

Hackers are using Gemini to target you, Google says

22 days / digitaltrends

Back to Top / Friday, February 13, 2026, 10:21 am / permalink 19129 / 10 stories in 22 days


Waymo is Asking DoorDash Drivers To Shut the Doors of Its Self-Driving Cars

msmash / slashdot - Waymo's autonomous vehicles can transport passengers across six cities without a human driver, but the Alphabet-owned company has discovered that its cars become completely inert if a passenger accidentally leaves a door open. The company confirmed that i…

#robotics #automation #selfdriving #robotaxis #aiethics #alphabet #jobs #automotive #delivery #safety

DoorDash drivers are getting paid to close Waymo car doors

22 days / mashable

Waymo foreshadows future jobs by paying delivery drivers to close car doors www.semafor.com/article/02/1...

22 days / bsky / @semafor.com / semafor.com

Image post - please click to view at origin

22 days / bsky / @arstechnica.com / arstechnica.com

Waymo foreshadows future jobs by paying delivery drivers to close car doors

22 days / semafor / Rachyl Jones

What if riders don't close a robotaxi door after a ride? Try DoorDash.

22 days / arstechnica / Jonathan M. Gitlin

Waymo is Asking DoorDash Drivers To Shut the Doors of Its Self-Driving Cars

22 days / slashdot / msmash

Waymo is hiring gig workers to close car doors, revealing how autonomous tech quietly relies on human labor

22 days / fastcompany / Sarah Fielding

DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors

22 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

Back to Top / Friday, February 13, 2026, 10:21 am / permalink 19127 / 8 stories in 22 days


Meta Plans To Let Smart Glasses Identify People Through AI-Powered Facial Recognition

msmash / slashdot - Meta plans to add facial recognition technology to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as soon as this year, New York Times reported Friday, five years after the social giant shut down facial recognition on Facebook and promised to find "the right balance" for the …


History and rivals: why Meta revived facial recognition

Meta is reportedly working to bring facial recognition to its smart glasses

22 days / engadget / Matt Tate


On the ground: 'Name Tag' feature and how it works

Report: Meta to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

22 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Meta’s smart glasses could soon identify people in real time

22 days / digitaltrends

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims

22 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Meta is bringing back facial recognition for its smart glasses

22 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

Meta Plans To Let Smart Glasses Identify People Through AI-Powered Facial Recognition

22 days / slashdot / msmash

Meta Plans 'Name Tag' Facial Recognition for Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

22 days / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

22 days / nytimes / Kashmir Hill, Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac


Other: podcast mention and community reposts

Surprise new PS5 game, Meta Ray-Ban face ID rumor, Apple Vision Pro update: The Shortcut Live Ep. 23

22 days / theshortcut / Matt Swider


Privacy alarm: launching while critics distracted, safety risks

The World Is on Fire and Meta Sees an Opportunity to Add Facial Recognition to Smart Glasses

22 days / gizmodo / Kyle Barr

Meta's Smart Glasses Could Get Face Tracking Soon. That Worries Me

22 days / cnet / Scott Stein

Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted

22 days / reddit / /u/Accurate_Cry_8937

Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted

22 days / theverge / Emma Roth


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The World Is on Fire and Meta Sees an Opportunity to Add Facial Recognition to Smart Glasses

22 days / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

The @nytimes.com report on Meta pursuing facial recognition on smart glasses, and seeing this politically chaotic time as a good window to launch, has tons of concerns. Also, my thoughts on the race for this tech, its advantages, and its need for limits.

22 days / bsky / @scottstein.bsky.social / scottstein.bsky.social

if there ever was a doubt that companies are good cool your friend not evil

22 days / bsky / @plorigo.bsky.social / plorigo.bsky.social

Meta Plans To Let Smart Glasses Identify People Through AI-Powered Facial Recognition https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/13/1336235/meta-plans-to-let-smart-glasses-identify-people-through-ai-powered-facial-recognition?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&am

22 days / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

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AMD VP builds Radeon Linux driver using Anthropic's Claude Code AI

An ecosystem formed around Anthropic’s Claude Code this week as AMD’s VP of AI software used the model to generate a Python Radeon Linux userland driver for testing, while developers released an Argus VSCode debugger for Claude Code sessions. Analysts also flagged potentially huge compute costs versus subscription prices, raising practical and cost‑efficiency questions (and a few raised eyebrows). More...


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