UK Selects Firms for Stablecoin Regulatory Sandbox, Including Revolut
Sander Lutz / decrypt - The four firms will now have free reign to experiment in a program that will inform final UK stablecoin rules set to be released later this year.
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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.
- 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)
Context: op-eds, risk timelines and AI scene-setting
On the ground: Anthropic backs away from safety pledge
Silicon front: data-extraction claims and enterprise product moves
Washington: Pentagon gives Anthropic a Friday deadline, threatens action
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 8:21 pm / permalink 19703 / 24 stories in 10 days
Senator Blumenthal Opens Inquiry Into Iran Transactions on Binance
David Yaffe-Bellany and Michael Forsythe / nytimes - Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sent a letter to Binance asking about the flow of $1.7 billion from accounts on the crypto exchange to Iranian entities.
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 5:21 pm / permalink 19691 / 4 stories in 10 days
Wisconsin Reveals Conduent Breach Affected 25 Million Americans
PYMNTS / pymnts - A data breach at Conduent Business Services, an operator of back-end systems for state governments, has affected more than 25 million people across the country, according to data breach information posted this month by the Wisconsin Department of Agricult…
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$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.
- $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
Anthropic holds firm on safety red lines
Pentagon's Friday ultimatum: DPA threat and supply-chain pressure
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WisdomTree Gets SEC Nod to Enable Instant Settlement for Tokenized Money Market Fund
André Beganski / decrypt - WisdomTree is enabling instant settlement for its tokenized money market fund, indicating its product won't be limited by Wall Street’s pace.
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US gov't warned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Lisa Su that China could invade Taiwan by 2027 — Apple CEO reportedly said he sleeps 'with one eye open'
tomshardware - A new investigative report from The New York Times reveals that, in July 2023, senior US intelligence officials privately briefed some of the tech industry's most powerful executives on classified assessments regarding China and Taiwan.
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Russia launches terror probe into Telegram chief Pavel Durov
Milena Wälde / politico - Moscow claims the messaging platform has been used in thousands of cases of sabotage, terrorism and extremism.
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Why Tesla is fighting the DMV after already changing its product names
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - Tesla has filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against the California Department of Motor Vehicles, according to CNBC. The automaker seeks to overturn a DMV ruling which determined its marketing practices were deceptive regarding vehicle automatio…
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Frankenburg Technologies Raises €30M in Series A Funding
FinSMEs / finsmes - Frankenburg Technologies, a Tallinn, Estonia-based company which specializes in missile systems designed for mass production and rapid regeneration, raised €30M in Series a funding. The round was led by Plural and followed by SmartCap. The raise brought t…
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After a Near-Perfect Test, NASA’s Artemis 2 Rocket Is Rolling Back to the Garage
Ellyn Lapointe and Passant Rabie / gizmodo - NASA has delayed the launch of this historic mission to April, but repairs could take even longer.
Back to Top / Monday, February 23, 2026, 5:21 pm / permalink 19607 / 4 stories in 11 days
Crypto.com Wins Conditional Approval for US Banking Charter
PYMNTS / pymnts - Crypto.com says it has gotten conditional governmental approval for a bank charter. The conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) allows the digital assets company to charter Foris Dax National Trust Bank, doing busines…
Back to Top / Monday, February 23, 2026, 12:21 pm / permalink 19581 / 4 stories in 11 days
Ofcom issues largest-ever Online Safety Act fine
Oscar Hornstein / uktech - Ofcom has issued the largest fine to date under the Online Safety Act (OSA), demanding that 8579 LLC pays £1.35m for failing to implement age verification on its pornographic sites. The regulator launched an investigation into the company, which owns doze…
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on AI DoD model use
cnbc - Anthropic does not want its AI models to be used for autonomous weapons or to spy on Americans.
- Accusations of Chinese firms siphoning Claude via 'distillation' attacks (6)
- Anthropic-backed Super PAC launches AI regulation ad blitz (1)
- Claude Code launches and market shock reverberate across tech stocks (8)
- Pentagon showdown: Anthropic CEO pressed over military access limits (5)
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Accusations of Chinese firms siphoning Claude via 'distillation' attacks
Anthropic-backed Super PAC launches AI regulation ad blitz
Claude Code launches and market shock reverberate across tech stocks
Pentagon showdown: Anthropic CEO pressed over military access limits
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Robotaxis are coming to London. The city's famed black cab drivers are skeptical
techxplore - The Ford Mustang Mach-E cruises down a London road choked with traffic, using its onboard AI system to avoid jaywalkers and cyclists, and navigate roadwork as it drives to its destination.
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America's Peace Corps Announces 'Tech Corps' Volunteers to Help Bring AI to Foreign Countries
EditorDavid / slashdot - Over 240,000 Americans volunteered for Peace Corps projects in 142 countries since the program began more than half a century ago. But now the agency is launching a new initiative — called Tech Corps. "It's the Peace Corps, but make it AI," explains Engad…
Back to Top / Saturday, February 21, 2026, 4:21 pm / permalink 19536 / 4 stories in 13 days
NASA moon rocket hit by new problem, putting March launch with astronauts in jeopardy
abcnews - NASA's new moon rocket has suffered another setback, putting next month's planned launch with astronauts in jeopardy
- Boeing Starliner failures shake confidence in crewed Artemis support (2)
- Helium flow fault forces Artemis II delay, schedule uncertain (5)
- SLS rolled back to hangar for detailed repairs (3)
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Boeing Starliner failures shake confidence in crewed Artemis support
Helium flow fault forces Artemis II delay, schedule uncertain
SLS rolled back to hangar for detailed repairs
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More than $140 billion in tariff refunds are at stake. The Supreme Court punted
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / qz - Americans shouldn't bet on getting refunded for the tariffs they have paid up to now. For companies, it's a different story
Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 6:21 pm / permalink 19490 / 10 stories in 14 days
AI Safety Meets the War Machine
Steven Levy / wired - Anthropic doesn’t want its AI used in autonomous weapons or government surveillance. Those carve-outs could cost it a major military contract.
- DC: Congress, PACs battle over AI rules and influence (2)
- On the ground: Anthropic resists military use, Pentagon pushback (7)
- OTHER (2)
- Wall Street reels as Anthropic's Claude Code disrupts cybersecurity stocks (6)
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DC: Congress, PACs battle over AI rules and influence
On the ground: Anthropic resists military use, Pentagon pushback
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Wall Street reels as Anthropic's Claude Code disrupts cybersecurity stocks
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NASA targets March 6 for Artemis 2 launch to take astronauts around the Moon
Kris Holt / engadget - The Artemis 2 launch is edging closer as NASA has now set a target date for the 10-day mission to get underway. The agency is aiming to launch as soon as March 6 following a successful wet dress rehearsal on Thursday. The first attempt, which took place i…
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