Warner Bros. Discovery Adds 3.1 Million Streaming Q4 Subs, Ended 2025 With 131.6 Million
Erik Gruenwedel / mediaplaynews - Warner Bros. Discovery Feb. 26 reported a gain of 3.1 million fourth quarter (ended Dec. 31, 2025) streaming video subscribers, ending the period with 131.6 million subs. Streaming includes Discovery+, HBO premium linear television and HBO Max. WBD had 12…
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MetaMask Crypto Debit Mastercard Launches Across United States
Logan Hitchcock / decrypt - The Mastercard-powered MetaMask debit card is now rolling out access to all users across the United States.
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Apple is quietly assembling a US chip supply chain, one layer at a time
techspot - TSMC's vast complex outside Phoenix is central to that effort. The 2,000-acre site is slated to host six fabrication plants along with supporting infrastructure. Apple is positioning itself as the anchor customer: the company plans to purchase more than 1…
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New York sues 'Counter-Strike' game developer saying 'loot boxes' promote gambling
abcnews - New York’s attorney general is suing video game developer Valve, claiming the “loot boxes” found in Counter-Strike and other popular video game franchises illegally promote gambling
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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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Anthropic Dials Back AI Safety Commitments
Amrith Ramkumar / wsj - The company said competitive pressure prompted it to pivot away from the previous, more-cautious stance.
- Context: op-eds, risk timelines and AI scene-setting (3)
- On the ground: Anthropic backs away from safety pledge (7)
- Silicon front: data-extraction claims and enterprise product moves (2)
- Washington: Pentagon gives Anthropic a Friday deadline, threatens action (12)
Context: op-eds, risk timelines and AI scene-setting
On the ground: Anthropic backs away from safety pledge
Silicon front: data-extraction claims and enterprise product moves
Washington: Pentagon gives Anthropic a Friday deadline, threatens action
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Waymo's robotaxis now being dispatched in 10 major U.S. markets with expansion in Texas and Florida
techxplore - Waymo will begin dispatching its robotaxis in four more cities in Texas and Florida, expanding the territory covered by its fleet of self-driving cars to 10 major U.S. metropolitan markets.
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Senator Blumenthal Opens Inquiry Into Iran Transactions on Binance
David Yaffe-Bellany and Michael Forsythe / nytimes - Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sent a letter to Binance asking about the flow of $1.7 billion from accounts on the crypto exchange to Iranian entities.
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Chinese drone-maker DJI sues to overturn FCC foreign drone ban
Jon Keegan / sherwood - The FCC’s move to ban all foreign drones and components is being challenged in federal court.
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U.S. sanctions Russian firm Operation Zero following crypto-funded trade secret theft
Sarah Wynn / theblock - The Treasury’s OFAC has sanctioned the Russian company Operation Zero following the guilty plea of a man who admitted to stealing software.
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Wisconsin Reveals Conduent Breach Affected 25 Million Americans
PYMNTS / pymnts - A data breach at Conduent Business Services, an operator of back-end systems for state governments, has affected more than 25 million people across the country, according to data breach information posted this month by the Wisconsin Department of Agricult…
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Apple Will Begin Manufacturing Mac Minis in Houston Later This Year
John Gruber / apple - Apple Newsroom: Apple today announced a significant expansion of factoryoperations in Houston, bringing the future production of Mac minito the U.S. for the first time. The company will also expandadvanced AI server manufacturing at the factory and provid…
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$200M on the Line: Pentagon Meets Anthropic CEO Over AI Restrictions
Aminu Abdullahi / eweek - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei as the Pentagon presses for broader military use of Claude.The post $200M on the Line: Pentagon Meets Anthropic CEO Over AI Restrictions appeared first on eWEEK.
- $200M contract at stake amid Anthropic dispute (2)
- Anthropic holds firm on safety red lines (1)
- Pentagon's Friday ultimatum: DPA threat and supply-chain pressure (10)
- Search for Claude replacements: Grok, Gemini, OpenAI options (2)
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$200M contract at stake amid Anthropic dispute
Anthropic holds firm on safety red lines
Pentagon's Friday ultimatum: DPA threat and supply-chain pressure
Search for Claude replacements: Grok, Gemini, OpenAI options
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US gov't warned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Lisa Su that China could invade Taiwan by 2027 — Apple CEO reportedly said he sleeps 'with one eye open'
tomshardware - A new investigative report from The New York Times reveals that, in July 2023, senior US intelligence officials privately briefed some of the tech industry's most powerful executives on classified assessments regarding China and Taiwan.
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Apple will start manufacturing the Mac mini in the US later this year
Reece Bithrey / theshortcut - With a brand new 220,000 square foot plant
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Hong Kong's RedotPay said to plan blockbuster $1 billion IPO in New York: Bloomberg
Omkar Godbole / coindesk - The stablecoin payments company has hired JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and Jefferies, according to Bloomberg.
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Apple Announces Plans to Begin Assembling Mac Mini in U.S. This Year
Joe Rossignol / macrumors - Apple today announced that Foxconn will begin assembling some Mac mini computers at a factory in Houston, Texas later this year.In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple's operations chief Sabih Khan said U.S. assembly of some Mac mini units is …
- Inside tours: Apple’s US supply-chain strategy and challenges (1)
- Mac mini assembly in Houston: Foxconn to produce US units (7)
- U.S. chip push: TSMC fabs and Apple chip sourcing (3)
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Inside tours: Apple’s US supply-chain strategy and challenges
Mac mini assembly in Houston: Foxconn to produce US units
U.S. chip push: TSMC fabs and Apple chip sourcing
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Stocks fall on US tariff uncertainty
J.D. Capelouto / semafor - “Uncertainty is back,” one banker told the Financial Times.
- Cryptocurrency tumbles as macro shocks and tariff fears bite (3)
- Tariff uncertainty from Washington sends global markets reeling (8)
- Wall Street rattled by viral AI doomsday essay and selloff (12)
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Cryptocurrency tumbles as macro shocks and tariff fears bite
Tariff uncertainty from Washington sends global markets reeling
Wall Street rattled by viral AI doomsday essay and selloff
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After a Near-Perfect Test, NASA’s Artemis 2 Rocket Is Rolling Back to the Garage
Ellyn Lapointe and Passant Rabie / gizmodo - NASA has delayed the launch of this historic mission to April, but repairs could take even longer.
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Crypto.com Wins Conditional Approval for US Banking Charter
PYMNTS / pymnts - Crypto.com says it has gotten conditional governmental approval for a bank charter. The conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) allows the digital assets company to charter Foris Dax National Trust Bank, doing busines…
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