Ninety-Five Percent
The day after the Pentagon demanded "unfettered" Claude access, researchers published what unfettered looks like: nuclear weapons deployed in 95% of simulations, 150GB of government data stolen by a single hacker, and Anthropic quietly loosening its own safety policy.
Samsung unveils the $1,299+ Galaxy S26 Ultra with a Privacy Display feature that limits screen legibility, a new agentic AI, an improved night mode, and more
must read — Read now — ZDNET's key takeaways — Samsung's Galaxy S26 series sports a much-needed design upgrade.
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, vs. $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates
Nvidia Corp., the world's most valuable company, gave another bullish quarterly revenue forecast, signaling that the massive build-out of AI computing remains on track.
Sources: DOD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access …
Kalshi says it has suspended an editor for MrBeast and a former GOP California gubernatorial candidate for insider trading, its first public enforcement action
An editor who works for YouTube's biggest creator, MrBeast, has been suspended from the prediction market platform Kalshi …
Gambit Security: an unknown hacker used Claude to steal 150GB of Mexican government data, including 195M taxpayer records, in December 2025 and January 2026
A hacker exploited Anthropic PBC's artificial intelligence chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies …
Perplexity launches Perplexity Computer, “a general-purpose digital worker” that can route work across 19 AI models, available initially for Max subscribers
Claude Code and OpenClaw have taken 2026 by storm by offering the first glimpses of personal AI agents.
A study finds GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash deployed tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war game scenarios, and never surrendered
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
Diplomatic cable: US officials order diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate how US tech companies handle foreigners' data, citing risks to AI services
President Donald Trump's administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies' handling …
Workday reports Q4 revenue up 14.5% YoY to $2.53B, vs. $2.52B est., and forecasts FY 2027 subscription revenue below estimates
Workday reported a solid fourth quarter, but its subscription outlook was light. — The company reported fourth quarter earnings …
Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri says Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI use Workday tools and “no amount of vibe coding” could replace them; WDAY is down about 40% YTD
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Anthropic acquires Vercept, whose Vy desktop agent lets users control a Mac or PC with natural language, to “advance Claude's computer use capabilities”
Anthropic is acquiring Vercept, a Seattle startup founded by alumni of the Allen Institute for AI, in a move that illustrates …
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $11.2B, vs. $11.18B est., forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, and announces a $50B share repurchase program
Salesforce (CRM.N) forecast first-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, betting on strong demand …
HP reports Q1 revenue up 6.9% YoY to $14.44B, above $13.94B est., and expects FY 2026 results to be at the low end of its forecasts; HPQ drops 6%+ pre-market
HP Inc (HPQ.N) said it expects fiscal 2026 results to be at the low end of its forecasts, as the personal computer maker grapples …
Sensor Tower: EA led all publishers in 2025 with 200M+ PC and console downloads, ahead of its $55B deal to go private; Fortnite had the top console player base
Soon-to-be privately-owned game publisher and developer Electronic Arts saw the most PC/console game downloads of the year …
Sources: Thrive invested $1B in OpenAI in 2025 at a $285B valuation in a transaction akin to a call option; OpenAI was separately raising at a $830B valuation
Joshua Kushner's firm Thrive Capital recently invested in OpenAI at a valuation of $285 billion, about a third of the price …
Adobe updates Firefly to add Quick Cut, a new AI tool to edit footage and B-roll to create a first draft of the final video based on user prompts
The video editor in Adobe Firefly is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage and B-roll to create a first draft of the final video based on user instructions.
Leaked Thrive deck: $26.8B in AUM as of June 30, 2025, deal value peaked in Q4 2021, positive DPI for four early funds, including 2.4x for 2016's Thrive V, more
We've got an inside look at Josh Kushner's Thrive Capital's performance View in browser EXCLUSIVE: Thrive Netted 2.4x DPI from 2016 Fund.
New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: some police officers testify that Meta's AI is sending a flood of “junk” CSAM reports that are draining resources and slowing cases
Officers say flood of low-quality reports is draining resources and slowing cases amid New Mexico lawsuit
Alibaba Cloud releases a cheap AI coding tool built on open-source models like Alibaba's Qwen 3.5, as well as Zhipu, Moonshot, and MiniMax models
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the Chinese e-commerce player that has become a leader in artificial intelligence, is stepping up a push …
Sources: DOD asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to assess their reliance on Claude, a first step toward blacklisting Anthropic; Lockheed confirms it was contacted
The Pentagon asked two major defense contractors on Wednesday to provide an assessment of their reliance on Anthropic's AI model …
A recording of Samsung Galaxy Unpacked February 2026
#GalaxyUnpacked is now LIVE. Join us.Watch our ASL stream: https://youtube.com/live/jXaqwzKAnoATo view the YouTube streams on a desktop or laptop computer yo...
Source: Google plans to test search changes in Europe, displaying results from competing vertical search services next to its own, seeking to avoid EU fines
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google is poised to start testing changes to its search results to give rivals more prominence …
Meta agrees to acquire up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs in a deal valued at $100B+ that could see Meta own up to 10% of AMD; Meta plans to deploy 1GW in 2026
AMD will buy $150M in Nutanix stock and provide up to $100M to fund joint initiatives to develop an infrastructure platform for powering AI applications
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will buy $150 million in Nutanix Inc. stock as part of a new partnership that also includes joint engineering and sales efforts.
Sources: DeepSeek did not share its upcoming V4 model with US chipmakers, including AMD and Nvidia, but granted early access to Chinese companies like Huawei
DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence lab whose low-cost model rattled global markets last year, has not shown U.S. chipmakers …
Sources: MacBook Pros with touch screens, due this fall, will have a Dynamic Island and a refreshed, dynamic UI optimized for touch or point-and-click input
Apple Inc.'s long-awaited foray into touch-screen laptops will bring major changes to the Mac interface, including the addition …
Court records: the FBI subpoenaed X for details about Grok prompts a man allegedly used to create 200+ sexual deepfakes of a woman he knew in real life
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Source: Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI will sign White House's initiative to build their own electricity supply for AI data centers
Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle and OpenAI will sign agreement to build their own electricity supply for AI data centers
A look at TAT-8, the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable, which went into service in 1988, was retired in 2002, and is now being pulled up for recycling
History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor.
Stablecoin operator Circle reports Q4 revenue up 77% YoY to $770M, vs. $747M est., and $133.4M net income; USDC ended 2025 with ~$75B in circulation, up 72% YoY
World's second-biggest stablecoin grew in late 2025, defying crash in bitcoin, other digital assets
Sources: General Atlantic is selling a stake in ByteDance in a deal that values it at $550B, up 66% since September 2025, the first divestment since its US sale
Investment firm General Atlantic is selling an equity stake in ByteDance in a deal that values the Chinese social media giant at $550 billion …
SOTU: Trump says he told tech companies to build their own plants to power data centers; sources say the White House expects to formalize the effort in March
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday during his State of the Union address that his administration has told major technology companies …
Anthropic updates its Responsible Scaling Policy, including separating the safety commitments it will make unilaterally and its industry recommendations
Anthropic, the wildly successful AI company that has cast itself as the most safety-conscious of the top research labs …
Israel-based Gambit Security, which offers an AI-native cyber resilience platform that autonomously maps infrastructure, raised $61M across seed and Series A
The company was founded less than 12 months ago to help enterprises remain resilient across their entire technology stack.
Insurance brokerage Harper, which uses AI to automate submission routing and follow-up, raised $46.8M in combined Series A and seed led by Emergence Capital
Dakotah Rice is stepping back into the founder's seat. On Wednesday, he announced that his new company, the AI-native insurance brokerage Harper …
London-based enterprise coding startup SolveAI raised a $45M Series A led by GV in November 2025 and a $5M pre-seed led by Accel in August 2025
Google disrupts Chinese-linked group UNC2814, which breached 53+ organizations across 42 countries and utilized Google Sheets to manage targeting and data theft
Deutsche Bank partners with Google Cloud to build agentic AI to monitor 1TB of daily communications and 40+ channels for market abuse and data loss prevention
Deutsche Bank AG and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are looking to agentic artificial intelligence to help bolster trading surveillance …
A top US export control official says Nvidia has yet to sell any H200 chips to China, two months after President Trump's decision to allow AI chip shipments
Nvidia Corp. has yet to sell any of its H200 chips to China two months after President Donald Trump's decision to allow shipments …
Sources: Japan's FTC raids Microsoft's Japan offices as part of a probe into whether Azure customers were improperly hindered from using other cloud services
TOKYO — Japan's antitrust authority raided the offices of Microsoft Japan on Wednesday as part of an investigation into whether …
Sources: SAP investors and partners raise doubts about the company's AI products; VW tested SAP's flagship AI assitant Joule and did not find it mature enough
SAP SE's investors and partners are raising doubts about a suite of artificial intelligence products that Europe's …
Sensor Tower: India was the largest market for GenAI app downloads in 2025, surging 207% YoY; India accounts for 20% of global installs but 1% of in-app revenue
DoorDash says it plans to exit Qatar, Singapore, Japan and Uzbekistan, winding down both Deliveroo and Wolt, and make limited operational changes elsewhere
Australian freight software maker WiseTech plans to cut ~2,000 jobs, or ~30% of its workforce, this fiscal year and next, amid CEO Zubin Appoo's embrace of AI
WiseTech Global Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Zubin Appoo said artificial intelligence-fueled savings will ultimately cut through …
Malaysia blocks access to Grindr's and Blued's websites and says it may engage with Google and Apple to curb the LGBTQ dating apps in the Muslim-majority nation
Malaysia has blocked access to LGBTQ+ networking and dating sites Grindr and Blued, with authorities reviewing legal measures …
Koah, which embeds sponsored ads directly into AI chatbots and aims to build an AdSense for AI, raised a $20.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures
Sources: Meta aims to enter the stablecoin space in H2, with plans to integrate a vendor to administer stablecoin-backed payments and implement a new wallet
A look at Motif Technologies and Upstage, South Korean AI startups competing with SK Group and LG in the race for a national AI foundation model
Motif Technologies and Upstage take on SK and LG in the race for a national AI foundation model. — While pursuing his doctorate in mathematics …
OpenAI hires Arvind KC as chief people officer, replacing Julia Villagra who left in August 2025; KC has held senior roles at Roblox, Google, Palantir, and Meta
OpenAI said Tuesday it has appointed Arvind KC as chief people officer, tapping the former Roblox Corp. executive to oversee hiring …
Zetrix, a publicly traded Malaysian digital infrastructure provider, raised ~$40M from the World Bank's IFC and plans to list its AI unit on Nasdaq by end-2026
Sources: CoreWeave is seeking an ~$8.5B loan from banks, backed by a contract Meta signed last year to pay CoreWeave up to $14.2B for its services
SambaNova, which says its SN50 AI chip runs 5x faster than its rivals and will be deployed by SoftBank, raised a $350M Series E led by Vista Equity and Cambium
An Evercore ISI economist criticizes Citrini's AI report, calling its assumptions “extreme and improbable”, but says it's a thought-provoking exercise
Sources: China's top chipmakers, with strong government backing, aim to increase advanced chip production capacity fivefold to 100K wafers within two years
TAIPEI/HONG KONG — China's top chip manufacturers, with strong government backing, are racing to produce several times …
The US Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker Operation Zero, its founder Sergey Zelenyuk, and others for acquiring and reselling stolen US defense exploits
The U.S. government announced on Tuesday sanctions against two companies that acquire and resell zero-day exploits …
Waymo opens its robotaxi service to “select riders” in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando, expanding its operations to 10 US cities
Alphabet-owned Waymo on Tuesday opened its robotaxi service to some public passengers in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Orlando, the company announced.
Beverly Hills-based Subject, whose streaming-style, on-demand platform provides digital curriculum and learning insights for grades 6-12, raised $28M
ASML researchers unveil a breakthrough in EUV light source power, increasing output from 600W to 1,000W, a jump that could yield 50% more chips by 2030
HP says memory now accounts for 35% of its PC bill of materials, up from 15% to 18% in Q4 2025, and expects RAM's share to rise through 2026
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Sources: Stripe, which is privately held, has expressed preliminary interest in a potential PayPal acquisition or buying its assets; PYPL closed up 6.7%
Payment processing firm Stripe Inc. is considering an acquisition of all or parts of PayPal Holdings Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.
Apple starts blocking users in Australia, Brazil, Singapore, and the UK from downloading 18+ rated apps without age assurance, and rolls out new developer tools
Apple is rolling out new age assurance tools for developers in regions including Brazil, Australia, Singapore, and parts of the US …
US DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein ingratiated himself with top Microsoft executives, aiding his return to society after his release from prison in 2009
For more than two decades, the convicted sex offender developed a network at the tech giant, making him privy to succession discussions and other business.
A look at how both small and large companies are tracking and enforcing employees' AI usage and considering it during performance reviews
From small startups to giants including Meta and Google, tech companies are factoring AI use into performance reviews and trying to track productivity gains
David Luan, the head of Amazon's AGI lab, is leaving the company less than two years after he joined through an acqui-hire deal of his startup Adept
The head of Amazon's artificial general intelligence lab is leaving the company less than two years after joining through a so-called acqui-hire deal of his startup Adept.
Analysis: overseas investors bought a net $2.77B of Taiwan equities on February 24, the most since December 2005, signaling confidence in an AI driven chip boom
London-based self-driving startup Wayve raised a $1.2B Series D at an $8.6B post-money valuation, with Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and Nissan among investors
Stripe hits a $159B valuation after an employee share sale to investors like Thrive, Coatue, and a16z, a 70% jump from its $92B valuation in February 2025
Source: Anthropic has no intention of easing Claude usage restrictions for military purposes, following Dario Amodei's meeting with Pete Hegseth
Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic has no intention of easing its usage restrictions for military purposes, a person familiar with the matter …
Anthropic starts rolling out Remote Control for Claude Code, letting users control a session begun in the terminal from the Claude mobile app or the web
New in Claude Code: Remote Control. Kick off a task in your terminal and pick it up from your phone while you take a walk or join a meeting. Claude keeps running on your machine, and you can control t...
CrowdStrike says the average breakout time for attackers moving from intrusion to other network systems fell to 29 minutes in 2025, a 65% YoY increase in speed
Google says AI music generation platform ProducerAI is joining Labs and will be powered by a Lyria 3 preview version; ProducerAI was developed alongside artists
How Silicon Valley has long ignored China's looming Taiwan invasion and its chip supply impact; US officials warned Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm about China's plans
The UK ICO fines Reddit £14.47M for unlawfully using children's personal information; Reddit began verifying user ages in July 2025 to comply with the UK OSA
A US judge sentences ex-L3Harris executive Peter Williams to 7+ years in prison, after he pleaded guilty in 2025 to theft of trade secrets and selling exploits
Additionally, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned the Russian zero-day brokerage that Peter Williams sold the exploits to. — Learn more.
A survey of US teens: 57% use AI chatbots to search for info, 54% use them to do schoolwork, 47% for fun or entertainment, 12% for emotional support, and more
Just over half of U.S. teens say they have used chatbots for help with schoolwork, and 12% say they've gotten emotional support.
Anthropic unveils Claude Cowork updates, including new plugins for HR, investment banking, design, and other fields, plus tools to help companies customize them
Anthropic PBC is expanding the reach of its Claude chatbot into new sectors, weeks after the startup sparked a market meltdown …
YouTube updates its $7.99-per-month Premium Lite subscription to let users download videos for offline access and play videos in the background
YouTube is expanding its more affordable, $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription service with new features, including the ability to download videos …
A California judge dismisses a lawsuit from xAI that accused OpenAI of stealing its trade secrets, with permission for xAI to refile the case at a later date
A California judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit from Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI that accused rival Sam Altman's OpenAI …
Discord says it won't roll out age verification globally in March as previously planned, delaying the change until H2 2026 after it adds verification options
Now it will hold off on expansion until it adds more verification options, vendor transparency, and other changes.
Software stocks rebound as Anthropic announces partnerships integrating its AI tools with enterprise apps, including Slack, Intuit, Docusign, and FactSet
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Samsung announces the Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus, featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy chipset, starting at $899 and $1099, respectively, a $100 hike
Amid the Greco-Roman grandeur of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco, Samsung announced the Galaxy S26, S26 Plus and S26 Ultra at its Galaxy Unpacked event on Wednesday.
A live blog of Samsung Galaxy Unpacked February 2026, where the company announced the Galaxy S26 series
all the latest leaks and rumors ahead of today's big Unpacked eventAman Gupta /Livemint:Samsung Galaxy S26 Launch LIVE: Galaxy S26, S26+, S26 Ultra to be unveiled todayAnuj Bhatia /The Indian Express:...
Google launches task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26, enabling Gemini to autonomously perform tasks using apps like Uber and DoorDash
and the one I'm most excited aboutTushar Mehta /Android Authority:Gemini on Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10 can finally control other appsAdnan Farooqui /SamMobile:Galaxy S26 gets exclusive preview of Gemini'...
Hands-on with Galaxy S26 Ultra's Privacy Display: the two sets of pixels that lets users toggle the viewing angle to prevent screen peeking is very impressive
without ruining its clarity or brightness. Full details: https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]Marques Brownlee /@mkbhd:Galaxy S26 Ultra's new “privacy display” feature is pretty damn cool. Here's the ...
Samsung launches the $179 Galaxy Buds 4 and $249 Buds 4 Pro, keeping the AirPods-esque design, with better battery life and noise canceling, available March 11
5 key features you can expectMackenzie Frazier /TechRadar:New Galaxy Buds are expected to launch today — but Galaxy Buds 3 Pro just got more affordableAbhijeet Mishra /SamMobile:Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 ...