Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to meet with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on AI DoD model use
cnbc - Anthropic does not want its AI models to be used for autonomous weapons or to spy on Americans.
- Accusations of Chinese firms siphoning Claude via 'distillation' attacks (6)
- Anthropic-backed Super PAC launches AI regulation ad blitz (1)
- Claude Code launches and market shock reverberate across tech stocks (8)
- Pentagon showdown: Anthropic CEO pressed over military access limits (5)
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Accusations of Chinese firms siphoning Claude via 'distillation' attacks
Anthropic-backed Super PAC launches AI regulation ad blitz
Claude Code launches and market shock reverberate across tech stocks
Pentagon showdown: Anthropic CEO pressed over military access limits
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Arcellx (ACLX) Stock Jumps 78% as Gilead Agrees to $7.8B Acquisition
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR Gilead Sciences is acquiring Arcellx for $7.8 billion, paying $115 per share in cash plus a $5 contingent value right Arcellx stock jumped over 78% in premarket trading Monday following the announcement The deal centers on anito-cel, a CAR-T cell the…
Back to Top / Monday, February 23, 2026, 9:21 am / permalink 19567 / 3 stories in 11 days
America's Peace Corps Announces 'Tech Corps' Volunteers to Help Bring AI to Foreign Countries
EditorDavid / slashdot - Over 240,000 Americans volunteered for Peace Corps projects in 142 countries since the program began more than half a century ago. But now the agency is launching a new initiative — called Tech Corps. "It's the Peace Corps, but make it AI," explains Engad…
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More than $140 billion in tariff refunds are at stake. The Supreme Court punted
Joseph Zeballos-Roig / qz - Americans shouldn't bet on getting refunded for the tariffs they have paid up to now. For companies, it's a different story
Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 6:21 pm / permalink 19490 / 10 stories in 14 days
Lucid (LCID) Stock: Slides 2% as EV Maker Cuts 12% of Workforce
Yasmin Werner / parameter - TLDR Lucid trims 12% of staff as shares slide to $9.55 in choppy trade, to cut costs Gravity SUV ramp stays on track, with output expansion targeted through 2025 Mid-size EV near $50k could broaden demand and support Lucid’s margin goals Uber-Nuro robotax…
Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 5:21 pm / permalink 19487 / 3 stories in 14 days
Tesla loses bid to toss $243 million verdict in fatal Autopilot crash suit
cnbc - A federal judge in Miami denied Tesla's bid to overturn a $243 million jury verdict in a high-profile lawsuit over a fatal Autopilot crash.
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$20 million lost in 'jackpotting' ATM malware attacks in 2025, FBI reports — scheme forces machines to spit out cash, targets banks and ATM operators
tomshardware - The FBI released a public warning, saying that ATM "jackpotting" incidents have exponentially increased in 2025.
Back to Top / Friday, February 20, 2026, 10:21 am / permalink 19467 / 4 stories in 14 days
US Plans Online Portal To Bypass Content Bans In Europe and Elsewhere
BeauHD / slashdot - The U.S. State Department is reportedly developing a site called freedom.gov that would let users in Europe and elsewhere access content restricted under local laws, "including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda," reports Reuters. Washington vie…
Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 9:21 pm / permalink 19446 / 6 stories in 15 days
West Virginia sues Apple over iCloud child porn hosting
appleinsider - West Virginia's attorney general believes iCloud is the greatest platform ever made to distribute child porn, and is the first government to sue Apple after a previous class action failed.Apple is under fire over its handling of CSAM on iCloud serversThe …
Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 10:21 am / permalink 19415 / 10 stories in 15 days
Bitcoin is about to log its longest losing streak since 2022 as geopolitical nerves hit risk trades
James Van Straten / coindesk - Geopolitical tensions lift the U.S. dollar and crude prices, adding pressure to an already fragile crypto market.
- Altcoins hit by retail selling, liquidity strain and borrowing fixes (4)
- Bitcoin's losing streak: dollar strength, geopolitical nerves, downside hedging (7)
- Institutional engineering: asset-backed deals, ETF flows, mining profits (2)
- Public miners and equities reprice amid dilution and selloffs (3)
Altcoins hit by retail selling, liquidity strain and borrowing fixes
Bitcoin's losing streak: dollar strength, geopolitical nerves, downside hedging
Institutional engineering: asset-backed deals, ETF flows, mining profits
Public miners and equities reprice amid dilution and selloffs
Back to Top / Thursday, February 19, 2026, 12:20 am / permalink 19399 / 16 stories in 15 days
Canary, Grayscale Sui ETFs Hit US Markets With Staking Rewards
Stacy Elliott / decrypt - The first Sui ETFs are now trading as Canary and Grayscale bring staking-enabled crypto exposure to traditional markets.
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 1:21 pm / permalink 19372 / 3 stories in 16 days
Hyperliquid Launches Policy Center With $29 Million Backing to Advocate for DeFi in DC
André Beganski / decrypt - The organization is led by industry veteran Jake Chervinsky and backed with $29 million worth of HYPE.
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 12:21 pm / permalink 19364 / 3 stories in 16 days
Dutch defense chief claims F-35 could be "jailbroken like an iPhone" to bypass US approval
techspot - In an interview with NR Nieuwsradio, Tuinman was asked if the F-35's software could be altered by European forces without the United States' consent should they lose the US as an ally – a prospect that has been repeatedly raised as tensions between the co…
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 11:22 am / permalink 19359 / 4 stories in 16 days
Federal court rules that OpenAI must stop using the term 'Cameo'
Andre Revilla / engadget - Cameo, the platform where celebrities sell short, personalized videos, has scored a preliminary win in a trademark lawsuit against OpenAI. A California judge has ruled that the AI company's video generation tool Sora cannot use the term 'cameo' or any var…
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AI field operations startup FYLD lands €34 million for its London-based frontline intelligence platform
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - FYLD, an AI-powered frontline intelligence platform for the global infrastructure sector out of London, announced a €34 million ($41 million) Series B round to scale its platform delivering operational certainty for distributed, high-risk fieldwork in ene…
Back to Top / Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 6:21 am / permalink 19344 / 4 stories in 16 days
Is YouTube Down Right Now? Outage Hits Over a Million People, According to Downdetector
Jeff Carlson / cnet - More than a million people around the world reported the popular video site had gone dark. Just in time for Olympics coverage!
- Engineers say service normalized after widespread outage (2)
- Investigation finds infrastructure failure caused two-hour outage (2)
- On-scene: users report mass YouTube outage worldwide (8)
- Seoul: YouTube experiences partial service disruption (1)
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Engineers say service normalized after widespread outage
Investigation finds infrastructure failure caused two-hour outage
On-scene: users report mass YouTube outage worldwide
Seoul: YouTube experiences partial service disruption
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Back to Top / Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 9:20 pm / permalink 19333 / 15 stories in 17 days
Tesla’s 45 Austin Robotaxis now have 14 crashes on the books since launching in June
Max Knoblauch / sherwood - Tesla submitted five new crash reports in January involving its Austin Robotaxi fleet, Electrek reports.
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 3:21 pm / permalink 19314 / 10 stories in 17 days
CFTC's Selig opens legal dispute against states getting in way of prediction markets
Jesse Hamilton / coindesk - Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Mike Selig fired a legal warning shot defending his agency's jurisdiction over the event contract space.
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 1:21 pm / permalink 19307 / 8 stories in 17 days
Pentagon Selects SpaceX for $100 Million Drone Swarming Competition
Trader Edge / parameter - TLDR SpaceX and xAI selected for Pentagon’s $100 million autonomous drone technology competition Six-month contest launched January 2026 to develop voice-command systems for multiple drones SpaceX acquired xAI before entering competition and ahead of plan…
Back to Top / Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 10:21 am / permalink 19284 / 4 stories in 17 days
NASA confirms target date for crewed Artemis II lunar flight
digitaltrends - NASA has announced a date for the second wet dress rehearsal for the SLS rocket that will send a crew of astronauts on a voyage around the moon in the highly anticipated Artemis II mission. The space agency also confirmed that the earliest the rocket coul…
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