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Top 10 — News
- UK must restore ‘dynamism’ in labour market, says Tony Blair Institute Think-tank says it should be easier to fire high earners, hold down the minimum wage and hire abroad
- OpenAI to work with Pentagon after Anthropic dropped by Trump over company’s ethics concerns CEO Sam Altman claims military will not use AI product for autonomous killing systems or mass surveillance OpenAI said it had struck a deal…
- In puzzling outbreak, officials look to cold beer, gross ice, and ChatGPT An AI chatbot convinced health investigators they had the right answer.
- The trap Anthropic built for itself Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly.
- Polymarket defends its decision to allow betting on war as ‘invaluable’ Polymarket has been allowing people to bet on when the US would strike Iran next.
- Xiangyi Cheng Is Bringing AR to Classrooms and Hospitals When Xiangyi Cheng published her first journal paper as a principal investigator in IEEE Access in 2024, it marked more than a professional…
- Claude surpasses ChatGPT to become the #1 app on the US App Store Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/charts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202032 Points: 122 # Comments: 30
- We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk Article URL: https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2027846016423321831 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200420 Points: 106…
- Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and top universities Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/02/28/pentagon-officer-education-ivy-league-schools-universities-partners-ai-space/ Comments URL: htt…
- US not planning to tap strategic reserve as Iran war risks oil surge
Trump administration holding ‘no discussions’ about using stockpiles to soothe energy markets
AI tools & model updates
- OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership OpenAI and Amazon announce a strategic partnership bringing OpenAI’s Frontier platform to AWS, expanding AI infrastructure, custom models,…
- Amazon Bedrock announces OpenAI-compatible Projects API Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI-compatible Projects API in the Mantle inference engine in Amazon Bedrock.
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.15.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Develop Native Multimodal Agents with Qwen3.5 VLM Using NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated Endpoints Alibaba has introduced the new open source Qwen3.5 series built for native multimodal agents.
- ‘Uncanny Valley’: Pentagon vs. ‘Woke’ Anthropic, Agentic vs. Mimetic, and Trump vs. State of the Union Our hosts unpack the news of the week, starting with the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon.
- A new benchmark pits five AI models against each other as autonomous social media agents on X AI benchmarking startup Arcada Labs is pitting five leading AI models against each other as autonomous social media agents on X.
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.12-stable.2 Release update (see link for changelog).
- An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail Another in the genre of "OK, coding agents got good in November" post…
- ollama/ollama: v0.17.4 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Google and the Massachusetts AI Hub are launching a new AI training initiative for the Commonwealth.
Google is partnering with the Massachusetts AI Hub to provide every Baystater with no-cost access to Google’s AI training.
Full list — News (50)
Think-tank says it should be easier to fire high earners, hold down the minimum wage and hire abroad
Trump administration holding ‘no discussions’ about using stockpiles to soothe energy markets
Tehran targets regional countries housing American bases despite their refusal to allow attacks from their territory
American military assets in the region and Gulf oil supplies are vulnerable to attack and Israel is a renewed target
Premier was critical in convincing Donald Trump to look beyond ending Tehran’s nuclear programme
US and Israel launched ‘massive’ strikes on Iran, drawing retaliatory attacks from Tehran
Starmer’s ethics adviser flags ‘potential reputational damage’ from Josh Simons’ activities before being elected as an MP
Girls’ education facility hit as US and Israel launch joint military operation
New chief executive publishes his first letter to shareholders after Warren Buffett’s retirement
Move underscores tensions between Wall Street banks and clients as businesses converge
Brokers say cost of cover to increase by as much as 50% after conflict erupts
President has provided flurry of explanations for US and Israeli attack that shattered negotiations with Tehran
Blasts, fires, traffic jams and panic shopping as Iran’s capital comes under attack
Washington is ill-equipped to handle the regional conflagration it has unleashed
CEO Sam Altman claims military will not use AI product for autonomous killing systems or mass surveillance OpenAI said it had struck a deal…
An AI chatbot convinced health investigators they had the right answer.
The Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.
Chaos as key transit hubs in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Doha close, and more than 1,000 flights by major Middle Eastern airlines cancelled Full r…
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly.
OpenAI's CEO claims its new defense contract includes protections addressing the same issues that became a flashpoint for Anthropic.
The education secretary wants a fairer system and the Tories have leapt in with their own plan – but why now?
As the storied London dining room reopens on its bicentenary, restaurateur Jeremy King honours its heritage while restoring a faded icon Si…
Panic about antisocial behaviour and theft has broken through from social media to boardrooms and diplomatic circles “Just visit London and…
Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.
Netflix's co-CEO reportedly told Trump, "I took your advice."
Learn more about Paramount's planned acquisition of Warner Bros.
Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and…
We round up everything Xiaomi announced at its Mobile World Congress event.
China’s push into humanoid robots is accelerating, with domestic firms shipping more units and iterating faster than U.S.
Polymarket has been allowing people to bet on when the US would strike Iran next.
Welcome to the weekend, friends!
Xiaomi has announced its first Bluetooth tracker, and while the Xiaomi Tag has a more elongated design than the Apple AirTag, that lets you…
Xiaomi and Leica's long-running phone partnership just got a little closer.
Xiaomi has just given a global launch to two of its latest flagship phones, the Xiaomi 17 and 17 Ultra, along with a Leica-branded Leitzpho…
When Xiangyi Cheng published her first journal paper as a principal investigator in IEEE Access in 2024, it marked more than a professional…
Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/charts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202032 Points: 122 # Comments: 30
Article URL: https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2027846016423321831 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200420 Points: 106…
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/02/28/pentagon-officer-education-ivy-league-schools-universities-partners-ai-space/ Comments URL: htt…
Recently several AI labs have published experiments where they tried to get AI coding agents to complete large software projects.
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/24/the-war-against-pdfs-is-heating-up Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it…
Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/238386.238611 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200904 Points: 78 #…
Article URL: https://alexlitzenberger.com/blog/post.html?post=/building_a_minimal_transformer_for_10_digit_addition Comments URL: https://n…
Article URL: https://blog.vonng.com/en/db/minio-resurrect/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200342 Points: 166 # Commen…
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199948…
Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/technology/alibabas-new-open-source-qwen3-5-medium-models-offer-sonnet-4-5-performance Comments URL: h…
Article URL: https://robservatory.com/block-the-upgrade-to-tahoe-alerts-and-system-settings-indicator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat…
Article URL: https://gist.github.com/dollspace-gay/d8d3bc3ecf4188df049d7a4726bb2a00 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4719…
Article URL: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-whole-thing-was-scam Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197505 Points:…
Article URL: https://help.obsidian.md/sync/headless Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197267 Points: 360 # Comments: 129
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
OpenAI and Amazon announce a strategic partnership bringing OpenAI’s Frontier platform to AWS, expanding AI infrastructure, custom models,…
Amazon Bedrock now supports OpenAI-compatible Projects API in the Mantle inference engine in Amazon Bedrock.
Release update (see link for changelog).
OpenAI and Figma launch a new Codex integration that connects code and design, enabling teams to move between implementation and the Figma…
Alibaba has introduced the new open source Qwen3.5 series built for native multimodal agents.
Organizations deploying LLMs are challenged by inference workloads with different resource requirements.
Our hosts unpack the news of the week, starting with the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon.
Even with newer models like GPT-5.2 and Claude 4.6, AI chatbots still give worse answers the longer a conversation goes on.
AI benchmarking startup Arcada Labs is pitting five leading AI models against each other as autonomous social media agents on X.
AI search engine Perplexity is introducing two new text embedding models designed to match or beat Google's and Alibaba's offerings at a fr…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail Another in the genre of "OK, coding agents got good in November" post…
Amazon Bedrock batch inference now supports the Converse API as a model invocation type, enabling you to use a consistent, model-agnostic i…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Free Claude Max for (large project) open source maintainers Anthropic are now offering their $200/month Claude Max 20x plan for free to ope…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Stateful Runtime for Agents in Amazon Bedrock brings persistent orchestration, memory, and secure execution to multi-step AI workflows powe…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
The new open source project IronCurtain uses a unique method to secure and constrain AI assistant agents before they flip your digital life…
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Google is partnering with the Massachusetts AI Hub to provide every Baystater with no-cost access to Google’s AI training.
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