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// Tech news at terminal velocity
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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