Tech Giants Pledge to Power Their Own AI Data Centers
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI have signed a White House pledge committing to generate their own electricity for new AI data centers.The post Tech Giants Pledge to Power Their Own AI Data Centers appeared first on WinBuzzer.
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Anthropic Returns to Negotiations With Pentagon Over AI Guardrails
PYMNTS / pymnts - Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei has resumed discussions with the Pentagon over how the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) models can be used by the U.S. military, reopening negotiations that collapsed last week over disagreements about safety r…
- Amodei lashes out at OpenAI in leaked staff memos (3)
- Back at the table: Anthropic resumes Pentagon negotiations (4)
- Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk, escalates conflict (5)
- Wider debate: AI guardrails, industry impact and lessons (3)
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Amodei lashes out at OpenAI in leaked staff memos
Back at the table: Anthropic resumes Pentagon negotiations
Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk, escalates conflict
Wider debate: AI guardrails, industry impact and lessons
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(PR) Intel Board Chair Frank Yeary Steps Down, Craig Barratt Takes Over
techpowerup - Intel Corporation today announced that its board of directors has elected Dr. Craig H. Barratt as independent chair, effective following the company's Annual Stockholders' Meeting on May 13, 2026. Barratt will succeed Frank D. Yeary, who is retiring from …
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Where does Anthropic go from here?
Casey Newton / platformer - Shunned by the government, and newly appealing to consumers, the company is at a crossroads
- Boardroom and backers: investor silence, reputation and strategic crossroads (2)
- Numbers under scrutiny: ARR claims, valuations and growth doubts (4)
- On the ground: Pentagon fight and Claude’s use in conflicts (6)
- Product beat: Claude upgrades, memory import and voice mode (5)
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Boardroom and backers: investor silence, reputation and strategic crossroads
Numbers under scrutiny: ARR claims, valuations and growth doubts
On the ground: Pentagon fight and Claude’s use in conflicts
Product beat: Claude upgrades, memory import and voice mode
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Back to Top / Tuesday, March 3, 2026, 7:21 pm / permalink 20095 / 21 stories in 3 days
JetStream Security Secures $34M Seed Round
Ekemini / ventureburn - JetStream Security, a cybersecurity startup, just pulled in $34 million in seed funding. This is one of the biggest early investments for an AI governance and enterprise security company inThe post JetStream Security Secures $34M Seed Round appeared first…
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Pinterest lands $1B Elliott Notes, launches $3.5B buyback as shares pop 10%
Vignesh R / techfundingnews - Pinterest has announced a $1 billion strategic investment from affiliates of Elliott Investment Management. Additionally, the company unveiled…
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OpenAI’s Altman says Pentagon set ‘scary precedent’ binning Anthropic
Simon Sharwood / theregister - Signs a deal with Washington anyway, says he’s kept control of killer robots by allowing only cloudy AI, with guardrails OpenAI has signed a deal with the United States Department of War (DoW) that allows use of its advanced AI systems in classified envir…
- Altman and OpenAI defend Pentagon deal amid optics firestorm (3)
- Anthropic's Pentagon standoff: refused surveillance, tangled in Iran reports (3)
- Regulatory power play: lobbying and corporate responsibility in AI (2)
- Users revolt: ChatGPT cancellations fuel Claude's App Store surge (5)
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Altman and OpenAI defend Pentagon deal amid optics firestorm
Anthropic's Pentagon standoff: refused surveillance, tangled in Iran reports
Regulatory power play: lobbying and corporate responsibility in AI
Users revolt: ChatGPT cancellations fuel Claude's App Store surge
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Former Mt. Gox CEO proposed a rewrite of bitcoin's code to recover $5 billion in stolen funds. Gets quickly shutdown
Shaurya Malwa / coindesk - Mark Karpelès submitted a pull request to Bitcoin Core that would redirect coins that have remained untouched since 2011 to a recovery address controlled by the MtGox trustee, reigniting the oldest debate in Bitcoin.
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CISA is getting a new acting director after less than a year
Stevie Bonifield / theverge - The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, is getting a new acting director, as reported by ABC, less than a year after Madhu Gottumukkala took charge of the agency as deputy direc…
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World Economic Forum CEO steps down after appearing in the Epstein files, marking another scandal for WEF
Jude Cramer / fastcompany - Yet another powerful person has stepped down after being named in the Epstein files.Børge Brende, president and CEO of the World Economic Forum (WEF), best known for hosting an annual summit of world leaders in Davos, Switzerland, has stepped down after a…
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Anthropic weakens its safety pledge in the wake of the Pentagon's pressure campaign
Will Shanklin / engadget - Two stories about the Claude maker Anthropic broke on Tuesday that, when combined, arguably paint a chilling picture. First, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is reportedly pressuring Anthropic to yield its AI safeguards and give the military unrestrained…
- Anthropic expands commercially: integrations, crawler changes, and Vercept buy. (4)
- Claude exploited and buggy — major data thefts and RCE flaws. (3)
- Pentagon pressures Anthropic; safety pledges retreat under deadline. (13)
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Anthropic expands commercially: integrations, crawler changes, and Vercept buy.
Claude exploited and buggy — major data thefts and RCE flaws.
Pentagon pressures Anthropic; safety pledges retreat under deadline.
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Stargate AI data centers for OpenAI reportedly delayed by squabbles between partners — sources say OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank disagreed on who would have ultimate control of the planned data centers
tomshardware - OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank have reportedly spent several months negotiating over who would have ultimate control of the data centers planned for Stargate.
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'Ethereum Is Going Hard': Vitalik Buterin Backs Censorship Resistance Upgrade
Jason Nelson / decrypt - Ethereum developers scheduled a controversial upgrade for later this year. Buterin said it reinforces the network’s cypherpunk principles.
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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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Three Gemini top executives leave in “big shakeup,” shares plummet
Yaël Bizouati-Kennedy / sherwood - COO Marshall Beard, CFO Dan Chen, and CLO Tyler Meade are all out as of today.
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India AI Impact Summit: ‘Impact Over Hype’ At The Centre Of India’s AI Strategy
Lokesh Choudhary / inc42 - The opening day of the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi unfolded as a landmark moment in the…
- Frugal AI for developing countries; safety, publishers, digital IDs. (6)
- India pushes Global AI Commons, steering global policy. (9)
- Massive investments and data centers reshape India's AI landscape. (9)
- Other: miscellaneous tech and tools at the summit. (1)
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Frugal AI for developing countries; safety, publishers, digital IDs.
India pushes Global AI Commons, steering global policy.
Massive investments and data centers reshape India's AI landscape.
Other: miscellaneous tech and tools at the summit.
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Prediction Markets Chip Away at Sports Betting’s Territory
PYMNTS / pymnts - Sports-related bets on Kalshi are now generating estimated annualized revenues of roughly $1.3 billion. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Saturday (Feb. 14), that figure is nearly a quarter of the total sportsbook revenue for betting giant DraftKings a…
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The evolution of OpenAI's mission statement
Simon Willison / simonwillison - As a USA 501(c)(3) the OpenAI non-profit has to file a tax return each year with the IRS. One of the required fields on that tax return is to "Briefly describe the organization’s mission or most significant activities" - this has actual legal weight to it…
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xAI's founder exodus reportedly tied to safety concerns and frustration over Grok's failure to catch up
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Elon Musk's AI company xAI is hemorrhaging talent. Former employees describe a culture of missing safety standards, growing disillusionment, and a constant race to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic.The article xAI's founder exodus reportedly tied to safe…
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Tomasz Stanczak to step down as Ethereum Foundation co-executive director, Bastian Aue to take interim role
James Hunt / theblock - Tomasz Stanczak will step down at the end of February, with Bastian Aue taking over alongside Hsiao-Wei Wang.
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