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Canada demands more OpenAI safety protocols after B.C. mass shooting

Bradly Shankar / mobilesyrup - Canada is calling on OpenAI to implement stricter safety measures in the wake of the Feb. 10 mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. On Tuesday, OpenAI representatives met with government officials in Ottawa after it was revealed that the tech company had ba…

#techpolicy #openai #aiethics #government #chatgpt #canada #contentmoderation #safety #regulation

OpenAI connection to Tumbler Ridge tragedy puts balance between privacy and public safety in the spotlight

10 days / betakit / Josh Scott

Canada demands more OpenAI safety protocols after B.C. mass shooting

10 days / mobilesyrup / Bradly Shankar

Canadian government demands safety changes from OpenAI

10 days / engadget / Anna Washenko

Canada’s AI minister blames OpenAI for ‘failure’ after mass shooting

10 days / politico / Mickey Djuric

Back to Top / Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 5:21 pm / permalink 19755 / 4 stories in 10 days


OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems

Reece Rogers / wired - An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.

#ai #cybersecurity #opensource #aiethics #internet #community #technology #contentmoderation #research #openclaw

The Hardest Part of AI Agents Isn’t Building Them. It’s Keeping Them Running.

9 days / techstrong / Tom Smith

MiniMax Launches MaxClaw With One-Click OpenClaw Deployment

9 days / pandaily

Perplexity Enters Autonomous AI Race With Launch of ‘Computer’

10 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission. www.wired.com/story/opencl...

10 days / bsky / @theladyred.bsky.social / theladyred.bsky.social

OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems

10 days / wired / Reece Rogers

OpenClaw creator’s advice to AI builders is to be more playful and allow yourself time to improve

10 days / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

The OpenClaw Hype: Analysis of Chatter from Open-Source Deep and Dark Web

10 days / bleepingcomputer / Sponsored by Flare

OpenClaw creator says "vibe coding" is a slur against AI-assisted development

10 days / techspot

Back to Top / Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 2:21 pm / permalink 19742 / 8 stories in 10 days


Anthropic weakens its safety pledge in the wake of the Pentagon's pressure campaign

Will Shanklin / engadget - Two stories about the Claude maker Anthropic broke on Tuesday that, when combined, arguably paint a chilling picture. First, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is reportedly pressuring Anthropic to yield its AI safeguards and give the military unrestrained…


Anthropic expands commercially: integrations, crawler changes, and Vercept buy.

Anthropic acquires computer-use AI startup Vercept after Meta poached one of its founders

10 days / techcrunch / Julie Bort

Intapp Adds Celeste AI Agents to Automate Tasks for Services Firms

10 days / techstrong / Mike Vizard

Anthropic’s Claude Bots Make Robots.txt Decisions More Granular via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

10 days / searchenginejournal / Matt G. Southern

Starlink, Anthropic, Full-Page Screenshots, More: Wednesday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, February 25, 2026

10 days / researchbuzz / ResearchBuzz


Claude exploited and buggy — major data thefts and RCE flaws.

Claude collaboration tools left the door wide open to remote code execution

10 days / theregister / Jessica Lyons

Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude To Steal Sensitive Mexican Data

10 days / slashdot / msmash

Hacker used Anthropic's Claude chatbot to attack multiple government agencies in Mexico

10 days / engadget / Lawrence Bonk


Pentagon pressures Anthropic; safety pledges retreat under deadline.

Anthropic, OpenAI Dial Back Safety Language as AI Race Accelerates

10 days / decrypt / Jason Nelson

Nvidia’s Huang says any Pentagon–Anthropic rift is 'not the end of the world'

10 days / cnbc

Anthropic Softens Safety Rules to Compete, Risks Blacklist to Fight Pentagon

10 days / techstrong / Jon Swartz

A lot of AI safety is a grift and the moment they have to do anything that requires Anthropic to actually handle a safety issue that exists in the here and now they relent. They don’t care. They never have. https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbusters/#“we

10 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

Anthropic changes safety policy amid intense AI competition

10 days / mashable

Scoop: Pentagon takes first step toward blacklisting Anthropic

10 days / axios / Dave Lawler

Anthropic Rolls Back Safety Protocols as It Waits to Find Out If It’s Being Drafted by the Army

10 days / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied Into Doing Surveillance

10 days / techdirt / Matthew Guariglia

All your bots are belong to US if you don't play ball, DoD tells Anthropic

10 days / theregister / Brandon Vigliarolo

Anthropic weakens its safety pledge in the wake of the Pentagon's pressure campaign

10 days / engadget / Will Shanklin

The Pentagon Threatens Anthropic

10 days / ycombinator

Anthropic doesn’t want Claude controlling autonomous weapons. The Pentagon may not give them a choice.

10 days / sherwood / Jon Keegan

Anthropic Overhauls Core Tenet Of Its Safety Policy

10 days / pymnts / PYMNTS


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Seattle-based Vercept developed complex agentic tools, including a computer-use agent that could complete tasks inside applications like a person with a laptop would.

9 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Scoop: Pentagon takes first step toward blacklisting Anthropic

10 days / reddit / /u/Brilliant_Version344

How Quickly Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?

10 days / reddit / /u/stvlsn

Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied Into Doing Surveillance The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. military without a

10 days / bsky / @techdirt.com / techdirt.com

Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon

10 days / reddit / /u/mepper

Back to Top / Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 1:21 pm / permalink 19739 / 25 stories in 10 days


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OpenAI head of robotics quits in protest over new Department of Defense deal

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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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