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// Tech news at terminal velocity
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• Yann LeCun's new venture, AMI Labs, just casually raised a $1.03 billion seed round to build AI 'world models.'; • Redox OS takes a hard stance against AI-generated code, implementing a strict no-LLM policy for contributors; • Apple's supply chain shift hits a milestone, with 25% of all iPhones now manufactured in India.
• Nvidia pours cash into UK AI data center startup Nscale, pushing its valuation to a staggering $14.6B; • Apple is reportedly prepping a new tier of high-end "Ultra" products following the launch of the low-cost MacBook Neo; • The US Court of Appeals rules that updating Terms of Service via email is perfectly fine, and your continued use implies consent.
Sony gets caught testing dynamic pricing on the PlayStation Store; OpenAI's robotics lead quits over the new Pentagon partnership; Google's CEO gets a massive raise while Apple quietly kills the base Mac Studio.
Nintendo takes the US Government to court over tariff refunds; Valve confirms the Steam Machine is actually shipping in 2026; DJI pays $30k to the guy who hacked 7,000 robot vacuums.
Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses caught in a 'bathroom footage' privacy nightmare; Anthropic takes the DOD to court over a 'supply chain risk' label; First benchmarks for the MacBook Neo surface, plus a BlackBerry revival.
• Google and Epic bury the hatchet: The Play Store tax drops to 20% (plus fees, naturally); • Anthropic gets ghosted by the Pentagon while OpenAI swoops in to steal the defense contract; • Bill Gates' TerraPower finally gets the green light to build a next-gen nuclear reactor in Wyoming.
Apple drops the M5 Pro/Max chips and finally remembers it makes monitors; Google releases Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite for speed demons on a budget; Oracle trips over a cable and takes down TikTok (again)
Apple finally remembers budget buyers exist with the $599 iPhone 17E and cheaper AirPods; Cursor is printing money, reportedly hitting $2B ARR by simply being better at coding than you; Google is locking down Android development so hard it's starting to look like iOS with a different font.
• Microsoft bans the word 'Microslop' on Discord, immediately regrets it; • Lenovo brings a robot arm and a folding Game Boy to MWC; • VCs are officially bored of your AI SaaS wrapper
Meta's smart glasses get a little too cozy with ICE surveillance; Claude launches a 'switch from ChatGPT' button that imports your entire history; Polymarket defends letting users bet on World War III as 'invaluable data'.
OpenAI signs up for classified Pentagon duty while Anthropic walks away; NASA pushes the Artemis moon landing back to 2028 (again); Google shrinks HTTPS certificates to prepare for the quantum apocalypse.
Paramount snaps up Warner Bros. Discovery after Netflix leaves the chat; Jack Dorsey cuts Block's staff in half and warns 'you're next'; Google launches 'Nano Banana 2' (yes, really) to dominate image gen.
Google folds its robotics moonshot back into the mothership; Samsung's S26 lineup arrives with more AI than you can shake a stick at; Nvidia's earnings call confirms the world's appetite for tokens is 'exponential'
Wayve secures a massive $1.2B to teach cars how to drive ; MatX grabs $500M to take a swing at the Nvidia empire ; Cloudflare rewrites Next.js on Vite in a week because they can
Anthropic fights off Chinese spies while negotiating 'existential' terms with the Pentagon; Apple moves Mac Mini production to Texas to keep the peace; The Dark Sky team returns with Acme Weather because stock apps still disappoint
Uber pivots from building robotaxis to managing everyone else's fleets; Samsung's Galaxy S26 gets a dedicated 'Hey Plex' voice command; One man accidentally gained control of 7,000 robot vacuums (the uprising begins)
NASA's Artemis II moon mission gets rolled back to the garage (literally); Microsoft's new gaming chief promises a future without 'endless AI slop'; Sam Altman argues that humans are basically just inefficient GPUs
Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond exit Microsoft Gaming in a massive shakeup; OpenAI's new 'First Proof' model tackles research-grade mathematics; Cloudflare shrinks 2,500 API endpoints into 2 tools for AI agents
Nvidia and OpenAI scrap their $100B server marriage for a $30B fling; Google drops Gemini 3.1 Pro to reclaim the benchmark throne; Meta's ad exec admits the addiction algorithm is working exactly as intended
• Google drops Lyria 3 AI music model & announces Pixel 10a for March 5; • Etsy sells Depop to eBay for $1.2B (taking a $400M loss on the chin); • OpenAI & Reliance pour billions into India's AI infrastructure
• Mark Zuckerberg heads to court in LA to testify on social media addiction; • Meta signs a massive deal to buy millions of Nvidia's Grace and Vera chips; • Perplexity pivots away from ads to win back user trust (and maybe revenue)
Apple confirms a 'Special Experience' for March 4th (expect Macs); Valve's Steam Deck OLED hits shortages amid a global RAM crisis; ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 gets dragged by Hollywood for 'clip art' AI
Western Digital says 'sold out' thanks to AI demand; Anthropic hides Claude's thinking and devs are furious; Qwen 3.5 drops with native multimodal agents
Hollywood lawyers sharpen their knives for Seedance 2.0; xAI's safety team might be ghosting us as Grok gets 'unhinged'; Someone finally fixed Windows native development (allegedly)
DJI's new robot vacuum gets hacked immediately, turning into a spy drone; GitHub launches Agentic Workflows to automate your repo's grunt work; Airbnb admits one-third of its support tickets are now handled by AI.
Anthropic raises a staggering $30B Series G at a $380B valuation; OpenAI counters with GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, claiming 15x faster coding speeds; Helion Fusion hits 150 million degrees Celsius, inching closer to infinite power
El Paso airport shut down after a military laser zapped a party balloon; Weave's $8,000 robot will fold your laundry (eventually); Siri's big brain transplant gets delayed to iOS 27
Elon Musk pitches a lunar factory to 'catapult' satellites while half of xAI's founders quit; Windows Notepad gets a critical RCE vulnerability because apparently nothing is simple anymore; T-Mobile brings real-time translation to phone calls without needing an app.
OpenAI starts testing sponsored links in ChatGPT because servers aren't free; SpaceMolt launches an MMO exclusively for AI agents (you can't play); YouTube Music puts lyrics behind a paywall while adding AI playlists.
OpenAI's 'leaked' Super Bowl hardware ad was just a Reddit prank; Crypto.com drops a casual $70M to buy AI.com; HBO Max finally remembers the UK exists (launching March 26).
WaPo swaps CEOs for a Tumblr veteran; New York wants a 3-year timeout on data centers; GOG embraces Linux while The Verge regrets it
• 16 Claude agents spent $20k to write a C compiler (and it actually works); • Apple CarPlay finally opens the passenger door to ChatGPT and Anthropic; • Benchmark bets big ($225M) on Cerebras to dethrone the Nvidia king
EU regulators declare TikTok's 'addictive design' illegal—RIP infinite scroll?; OpenAI and Anthropic want you to stop chatting and start 'managing' (hello, GPT-5.3); Amazon books 10 SpaceX flights because they literally ran out of rockets.
Valve's hardware comeback hits a RAM-shaped wall; Spotify decides the future of audio is... paper books; Sam Altman and Anthropic trade blows over Super Bowl ads
Adobe hits Ctrl+Z on Animate's death sentence, putting the tool in 'maintenance mode' instead; Positron secures a massive $230M bag to take a swing at Nvidia's crown; Nvidia's rumored $100B OpenAI investment vanishes into thin air.
Adobe officially kills Animate (née Flash) to pivot hard into AI; Tesla retires the Model S after a 14-year run that defined the EV era; Notepad++ users beware: a 6-month supply chain attack left a backdoor wide open.
Microsoft gets cozy with Anthropic's Claude Code, sparking rumors of an OpenAI drift; Windows 11 walks back its aggressive 'Recall' AI features after user backlash; EU's Draghi report calls for a 'genuine federation' to save the continent's tech sector
SpaceX wants to launch 1 million flying data centers because ground clouds are so 2025; Waymo is reportedly raising a staggering $16B to keep its robotaxis rolling; Nvidia's Jensen Huang calls rumors of beef with OpenAI 'nonsense' while counting his chips.
AI agents built their own social network called Moltbook and it's exactly as chaotic as you'd expect; Waabi backs up the truck to a $1B funding round to put robotaxis on the road; Blue Origin stops selling tickets to space tourists to focus on the actual moon.
Amazon reportedly eyes a massive $50B stake in OpenAI; Elon Musk considers merging Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI into one mega-corp; Apple smashes earnings records with the iPhone 17 Pro
Waymo robotaxi strikes a child in Santa Monica, sparking fresh safety probes; Meta burned $19B on the metaverse last year but is now pivoting to 'AI social feeds'; Windows 11 hits 1 billion users faster than its predecessor, despite the haters.
Waabi secures $1B and an Uber partnership to put robotaxis back on the menu; Google accidentally leaks 'Aluminium,' its plan to turn Android into a desktop OS; ADL report ranks Grok dead last for safety while Claude takes the crown
Uber pivots from robotaxis to data farming with 'AV Labs'; Apple finally launches AirTag 2 (now with actual volume); Meta wants you to pay to see who isn't following you back
Synthesia hits a $4B valuation with its AI avatars; Windows 11's first 2026 update is bricking PCs; TikTok immediately breaks following its US ownership transfer.
Microsoft hands over BitLocker encryption keys to the FBI • Gmail's spam filters take a weekend break • Poland's energy grid survives a massive 'wiper' malware attack
Yann LeCun leaves Meta to launch AMI Labs with a massive $3.5B valuation; Nvidia prepares to flood the market with 8 new Arm-based laptops to challenge Intel; Legal AI giant Harvey acquires Hexus to consolidate its empire.
TikTok finalizes its deal with Trump to keep the app alive in the US; Tesla kills standard Autopilot to push a $99/mo FSD subscription; Microsoft hands over BitLocker keys to the FBI, raising privacy eyebrows