February 23, 2026

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras: While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands. Read More

Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports: Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of using 24,000 fake accounts to distill Claude's AI capabilities, as U.S. officials debate export controls aimed at slowing China's AI progress. Read More

Google's Cloud AI lead on the three frontiers of model capability: AI models are pushing against three frontiers at once: raw intelligence, response time, and a third quality you might call "extensibility." Read More

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Finnish quantum unicorn IQM set to go public: Finnish unicorn IQM plans to go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) valuing the company at approximately $1.8 billion — joining the growing cohort of quantum computing companies listed on U.S. stock markets.  Read More

How AI agents could destroy the economy: Citrini Research imagines a report from two years in the future, in which unemployment has doubled and the total value of the stock market has fallen by more than a third. Read More

Defense Secretary summons Anthropic's Amodei over military use of Claude: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for a tense discussion over the military's use of Claude. Hegseth has threatened to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk." Read More

With AI, investor loyalty is (almost) dead: at least a dozen OpenAI VCs now also back Anthropic : While some dual investors are understandable, others were more shocking, and signal the disregard of a longstanding ethical conflict-of-interest rule. Read More

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Kindred talks home-swapping platform for travelers, Chef Robotics introduces AI into commercial kitchens, and Character.AI addresses chatbot safety with teens.

OpenAI calls in the consultants for its enterprise push: OpenAI is partnering with four consulting giants in an effort to see more adoption of its OpenAI Frontier AI agent platform. Read More

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