Burger King rolls out AI headsets that track employee 'friendliness'
bbc - The fast-food chain is testing OpenAI-powered headsets that monitor staff interactions with customers.
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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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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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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)
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AI-driven mass layoffs — Dorsey's companywide reset
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Market rallies: stock surge after layoffs announced
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Meta Sues Advertisers Over Alleged Celebrity Impersonation Scams
PYMNTS / pymnts - Meta is suing advertisers who have allegedly impersonated celebrities to defraud consumers. The tech giant announced Thursday (Feb. 26) that it had taken “technical enforcement actions” against the accused scammers, such as suspending their payment method…
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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
CEO resists Pentagon demands; contract fight over safeguards
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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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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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Google launches Nano Banana 2 AI image model in 141 countries
Erin / testingcatalog - What's new? Google released Nano Banana 2, a model using real-time web data to generate images with text; it is in Gemini, Google Search, Vertex AI and 141 countries with 8 languages;
- On the ground: Nano Banana 2 rolls out across Google (7)
- OTHER: Guides, comparisons, and how-to coverage (1)
- Reporter: API price cuts, competition shake up market (4)
- Reporter: Speed and Pro-level image-quality improvements (6)
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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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Ocean Mode comes to the Samsung Galaxy S26 series, but don’t take it diving just yet
digitaltrends - Samsung introduces Ocean Mode on the Galaxy S26 series, helping users capture more vibrant underwater photos. Here’s how it works and the risks you need to understand before taking it into the ocean.The post Ocean Mode comes to the Samsung Galaxy S26 seri…
- At launch: Pre-orders, deals, comparisons and hardware changes. (7)
- Live: Gemini's Circle to Search expands into multi-object AI. (5)
- On the ground: Ultra's advanced privacy display unveiled. (2)
- Reporting: Ocean Mode and audio AI boost capture quality. (2)
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At launch: Pre-orders, deals, comparisons and hardware changes.
Live: Gemini's Circle to Search expands into multi-object AI.
On the ground: Ultra's advanced privacy display unveiled.
Reporting: Ocean Mode and audio AI boost capture quality.
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