Apple rolls out age-verification tools worldwide to comply with growing web of child safety laws
Sarah Perez / techcrunch - Apple complies with new age assurance laws in the U.S. and abroad, including those that block users from downloading apps aimed at adults.
- Creators and users push back on biometric age-verification experiments. (1)
- Reporter: Apple enforces age checks worldwide, updates App Store APIs. (9)
- UK watchdog fines Reddit over inadequate age checks, major penalties. (3)
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Creators and users push back on biometric age-verification experiments.
Reporter: Apple enforces age checks worldwide, updates App Store APIs.
UK watchdog fines Reddit over inadequate age checks, major penalties.
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Anthropic launches new push for enterprise agents with plugins for finance, engineering, and design
Russell Brandom / techcrunch - It's a major opportunity to grow Anthropic’s enterprise client base — and a significant threat to SaaS products currently performing those functions.
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Google Bans AI Subscribers Over OpenClaw, Skips Refunds
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google has permanently banned paid AI Pro and Ultra subscribers for routing Gemini through OpenClaw via Antigravity OAuth, offering no appeals and no refunds.The post Google Bans AI Subscribers Over OpenClaw, Skips Refunds appeared first on WinBuzzer.
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Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
Simon Willison / simonwillison - Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AIReally interesting case-study from Andreas Kling on advanced, sophisticated use of coding agents for ambitious coding projects with critical code. After a few years hoping Swift's platform support outside of the Appl…
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Linus Torvalds: Someone ‘more competent who isn't afraid of numbers past the teens’ will take over Linux one day
Simon Sharwood / theregister - Emperor Penguin releases kernel 7.0 rc1 with some numerological musings Linus Torvalds has pondered his professional mortality in a self-deprecating post to mark the release of the first release candidate for version 7.0 of the Linux kernel.…
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Anthropic released Claude Code Security as research preview
Erin / testingcatalog - What's new? Anthropic introduced Claude Code Security for security teams and maintainers to spot code gaps; it uses Claude Opus 4.6 with layered checks and patch proposals;
- Developer ecosystem — Claude expands into tools: compilers, IDEs, PowerPoint (7)
- Market reaction — Traders dump cybersecurity stocks after Anthropic demo (4)
- Pentagon friction — Defense confronts Anthropic over safeguards and military use (2)
- Security risks — Vulnerability scanning raises misuse and real-world exploit concerns (2)
Developer ecosystem — Claude expands into tools: compilers, IDEs, PowerPoint
Market reaction — Traders dump cybersecurity stocks after Anthropic demo
Pentagon friction — Defense confronts Anthropic over safeguards and military use
Security risks — Vulnerability scanning raises misuse and real-world exploit concerns
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AI coding assistant Cline compromised to create more OpenClaw chaos
Jessica Lyons / theregister - 4K unintended installs in very odd supply chain attack Someone compromised open source AI coding assistant Cline CLI's npm package earlier this week in an odd supply chain attack that secretly installed OpenClaw on developers' machines without their knowl…
- Developer-tool supply-chain sabotage prompts security alarms (5)
- Ecosystem fallout: bans, scams, 'Claws' debates, and creators (8)
- OTHER (1)
- Raspberry Pi meme-run fueled by OpenClaw chatter (3)
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Developer-tool supply-chain sabotage prompts security alarms
Ecosystem fallout: bans, scams, 'Claws' debates, and creators
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Raspberry Pi meme-run fueled by OpenClaw chatter
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Amazon Service Was Taken Down By AI Coding Bot
msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon's cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools [non-paywalled source], leading some employees to raise doubts about the US tech giant's push to roll out these coding assi…
- Amazon response and blame - Company says 'user error', misconfigured access controls (3)
- Internal skepticism and rollout concerns - Engineers worry about autonomous AI assistants' risks (5)
- Kiro delete-and-recreate incident - Bot deleted and recreated environment, causing 13-hour outage (6)
Amazon response and blame - Company says 'user error', misconfigured access controls
Internal skepticism and rollout concerns - Engineers worry about autonomous AI assistants' risks
Kiro delete-and-recreate incident - Bot deleted and recreated environment, causing 13-hour outage
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Alphabet (GOOGL) Stock: Google Unveils Gemini 3.1 Pro With Double the Reasoning Power
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Google launched Gemini 3.1 Pro, an upgrade to its flagship AI model focused on complex reasoning tasks. The model scored 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, more than double the score of Gemini 3 Pro. Gemini 3.1 Pro is available across Google AI Studio…
- Live: Gemini pressures rivals, boosts Google stock, rattles Apple (5)
- On site: Gemini 3.1 Pro doubles reasoning, tops benchmarks (11)
- Other: previews, hands-on reports, and odd hardware tie-ins (3)
- Reporter: Gemini spreads across apps, TV, API, enterprise (5)
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Live: Gemini pressures rivals, boosts Google stock, rattles Apple
On site: Gemini 3.1 Pro doubles reasoning, tops benchmarks
Other: previews, hands-on reports, and odd hardware tie-ins
Reporter: Gemini spreads across apps, TV, API, enterprise
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New benchmark shows AI agents can exploit most smart contract vulnerabilities on their own
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - OpenAI and crypto investment firm Paradigm have built EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how well AI agents can find, fix, and exploit security vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts.The article New benchmark shows AI agents can exploit most smart c…
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Coinbase’s Base moves away from Optimism’s 'OP stack' in major tech shift
Margaux Nijkerk / coindesk - Base launched in 2023 and quickly became one of the most widely used Ethereum layer-2 networks.
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Google I/O 2026 leans into AI, here’s what it means for you
digitaltrends - Google locked in I/O 2026 for May 19 to 20 and it’s already framing the event around Gemini and AI tooling. Here’s what’s confirmed, what’s missing, and how to plan what to watch.The post Google I/O 2026 leans into AI, here’s what it means for you appeare…
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 Launches With 1M Context Window, Opus-Level Coding Performance
iclarified - Anthropic has officially released Claude Sonnet 4.6, a major update to its AI model that reportedly outperforms its predecessor in coding and agentic tasks. The release brings significant upgrades to computer use capabilities and introduces a massive cont…
- Anthropic faces ethical, defense, and governance scrutiny over Claude (4)
- Community demos, explainers, and user projects around Claude (1)
- Sonnet 4.6: 1M‑token context and upgraded coding (7)
- Sonnet's $3 pricing threatens Opus-class models and competition (3)
Anthropic faces ethical, defense, and governance scrutiny over Claude
Community demos, explainers, and user projects around Claude
Sonnet 4.6: 1M‑token context and upgraded coding
Sonnet's $3 pricing threatens Opus-class models and competition
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Google I/O 2026 Dates Announced for May: Gemini to Android and More
Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Google has officially locked in the dates for its annual developer conference, with Google I/O 2026 returning to the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View from May 19-20, 2026. While some developers will be there in person, the rest of us can catch the …
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Render Raises $100 Million to Build Cloud Tech for AI Agents
PYMNTS / pymnts - Cloud technology company Render has raised $100 million in new funding. The firm’s Series C extension, announced Tuesday (Feb. 17), values Render at $1.5 billion and will help it build cloud runtime for artificial intelligence (AI) agents and applications…
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Anthropic debuts Sonnet 4.6, a highly capable creative and coding AI model
Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Anthropic PBC upgraded its Claude Sonnet model to version 4.6 today, adding stronger computer-use skills, long-context reasoning, agent planning and improved performance for knowledge work and design. The company said it brings the coveted 1 million token…
- Benchmarks and pricing: Sonnet matches Opus performance (3)
- Other: personality, rollout notes, and community reactions (1)
- Sonnet 4.6 launch: features and 1M-token context (5)
- Stronger computer-use: coding, forms, and multi-tab browsing (3)
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Benchmarks and pricing: Sonnet matches Opus performance
Other: personality, rollout notes, and community reactions
Sonnet 4.6 launch: features and 1M-token context
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iOS 26.4 beta adds encrypted RCS messaging
Asma Hussain / ithinkdiff - Apple has started testing encrypted RCS messaging in the latest developer seeds of iOS 26.4, alongside updates for iPadOS 26.4 and macOS Tahoe 26.4. The new beta introduces end-to-end encryption for Rich Communication Services, marking a significant step …
- Encrypted RCS testing: iPhone trials end‑to‑end texting with Android (2)
- MacBook battery controls and Rosetta sunset warning to developers (5)
- Media and AI: Apple Music, Podcasts video, tvOS and CarPlay (6)
- OTHER: Hotspot, Health, Siri absence, beta rollouts, and miscellany (10)
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Encrypted RCS testing: iPhone trials end‑to‑end texting with Android
MacBook battery controls and Rosetta sunset warning to developers
Media and AI: Apple Music, Podcasts video, tvOS and CarPlay
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London-based SurrealDB raises additional €19 million to scale multi-model database for AI applications
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - SurrealDB, a UK company developing a multi-model, AI-native database, has secured an additional €19 million ($23 million) in Series A funding, bringing the company’s total investment to-date (including Seed) to €37 million ($44 million). Chalfen Ventures …
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Alibaba unveils Qwen-3.5, sharpening global race to spread AI models
scmp - Alibaba Cloud has unveiled its next-generation open artificial intelligence model, Qwen-3.5, in a move set to have major implications for the global AI race between China and the US.The much-anticipated release, timed on the eve of the Lunar New Year, cap…
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iOS 26 Adoption Reaches 74% on Recent iPhones, 66% Overall [Chart]
iclarified - Apple has updated its developer support page with new adoption statistics, revealing that iOS 26 is now installed on 74 percent of iPhones introduced in the last four years. Apple hasn't shared updated install figures since the public release last Septemb…
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