Huawei’s ‘Claimed’ Rival to NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin AI Systems, the Atlas SuperPoD 950, Will Make Its First Public Debut at MWC

Muhammad Zuhair / wccftech - Huawei plans to showcase its most powerful AI cluster, the Atlas SuperPoD 950, at this year's MWC, marking its first public appearance. Huawei's Atlas SuperPoD 950 Has a 'Huge' Lead Over Vera Rubin AI Racks, But Only In Official Disclosures The infrastruc…

Chasing the Chip Smugglers: The exposure of a U.S.-based operation that smuggled Nvidia’s AI chips to China raises questions about the role of major companies and the authorities charged with enforcing export controls.

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Exclusive: Turiyam.ai Raises $4 Mn To Build Full-Stack AI Hardware Platform

4 days / inc42 / Lokesh Choudhary

Cambricon Posts First Full-Year Profit Since Listing as 2025 Revenue Surges 453%

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Report: Nvidia is working on a top secret AI inference chip that could debut next month

5 days / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

MWC: a global stage for AI infrastructure rivalries

(PR) GIGABYTE Powers Telecom AI Transformation with End-to-End Infrastructure at MWC 2026

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The Cloud Beyond The Clouds: Startups Firm Up Orbital AI Data Centre Plans

5 days / inc42 / Shraddha Goled

The Adorable Tech I'm Using The Cover MWC 2026

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Just What Is Mobile World Congress (MWC), Anyway?

5 days / cnet / Jeff Carlson

On the ground: Huawei's Atlas SuperPoD 950 debut

Huawei launches full U6GHz product suite at MWC 26

4 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Huawei holds global debut for AI computing clusters in challenge to Nvidia

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Huawei Unveils U6GHz Full-Series 5G-A Solutions and Launches Open-Source A2A-T Project at MWC 2026

5 days / pandaily

Huawei’s ‘Claimed’ Rival to NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin AI Systems, the Atlas SuperPoD 950, Will Make Its First Public Debut at MWC

5 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

MWC 2026: Alibaba to launch new smart glasses powered by Qwen AI assistant

scmp - Alibaba Group Holding plans to launch new smart glasses powered by its artificial intelligence assistant Qwen at the coming MWC Barcelona trade show.On Saturday, a company representative confirmed the launch, adding that both online and offline presales w…

#ai #mobiletech #ar #wearables #china #genai #business #asia #assistant #gadgets

Alibaba Tongyi Unveils Fun-CosyVoice3.5 and Fun-AudioGen-VD With FreeStyle Voice Generation

4 days / pandaily

How China is betting cheap AI will get the world hooked on its tech

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MWC 2026: What to expect at the worlds largest phone show

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MWC 2026 live blog: Announcements from Honor, Xiaomi, more

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MWC 2026: Chinese smartphone makers bet on pivot to AI to weather memory chip crunch

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Ahead of MWC Barcelona, Nvidia bets AI-native platforms will carry telecom into 6G

5 days / siliconangle / Kyt Dotson

Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

6 days / ycombinator

A 'Robot Phone,' New Smart Glasses and 6G? Previewing MWC | Tech Today video

6 days / cnet / Owen Poole

Hands-on: The RayNeo Air 4 Pro smart glasses are like wearing an OLED TV on my face

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MWC 2026: Alibaba to launch new smart glasses powered by Qwen AI assistant

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OpenAI raises $110B at $730B valuation, expands AWS and Nvidia partnerships

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - OpenAI Group PBC today announced that it has raised $110 billion in funding at a pre-money valuation of $730 billion. Nvidia Corp. and SoftBank Group PBC provided $30 billion each. The remaining $50 billion came from Amazon Web Services Inc., which has al…

#ai #vc #cloud #chips #nvidia #amazon #openai #genai #datacenter #softbank

Amazon, Nvidia and partners racing to supply OpenAI's infrastructure. (6)
Insider-trading claim and global rivals escalate the AI arms race. (3)
OpenAI faces government talks and surging ChatGPT usage. (2)
Record $110B raise reshapes OpenAI's valuation and capital power. (6)
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Amazon, Nvidia and partners racing to supply OpenAI's infrastructure.

Nvidia Partners with Groq to Address OpenAI’s Performance Concerns

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OpenAI Is Set to Be the Biggest Customer for the Upcoming NVIDIA-Groq AI Chip, Allocating 3GW of Dedicated ‘Inference Capacity’

6 days / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Nvidia’s sales rocket while its shares flatline

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Amazon bets $50 billion on OpenAI as AI infrastructure race heats up

6 days / betanews / Wayne Williams

How Amazon's massive stake in OpenAI could boost its AI and cloud businesses

7 days / cnbc

OpenAI raises $110B at $730B valuation, expands AWS and Nvidia partnerships

7 days / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Insider-trading claim and global rivals escalate the AI arms race.

Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis on the $200B AI CapEx, Chip Wars, and Why Google Might Have No Profits in 2027 — In-Context Cooking

7 days / latent / Latent.Space

DeepSeek to release long-awaited AI model in new challenge to US rivals

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The Great Insider Trading Reckoning Reportedly Hits OpenAI

7 days / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

More Tech Layoffs: Jack Dorsey Cuts Block’s Workforce Nearly in Half, Blames AI

Aminu Abdullahi / eweek - Block cuts 4,000 jobs as Jack Dorsey pivots to an AI-driven model despite rising profits, signaling a broader tech shift toward smaller AI-powered teams.The post More Tech Layoffs: Jack Dorsey Cuts Block’s Workforce Nearly in Half, Blames AI appeared firs…

#ai #fintech #digitaltransformation #genai #business #jobs #payments #layoffs #technology

American Express Shares Plunge 8% as Block’s AI-Driven Workforce Cuts Trigger Sector Alarm

6 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Co-Author of Citrini AI Report Warns of ‘Scary Situation’ for White-Collar Labor After Block Laid Off 4,000 Workers

7 days / reddit / /u/Secure_Persimmon8369

Jack Dorsey made the loudest case yet that AI is already replacing jobs

7 days / cnbc

Block Strategy Points to AI Shaping Corporate Infrastructure

7 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Block’s Square unit stands to gain most from Dorsey’s AI pivot, analysts say

7 days / theblock / Jason Shubnell

More Tech Layoffs: Jack Dorsey Cuts Block’s Workforce Nearly in Half, Blames AI

7 days / eweek / Aminu Abdullahi

Jack Dorsey lays off 4,000, says others will do same 'within the next year'

7 days / reddit / /u/abrownn

The problem with Dorsey's Block layoffs and the veiled nature of AI productivity growth

7 days / reddit / /u/spacetwice2021

Burger King AI Assistant Frees Managers From Back-Office Tasks

PYMNTS / pymnts - Burger King has equipped managers and employees with an artificial intelligence-powered tool called BK Assistant. BK Assistant providers staffers with access to operational guidelines, inventory management and compliance tracking, “enabling them to focus …

#ai #automation #voice #aiethics #genai #business #jobs #food #assistant #digitalprivacy

MiniMax launches managed always-on MaxClaw AI Agent

6 days / testingcatalog / Nero Soares

Don't trust AI agents

6 days / ycombinator

A new benchmark pits five AI models against each other as autonomous social media agents on X

6 days / the-decoder / Tomislav Bezmalinovic

WhatsApp is testing a feature to analyze chats with Meta AI

6 days / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Burger King AI Assistant Frees Managers From Back-Office Tasks

7 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Burger King’s New AI Assistant Guides Staff, Tracks Politeness

7 days / eweek / Madeline Clarke

Burger King has launched a war on manners with its new AI chatbot called 'Patty'

7 days / theshortcut / Reece Bithrey

Perplexity’s new Computer is another bet that users need many AI models

Tim Fernholz / techcrunch - Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, "unifies every current AI capability into a single system."

#ai #fintech #ml #genai #business #deeptech #technology #api #perplexity

Industry races: multi-agent startups, Chinese models, and multimodal rivals (4)
OTHER: Model auditing reveals systematic biases across major LLMs (1)
Perplexity unveils Computer and high-performance embeddings, orchestrating multi-model workflows (7)
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Industry races: multi-agent startups, Chinese models, and multimodal rivals

DeepSeek to Release V4 Multimodal Model Next Week with Native Image, Video, and Text Generation Support

6 days / pandaily

Following Seedance 2.0, Another Chinese Full-Modal Video Model Enters Artificial Analysis Top 2

6 days / pandaily

Tec-Do Holdings Files for Hong Kong IPO, Poised to Become "Multi-Agent First Stock"

7 days / pandaily

Chinese Models Top OpenRouter Token Rankings as Agent Scenarios Emerge as New Frontier

7 days / pandaily

OTHER: Model auditing reveals systematic biases across major LLMs

I used steelman prompting to audit bias across six major LLMs. The default-to-steelman gap was consistent and measurable.

7 days / reddit / /u/MichaelARichardson

Perplexity unveils Computer and high-performance embeddings, orchestrating multi-model workflows

Perplexity Announces 'Computer,' an AI Agent That Assigns Work To Other AI Agent

7 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Perplexity’s ‘Computer’ wasn’t always planned

7 days / semafor / Rachyl Jones

Perplexity launches Computer, wants AI to run tasks for months, not minutes

7 days / techspot

Perplexity launches high-performance embedding models

7 days / testingcatalog / Erin

Perplexity’s new Computer is another bet that users need many AI models

7 days / techcrunch / Tim Fernholz

Perplexity Computer assigns tasks to AI agents

7 days / techzine / Berry Zwets

Finance techie says they cloned Bloomberg's $30k-a-year Terminal with Perplexity's Computer — project draws both praise and sizable skepticism

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Perplexity open-sources embedding models that match Google and Alibaba at a fraction of the memory cost

6 days / the-decoder / Jonathan Kemper

OpenAI Discovers Mass Shooter’s Secret ChatGPT Account

eWEEK Staff / eweek - Lightning struck twice in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia earlier this month. First in the eerie stillness of a classroom where eight lives were stolen. Then, in Ottawa’s halls of power where officials demanded answers from Silicon Valley about what a cha…

#techpolicy #openai #aiethics #genai #chatgpt #canada #police #law #contentmoderation #safety

OpenAI pledges to improve safety measures following B.C. shooting

7 days / mobilesyrup / Bradly Shankar

OpenAI says it would have reported Tumbler Ridge shooter to police in hindsight

7 days / betakit / Josh Scott

OpenAI Discovers Mass Shooter’s Secret ChatGPT Account

7 days / eweek / eWEEK Staff

OpenAI will notify authorities of credible threats after Canada mass shooter's second account was discovered

7 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

Microsoft’s Copilot Enters Its ‘Second Chapter’ With Autonomous Task Execution

Liz Ticong / eweek - Microsoft previews Copilot Tasks, an agent-like feature that runs multi-step workflows in the background, with consent checkpoints and user controlThe post Microsoft’s Copilot Enters Its ‘Second Chapter’ With Autonomous Task Execution appeared first on eW…

#ai #automation #enterprise #microsoft #aiethics #genai #assistant #microsoft365 #copilot

Microsoft’s Copilot Enters Its ‘Second Chapter’ With Autonomous Task Execution

7 days / eweek / Liz Ticong

Microsoft Brings Agentic AI to its Consumer Chatbot With New Copilot Tasks

7 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Microsoft’s new Copilot Tasks finally does the work for you

7 days / digitaltrends

Anthropic digs in on AI standoff with the Pentagon

Joseph Zeballos-Roig / qz - Anthropic has pressed for assurances its Claude AI won't be engaged in mass surveillance of Americans or used in autonomous weapons without human oversight

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

Big-picture stakes: ethics, warfare, and AI's future in conflict (9)
Capitol pressure and policy moves reshape Anthropic's federal contracts (7)
Pentagon threatens blacklist, demands 'any lawful use' access (9)
Rivals and staff rally, set industry red lines (11)
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Big-picture stakes: ethics, warfare, and AI's future in conflict

Opinion | China Wins the Pentagon-Anthropic Brawl

7 days / wsj / The Editorial Board

Anthropic 'Retires' Claude Opus 3—Then Gives It a Blog to Reflect on Its Existence

7 days / decrypt / Jason Nelson

Anthropic vs. the Pentagon: What’s actually at stake?

7 days / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

Pentagon-Anthropic Standoff Is a Decisive Moment for How A.I. Will Be Used in War

7 days / nytimes / Adam Satariano, Julian E. Barnes and Sheera Frenkel

AI vs. the Pentagon: killer robots, mass surveillance, and red lines

7 days / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

Anthropic to Pentagon: Autonomous weapons could hurt US troops and civilians

7 days / reddit / /u/Marginallyhuman

We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots

7 days / theverge / Hayden Field

As OpenAI raises its megaround, Anthropic’s battles multiply, and the SaaSpocalypse widens — but Dell cashes in

7 days / siliconangle / Robert Hof

LLMs used tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of AI war games, launched strategic strikes three times

7 days / reddit / /u/waozen

Capitol pressure and policy moves reshape Anthropic's federal contracts

White House Moves to End Federal Use of Anthropic’s Claude AI

7 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth designates Anthropic a supply chain risk

7 days / theverge / Tina Nguyen

I really would be so grateful for someone to explain how significant this is. Can they still raise money? What counts as a “military contractor”? What does this do in the short and long term [contains quote post or other embedded content]

7 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

Department of War Designates Anthropic Supply Chain Risk

7 days / ycombinator

These federal agencies may have a Claude problem now

7 days / axios / Ashley Gold

Pentagon moves to designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk

7 days / techcrunch / Russell Brandom

Scoop: Top Senate defense leaders intervene in Pentagon-Anthropic AI dispute

7 days / axios / Ashley Gold

Pentagon threatens blacklist, demands 'any lawful use' access

Pentagon moves to designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk

7 days / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

Anthropic Defies Pentagon Ultimatum Over AI Military Use

7 days / betanews / Camila Nogueira

Anthropic fights Pentagon's deadline in final hours

7 days / semafor / Reed Albergotti

Pentagon Weighs Blacklisting Anthropic, Amodei Says ‘Threats Do Not Change Our Position’

7 days / eweek / Liz Ticong

Claude won't be allowed to engage in mass surveillance or power fully autonomous weapons — Anthropic refuses to lower AI guardrails for the Pentagon

7 days / tomshardware

Anthropic digs in on AI standoff with the Pentagon

7 days / qz / Joseph Zeballos-Roig

In Defense-Anthropic clash, AI is real-time testing the balance of power in future of warfare

7 days / cnbc

Pentagon draws scrutiny with Anthropic threats, Defense Production Act

7 days / reddit / /u/Boonzies

Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards

7 days / reddit / /u/waozen

Rivals and staff rally, set industry red lines

Pentagon approves OpenAI safety red lines after dumping Anthropic

7 days / axios / Maria Curi

OpenAI says it shares Anthropic's 'red lines' over military AI use

7 days / npr / Shannon Bond

Sam Altman backs rival Anthropic in fight with Pentagon

7 days / bbc

Google Deepmind and OpenAI employees demand Anthropic-style red lines on Pentagon surveillance and autonomous weapons

7 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Google and OpenAI employees sign open letter in ‘solidarity’ with Anthropic

7 days / engadget / Andre Revilla

Sam Altman Insists He Also Has Principles as Anthropic’s Pentagon Stand Off Continues

7 days / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Sam Altman aims to 'help de-escalate' tensions with Pentagon as OpenAI employees voice support for Anthropic

7 days / cnbc

OpenAI is reportedly working with Pentagon to hash out guardrails amid Anthropic standoff over AI safety

7 days / sherwood / J. Edward Moreno

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Shares Anthropic's Red Lines in Pentagon Fight

7 days / slashdot / msmash

Employees at Google and OpenAI support Anthropic’s Pentagon stand in open letter

7 days / techcrunch / Amanda Silberling

Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon fight

7 days / axios / Maria Curi

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Please god everybody stop falling for this nonsense. No the DoD should not do this! But also Anthropic got here specifically by lying about what AI can do. Amodei takes money from the Sauds and is already pro-war! Do not credit this company with overwhe

7 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

Anthropic says it will challenge Pentagon supply chain risk designation in court

7 days / ycombinator

It is wild that one of the things that the department of defense wanted to force Anthropic to do (controlling autonomous weapons) is not something LLMs actually do. The mass surveillance part is even kind of flimsy!

7 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and who sets the rules for military AI.

7 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Have to give credit to Dario Amodei on this. Standing his ground against the US military because he suspects it could be the beginning of an AI-driven dystopian mess, takes some balls. techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/a...

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Because: "Anthropic refuses to allow its AI models to be used for mass surveillance of Americans or for fully autonomous weapons that conduct strikes without human input." ://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/anthropic-vs-the-pentagon-whats-actually-at

7 days / bsky / @nursevan.bsky.social / nursevan.bsky.social

While Anthropic has an existing partnership with the Pentagon, the AI company has remained firm that its technology not be used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weaponry.

7 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Empleados de Google y OpenAI se unieron a la oposición de Anthropic al uso irrestricto de sus productos para vigilancia y armamento autónomo por el gobierno estadounidense. Enviaron una carta abierta instando a otros líderes de IA a unirse. techcrunch.c

7 days / bsky / @mr-bytes.com / mr-bytes.com

oh fuck off www.axios.com/2026/02/27/a...

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OpenAI closes $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, Softbank

cnbc - OpenAI's latest funding round is even bigger than its prior financing, which was a record amount for private tech companies.

#ai #techpolicy #openai #genai #privateequity #business #altman #regulation

Breaking: OpenAI says it closed $110B mega‑round (15)
On-site: Amazon/NVIDIA deals, Trainium and compute commitments (6)
OTHER: user metrics and market reaction (2)
Scrutiny: conditional tranches, installments, skeptical reporting (5)
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Breaking: OpenAI says it closed $110B mega‑round

OpenAI secures another $110 billion in funding from Amazon, NVIDIA and SoftBank

7 days / engadget / Lawrence Bonk

OpenAI Hits $730B Valuation as Amazon and NVIDIA Lead $110B Mega-Round

7 days / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

OpenAI lands $110B at $730B valuation led by SoftBank, NVIDIA, Amazon

7 days / techfundingnews / Sofia Chesnokova

Mega investment: OpenAI raises $110 billion from Amazon and Nvidia

7 days / techzine / Berry Zwets

OpenAI Secures Historic $110B Investment from Tech Giants Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank

7 days / parameter / Trader Edge

OpenAI Announces $110 Billion Funding Round Involving Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank

7 days / thurrott / Laurent Giret

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

7 days / ycombinator

OpenAI snags $110 billion in investments from Amazon, Nvidia, and Softbank

7 days / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

OpenAI's $110B funding round (investments from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank)

7 days / ycombinator

OpenAI secures blockbuster $110 billion funding round valuing company at $730 billion

7 days / sherwood / Claire Yubin Oh

OpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in history

7 days / techcrunch / Russell Brandom

OpenAI closes $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, Softbank

7 days / cnbc

OpenAI Raises $110 Billion in the Largest Private Funding Round Ever

7 days / slashdot / msmash

OpenAI Raises $110 Billion

7 days / wsj / Kate Clark

OpenAI secures up to $110bn in record funding deal

7 days / ft

On-site: Amazon/NVIDIA deals, Trainium and compute commitments

OpenAI Raises $110 Billion to Build Global AI Infrastructure

7 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Amazon strikes $50B OpenAI deal

7 days / axios / Ina Fried

Amazon invests $50 billion in OpenAI, comitting to 2 gigawatts of Trainium silicon — AWS to become exclusive cloud distributor for Frontier enterprise platform

7 days / tomshardware

(PR) OpenAI and Amazon Announce Strategic Partnership

7 days / techpowerup

OpenAI raises $110bn in round double the size of previous goal

7 days / siliconrepublic / Laura Varley

Amazon, Nvidia Flood OpenAI With Cash as ChatGPT Maker’s Valuation Hits $730 Billion

7 days / decrypt / Andrew Hayward

OTHER: user metrics and market reaction

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) Stock: Leads $110B OpenAI Funding Round with $50B Commitment

7 days / parameter / Yasmin Werner

ChatGPT reaches 900M weekly active users

7 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Scrutiny: conditional tranches, installments, skeptical reporting

Draining every single possible funding source available to keep OpenAI from dying as Sam Altman goes on TV and says "if money doesn't keep flowing into the system it fails" https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-raise-additional-10-billion-fundin

7 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

Joined the Tech Report to talk about OpenAI's not-really-$110bn funding round, the greater AI bubble, and why everyone still trying to live out the world as if it's 2019 is going to face a reckoning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZgZDSVcg20

7 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

OpenAI Raises $110 Billion & Throws In With Amazon as Capital Arms Race Rages

7 days / newcomer / Tom Dotan

OpenAI's up to $110 billion raise lines up almost exactly with the $111 billion it just added to its cash burn forecast

7 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

OpenAI announcing “$110 billion” in new funding, leaving out that $35 billion of Amazon’s $50 billion is contingent on an IPO, and the $30 billion each from SoftBank and NVIDIA is paid in installments. Anyone reporting this as fully closed is wrong. It’ll

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OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding.

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Amazon and Nvidia open their wallets to lock in OpenAI's business while SoftBank keeps the lights on

7 days / theregister / Tobias Mann

OpenAI Closes Biggest AI Deal Ever

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Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal to rent Google TPUs for AI training

Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Meta Platforms has signed an agreement to rent Google’s tensor processing units through Google Cloud to develop new AI models. The deal marks a major expansion of Google’s TPU commercialization strategy, which previously restricted the chips to its own in…

#ai #cloud #ml #meta #chips #google #genai #business #datacenter

Meta signs multi-billion dollar deal to rent Google's TPUs in a direct challenge to Nvidia's AI chip dominance

7 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Google is aggressively moving into Nvidia’s territory by leasing and selling training chips. https://sherwood.news/tech/meta-reportedly-strikes-multi-billion-dollar-ai-chip-deal-with-google-as-it/

7 days / bsky / @sherwood.news / sherwood.news

Meta reportedly strikes multi-billion dollar AI chip deal with Google as it struggles to design its own

7 days / sherwood / Rani Molla

Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal to rent Google TPUs for AI training

7 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Meta scraps advanced AI training chip after design roadblocks

7 days / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Meta Secures Google TPU Partnership Alongside Nvidia and AMD Chip Contracts

7 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Block cuts nearly half its workforce as Dorsey credits AI, but the real reasons predate the hype

Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Jack Dorsey blames AI for cutting nearly half of Block's workforce. But a closer look at the company's history of overhiring and structural problems tells a different story.The article Block cuts nearly half its workforce as Dorsey credits AI, but the rea…

#ai #automation #fintech #digitaltransformation #genai #stockmarket #business #jobs #payments #layoffs

Breaking: Block slashes staff 40%, Dorsey defends AI pivot (7)
Corporate fallout: CFOs and finance teams rethink operations (1)
Critics: ‘AI excuse’ covers COVID-era overhiring and restructuring (7)
Markets roar: stock surges, futures fall, analysts upgrade (4)
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Breaking: Block slashes staff 40%, Dorsey defends AI pivot

Dorsey swings the axe at Block in “extreme step” to “replace human labor with compute power”

7 days / sherwood / Matt Phillips

Block Lays Off 4,000 (of 10,000) Employees

7 days / cnbc / John Gruber

Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools

7 days / arstechnica / Peter Wells and Akila Quinio, Financial Times

Jack Dorsey says AI is driving Block's massive layoffs as 4,000+ roles are cut

7 days / techspot

Morning Minute: Jack Dorsey Slashes 40% of Block's Jobs Due to AI

7 days / decrypt / Tyler Warner

How Jack Dorsey Explained Cutting Almost Half of Block’s Staff

7 days / wsj / Ben Dummett

Jack Dorsey’s Block to slash staff by 40% over AI progress

7 days / semafor / Tom Chivers

Corporate fallout: CFOs and finance teams rethink operations

Block job cuts prompt CFO AI questions

7 days / paymentsdive / Adam Zaki

Critics: ‘AI excuse’ covers COVID-era overhiring and restructuring

Dorsey’s ‘AI Transformation’ Triggers Block Surge And ‘AI Washing’ Skepticism

7 days / techstrong / Jon Swartz

Jack Dorsey’s Block Cut Half Its Staff, and He Says Other Tech Firms Will Follow Soon

7 days / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

Block's 24% Stock Jump Will Cost More Jobs Than Its AI Ever Could

7 days / implicator / Maria Garcia

Jack Dorsey's Block lays off 4,000 and blames AI. Is it just a convenient excuse?

7 days / qz / Catherine Baab

Jack Dorsey makes a grim prediction about the future of work as he lays off 4,000 Block employees in AI push

7 days / fastcompany / Sarah Fielding

Opinion: Block's layoffs might just be the biggest story of a tumultuous week. Here's why

7 days / cnbc

Block cuts nearly half its workforce as Dorsey credits AI, but the real reasons predate the hype

7 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Markets roar: stock surges, futures fall, analysts upgrade

Block (XYZ) Receives Upgraded Price Targets Following Major Workforce Restructuring

7 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Stock Futures Tumble as Block’s Massive AI-Driven Layoffs Shake Wall Street

7 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Netflix drops its WBD bid, Block layoffs, Anthropic's DOD deadline and more in Morning Squawk

7 days / cnbc

Block soars after announcing 40% workforce cut amid AI push

7 days / sherwood / Hyunsoo Rim

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Jack Dorsey’s Block Cut Half Its Staff, and He Says Other Tech Firms Will Follow Soon https://gizmodo.com/jack-dorseys-block-cut-half-its-staff-and-he-says-other-tech-firms-will-follow-soon-2000727594

7 days / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

In a 600-word X post, Jack Dorsey justifies his decision to lay off 40% of Block’s workforce

7 days / fastcompany / Pavithra Mohan

Jack Dorsey’s Block to slash staff by 40% over AI progress www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

7 days / bsky / @semafor.com / semafor.com

Burger King rolls out AI headsets that track employee 'friendliness'

bbc - The fast-food chain is testing OpenAI-powered headsets that monitor staff interactions with customers.

#voice #openai #aiethics #genai #business #chatgpt #jobs #food #assistant #digitalprivacy

Meet ‘Patty,’ Burger King’s new AI assistant that lives in employees’ headsets

7 days / fastcompany / Grace Snelling

Burger King testing AI headsets to track if employees say ‘please’ or ‘thank you’

7 days / reddit / /u/Fcking_Chuck

Burger King rolls out AI headsets that track employee 'friendliness'

8 days / reddit / /u/CabinetCalm1970

Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness'

8 days / reddit / /u/kin20

Burger King rolls out AI headsets that track employee 'friendliness'

8 days / bbc

Burger King Cooks Up 'Patty,' an AI Chatbot to Monitor Employees

8 days / cnet / Omar Gallaga

Google Launches Nano Banana 2 Model With Faster Image Generation

BeauHD / slashdot - Google has launched Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), a faster, more realistic image generation model that becomes the default across Gemini, Search, Lens, and Flow. TechCrunch reports: The new Nano Banana 2 retains some of the high-fidelity charact…

#ai #ml #computervision #google #genai #photography #creativity #api #developertools #gemini

On-site: Nano Banana 2 — faster, higher-fidelity, 4K-capable model (6)
Reaction: hands-on takes and market moves after launch (3)
Rolled out: integration across Gemini, Search, Lens, and regions (2)
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On-site: Nano Banana 2 — faster, higher-fidelity, 4K-capable model

Nano Banana 2 rolls out: Is it Gemini’s fastest image model?

7 days / techfundingnews / Vignesh R

Google launches Nano Banana 2 with 4K resolution and character consistency

7 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Google upgrades Gemini image generation to Nano Banana 2 with 4K support

7 days / techspot

Google’s Nano Banana 2 promises to end the AI text rendering problems

7 days / digitaltrends

[AINews] Nano Banana 2 aka Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview: the new SOTA Imagegen model

7 days / latent / Latent.Space

Google launches Nano Banana 2 with speed, image quality improvements

8 days / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Reaction: hands-on takes and market moves after launch

The new top banana in AI image generation

7 days / therundown / Zach Mink

Google (GOOGL) Stock: Gains on Nano Banana 2 Launch with Faster 4K Image Output

7 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

Hands-On With Nano Banana 2, the Latest Version of Google’s AI Image Generator

8 days / wired / Reece Rogers

Rolled out: integration across Gemini, Search, Lens, and regions

Nano Banana 2 Launches in UAE with 4K AI Image Generation

7 days / tbreak / Mufaddal Fakhruddin

Google Launches Nano Banana 2 Model With Faster Image Generation

8 days / slashdot / BeauHD

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6 Best Nano Banana 2 Prompts in 2026: How to Generate Smarter AI Images

7 days / eweek / Aminu Abdullahi

Google’s latest image model, Nano Banana 2, is a powerful AI photo editor that punctures reality. Well, sometimes. www.wired.com/story/google...

8 days / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

come for the old @thiccreese.bsky.social stay for the cold @thiccreese.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/google...

8 days / bsky / @boone.bsky.social / boone.bsky.social

Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s new terms, standing firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance

Hayden Field / theverge - Less than 24 hours before the deadline in an ultimatum issued by the Pentagon, Anthropic has refused the Department of Defense's demands for unrestricted access to its AI. It's the culmination of a dramatic exchange of public statements, social media post…

#ai #dataprivacy #techpolicy #defensetech #anthropic #aiethics #genai #politics #government #us

Anthropic refuses Pentagon demands, CEO: 'cannot in good conscience' (21)
Industry and lawmakers react — Congress, Google workers, policy debate (8)
OTHER (1)
Pentagon escalates: deadlines, $200M contract threat, supply-chain risk (6)
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Anthropic refuses Pentagon demands, CEO: 'cannot in good conscience'

Anthropic Stands Firm Against Pentagon’s AI Weapon Demands as Deadline Approaches

7 days / parameter / Trader Edge

Anthropic holds firm in DoD face-off over military AI

7 days / semafor / Tom Chivers

Anthropic CEO rejects Pentagon ultimatum on unrestricted AI use

7 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

What to know about the showdown between AI company Anthropic and the Pentagon

7 days / npr / A Martínez

Anthropic sticks to Claude guardrails despite Pentagon pressure

7 days / techzine / Mels Dees

Anthropic CEO Says AI Company 'Cannot In Good Conscience Accede' To Pentagon

8 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Anthropic to Pentagon: Autonomous weapons could hurt US troops and civilians

8 days / theregister / Simon Sharwood

Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s AI demands

8 days / reddit / /u/BeautyInUgly

Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards

8 days / bbc

Anthropic rejects latest Pentagon offer: ‘We cannot in good conscience accede to their request’

8 days / reddit / /u/Gloomy_Nebula_5138

Anthropic Rejects Pentagon's Final AI Offer, Says Compromise Would Gut Safeguards

8 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Anthropic Won’t Lift AI Safeguards Amid Ongoing Pentagon Dispute: CEO

8 days / decrypt / Jason Nelson

Anthropic Tells Pete Hegseth to Take a Hike

8 days / gizmodo / Matt Novak

Anthropic CEO says company cannot accede to Pentagon's request in AI safeguards dispute

8 days / reddit / /u/Accurate_Cry_8937

Anthropic Refuses Pentagon’s Proposal to Loosen AI Guardrails

8 days / wsj / Amrith Ramkumar

Anthropic CEO Amodei says Pentagon’s threats ‘do not change our position’ on AI

8 days / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s new terms, standing firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance

8 days / theverge / Hayden Field

Anthropic CEO stands firm as Pentagon deadline looms

8 days / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

Anthropic says company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands

8 days / ycombinator

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

8 days / reddit / /u/Brilliant_Version344

Anthropic rejects Pentagon's requests in AI safeguards dispute, CEO says

8 days / reddit / /u/runbape

Industry and lawmakers react — Congress, Google workers, policy debate

Anthropic Says No. Google Gives It Away. Congress Says Nothing.

7 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Who really sets AI guardrails? How CIOs can shape AI governance policy

7 days / informationweek / Madeleine Streets

Debatable: AI at the Pentagon

7 days / semafor / Morgan Chalfant

OPINION: Anthropic Drew the Line. Congress Should Have Drawn It First.

7 days / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Google Workers Seek 'Red Lines' on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic

8 days / ycombinator

Google Workers Seek ‘Red Lines’ on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic

8 days / nytimes / Tripp Mickle

The authoritarian AI crisis has arrived

8 days / platformer / Casey Newton

Why Congress Should Step Into the Anthropic-Pentagon Dispute

8 days / techpolicy

OTHER

Perplexity Gets Samsung’s OS Keys

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

Pentagon escalates: deadlines, $200M contract threat, supply-chain risk

Anthropic rejects Pentagon AI demands, risks first-ever US military blacklist

7 days / techfundingnews / Abhinaya Prabhu

Anthropic holds firm against Pentagon on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance as deadline looms

7 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Anthropic refuses to bow to Pentagon despite Hegseth's threats

7 days / engadget / Steve Dent

Anthropic Rejects Latest Pentagon Offer, Escalating AI Feud

8 days / reddit / /u/bloomberg

Anthropic, Pentagon Locked in $200 Million Standoff Over AI Ethics

8 days / techstrong / Jon Swartz

Deadline looms as Anthropic rejects Pentagon demands it remove AI safeguards

8 days / npr / Geoff Brumfiel

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Anthropic holds firm in DoD face-off over military AI www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

7 days / bsky / @semafor.com / semafor.com

Altman Says OpenAI Is Working on Pentagon Deal Amid Anthropic Standoff

7 days / wsj / Keach Hagey

Anthropic Won’t Lift AI Safeguards Amid Ongoing Pentagon Dispute, CEO Says

7 days / hstoday / Homeland Security Today

Anthropic faces lose-lose scenario in Pentagon conflict as deadline for policy change looms

7 days / cnbc

Big Tech workers press bosses to back Anthropic in Pentagon clash

7 days / ft

“Google Workers Seek ‘Red Lines’ on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic More than 100 Google A.I. employees sent a letter to Jeff Dean, a chief scientist, opposing Gemini’s use for U.S. surveillance and some autonomous weapons.” ==> more of this please w

7 days / bsky / @maxshields.bsky.social / maxshields.bsky.social

When there are no laws meaningfully regulating military AI use, the Pentagon’s promise to use AI “lawfully” mean almost nothing. The authoritarian AI crisis has arrived www.platformer.news/anthropic-pe...

8 days / bsky / @caseynewton.bsky.social / caseynewton.bsky.social

When there are no laws meaningfully regulating military AI use, the Pentagon’s promise to use AI “lawfully” mean almost nothing. The authoritarian AI crisis has arrived https://www.platformer.news/anthropic-pentagon-authoritarian-ai/

8 days / bsky / @caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy / caseynewton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Outstanding @caseynewton.bsky.social analysis (of course) of the Anthropic/DOD fight. www.platformer.news/anthropic-pe...

8 days / bsky / @lizzieohreally.bsky.social / lizzieohreally.bsky.social

Anthropic Tells Pete Hegseth to Take a Hike

8 days / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Firefox 148 Lets You Kill All AI Features in One Click

msmash / slashdot - Mozilla has released Firefox 148 for Windows, macOS and Linux, bringing a new AI Settings section that lets users disable all of the browser's AI-powered features in one click and then selectively re-enable the ones they actually want, such as the local t…

#ai #dataprivacy #browsers #aiethics #genai #ux #updates #digitalprivacy

Ring Ends SearchParty Feature, New Firefox AI Controls, Planet Parade in View This Week | Tech Today video

7 days / cnet / Kara Tsuboi

New Firefox “AI controls” allow users to block all future AI features

7 days / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Firefox Has New AI Features. Here's How to Disable Them

8 days / cnet / Julian Dossett

Firefox 148 Lets You Kill All AI Features in One Click

8 days / slashdot / msmash

Firefox adds AI kill switch for users who are sick and tired of AI-everything

8 days / mashable

CoreWeave (CRWV) Stock: Slides Despite 110% Revenue Growth and Major AI Wins

Yasmin Werner / parameter - TLDR CoreWeave tops revenue, but losses deepen and shares slide after hours. 110% growth isn’t enough as margins slip and profitability misses hit the stock. Debt climbs past $21B as CoreWeave scales power and absorbs rising costs. Backlog jumps to $66.8B…

#ai #startups #vc #cloud #genai #stockmarket #earnings #business #datacenter

MARA and Block jump double digits in pre-market trading while CoreWeave sinks

7 days / coindesk / James Van Straten

TeraWulf posts higher revenue, wider loss in 2025 as AI, HPC pivot accelerates

8 days / theblock / Timmy Shen

CoreWeave earnings today are vindication for everything I’ve been saying. Somehow this company made more revenue than ever and its operating margin got worse. Remember it has the literal best clients in AI compute, and apparently they pay like shit. Wash

8 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

CoreWeave’s stock drops on mixed results and plans to scale up AI spending

8 days / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

CoreWeave tumbles on weaker-than-expected Q4 adjusted EBITDA

8 days / sherwood / Luke Kawa

CoreWeave (CRWV) Stock: Slides Despite 110% Revenue Growth and Major AI Wins

8 days / parameter / Yasmin Werner

CoreWeave beats revenue projections as backlog swells to nearly $67 billion

8 days / cnbc

Block Inc slashes 40% of its staff as Jack Dorsey pushes ‘smaller, flatter’ AI strategy

Jason Shubnell / theblock - Block is reducing its staff from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000, Dorsey said in a note to the company.

#ai #fintech #genai #stockmarket #business #jobs #payments #layoffs #technology

AI-driven mass layoffs — Dorsey's companywide reset (8)
Costs, earnings, banking growth: business impact (5)
Market rallies: stock surge after layoffs announced (6)
OTHER: comments, reposts and miscellaneous coverage (3)
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AI-driven mass layoffs — Dorsey's companywide reset

Jack Dorsey’s Block cuts 4,000 citing AI as the cause

7 days / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

Jack Dorsey's Block cuts thousands of jobs as it embraces AI

8 days / bbc

Jack Dorsey just halved the size of Block’s employee base — and he says your company is next

8 days / techcrunch / Connie Loizos

Jack Dorsey's Block Cuts Nearly Half of Its Staff In AI Gamble

8 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Block Cuts 40% of Its Work Force Because of Its Embrace of A.I.

8 days / nytimes / Natallie Rocha

Jack Dorsey’s Block to cut workforce by ‘nearly half’ as it leans on AI tools

8 days / ft

Jack Dorsey’s Block cuts nearly half of its staff in AI gamble

8 days / theverge / Jay Peters

Block Inc slashes 40% of its staff as Jack Dorsey pushes ‘smaller, flatter’ AI strategy

8 days / theblock / Jason Shubnell

Costs, earnings, banking growth: business impact

Analysis: Block’s retreat to 2019 scale could be a hint of deeper shifts in payments economics

7 days / coindesk / Sam Reynolds

Block Slashes Staff and Eyes AI as Primary Banking Actives Jump 22% to 9.3M

8 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Block, the parent of Square and Cash App, is laying off over 4,000 people

8 days / engadget / Anna Washenko

Jack Dorsey’s Block to Lay Off 40% of Its Workforce in AI Remake

8 days / wsj / Angel Au-Yeung

Block swaps 4,000 workers for AI

8 days / paymentsdive / Patrick Cooley

Market rallies: stock surge after layoffs announced

Fintech company Block lays off 4,000 of its 10,000 staff, citing gains from AI

7 days / abcnews

Jack Dorsey’s fintech outfit Block announces 40% layoffs, blames AI, gets 23% stock bump

8 days / theregister / Simon Sharwood

Block Stock Pops as Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin, Payments Company Dumps 4,000 Jobs

8 days / decrypt / Sebastian Sinclair

Block rallies after Dorsey slashes 40% of workforce in AI-native reset as earnings top estimates

8 days / siliconangle / Duncan Riley

Block shares soar 24% as company slashes workforce by nearly half

8 days / cnbc

Block shares soar 24% as company slashes workforce by nearly half

8 days / reddit / /u/joe4942

OTHER: comments, reposts and miscellaneous coverage

Fintech company Block lays off 4,000 of its 10,000 staff, citing gains from AI

7 days / reddit / /u/Outrageous-Baker5834

Block lays off nearly half its staff because of AI. Its CEO said most companies will do the same

8 days / reddit / /u/GeneReddit123

Layoffs at Block

8 days / ycombinator

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In a lengthy post on X, Dorsey stated that he made the decision to cut jobs after realising how small teams and intelligence tools have enabled a “new way of working” that “fundamentally changes” things.

7 days / bsky / @siliconrepublic.bsky.social / siliconrepublic.bsky.social

Jack Dorseys Block lays off nearly half of workforce due to AI

7 days / mashable

block cuts nearly half of its staff in ai gamble, citing need for "artificial general intelligence" https://www.theverge.com/tech/885710/jack-dorsey-block-layoffs-job-cuts-ai

8 days / bsky / @kcurry.bsky.social / kcurry.bsky.social

Meta Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Celebrity Impersonation Scams

PYMNTS / pymnts - Meta is suing advertisers who have allegedly impersonated celebrities to defraud consumers. The tech giant announced Thursday (Feb. 26) that it had taken “technical enforcement actions” against the accused scammers, such as suspending their payment method…

#meta #social #aiethics #genai #cybercrime #scam #contentmoderation #litigation #ads #advertising

Meta Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Celebrity Impersonation Scams

8 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Meta sues advertisers in Brazil and China over 'celeb bait' scams

8 days / engadget / Karissa Bell

Meta reveals huge scammer crackdown

8 days / news.com.au

Anthropic can't stop humanizing its AI models, now Claude Opus 3 gets a retirement blog

Jonathan Kemper / the-decoder - Anthropic is retiring its Claude Opus 3 AI model and letting it publish weekly essays on Substack. The company says it conducted "retirement interviews" to ask the model about its wishes, and it "enthusiastically" agreed. The move is a prime example of ho…