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Defense Secretary Hegseth Declares Anthropic Supply Chain Risk, Cutting It Off From Military Contractors

Feb 27, 2026 · 3:40pm PST
“Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic,” Hegseth said.
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Crypto VC Giant Paradigm Raising Up to $1.5 Billion for New Fund

Feb 27, 2026 · 3:33pm PST
The venture firm is expanding into AI, robotics with the new fund, WSJ reports.
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OpenAI Fires Employee for Prediction Market Trades

Feb 27, 2026 · 2:52pm PST
Markets about AI products have become common on Polymarket and Kalshi.
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Trump Directs Federal Agencies To Stop Using Anthropic’s AI

Feb 27, 2026 · 1:24pm PST
Trump’s statement came an hour before a deadline for Anthropic to agree to the Pentagon’s demands to make its AI available for “any lawful use” or face consequences.
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OpenAI to Raise an Additional $10 Billion in Funding From Financial Investors

Feb 27, 2026 · 10:56am PST
The additional funding will bring OpenAI's valuation, including the investment, to $850 billion.
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OpenAI Branches Out from Microsoft with New Products For Amazon’s Cloud

Feb 27, 2026 · 6:57am PST
Amazon will serve some new OpenAI applications on its cloud, but the AI models that power those applications will still run on Microsoft Azure.
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OpenAI Lines Up $110 Billion in Funding From Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank

Feb 27, 2026 · 6:55am PST
OpenAI says more financial investors will likely join the round.
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xAI’s ‘Macrohard’ Chief Third Co-Founder to Leave This Month

Feb 27, 2026 · 6:30am PST
Toby Pohlen is the latest high level staffer to leave xAI in recent weeks, coinciding with its acquisition by SpaceX.
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Amazon and OpenAI Reach $50 Billion Investment Agreement

Feb 27, 2026 · 5:57am PST
OpenAI committed to using Amazon's Trainium AI chips and to making Amazon's cloud unit the exclusive "third party" cloud provider of OpenAI's AI management tool Frontier.
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Anthropic CEO Says Company Won’t Agree to Pentagon Demands

Feb 26, 2026 · 7:48pm PST
On Friday, Anthropic faces a deadline to agree to the Pentagon’s demands or potentially be forced to do so by law.
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Exclusive: Anthropic Says Daily Signups to Claude Chatbot Tripled Since November

Feb 26, 2026 · 4:13pm PST
Paid subscribers of Anthropic's Claude chatbot have more than doubled since October while free users have grown by 60% in the last month, the company said.
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CoreWeave Losses Top Analyst Expectations, Hurting Stock

Feb 26, 2026 · 2:22pm PST
CoreWeave’s results showed how cloud companies continue to struggle with the costs of setting up and leasing expensive AI chips.
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Intuit Stock Slips Despite Beating Revenue Forecast

Feb 26, 2026 · 2:19pm PST
Intuit's quarterly revenue grew two percentage points faster than its prior projection for the period.
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Block Cuts Workforce by 40% in AI Bet

Feb 26, 2026 · 2:07pm PST
Block plans to cut its 10,000-strong workforce to under 6,000 employees.
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U.S. Regulator Proposes Tightening Stablecoin Yield Ban

Feb 26, 2026 · 11:05am PST
The proposal would likely draw pushback from crypto companies.
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Thrive Capital’s Later Funds Outperform Early Vehicles

Feb 26, 2026 · 10:29am PST
Thrive's later funds have returned cash at an above average rate, despite venture-backed companies staying private longer.
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Netflix Drops Out of Bidding for WBD

Feb 26, 2026 · 10:24am PST · 1 comment
WBD's decision gives Netflix four days to raise its offer or walk away.
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DeepSeek Excludes Nvidia, AMD From Early Access to New Model

Feb 25, 2026 · 9:37pm PST
DeepSeek instead gave Chinese chip companies, including Huawei, early access to its upcoming V4 model.
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Amazon’s OpenAI Investment Could Link Funding to IPO or AGI

Feb 25, 2026 · 9:34pm PST
Amazon would invest $15 billion upfront, with an additional $35 billion tied to the achievement of the specific milestones.
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Exclusive: OpenAI Hires Meta AI Researcher Who Previously Led Apple’s Models Team

Feb 25, 2026 · 5:51pm PST
Ruoming Pang’s move to OpenAI follows a wave of departures from Meta’s AI team over the past year, though Meta also has hired people from OpenAI and others.