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Top 10 — News
- Tech stocks dip as Nvidia results fail to quell AI spending fears Results from chip group gave Wall Street indices an early knock but ‘progress’ in US-Iran talks aid afternoon recovery
- Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously threatened to remove the firm from the department's supply chain.
- Anthropic CEO stands firm as Pentagon deadline looms Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that he "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Pentagon's demands to give the military unrestri…
- Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women "Neanderthal deserts" in our genomes suggest a strong pattern in matings.
- Anthropic acquires Vercept to give Claude sharper eyes for reading and controlling computer screens Anthropic acquires Vercept to boost Claude's computer use with the startup's screen recognition model "VyUI." The article Anthropic acquire…
- Google Workers Seek ‘Red Lines’ on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/technology/google-deepmind-letter-pentagon.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/…
- The Hunt for Dark Breakfast – Can we derive breakfasts we have never observed? Article URL: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4717…
- A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives Article URL: https://bookriot.com/hr7661-book-ban-legislation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176157 Points: 6 # Comm…
- US warns it will axe all Anthropic agreements without Pentagon deal CEO Dario Amodei says start-up ‘cannot in good conscience’ agree to US government’s terms
- Paramount clinches Warner Bros deal after Netflix walks away
Streaming company’s decision ends months-long battle to buy parent of CNN, HBO and franchises like Harry Potter
AI tools & model updates
- openai/openai-python: v2.24.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-node: v6.25.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.84.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-anthropic==1.3.4 Release update (see link for changelog).
- ollama/ollama: v0.17.2 Release update (see link for changelog).
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.16.custm-auth.dev Release update (see link for changelog).
- Google’s Nano Banana 2 brings Pro-level image generation to Flash speeds at up to 40% lower API cost Google's new Nano Banana 2 image generation model pairs the capabilities of the pricier Pro model with Gemini Flash speed at nearly half th…
- Google API Keys Weren’t Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules. Google API Keys Weren't Secrets.
- vllm-project/vllm: v0.16.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Amazon Location Service introduces LLM Context as a Kiro power and Claude Code plugin to improve AI performance
Today, Amazon Location launched curated AI Agent context as a Kiro power , Claude Code plugin , and agent skill in the open Agent Skills fo…
Full list — News (50)
Results from chip group gave Wall Street indices an early knock but ‘progress’ in US-Iran talks aid afternoon recovery
CEO Dario Amodei says start-up ‘cannot in good conscience’ agree to US government’s terms
Streaming company’s decision ends months-long battle to buy parent of CNN, HBO and franchises like Harry Potter
Loss would be a severe blow to UK ruling party after divisive campaign
Outcome of take-private fight offers lessons for similar battles taking place across corporate Japan
Keshav Murugesh of WNS, part of Capgemini, on how India’s outsourcing services will handle agentic AI
Oval Office gathering signals growing partnership between democratic socialist mayor of New York and Republican president
Televised gala offers a showcase and opportunity for the best of Chinese tech
British Museum’s deal with Igor Tulchinsky thought to be worth £5mn
Extra tax obtained from the 2,000 largest businesses doubles in three years
Fall in index raises questions over whether recent improvement in economic indicators will continue
Group’s shares surge 25% as CEO says ‘most companies are late’ to realise how much technology will affect employment
Files released by US authorities show the sex offender travelled in and out of at least two UK military facilities
Incident comes amid heightened tensions between Washington and Havana
FS KKR shares tumble 15% as markdowns highlight growing strains in debt extended to unlisted companies
Former secretary of state issues blistering statement in closed-door testimony to lawmakers
Results underscore investor fears that prediction markets are eating into the $14bn US sports gambling sector
Company’s shares have fallen to a five-year low after being absorbed into smaller rival in 2020
Oman’s foreign minister says the two countries are set to meet again following round of negotiations in Geneva
Company warns earnings from licensing business will be below expectations after clients scale back online grocery plans
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously threatened to remove the firm from the department's supply chain.
Netflix's decision to back down from the bidding war clears the path for Paramount to win the takeover battle.
The young woman, who accuses Meta and Google of making addictive social media platforms, has been speaking in court.
The Twitter co-founder says he believes the majority of firms will make similar changes "within the next year."
Connecting up music and sports events to the internet is a massive undertaking.
The fast-food chain is testing OpenAI-powered headsets that monitor staff interactions with customers.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that he "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Pentagon's demands to give the military unrestri…
Mark Zuckerberg was at Prada's fashion week event in Milan, leaving everyone to wonder if we're getting Meta AI glasses under the Prada bra…
In a one-two punch of centibillion-dollar offers, the bidding war for Warner Bros.
The deal paves the way for Form Energy to raise a new funding round before potentially going public next year.
"Neanderthal deserts" in our genomes suggest a strong pattern in matings.
It's also a buttoned-down, ostensibly safer take on the OpenClaw concept.
“Temu sound wall” not enough to quell fury over xAI’s power plant.
Geometry of tread patterns determines frequency, so blocks were designed to play Star Wars music.
Jack Dorsey has long been an open admirer of Elon Musk.
PayPal may not be in talks to be acquired, sources have told Semafor, after a previous news report that Stripe was sniffing around.
The company's modular computer tiles offer a new vision for space data centers.
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Anthropic acquires Vercept to boost Claude's computer use with the startup's screen recognition model "VyUI." The article Anthropic acquire…
Anthropic's desktop assistant Cowork can now handle recurring tasks on a schedule, running them automatically at set times.
Suno investor C.C.
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/technology/google-deepmind-letter-pentagon.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/…
Article URL: https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4717…
Article URL: https://bookriot.com/hr7661-book-ban-legislation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176157 Points: 6 # Comm…
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/litellm/jobs/unlCynJ-founding-reliability-performance-engineer Comments URL: https://new…
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Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173121 Points:…
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Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
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Google's new Nano Banana 2 image generation model pairs the capabilities of the pricier Pro model with Gemini Flash speed at nearly half th…
Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in US West (N.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Alibaba has introduced the new Qwen 3.5 model series.
Today, AWS announces the developer preview of the AWS Lambda Durable Execution SDK for Java.
Google API Keys Weren't Secrets.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Google is turning its AI creative studio Flow into an all-in-one tool for images and videos, with free image generators and new editing fea…
Claude Code Remote Control New Claude Code feature dropped yesterday: you can now run a "remote control" session on your computer and then…
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Africa (Cape Town) region.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Today, Amazon Location launched curated AI Agent context as a Kiro power , Claude Code plugin , and agent skill in the open Agent Skills fo…
Amazon Bedrock now enables server-side tool execution through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway integration with the Responses API.
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Today, AWS announces AWS Observability as a Kiro power, enabling developers and operators to investigate infrastructure and application hea…
Amazon RDS Snapshot Export to S3 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, enabling you to export snapshot data in Apache Parquet form…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and South…
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region.
Release update (see link for changelog).