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…
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Ultrahuman’s new Ring Pro aims to end your smart ring battery worries
digitaltrends - Ultrahuman has announced its latest flagship smart ring, the Ring Pro, and it aims to solve one of the biggest pain points of using a smart ring.The post Ultrahuman’s new Ring Pro aims to end your smart ring battery worries appeared first on Digital Trend…
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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…
- 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
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MARA Shares Rise After Bitcoin Miner Strikes AI Data Center Deal
Vince Dioquino / decrypt - The Bitcoin miner moved to convert U.S. sites into AI-ready campuses, though analysts say confirmed tenants will be key.
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Smartphone Sales to Plummet 13% in 2026 Due to RAM Crisis, Says IDC
Jeff Carlson / cnet - AI-fueled memory scarcity is hitting the phone market hard this year, particularly for inexpensive, low-end devices.
- AI hardware prices spike; DGX Spark rises $700 (2)
- Chip crunch threatens budget PCs and phones (3)
- DRAM price surge: suppliers hike quotes and contracts (3)
- IDC warns record 13% smartphone slump in 2026 (4)
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AI hardware prices spike; DGX Spark rises $700
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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…
- 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
Reaction: hands-on takes and market moves after launch
Rolled out: integration across Gemini, Search, Lens, and regions
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Dell’s stock pops as soaring AI demand drives stellar 39% revenue increase
Mike Wheatley / siliconangle - Data center hardware and personal computer maker Dell Technologies Inc. easily beat Wall Street’s expectations today as it posted its latest financial results, benefiting from surging artificial intelligence demand. The company reported fourth-quarter ear…
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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…
- Anthropic refuses Pentagon demands, CEO: 'cannot in good conscience' (21)
- Industry and lawmakers react — Congress, Google workers, policy debate (8)
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- Pentagon escalates: deadlines, $200M contract threat, supply-chain risk (6)
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Anthropic refuses Pentagon demands, CEO: 'cannot in good conscience'
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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…
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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…
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Why no magnets in Galaxy S26? Samsung R&D chief explains
Sean Hollister / theverge - Magnet rings have changed my life. I grip and mount and satisfyingly snap awesome accessories on and off my phone all day. Even Samsung sells neat ones like these folding magnetic mirrors. But unlike Apple and Google, Samsung refuses to put the magnets in…
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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-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
Costs, earnings, banking growth: business impact
Market rallies: stock surge after layoffs announced
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Nvidia posts $68.1 billion quarter as AI demand surges worldwide
Camila Nogueira / betanews - Nvidia reported record financial results on Wednesday, delivering $68.1 billion in revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026 as demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure continued to accelerate. The quarterly figure rose 73% from a year earlie…
- Investors balk as Nvidia stock tumbles post-earnings (4)
- Markets wobble: tech slump and crypto give back gains (5)
- On the floor: Nvidia's record $68.1B AI quarter (3)
Investors balk as Nvidia stock tumbles post-earnings
Markets wobble: tech slump and crypto give back gains
On the floor: Nvidia's record $68.1B AI quarter
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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…
- Anthropic upgrades Claude: better vision, scheduled tasks, education research (3)
- CEO resists Pentagon demands; contract fight over safeguards (5)
- Retired Claude writes Substack essays, blurring PR and personhood (3)
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Anthropic upgrades Claude: better vision, scheduled tasks, education research
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Retired Claude writes Substack essays, blurring PR and personhood
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Apple Releases Xcode 26.3 With Support for AI Agents From Anthropic and OpenAI
Juli Clover / macrumors - After several weeks of testing, Apple today released Xcode 26.3, an update that allows developers to use tools like Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex for app creation directly in Xcode.With support for agentic coding, Xcode can complete more com…
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Perplexity Wants to Replace Your Computer With 19 AIs
Grant Harvey / eweek - Perplexity Computer launches with 19 specialized AI models working in parallel to build apps, dashboards, research, and more from a single prompt.The post Perplexity Wants to Replace Your Computer With 19 AIs appeared first on eWEEK.
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Amazon’s $50 Billion OpenAI Investment Could Hinge on AGI
PYMNTS / pymnts - Amazon’s proposed $50 billion investment in OpenAI reportedly has some conditions attached. As The Information reported Wednesday (Feb. 25), sources in contact with OpenAI executives say the decision to invest could depend on whether the artificial intell…
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ThreatAware Raises $25M to Scale Cybersecurity with AI
Ekemini / ventureburn - ThreatAware has raised a total of $25 million in funding from One Peak, an investment firm that specializes in growth equity investments in high-growth software businesses. The funding serves asThe post ThreatAware Raises $25M to Scale Cybersecurity with …
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Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. AI chatbot ‘Patty’ is going to live inside employees’ headsets.
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OpenAI Announces Major Expansion of London Office
Joel Khalili / wired - The San Francisco-based AI lab is growing its research team in London. The move puts it in direct competition with Google DeepMind for top research talent in the UK.
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