Workday’s stock slumps again on weak guidance and AI disruption fears

Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Shares of Workday Inc. got hammered in late trading today after the company offered weak guidance for the current quarter. It was the worst possible news for investors amid growing concerns over the existential threat it faces from the rise of artificial …

10 days / cnbc

Anthropic Dials Back AI Safety Commitments

Amrith Ramkumar / wsj - The company said competitive pressure prompted it to pivot away from the previous, more-cautious stance.

#ai #defensetech #anthropic #aiethics #genai #government #business #us #safety #regulation

Context: op-eds, risk timelines and AI scene-setting (3)
On the ground: Anthropic backs away from safety pledge (7)
Silicon front: data-extraction claims and enterprise product moves (2)
Washington: Pentagon gives Anthropic a Friday deadline, threatens action (12)

Google sent an AI-generated push alert that included a racial slur

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Google sent out an AI-generated news alert that included the N-word, according to reporting by Deadline. The push notification featured a link to a story by The Hollywood Reporter regarding an incident at the recent BAFTA Film Awards. The word appeared in…

#ai #google #aiethics #genai #culture #media #contentmoderation #broadcasting #algorithm

Racist slur repeated in Google notifications on BAFTA N-word scandal

10 days / mashable

Google apologises for Baftas alert to 'see more' on racial slur

10 days / bbc

Google sent an AI-generated push alert that included a racial slur

10 days / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

Google Apologizes After AI News Alert About BAFTA Film Awards Debacle Included the N-Word

10 days / reddit / /u/MarvelsGrantMan136

Slang AI Raises $36M to Scale Hospitality Voice AI

Ekemini / ventureburn - Slang AI has secured $36 million in Series B funding to accelerate the growth of its AI solutions for the voice communication segment of the hospitality industry. This funding roundThe post Slang AI Raises $36M to Scale Hospitality Voice AI appeared first…

#ai #cloud #automation #saas #enterprise #voice #genai #business #food #travel

Slang AI Raises $36M to Scale Hospitality Voice AI

10 days / ventureburn / Ekemini

Slang AI Proved Restaurants Need Voice AI. Now It Needs to Prove They Need Slang.

10 days / implicator / Maria Garcia

Slang AI Raises $36M in Series B Funding

10 days / finsmes / FinSMEs

Everything to expect at Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: New phones, more AI features

mashable - Samsung is hosting a Galaxy Unpacked event on Feb. 25, and we're expecting a trio of new phones, wireless earbuds, and more announcements.

#ai #mobiletech #samsung #android #genai #batteries #technology #gadgets #smartphone #foldable

Galaxy S26 Ultra Can Turn Into a Costly Mistake If You Lose It While The Flagship Is Powered Off Because Samsung Didn’t Include A Crucial Feature

10 days / wccftech / Omar Sohail

Samsung’s upcoming foldable phones might sense debris before it damages the screen

10 days / digitaltrends

Leak: Samsung Galaxy S26 batteries include a surprising downgrade

10 days / mashable

Final Galaxy S26 rumors, Xbox on life support, OpenAI hardware news: The Shortcut Live Ep. 28

10 days / theshortcut / Matt Swider

Everything to expect at Samsung Galaxy Unpacked: New phones, more AI features

10 days / mashable

Samsung's Galaxy AI Gets Smarter with Multiple AI Agents

10 days / tbreak / Abbas Jaffar Ali

You can still get $30 in Samsung credit when you reserve a Galaxy S26 phone

10 days / theverge / Sheena Vasani

1Password's $12 price bump tests user loyalty with 'AI-powered' features

Abbas Jaffar Ali / tbreak - 1Password bumps Family plan pricing 20% to $71.88 USD annually from March 2026. The increase adds AI features and enhanced security tools, but existing users keep current rates until renewal after the deadline.

#ai #cybersecurity #saas #genai #business #apps #pricing #technology #encryption #digitalprivacy

Password management tool 1Password is raising its prices by $12 per year, making the free Apple Passwords more attractive to iPhone users.

10 days / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

Your 1Password Bill is Going Up: Here is How Much More You’ll Pay

10 days / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

1Password plans are getting more expensive soon

10 days / engadget / Anna Washenko

Price hike: 1Password increasing the cost of annual plans

10 days / appleinsider

1Password Getting More Expensive Starting in March

10 days / macrumors / Juli Clover

1Password's $12 price bump tests user loyalty with 'AI-powered' features

10 days / tbreak / Abbas Jaffar Ali

1Password is going up in price

10 days / theverge / Emma Roth

1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

10 days / ycombinator

$200M on the Line: Pentagon Meets Anthropic CEO Over AI Restrictions

Aminu Abdullahi / eweek - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as the Pentagon presses for broader military use of Claude.The post $200M on the Line: Pentagon Meets Anthropic CEO Over AI Restrictions appeared first on eWEEK.

#ai #techpolicy #defensetech #anthropic #aiethics #genai #government #supplychain #us #safety

$200M contract at stake amid Anthropic dispute (2)
Anthropic holds firm on safety red lines (1)
Pentagon's Friday ultimatum: DPA threat and supply-chain pressure (10)
Search for Claude replacements: Grok, Gemini, OpenAI options (2)
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$200M contract at stake amid Anthropic dispute

Hegseth threatens to cancel Anthropic's $200 million contract over "woke AI" concerns

10 days / npr / Bobby Allyn

$200M on the Line: Pentagon Meets Anthropic CEO Over AI Restrictions

10 days / eweek / Aminu Abdullahi

Anthropic holds firm on safety red lines

Anthropic won’t budge as Pentagon escalates AI dispute

10 days / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

Pentagon's Friday ultimatum: DPA threat and supply-chain pressure

Pentagon Gives Anthropic an Ultimatum Over the Company’s A.I. Model

10 days / nytimes / Julian E. Barnes and Sheera Frenkel

US threatens Anthropic with deadline in dispute on AI safeguards

10 days / bbc

Anthropic-Pentagon feud escalates

10 days / semafor / J.D. Capelouto

Pete Hegseth Gives Anthropic Choice to Abandon AI Safeguards or Be Labeled ‘National Security Threat’

10 days / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

The Pentagon has reportedly given Anthropic until Friday to let it use Claude as it sees fit

10 days / engadget / Andre Revilla

Anthropic Faces Friday Deadline to Drop AI Safeguards or Lose Pentagon Contract

10 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Pentagon Gives Anthropic Ultimatum and Deadline in AI Use Standoff

10 days / wsj / Amrith Ramkumar

Hegseth Gives Anthropic Until Friday To Back Down on AI Safeguards

10 days / slashdot / msmash

Hegseth threatens to cut Anthropic from Pentagon supply chain in showdown with CEO

10 days / ft

Hegseth gives Anthropic CEO until Friday to back down in AI safeguards fight

10 days / axios / Dave Lawler

Search for Claude replacements: Grok, Gemini, OpenAI options

Anthropic faces Friday deadline in Defense AI clash with Hegseth

10 days / cnbc

One Of The World's Most Unhinged AI Chatbots Will Soon Have Access To Military Intelligence

10 days / bgr

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Pete Hegseth Demands Anthropic Drop AI Safety Guardrails https://gizmodo.com/pete-hegseth-anthropic-abandon-ai-safeguards-or-national-security-threat-2000726145

10 days / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

more extortion from this administration?? gizmodo.com/pete-hegseth...

10 days / bsky / @djnoneya.bsky.social / djnoneya.bsky.social

gizmodo.com/pete-hegseth...

10 days / bsky / @aleianjack.bsky.social / aleianjack.bsky.social

is this bad this seems bad gizmodo.com/pete-hegseth...

10 days / bsky / @delafina777.bsky.social / delafina777.bsky.social

The Pentagon has given Anthropic until Friday to loosen AI guardrails or face potential penalties, escalating a high-stakes dispute that raises questions about government leverage, vendor dependence, and investor confidence in defense tech.

10 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Happy to see Anthropic stand their ground..."Anthropic doesn’t want its technology used for mass surveillance of Americans or for fully autonomous weapons — and is refusing to compromise on these points with the Pentagon." Good!! Hope others f

10 days / bsky / @bardel.bsky.social / bardel.bsky.social

Even as Anthropic moves deeper into enterprise, it hits a wall at DOD

10 days / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Anthropic Pushes Claude Beyond Chat Into Enterprise Workflows

10 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

AI-fueled stock slide subsides

10 days / semafor / J.D. Capelouto

AI accounting startup Basis raises $100M at $1.15B valuation from Accel, GV to automate Big Four drudgery

Vignesh R / techfundingnews - Artificial intelligence is no longer just a back-office tool in finance. It is now directly affecting how accounting…

#ai #startups #automation #ml #saas #enterprise #genai #business #assistant #productivity

AI accounting startup Basis raises $100M at $1.15B valuation from Accel, GV to automate Big Four drudgery

10 days / techfundingnews / Vignesh R

Basis Raises $100M To Expand AI Agent Platform For Accountants

10 days / ventureburn / Clinton

Basis Raises $100 Million to Build Up AI in Accounting

10 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Nimble raises $47M to scale agentic web search platform for enterprise AI

Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Nimble announced today that it has raised $47 million in new funding to accelerate development of its agentic web search platform, expand its multi-agent research capabilities and scale up its governed real-time web data infrastructure for enterprise arti…

#ai #startups #automation #analytics #enterprise #genai #business #assistant #api

Nimble Raises $47M in Series B Financing

10 days / finsmes / FinSMEs

Nimble raises $47M to scale agentic web search platform for enterprise AI

10 days / siliconangle / Duncan Riley

Nimble raises $47M to give AI agents access to real-time web data

10 days / techcrunch / Ram Iyer

Anthropic launches new push for enterprise agents with plugins for finance, engineering, and design

Russell Brandom / techcrunch - It's a major opportunity to grow Anthropic’s enterprise client base — and a significant threat to SaaS products currently performing those functions.

#ai #cloud #saas #enterprise #anthropic #genai #business #assistant #api #developertools

Anthropic Expands Claude to Cover HR and Investment Banking

10 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Anthropic’s Claude Comes for Knowledge Work as Markets Freak Out

10 days / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

Software stocks rebound as Anthropic announces new partnerships

10 days / cnbc

Intuit and Anthropic to Launch Customizable AI Agents

10 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is plugging AI into more boring enterprise stuff

10 days / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Anthropic follows OpenAI in rolling out agentic tools for enterprise

10 days / sherwood / Jon Keegan

Anthropic Launches 10 Claude Cowork Plugins for Investment Banking, HR and Design

10 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Software companies get a glimmer of hope that they can be Anthropic customers, rather than being eaten

10 days / sherwood / Matt Phillips

Anthropic launches new push for enterprise agents with plugins for finance, engineering, and design

10 days / techcrunch / Russell Brandom

Anthropic updates Claude Cowork tool built to give the average office worker a productivity boost

10 days / cnbc

Anthropic Pushes Claude Deeper Into Knowledge Work

10 days / wsj / Isabelle Bousquette

How Claude Code Claude Codes

10 days / theverge / David Pierce

Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls, AI Kill Switches

BeauHD / slashdot - Firefox 148 introduces granular AI controls and a global "AI kill switch" that allows users to disable or selectively manage the browser's AI features. Phoronix reports: Among the AI features that can be toggled individually are around translations, image…

#ai #cybersecurity #software #browsers #aiethics #genai #ux #patching #updates #digitalprivacy

Firefox 148 rolls out with the promised AI kill switch: here's how to enable it

10 days / techspot

Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls, AI Kill Switches https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/24/0054207/firefox-148-now-available-with-the-new-ai-controls-ai-kill-switches?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

10 days / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148

10 days / ycombinator

Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls, AI Kill Switches

10 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Mozilla makes good on its AI kill switch with the release of Firefox 148

10 days / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Anthropic accuses Chinese firms of distillation attacks

Tom Chivers / semafor - Distillation involves training less capable models on more advanced ones’ output.

#ai #ml #techpolicy #china #anthropic #aiethics #genai #intellectualproperty #safety #copyright

Anthropic Says DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax Targeted Claude

10 days / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Anthropic reports distillation from DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax

10 days / testingcatalog / Erin

Anthropic accuses Chinese firms of distillation attacks

10 days / semafor / Tom Chivers

Anthropic’s distilling charges against Chinese firms expose AI training grey area

10 days / scmp

Psychology says people who need time alone after socializing aren’t antisocial, they’re running a more demanding emotional operating system

10 days / siliconcanals / Tommy Baker

Anthropic joins OpenAI in flagging 'industrial-scale' distillation campaigns by Chinese AI firms

10 days / cnbc

Canva acquires Cavalry and Mango AI to dominate motion design

Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Canva announced the acquisition of Cavalry and Mango AI on Monday to strengthen its animation and marketing capabilities. UK-based Cavalry develops 2D motion animation tools for advertising, marketing, gaming, and generative art. Mango AI was building rei…

#ai #digitalmarketing #genai #business #apps #creativity #acquisitions #media #animation #advertising

Canva just bought Cavalry and MangoAI: Here’s what’s really happening!

10 days / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

Canva acquires Cavalry and Mango AI to dominate motion design

10 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Canva acquires Manchester animation software group Cavalry

10 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Canva acquires startups working on animation and marketing

10 days / techcrunch / Ivan Mehta

Munich-based VoiceLine raises €10 million to scale its voice AI platform for enterprise frontline teams

Rahul Raj / eu-startups - VoiceLine, a Munich-based voice AI platform for enterprise frontline teams, today announced that it has closed a €10 million Series A funding round to scale its team and platform, as well as expand internationally. The round was led by Alstin Capital and …