COPPA 2.0 passes the Senate again, unanimously this time
Anna Washenko / engadget - Today the US Senate unanimously passed proposed legislation known as COPPA 2.0. This measure, fully named the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act, aims to create new protections for younger users online, such as blocking platforms from colle…
- Across Asia: governments moving to ban under-16s on social media (5)
- On Capitol Hill: federal push for tougher kids' online rules (3)
- Privacy and household risks: broader concerns beyond regulation (2)
- Tech reality check: how age verification will actually work (2)
Across Asia: governments moving to ban under-16s on social media
On Capitol Hill: federal push for tougher kids' online rules
Privacy and household risks: broader concerns beyond regulation
Tech reality check: how age verification will actually work
Back to Top / Thursday, March 5, 2026, 9:20 pm / permalink 20247 / 12 stories in 25 hrs
OpenAI’s Pentagon deal once again calls Sam Altman’s credibility into question
Mark Sullivan / fastcompany - Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week via email here.Familiar tensions around Sam AltmanOpenAI CEO Sam Altman voiced his s…
- Canada safety row: Altman agrees immediate AI safety steps (3)
- GPT-5.4 launch: OpenAI teases powerful model, seeks a win (22)
- OTHER: governance, tooling, and industry ripple effects (4)
- Pentagon deal fallout: Altman's credibility on the line (6)
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Canada safety row: Altman agrees immediate AI safety steps
GPT-5.4 launch: OpenAI teases powerful model, seeks a win
OTHER: governance, tooling, and industry ripple effects
Pentagon deal fallout: Altman's credibility on the line
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Anthropic Returns to Negotiations With Pentagon Over AI Guardrails
PYMNTS / pymnts - Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei has resumed discussions with the Pentagon over how the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) models can be used by the U.S. military, reopening negotiations that collapsed last week over disagreements about safety r…
- Amodei lashes out at OpenAI in leaked staff memos (3)
- Back at the table: Anthropic resumes Pentagon negotiations (4)
- Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk, escalates conflict (5)
- Wider debate: AI guardrails, industry impact and lessons (3)
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Amodei lashes out at OpenAI in leaked staff memos
Back at the table: Anthropic resumes Pentagon negotiations
Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk, escalates conflict
Wider debate: AI guardrails, industry impact and lessons
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Google responds to lawsuit alleging Gemini coached a man to kill himself
James Farrell / siliconangle - The father of a man who committed suicide after interactions with Google LLC’s Gemini chatbot launched a lawsuit today alleging that Gemini fueled his son’s delusions. Thirty-six-year-old Florida resident Jonathan Gavalas started using Gemini last year fo…
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TikTok says end-to-end encryption would make DMs less safe
Kerem Gülen / dataconomy - TikTok tells the BBC it will not add end-to-end encryption to direct messages, arguing the feature would hinder safety teams and law enforcement from investigating harmful behavior.
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Where does Anthropic go from here?
Casey Newton / platformer - Shunned by the government, and newly appealing to consumers, the company is at a crossroads
- Boardroom and backers: investor silence, reputation and strategic crossroads (2)
- Numbers under scrutiny: ARR claims, valuations and growth doubts (4)
- On the ground: Pentagon fight and Claude’s use in conflicts (6)
- Product beat: Claude upgrades, memory import and voice mode (5)
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Boardroom and backers: investor silence, reputation and strategic crossroads
Numbers under scrutiny: ARR claims, valuations and growth doubts
On the ground: Pentagon fight and Claude’s use in conflicts
Product beat: Claude upgrades, memory import and voice mode
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March Pixel Drop and Android updates pack in smarter tools
digitaltrends - Google’s March 2026 Pixel Drop enhances Circle to Search and introduces smarter restaurant recommendations through Magic Cue and Gemini, alongside broader Android ecosystem updates like Find Hub improvements. The post March Pixel Drop and Android updates …
- Enterprise Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: fast model, rising costs (6)
- Gemini handles errands: groceries, rides, outfit try-ons (6)
- On-the-ground: Android's Find Hub reunites travelers with lost luggage (7)
- Pixels get desktop mode, Satellite SOS, watch safety alerts (6)
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Enterprise Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: fast model, rising costs
Gemini handles errands: groceries, rides, outfit try-ons
On-the-ground: Android's Find Hub reunites travelers with lost luggage
Pixels get desktop mode, Satellite SOS, watch safety alerts
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OpenAI Revises Pentagon Deal to Ban Domestic Surveillance
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - OpenAI has updated its Pentagon contract to explicitly ban mass domestic surveillance after employee backlash. Sam Altman called the original deal "sloppy."The post OpenAI Revises Pentagon Deal to Ban Domestic Surveillance appeared first on WinBuzzer.
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Inside the Anthropic-Pentagon breakdown: mass surveillance, autonomous weapons, and a rival deal waiting in the wings
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - New reports from the New York Times and the Atlantic paint a detailed picture of the final hours of negotiations between Anthropic and the Pentagon. At the center: bulk data collection on American citizens, a rejected cloud workaround, and a parallel Open…
- Acquisition news and opinion essays not central to Pentagon clash (2)
- Inside tense talks: surveillance, autonomous weapons, OpenAI deal looms (4)
- Users cheer, corporations push back as Claude tops app charts (5)
- Wall Street watches as Anthropic faces supply-chain, valuation threats (3)
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Acquisition news and opinion essays not central to Pentagon clash
Inside tense talks: surveillance, autonomous weapons, OpenAI deal looms
Users cheer, corporations push back as Claude tops app charts
Wall Street watches as Anthropic faces supply-chain, valuation threats
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OpenAI’s Altman says Pentagon set ‘scary precedent’ binning Anthropic
Simon Sharwood / theregister - Signs a deal with Washington anyway, says he’s kept control of killer robots by allowing only cloudy AI, with guardrails OpenAI has signed a deal with the United States Department of War (DoW) that allows use of its advanced AI systems in classified envir…
- Altman and OpenAI defend Pentagon deal amid optics firestorm (3)
- Anthropic's Pentagon standoff: refused surveillance, tangled in Iran reports (3)
- Regulatory power play: lobbying and corporate responsibility in AI (2)
- Users revolt: ChatGPT cancellations fuel Claude's App Store surge (5)
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Altman and OpenAI defend Pentagon deal amid optics firestorm
Anthropic's Pentagon standoff: refused surveillance, tangled in Iran reports
Regulatory power play: lobbying and corporate responsibility in AI
Users revolt: ChatGPT cancellations fuel Claude's App Store surge
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OpenAI to Alert Police of Credible Threats After Canada Shooting
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - OpenAI has announced it will notify law enforcement of credible threats after the Tumbler Ridge shooter bypassed a ChatGPT ban and killed eight in Canada.The post OpenAI to Alert Police of Credible Threats After Canada Shooting appeared first on WinBuzzer.
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NZXT Dredges Up H1 PCIe Riser Debacle to Reassure H2 Flow Buyers: "It Cannot Happen Again"
techpowerup - If you were in or around the PC building space in 2020, you'd have at least heard about the fire risk related to the PCIe riser cable on the original NZXT H1 mini ITX case, which eventually resulted in a recall and replacement PCIe riser kits being sent o…
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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…
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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
- 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
Capitol pressure and policy moves reshape Anthropic's federal contracts
Pentagon threatens blacklist, demands 'any lawful use' access
Rivals and staff rally, set industry red lines
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Instagram Will Notify Parents When Teens Use Search Terms Related to Suicide
Bruce Gil / gizmodo - The new safety feature comes as social media platforms face growing legal pressure over how they affect minors.
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US Pentagon Pressures Anthropic to Lift AI Guardrails: What Does It Mean For AI Governance?
Aakriti Bansal / medianama - The Dario Amodei-led AI company has already reworked a commitment within its Responsible Scaling Policy, even though stakeholders say the change is unrelated.The post US Pentagon Pressures Anthropic to Lift AI Guardrails: What Does It Mean For AI Governan…
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Instagram will alert parents if teens repeatedly search for suicide or self-harm content
Anna Washenko / engadget - Instagram is adding a new alert for the parents of teen users of its social media platform. The network will alert the adult if their child repeatedly searches for terms about suicide or self-harm in a short time frame. From that notification, the parent …
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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…
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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. (4)
- Claude exploited and buggy — major data thefts and RCE flaws. (3)
- Pentagon pressures Anthropic; safety pledges retreat under deadline. (13)
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Anthropic expands commercially: integrations, crawler changes, and Vercept buy.
Claude exploited and buggy — major data thefts and RCE flaws.
Pentagon pressures Anthropic; safety pledges retreat under deadline.
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Back to Top / Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 1:21 pm / permalink 19739 / 25 stories in 9 days
Discord puts global age verification policy on hold after backlash
therecord - In responding to pushback about Discord's impending age verification policy, co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy said the platform "failed at our most basic job: clearly explaining what we're doing and why. That's on us.”
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