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for: Monday, February 23, 2026



Stocks fall on US tariff uncertainty

J.D. Capelouto / semafor - “Uncertainty is back,” one banker told the Financial Times.


Cryptocurrency tumbles as macro shocks and tariff fears bite

ETH, SOL, XRP extend losses as AI scare trade unsettles risk markets

10 days / coindesk / Shaurya Malwa

Bitcoin dips under $63,000 and history says more pain ahead before bottom forms

10 days / coindesk / Omkar Godbole

Bitcoin's Slide to $64,000 Is a 'Macro Shock,' Not a Market Breakdown

11 days / decrypt / Akash Girimath


Tariff uncertainty from Washington sends global markets reeling

Deere & Co (DE) Stock: Slides After Analyst Cuts Rating Despite Strong Earnings

10 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

Applied Materials (AMAT) Stock: Slips as Chip Sector Faces Tariff Fog and Insider Alert

10 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

Messy tariffs send Capitol Hill scrambling

10 days / semafor / Burgess Everett

Nike (NKE) Stock: Edges Lower on Rising Trade Policy Uncertainty

10 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

SoFi Technologies (SOFI) Stock: Drops 4% as Investors Turn Defensive on Risk

10 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

Seoul stocks turn higher late Tue. morning on tech gains

11 days / co / Choi Kyong-ae

Seoul stocks open lower on U.S. tariff uncertainty

11 days / co / Choi Kyong-ae

Stocks fall on US tariff uncertainty

11 days / semafor / J.D. Capelouto


Wall Street rattled by viral AI doomsday essay and selloff

Snowflake (SNOW) Stock: Slides 8.6% Ahead of Earnings Amid AI Shift

10 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

The AI doomer essay that rattled Wall Street

10 days / sources / Alex Heath

European wealth managers hit back after fears AI will make them obsolete

10 days / ft

AI upheaval puts software investors on edge

10 days / ft

As Wall Street punishes software stocks over AI concerns, Canva gets more acquisitive

11 days / cnbc

Dow tumbles more than 800 points as tariff uncertainty and AI disruption fears

11 days / ycombinator

Hong Kong stocks retreat on AI worries, China markets rally in Year of the Horse

11 days / scmp

Viral Doomsday Report Lays Bare Wall Street's Deep Anxiety About AI Future

11 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Jim Cramer says AI fears have made the stock market fragile

11 days / cnbc

An AI Thought Experiment on Substack Is Sending The Stock Market Spiraling

11 days / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

IBM, DoorDash shares drop as tech selloff continues

11 days / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Stocks sink amid AI and tariff fears

11 days / sherwood / Tasha Matsumoto, Luke Kawa


All Other Stories

Viral AI thought experiment drives tech sell-off

10 days / semafor / Tom Chivers

Nvidia earnings report collides with Wall Street skepticism over AI spending

10 days / cnbc

Messy tariffs send Capitol Hill scrambling www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

10 days / bsky / @newnarrative.bsky.social / newnarrative.bsky.social

Back to Top / Monday, February 23, 2026, 7:20 pm / permalink 19615 / 26 stories in 11 days


Sam Altman is tired of ‘unfair’ critiques about AI’s energy use. Climate experts say his defensive stance is misguided

Kristin Toussaint / fastcompany - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has defended the resource-intensive use of AI by comparing it to all the energy—and food—that humans require, sparking a wave of backlash across social media. That comparison, experts in climate and tech spaces say, is misguided, dow…

#climate #ai #techpolicy #openai #aiethics #genai #energy #datacenter #environment #altman

Sam Altman is tired of ‘unfair’ critiques about AI’s energy use. Climate experts say his defensive stance is misguided

11 days / fastcompany / Kristin Toussaint

Sam Altman Calls AI Water Usage Claims ‘Totally Insane’

11 days / eweek / Aminu Abdullahi

Human Existence Is Just as Wasteful as AI Data Centers, Sam Altman Suggests

11 days / decrypt / Jose Antonio Lanz

Sam Altman compares AI energy use to the cost of "training" humans, says water-usage concerns are "fake"

11 days / reddit / /u/AdSpecialist6598

Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

11 days / reddit / /u/boppinmule

Back to Top / Monday, February 23, 2026, 4:21 pm / permalink 19599 / 5 stories in 11 days


Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of abusing Claude to improve their own models

Jackson Chen / engadget - Anthropic is issuing a call to action against AI "distillation attacks," after accusing three AI companies of misusing its Claude chatbot. On its website, Anthropic claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax have been conducting "industrial-scale campaig…


Allegations arrive amid export-control debate and industry lobbying pressure

Pentagon Summons Anthropic Chief in Dispute Over A.I. Limits

11 days / reddit / /u/rezwenn

Anthropic Rallies Industry to Combat AI Model Theft

11 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Distillation Attacks on Claude Are Real. So Is the Lobbying Campaign.

11 days / implicator / Harkaram Grewal


Anthropic details ‘distillation’ attacks: 24,000 fake accounts, 16 million queries

[AINews] Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of >16 million "industrial-scale distillation attacks"

10 days / latent / Latent.Space

Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of ‘distillation attacks’ on its models

11 days / ft

Anthropic Says Chinese AI Companies Improved Models By ‘Illicitly’ Copying Its Capabilities

11 days / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

Anthropic slams Chinese AI firms for harvesting data from its Claude chatbot

11 days / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Anthropic: Chinese AI firms created 24,000 fraudulent accounts for distillation attacks

11 days / mashable

Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data

11 days / nytimes / Cade Metz

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, other Chinese AI developers of 'industrial-scale' copying — Claims 'distillation' included 24,000 fraudulent accounts and 16 million exchanges to train smaller models

11 days / tomshardware

Anthropic accuses three Chinese AI labs of abusing Claude to improve their own models

11 days / engadget / Jackson Chen

US AI giants accuse Chinese rivals of mass data theft

11 days / techxplore

Anthropic accuses DeepSeek and other Chinese firms of using Claude to train their AI

11 days / theverge / Emma Roth

Anthropic claims to have identified industrial-scale distillation attacks by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax.

11 days / reddit / /u/Ok_Display_3159


Online critics ridicule Anthropic, accuse hypocrisy and industry posturing

The high-fantasy cult of Anthropic

10 days / reddit / /u/ThereWas

I love that Anthropic is somehow both a big powerful ai lab with such powerful unique tech and also a tiny small bean trembling in fear and screaming in agony that somebody was able to extract the value of its product by using its outputs. Both hypocritic

10 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

Anthropic accuses China's AI labs of ripping off content - just like it did

11 days / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Critics Mock Anthropic's Claims Chinese AI Labs Are Stealing Its Data

11 days / decrypt / Jason Nelson

AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data

11 days / reddit / /u/__Hello_my_name_is__


OTHER: Chinese firms' growth and unrelated community reactions

Kimi Surpasses Last Year’s Full-Year Revenue in 20 Days, Becomes China’s Fastest “Decacorn”

11 days / pandaily


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Anthropic Claude Faces Large-Scale Distillation Attacks by Chinese AI Labs Involving 13 Million Exchanges

10 days / cyberpress / AnuPriya

Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of industrial-scale distillation attacks

10 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Anthropic calls out China's AI copycats

10 days / therundown / Zach Mink

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOO “Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data The San Francisco start-up claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts to train their own chatbots.”

11 days / bsky / @grumpykelson.myatproto.social / grumpykelson.myatproto.social

Back to Top / Monday, February 23, 2026, 3:21 pm / permalink 19595 / 24 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…

#fintech #crypto #techpolicy #banking #government #business #us #payments #law #crypto

Crypto.com Secures Conditional Approval for National Trust Bank Charter

11 days / decrypt / Andrew Hayward

Crypto.com Wins Conditional Approval for US Banking Charter

11 days / pymnts / PYMNTS

Crypto.com wins initial approval for U.S. federally regulated crypto custodian bank

11 days / coindesk / Francisco Rodrigues

Crypto.com secures conditional OCC approval in bid to become a federally regulated bank

11 days / theblock / Sarah Wynn

Back to Top / Monday, February 23, 2026, 12:21 pm / permalink 19581 / 4 stories in 11 days


Global regulators say AI image tools don't get a free pass on privacy rules

Carly Page / theregister - Watchdogs warn models that can generate realistic images of people must comply with data protection laws A global coalition of privacy watchdogs has fired a warning shot at the generative AI industry, saying companies churning out realistic synthetic imag…

#ai #dataprivacy #techpolicy #computervision #aiethics #genai #gdpr #contentmoderation #regulation

Global data protection authorities warn generative AI companies against replicating real people

11 days / therecord

Meta's AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of 'Spectral Labor'

11 days / 404media / Emanuel Maiberg

Brussels’ privacy reforms stumble out the gate

11 days / politico / Ellen O'Regan

Global regulators say AI image tools don't get a free pass on privacy rules

11 days / theregister / Carly Page

UK among dozens of nations demanding ‘urgent’ action on AI image generation

11 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Back to Top / Monday, February 23, 2026, 11:21 am / permalink 19579 / 5 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…

#techpolicy #government #uk #internet #law #media #contentmoderation #safety #digitalprivacy

Discord distances itself from Persona age verification after user backlash

11 days / theverge / Emma Roth

Ofcom issues largest-ever Online Safety Act fine

11 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

UK fines porn company £1.35 million for lack of age checks

11 days / mashable

Ofcom fines porn site £1.35m for lacking age checks

11 days / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

Back to Top / Monday, February 23, 2026, 11:21 am / permalink 19578 / 4 stories in 11 days


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

Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports

11 days / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

24,000 fake Claude accounts

11 days / sherwood / Jon Keegan

Anthropic accuses Deepseek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of stealing Claude's AI data through 16 million queries

11 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot

11 days / ycombinator

Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude

11 days / slashdot / msmash

Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude

11 days / wsj / Robert McMillan


Anthropic-backed Super PAC launches AI regulation ad blitz

Backed by Anthropic, a Super PAC Begins an Ad Blitz in Support of A.I. Regulation

11 days / nytimes / Cecilia Kang


Claude Code launches and market shock reverberate across tech stocks

IBM sinks as Anthropic positions Claude Code as the ideal tool for code modernization

11 days / sherwood / Luke Kawa

IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares are tanking 11% on Anthropic programming language threat

11 days / cnbc

Infosec community panics as Anthropic rolls out Claude code security checker

11 days / theregister / Jessica Lyons

Wrote the intro for this week's Premium but wanted to share in advance, because people need to start being realistic about what Claude Code/Codex can actually do, and how they are not replacing All Software Companies in a few prompts (and no, they will no

11 days / bsky / @edzitron.com

Anthropic's AI Fluency Index finds that polished AI output makes users less likely to check for errors

11 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Cybersecurity stocks drop for a second day as new Anthropic tool fuels AI disruption fears

11 days / cnbc

Claude Cowork, AI hype, and its real impact on white-collar work

11 days / fastcompany / Alex Christian

CrowdStrike (CRWD) Stock Drops 9% as Anthropic AI Tool Hits Cybersecurity Sector

11 days / parameter / Trader Edge


Pentagon showdown: Anthropic CEO pressed over military access limits

Pentagon Summons Anthropic Chief in Dispute Over A.I. Limits

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

The Pentagon wants fewer AI limits. Anthropic doesn’t. Here’s why it matters

11 days / fastcompany / Anna-Louise Jackson

Report: Anthropic CEO Amodei meeting with Hegseth at the Pentagon as tensions mount

11 days / sherwood / Jon Keegan

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on AI DoD model use

11 days / cnbc

Defense Secretary summons Anthropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude

11 days / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan


All Other Stories

AI company which trains its models on stolen data accuses other AI companies of stealing data

11 days / bsky / @nohillside.ch / nohillside.ch

According to report, the Pentagon is considering effectively blacklisting Anthropic’s AI if it doesn’t capitulate to the administration’s terms. sherwood.news/power/report...

11 days / bsky / @jonkeegan.com / jonkeegan.com

Back to Top / Monday, February 23, 2026, 10:22 am / permalink 19575 / 22 stories in 11 days


Sam Altman Would Like To Remind You That Humans Use a Lot of Energy, Too

msmash / slashdot - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is pushing back on growing concerns about AI's environmental footprint, dismissing claims about ChatGPT's water consumption as "totally fake" and arguing that the fairer way to measure AI's energy use is to compare it against humans.…

#ai #techpolicy #openai #aiethics #genai #energy #datacenter #environment #india #altman

‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ fans spark IMDb review-bombing war over perfect episode rating

11 days / fastcompany / Eve Upton-Clark

Altman Dismisses ‘Fake’ AI Water Concerns, Likens AI Energy Needs to Human Upbringing

11 days / techstrong / Jon Swartz

Sam Altman Would Like To Remind You That Humans Use a Lot of Energy, Too

11 days / slashdot / msmash

Altman: You think AI is inefficient? Try raising 100 billion humans

11 days / theregister / Joe Fay

Sam Altman compares AI energy use to the cost of "training" humans, says water-usage concerns are "fake"

11 days / techspot

Back to Top / Monday, February 23, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 19566 / 5 stories in 11 days


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