Daily Digest - 2026-02-22

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Today: Apple Intelligence pushes hallucinated stereotypes to devices · Trump signals 15% global tariffs · AI: OpenAI First Proof submissions.

Top 10 — News

  1. What does Trump’s latest tariff threat mean for his previous trade pacts?
    Business & economy | Financial Times - World | 2026-02-22 07:12 UTC
    Analysts say the risk of retaliation is likely to deter countries from seeking to backtrack on already agreed deals
  2. Trump says he will increase his new global tariffs to 15%
    Business & economy | BBC News - Business | 2026-02-22 08:08 UTC
    After most of his tariffs were outlawed on Friday, Trump announced new global tariffs of 10% - which he says he has now increased to 15%.
  3. ‘Eye-watering numbers’: food producers sound alarm on rise in energy charges
    Business & economy | The Guardian - Business | 2026-02-22 07:00 UTC
    Indoor growers warn April price jump will hinder sector’s competitiveness and drive up costs for consumers Outside, it’s an overcast and bl…
  4. Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too
    Tech industry | TechCrunch | 2026-02-21 21:38 UTC
    "It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."
  5. NASA says it needs to haul the Artemis II rocket back to the hangar for repairs
    Tech industry | Ars Technica | 2026-02-21 23:54 UTC
    "Accessing and remediating any of these issues can only be performed in the VAB."
  6. Arturia’s FX Collection 6 adds two new effects and a $99 intro version
    Tech industry | The Verge | 2026-02-21 21:10 UTC
    Arturia launched a new version of its flagship effects suite, FX Collection, which includes two new plugins, EFX Ambient and Pitch Shifter-…
  7. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns “the world is not prepared” as OpenAI accelerates research using its own AI
    AI frontier | The Decoder (AI) | 2026-02-21 18:15 UTC
    Sam Altman says AGI is "pretty close" and superintelligence "not that far off." Speaking at the Express Adda event in India, the OpenAI CEO…
  8. How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
    Tech industry | Hacker News (front page) | 2026-02-21 19:07 UTC
    Article URL: https://www.anuragk.com/blog/posts/Taalas.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103661 Points: 129 # Comme…
  9. Back to FreeBSD: Part 1
    Tech industry | Hacker News (front page) | 2026-02-22 07:16 UTC
    Article URL: https://hypha.pub/back-to-freebsd-part-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108989 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
  10. Japanese Woodblock Print Search
Tech industry | Hacker News (front page) | 2026-02-22 03:18 UTC
Article URL: https://ukiyo-e.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107781 Points: 94 # Comments: 15

AI tools & model updates

  1. Anthropic’s new AI security tool sends cybersecurity stocks tumbling
    AI tools & model releases | The Decoder (AI) | 2026-02-21 10:15 UTC
    Anthropic has launched Claude Code Security, a tool designed to catch security vulnerabilities that conventional scanners miss.
  2. anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: bedrock-sdk: v0.26.4
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript | 2026-02-19 20:04 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  3. anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.83.0
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python | 2026-02-19 19:26 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  4. microsoft/semantic-kernel: vectordata-dotnet-10.0.0
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - microsoft/semantic-kernel | 2026-02-19 17:26 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  5. BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.12-stable
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm | 2026-02-21 22:46 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  6. ollama/ollama: v0.16.3
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - ollama/ollama | 2026-02-19 22:11 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  7. microsoft/onnxruntime: ONNX Runtime v1.24.2
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - microsoft/onnxruntime | 2026-02-19 21:28 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
  8. Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks
    AI tools & model releases | Google DeepMind Blog | 2026-02-19 16:06 UTC
    3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.
  9. langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-core==1.2.14
    AI tools & model releases | GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain | 2026-02-19 14:22 UTC
    Release update (see link for changelog).
Full list — News (50)
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-22 07:12 UTC
Analysts say the risk of retaliation is likely to deter countries from seeking to backtrack on already agreed deals
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
Defence technology sector outperforms in an otherwise gloomy landscape as Russia’s invasion enters fifth year
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
US LNG arriving at entry points in Greece can be exported by pipeline to the Balkans and beyond
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-22 00:31 UTC
US president steps back into fight between streamer and Paramount Skydance to acquire Warner Bros Discovery
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
China and others have long been adept at using supply chains to their advantage — the EU should do the same
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
Activists fear coming third to Greens and Reform, which have both run energetic and populist campaigns
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
TK Elevator predicts a boost from elderly people reluctant to take the stairs
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
After a year of acrimony, rightwing activist Leo Brent Bozell III is charged with navigating the fraught relationship
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
UG Solutions, which guarded aid distribution sites in enclave, seeks new business under Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ plan
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
Groups unable to cash out while other forms of dealmaking have returned
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
Gap between large moves in individual equities and subdued index performance hits highest since global financial crisis
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-22 01:31 UTC
Case brought by Kathryn Shiber fuelled debate about junior bankers’ working hours
Tech industry · Financial Times - Technology · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
It’s now possible to see a future where smart eyewear could be ubiquitous
Tech industry · Financial Times - Technology · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
Peter Thiel-chaired data intelligence group alleges that Republik did not give it sufficient right to reply
Tech industry · Financial Times - Technology · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
Employees videoing their mundane office routines are teaching a younger audience about corporate life
Tech industry · Financial Times - Technology · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
Research that shows LLMs memorise more training data than previously thought raises questions about copyright infringement
Tech industry · Financial Times - Technology · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
AI is fuelling a surge in recorded work meetings that we need to think about more carefully
Tech industry · Financial Times - Technology · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
Companies are seeking advice on how to provide energy to data centres and profit from artificial intelligence
Tech industry · Financial Times - Technology · 2026-02-22 01:15 UTC
The world’s most populous country continues to struggle to find its place in an industry dominated by the US and China
Business & economy · Financial Times - World · 2026-02-21 19:55 UTC
The New York-based Wachtell has suffered rare defections in a hot market for top deals lawyers
Business & economy · BBC News - Business · 2026-02-22 08:08 UTC
After most of his tariffs were outlawed on Friday, Trump announced new global tariffs of 10% - which he says he has now increased to 15%.
Business & economy · BBC News - Business · 2026-02-22 06:00 UTC
A cross-party committee will also look into the appointment and accountability of UK trade envoys.
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-22 07:00 UTC
Indoor growers warn April price jump will hinder sector’s competitiveness and drive up costs for consumers Outside, it’s an overcast and bl…
Business & economy · BBC News - Business · 2026-02-22 07:09 UTC
Each year, Citizens Advice selects social policy areas for analysis based on its clients' issues.
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-21 19:43 UTC
President announced increase from 10% using different authority from mechanism that supreme court struck down on Friday Donald Trump announ…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-22 07:00 UTC
CBI and Energy UK report finds 40% of firms have cut investment as electricity costs remain far above pre-Ukraine levels The UK is at risk…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-22 07:00 UTC
Insurers say cases of scammers manipulating people into staging crashes and filing bogus claims are under-reported Romance fraud typically…
Business & economy · The Guardian - Business · 2026-02-22 05:00 UTC
Major chains agree to halve default sweetness, but street vendors and cafes remain outside sugar tax rules A crowd of customers, holding ph…
Tech industry · The Guardian - Technology · 2026-02-22 07:00 UTC
With sensors that cool the air as it nears your head, this high-end tool promises gentler styling for sensitive scalps • The best hair drye…
Tech industry · The Guardian - Technology · 2026-02-22 06:00 UTC
Overdependence on chatbots is a growing problem, and though your boyfriend’s ADHD may be a factor, he needs to find the root of his anxiety…
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-21 21:38 UTC
"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."
Tech industry · Ars Technica · 2026-02-21 23:54 UTC
"Accessing and remediating any of these issues can only be performed in the VAB."
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-22 09:00 UTC
A list of some of the alternative app stores iPhone users in the EU can try today.
Tech industry · TechCrunch · 2026-02-21 20:20 UTC
Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 69…
Tech industry · The Verge · 2026-02-21 21:10 UTC
Arturia launched a new version of its flagship effects suite, FX Collection, which includes two new plugins, EFX Ambient and Pitch Shifter-…
AI frontier · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-21 18:15 UTC
Sam Altman says AGI is "pretty close" and superintelligence "not that far off." Speaking at the Express Adda event in India, the OpenAI CEO…
AI frontier · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-22 08:55 UTC
Apple Intelligence automatically summarizes notifications, text messages, and emails on hundreds of millions of iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
AI frontier · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-21 18:55 UTC
Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and costs less than half the price of the competition.
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-21 19:07 UTC
Article URL: https://www.anuragk.com/blog/posts/Taalas.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103661 Points: 129 # Comme…
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-22 07:16 UTC
Article URL: https://hypha.pub/back-to-freebsd-part-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108989 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-22 03:18 UTC
Article URL: https://ukiyo-e.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107781 Points: 94 # Comments: 15
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-22 01:08 UTC
Article URL: https://www.sambent.com/a-botnet-accidentally-destroyed-i2p-the-full-story/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-22 00:29 UTC
Article URL: https://boristane.com/blog/how-i-use-claude-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106686 Points: 520 # Co…
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-21 21:51 UTC
Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7188 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105198 Points: 127 #…
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-21 20:57 UTC
Hi everyone, I'm kinda involved in some retrogaming and with some experiments I ran into the following question: "It would be possible to r…
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-21 20:10 UTC
Article URL: https://www.eduke32.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47104185 Points: 187 # Comments: 66
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-21 19:41 UTC
Article URL: https://inputlag.science Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103945 Points: 90 # Comments: 30
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-21 19:40 UTC
Article URL: https://www.harudagondi.space/blog/parse-dont-validate-and-type-driven-design-in-rust/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.…
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-21 18:50 UTC
Article URL: https://github.com/a-e-k/canvas_ity Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103506 Points: 95 # Comments: 34
Tech industry · Hacker News (front page) · 2026-02-21 18:09 UTC
Article URL: https://carbuzz.com/toyota-mirai-massive-depreciation-one-year/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103136 Po…
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
AI tools & model releases · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-21 10:15 UTC
Anthropic has launched Claude Code Security, a tool designed to catch security vulnerabilities that conventional scanners miss.
AI tools & model releases · NVIDIA Developer Blog · 2026-02-19 17:30 UTC
NVIDIA flagship data center GPUs in the NVIDIA Ampere, NVIDIA Hopper, and NVIDIA Blackwell families all feature non-uniform memory access (…
AI tools & model releases · The Decoder (AI) · 2026-02-21 10:57 UTC
Anthropic is rolling out new desktop features for Claude Code that automate more of the development workflow.
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript · 2026-02-19 20:04 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript · 2026-02-19 20:04 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript · 2026-02-19 20:04 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python · 2026-02-19 19:26 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - microsoft/semantic-kernel · 2026-02-19 17:26 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-21 22:46 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-21 03:31 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · Simon Willison (LLM/tools) · 2026-02-20 23:47 UTC
I've been wanting to add indications of my various other online activities to my blog for a while now.
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-20 18:45 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · OpenAI Blog (releases-only) · 2026-02-20 14:30 UTC
We share our AI model’s proof attempts for the First Proof math challenge, testing research-grade reasoning on expert-level problems.
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-20 09:08 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-20 04:46 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-20 01:04 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - ollama/ollama · 2026-02-19 22:11 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) · 2026-02-19 22:00 UTC
You can now deploy AWS IAM Identity Center in 38 AWS Regions, including Asia Pacific (New Zealand).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - microsoft/onnxruntime · 2026-02-19 21:28 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-19 20:07 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-19 19:19 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) · 2026-02-19 19:11 UTC
Starting today, Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs are now available in Asia Pacific…
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - microsoft/semantic-kernel · 2026-02-19 18:40 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
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AI tools & model releases · Simon Willison (LLM/tools) · 2026-02-19 17:58 UTC
Gemini 3.1 Pro The first in the Gemini 3.1 series, priced the same as Gemini 3 Pro ($2/million input, $12/million output under 200,000 toke…
AI tools & model releases · Google DeepMind Blog · 2026-02-19 16:06 UTC
3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain · 2026-02-19 14:22 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-19 09:09 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - BerriAI/litellm · 2026-02-19 02:28 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools & model releases · AWS What's New (Recent Announcements) · 2026-02-19 02:00 UTC
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i-flex instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt) and…
AI tools & model releases · GitHub Releases - langchain-ai/langchain · 2026-02-18 23:03 UTC
Release update (see link for changelog).