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It’s time to put capitalism out of its misery before it puts us out of ours.

The Associated Press has uncovered a pattern where Bangladeshi workers are enticed to Russia under false pretences of civilian employment, subsequently coerced into combat roles.
Many of these individuals faced threats of violence, imprisonment, or even death if they refused.
h…

Bangladeshi workers lured to Russia for jobs tricked into fighting the war in Ukraine
Workers claim they were threatened with 10-year jail terms and beaten

Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 builds on K2 with "pretraining over ~15T mixed visual and text tokens" and "can self-direct an agent swarm with up to 100 sub-agents" (Kimi)
https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-5.html

Micron baut Speicherwerk für 24 Milliarden US-Dollar, aber über 10 Jahre
Der Speicherriese Micron will seine Präsenz in Singapur ausbauen. Erneut erstrecken sich die Pläne über viele Jahre.
https:/…

European coastal countries warn Russia's shadow fleet, step up maritime safety: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/european-coastal-countries-warn-russias.html

MAGA angers the NRA over Minneapolis shooting - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/26/maga-angers-the-nra-over-minneapolis-shooting/

Trump keeps cratering (Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-keeps-cratering
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p96#a260227p96

«Cory Doctorow zum Verfall von Facebook, Google und Co:
Mit dem Begriff «Enshitification» beschreibt der Netzaktivist Cory Doctorow den systematischen Verfall der Qualität von digitalen Plattformen als Folge konkreter Entscheidungen – die man nicht hinnehmen müsste»
Ach guck, der @… ist nun im Schweizer Fernseher und erklärt der Allgemeinheit wie das …

Cory Doctorow zum Verfall von Facebook, Google und Co. - 10 vor 10 - Play SRF
Mit dem Begriff «Enshitification» beschreibt der Netzaktivist Cory Doctorow den systematischen Verfall der Qualität von digitalen Plattformen als Folge konkreter Entscheidungen – die man nicht hinnehmen müsste.

10 biggest questions after free agency but before the 2026 draft https://www.nfl.com/news/10-biggest-questions-after-free-agency-but-before-the-2026-draft

Become a 10x Reverse Centaur with this one simple trick!

StŸt Ukraine.
Og så bagefter tænk lige vi i Danmark kunne komme til at overleve sådan en strategi..
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116142077788041706
Ruth_Mottram - Fuck Russia.
Seriously.
Genstart: Kulden sætter sig i knoglerne
Episode webpage: https://www.dr.dk/lyd/special-radio/genstart-2642056922000
Media file: https://api.dr.dk/podcasts/v1/assets/urn:dr:podcast:item:11802660046/5789fc409d99f0dde8b92feb3aabf99c3cc1d8c9e6d690427e98a0a4064dbe29.mp3

i saw this sticker on a water bottle today and thought of a certain irish twink #VOTV #VoicesOfTheVoid

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #LateJunction
Kate Carr:
🎵 Shimmer's rising
#KateCarr

I suspect that my VS Code is completely "borken" as I cannot imagine how so many people are productive using it.
1. The selection behavior I have shared earlier continues to manifest sporadically. A restart fixes it. Sometimes.
2. I can't recall any keyboard shortcuts as they don't use any historical paradigms and they are all of the place.
3. Frequently used functionality (e.g. stage changes) has no shortcuts.
I am sure this is will be unpopular opinion.
It's been my experience so far. Very frustrating and I almost gave up a few times already.

Even after so many policy changes on housing, that this kind of shit can still happen is very discouraging.
From the article:
Members said they found Malhotra’s plan both inappropriate and undesirable — too tall for the street at six storeys, even while they acknowledged its height would be within regulations under a new law and therefore not subject to their approval.

@… @… Thanks for the shout out on my favorite podcast! 🤗 The issue in my case was indeed an incredibly large number of crawler bots from different countries, all brute-force attacking my notes section with tags in t…

Who needs Bob the builder, if they've got Hannah the plumber? 🎉
(Re: Greens winning in UK)

Warum zum §$%&*# lassen sich denn schon wieder bestimmte DOI nicht von Zotero auflösen?
Die z. B.: https://doi.org/10.17104/1863-8937-2025-4

RE: #Holocaust

Do I have to stop using emdashes because people see emdashes as a sign of AI slop now? (100% of things I write are LLM and AI slop free. I just use emdashes because I think they look nice...)

More hardware upgrades coming tomorrow.
Lab bench machine has 128GB of RDIMM right now and I have 256GB of LRDIMM removed from the VM server now available.

RE: #Mansplaining

Nou, het stupide kabinet Evilgoz-1 heeft al een leus. Zal me benieuwen (not). “Hopen op Klaver”?
Jetten: we zijn nog niet klaar, maar titel regeerakkoord is er al https://nos.nl/l/2598798

Jetten: we zijn nog niet klaar, maar titel regeerakkoord is er al
In dit liveblog lees je het laatste nieuws over de formatie van een nieuw kabinet.

The one feature I still can't get over is real-time OCR on macOS. Bring up any image with text, and you can copy the text and paste it into an editor. That's pretty amazing stuff.

Sources: Bari Weiss plans to announce new CBS contributors, including existing Free Press writers like conservative historian Niall Ferguson, at an all-hands (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/bari-weiss-cbs-contributors

Bari Weiss adds new podcasters and writers as CBS contributors
Weiss is importing an upstart newsroom model into a legacy media organization, prioritizing independent voices with built-in, loyal followings.

Der "Big Tech Tobacco Moment", analysiert von @… :
"Es geht um viel mehr. Das Urteil könnte die Big-Tech-Konzerne in ihrem Innersten treffen, weil es nicht auf die Inhalte, sondern die Plattformlogik zielt: Infinite Scroll, Autoplay, Benachrichtigungen, Filter Bubble und Echokammer."
und:
"Wenn die Plattform bei den Teenag…

#MdRnH endlich wieder etwas #winterradeln! 🌨️
Und die vergessenen Handschuhe machen das #Frostpendeln gleich noch frostiger. 🥶

Automatic search for transiting #planets in TESS-SPOC FFIs with RAVEN - over 100 newly validated planets and over 2000 vetted candidates: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/advance-article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stag512/8528996?login=false -> Scientists find hidden haul in data from NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft: https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/100-new-alien-worlds-scientists-find-hidden-haul-in-data-from-nasa-exoplanet-hunting-spacecraft

2026 NFL Free Agency: The 10 Best Under-the-Radar Deals So Far This Offseason https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-nfl-free-agency-10-best-under-the-radar-deals-so-far-offseason

Karl Popper Demon Hunters

Ich brauche Rechtsberatung zum Thema Kostenübernahme für Schulbeförderung in Bayern.
Hat da jemand eine Empfehlung?
#fedihelp_de

Chinese startup Moonshot updates its Kimi model, saying K2.5 can process text, images, and videos simultaneously and beats its open-source peers in some tests (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-27/chi…

The Persian service for Trump’s overhauled Voice of America (VOA)
is censoring coverage of Iran’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi,
who played a central role in stirring up antigovernment proteststhat rocked the country earlier this month. 
Three staff members at VOA told The Hill that the adviser overseeing VOA’s Persian-language service,
#Ali

Streit um KI-Klausel: Kommende Netflix-Originals ohne deutschen Ton?
Netflix stößt beim Versuch, sich das Recht einräumen zu lassen, Synchronaufnahmen für KI-Trainingszwecke zu nutzen, auf Widerstand des Sprecherbandes.

Folks, our very own @… has his new book, 99th Day: A Warning About Technology, coming out next Monday.
https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-day/<…

99th Day: A Warning About Technology

KAMALA HARRIS MAKES LAST-MINUTE PITCH FOR JASMINE CROCKETT WITH ROBOCALL (Patrick Svitek/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/27/kamala-harris-jasmine-crockett-robocall-texas-senate-democratic-primary/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p95#a260227p95

Sources: Google's top India counsel Bijoya Roy resigned after 16 months to start a new venture, a high-profile exit in a market where it faces regulatory issues (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel…

Fuck Russia.
Seriously.
Genstart: Kulden sætter sig i knoglerne
Episode webpage: https://www.dr.dk/lyd/special-radio/genstart-2642056922000
Media file: https://api.dr.dk/podcasts/v1/assets/urn:dr:podcast:item:11802660046/5789fc409d99f0dde8b92feb3aabf99c3cc1d8c9e6d690427e98a0a4064dbe29.mp3

While there is no sign the aggressive tactics used by immigration enforcement are coming to an end,
#Jacob #Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis said the administration will begin to ✅ scale back the number of federal agents in Minneapolis starting on Tuesday,
as Trump and his team soften their harsh rhetoric about the …

This is really a "WTF how could they ever think this is a good idea?" kind of vulnerability. Usually the kind of stuff you get from shady, incompetent startups, but this is Google...
https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-w…

Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules. ◆ Truffle Security Co.
Google spent over a decade telling developers that Google API keys (like those used in Maps, Firebase, etc.) are not secrets. But that's no longer true.

VM server going down for the third attempt at updating to xcp-ng 8.3 after two previous failures resulted in rollbacks and changes to my SR configuration to hopefully be compatible with 8.3.
Also doing the first of two rounds of hardware upgrades after I scored a bunch of nice stuff from some servers that were headed to the scrapyard.

Russia plans new missile and drone strikes to bolster leverage ahead of UAE talks: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/russia-plans-new-missile-and.html

Despite a $500M federal funding cut, the US public media remains largely intact, as donations are estimated to have grown by ~$300M YoY, with new donors up 84% (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/business/media/npr-pbs-stations-…

Public Media Holds Its Apocalypse at Bay, for Now
Though Congress cut $500 million from NPR and PBS stations, vanishingly few have closed their doors. Angst about their long-term future remains.

Januar-Update für Pixel-Geräte: Nutzer klagen über Bluetooth- und WLAN-Probleme
Googles Januar-Update für Pixel-Geräte scheint nicht so stabil zu laufen wie erwünscht. Einige Nutzer haben es zudem bis heute nicht erhalten.

Zurich on line

Nvidia discloses $3.5B in guarantees to companies leasing land, power, and data center facilities, up 4x on Q3; the move may help firms without credit ratings (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-dis…

Nvidia Discloses $3.5 Billion in Data Center Lease Guarantees
Nvidia said it has provided $3.5 billion in guarantees to companies leasing land, power and data center facilities, four times the amount it disclosed the previous quarter. The guarantees could help companies without credit ratings, such as AI cloud startups, secure coveted power resources and debt financing to build data centers. Nvidia said it provided the guarantees to “early-stage

The #Washington #Post has consistently produced high-quality, news cycle-leading reporting over the first year of Donald Trump’s chaotic and unpredictable second administration.
But that work has been produced under a cloud of uncertainty and rumors of widespread

Revolut says 58% of reported job scams globally came from Telegram in 2025, dwarfing other platforms for these cases, based on an analysis of 10B transactions (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

How war makes kids grow up angry: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/how-war-makes-kids-grow.html

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116130113129035572
Thanks to two new patrons who have contacted me privately, we’re past the half way point and have pledges from 10 patrons to cover $355 of the $600/month in rent that Aseel and her family need to leave the pr…

An interview with Audrey Cooper, EIC of The Baltimore Banner, on local news decline, growing regionally, paywalls, experimenting with AI, and more (Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories

The Baltimore Banner enters a new year — and a new chapter — with a new editor-in-chief
Local journalism is shrinking in much of the country — but The Baltimore Banner is moving in the opposite direction. In just two years, the nonprofit newsroom has grown into Maryland’s largest reporting operation, expanded beyond Baltimore, and built a fast-growing base of paying subscribers. Now, with their new editor-in-chief, Audrey Cooper, at the helm, The Banner is doubling down on a belief that many in the industry have quietly abandoned: scale still matters. In this wide-ranging conv…

Precious metals soared Monday
— with gold extending its record run past $5,100 per troy ounce and silver surging to new highs
— as investors continued to load up on hard assets as a hedge against geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty.

Gold was up 2.4 percent on New York’s COMEX commodities exchange before pulling back;
it had crossed the $5,000 threshold for the first time a day earlier.
Silver, which tends to be more volatile, spiked 14.6 percent Mon…

Why gold and silver prices are surging at breakneck speeds
A record-setting rally in precious metals comes as global investors diversify away from the U.S. dollar, a phenomenon known as the “debasement trade.”

Baidu reports Q4 revenue down 4% YoY to ~$4.8B, its third consecutive quarter of revenue decline, and net profit down 66% YoY to ~$259M, below ~$374M est. (Tracy Qu/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/baid…

OpenAI says ChatGPT refused to assist a user associated with Chinese law enforcement in planning an online campaign to discredit Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Iran is exposing the limits of a presidency built on bluff, improvisation and submission rituals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/27/trump-iran-threat-bluff-credibility/

Trump’s bluff in Iran is a ‘disaster’ of his own
Iran is exposing the limits of a presidency built on bluff, improvisation and submission rituals.

Ukraine war latest live: Russian forces intensify pressure in Pokrovsk direction, military says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/ukraine-war-latest-live-russian.html

A look at Plucky Wire, a website for local newsrooms to find and share stories with each other for republication; it is now being used by over 200 publishers (Sarah Scire/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/a-scrappy-story-shar…

A scrappy story-sharing tool with local newsroom DNA gains traction
Plucky Wire was incubated in an unlikely place for a journalism technology: the tiny Granite State News Collaborative. Now, it's being used by hundreds of outlets countrywide.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff dismisses concerns of a "SaaS-pocalypse", saying companies like Anthropic use "a lot of SaaS because it just got better with agents" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b74b8227-d7cb-4976-ba95-a3a27b79cbdd

Public safety warnings issued after Russian drone strike on Lviv Oblast oil terminal: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/public-safety-warnings-issued-after.html

Citadel rebuts Citrini's viral article, arguing that AI deployment is constrained by the marginal cost of compute vs. human labor, and needs far more compute (Citadel Securities)
https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-global-intellig…

The 2026 Global Intelligence Crisis

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will launch a review into whether TikTok is violating state law by censoring content critical of President Donald Trump (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/26/n

US reportedly ties security guarantees to Ukraine ceding Donbas territory to Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/us-reportedly-ties-security-guarantees.html

Financial markets fall to new 2026 low as oil rises again
The longer oil prices remain elevated, it’s going to be harder to avoid a bad economic outcome,”
said Tom Porcelli, chief economist at Wells Fargo.
If the increase in oil prices holds for the next several months, that economic headwind could cancel out the tax cuts and other stimulus that the Trump administration was counting on, he added.

Financial leaders around the world have begun to warn that the global econo…

Financial markets fall to new 2026 low as oil rises again
Consumer sentiment in the economy dropped to its lowest level since December, as investors, businesses and consumers worry about the Iran conflict.

Ukrainian MP: No end to the war as Putin seeks brief truces to buy time: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/ukrainian-mp-no-end-to.html

Source: OpenAI expects to raise an additional $10B from financial investors by the end of March 2026, bringing its post-investment valuation to $850B (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-…

OpenAI to Raise an Additional $10 Billion in Funding From Financial Investors
OpenAI expects to raise an additional $10 billion from financial investors by the end of March, adding to the $110 billion it’s secured from SoftBank, Amazon and Nvidia, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions. That additional funding will bring OpenAI’s post-investment valuation to $850 billion, including a $35 billion tranche of funding from Amazon conditional on the

A year after Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida pledged to make his state one of the toughest in the nation on immigration enforcement,
he has largely succeeded:
More immigration arrests were made in Florida in 2025 than any state but Texas,
and there have been few signs of the crackdown easing.
Yet the enforcement machine that the Republican governor hastily built to support the federal crackdown he welcomed
is starting to show cracks, weighed down by a crush of deta…

Florida’s Immigration Crackdown, Led by DeSantis, Is Showing Cracks
Some conservative sheriffs have raised concerns about the aggressive enforcement tactics that Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has embraced.

Second night in a row: Ukrainian drones hit Russia’s Krasnodar region and Kursk as residents report multiple explosions: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/27/second-night-in-a-row.html

The short-term economic expectations of consumers plunged 14%,
though long-term expectations saw less sharp declines.
“These patterns suggest that, at this time, consumers may not expect recent negative developments to persist far into the future,”
Joanne Hsu, the director of the Surveys of Consumers, said in a statement.
“These views are subject to change, however, if the Iran conflict becomes protracted or if higher energy prices pass through to overall inflation.”…

Revolut says it aims to base 40% of its global workforce in India by the end of 2026, increasing its local headcount to 5,500; Revolut has 12,000 staff globally (Haripriya Suresh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/revolut…

Ukraine War Latest: More than 90,000 Ukrainians officially missing due to Russia's war, commissioner says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/26/ukraine-war-latest-more-than.html

Intelligence agencies in Europe believe Russia is in the final stages of preparing to 💥supply drones to Iran for use in its war with the US and Israel,
according to a senior European official.
Russia has already been providing intelligence sharing with Tehran to help it target US forces in the region, the official said,
but the upcoming delivery of explosive-laden drones would mark the first evidence of lethal support since the start of the war.
The official, who spok…

Sources: Chinese chipmaker CXMT hit ~$8B in 2025 revenue, up 130% YoY, and projects ~$435M in adjusted net income, excluding one-time items, ahead of an IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03…

Melania Trump appeared alongside Figure AI's Figure 3 humanoid robot at the White House to promote integrating more tech and AI into US children's education (Katie Rogers/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/politics/melania-trump-robot.html…

Melania Trump Appears With a Robot, Saying More Children Should Be Educated by Them
The first lady, Melania Trump, believes that more children should be educated by “humanoid educators.”

Trump might invade Iran because he can’t think of anything else to do.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/boots-on-the-ground-because-idk-why

Boots on the Ground Because Idk Why Not 🤷‍♂️
Trump might invade Iran because he can’t think of anything else to do.

Book excerpt: how Google acquired DeepMind for $650M in 2014, beating Facebook to the deal; Mustafa Suleyman used poker-style bluffing to secure a safety board (Sebastian Mallaby/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/deepmind-googl

A striking report in The Wall Street Journal suggests Trump may be moving to marginalize Stephen Miller’s influence.
But Trump appears to think the difficulty can be cured by a few optical tweaks, when the real culprit is a deeper ideological one.
Trump wants to “lower the profile of his mass deportation effort,”
the Journal reveals.
He wants voters to think the targets of these deportations are
“bad guys,”
not noncriminal undocumented residents.
…

Trump Throws Stephen Miller Under the Bus in Surprise Show of Panic
On the surface, Trump wants less attention paid to mass deportations. Meanwhile, Miller is taking new and hidden steps to wreak havoc in the lives of undocumented children and their families.

Pony AI reports 2025 revenue up 20% YoY to ~$90M, total annual losses down 72% YoY to ~$76.8M, and a $75.5M net income in Q4, its first profitable quarter ever (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/pon…

Musk joined Trump and Modi call on Iran, says New York Times - Reuters
Elon Musk joined ‌a phone call between Donald Trump and ​India's Prime Minister Narendra ​Modi on Tuesday about ⁠the war in ​Iran, the New York Times ​reported on Friday, citing two U.S. officials.
It was unclear ​why Musk was ​on the call or whether he ‌spoke, ⁠the newspaper said.

Musk joined Trump and Modi call on Iran, says New York Times — Reuters
Elon Musk joined ‌a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and ​India's Prime Minister Narendra ​Modi on Tuesday about ⁠the war in ​Iran, the New York Times ​reported on Friday, citing two U.S. officials.

An interview with OpenAI for Science head Kevin Weil on the team's mission, why LLMs can't come up with game-changing discoveries yet, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/26/1131728/ins…

Inside OpenAI’s big play for science 
An exclusive conversation with Kevin Weil, head of OpenAI for Science, a new team that wants to make scientists more productive.

We’re a month into Trump’s increasingly disastrous Iran war,
and we have no idea what’s really going on.
In part, that’s because Trump is now nothing but a creature of pure id
surrounded by enablers,
running the country like an enormous out-of-control toddler.
But it’s also because the administration is not at all interested in providing the American people with objective, reliable information.
That erasure of truth leaves us unmoored.
Trump’s inc…

What do you do when you can't trust the government?
The haze of contradictions and confusion is a feature, not a bug.

TikTok US says it doesn't "have rules against sharing the name Epstein in direct messages" and is "investigating why some users are experiencing issues" (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/27/nx-s1-5689104/tiktok-epstein-direct-me…

Flick through pro-government Hungarian accounts on TikTok, and you might see an AI-generated version of Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, sitting on a golden toilet, counting his money, snorting cocaine, and barking orders at a Hungarian soldier.
You might also find an AI-generated Péter Magyar, the leader of the Hungarian opposition, appearing to say he’s fine with handing Hungarian factories over to foreigners, as long as he’s the one in charge of the country.
Keep …

In Hungary, the First Post-Reality Political Campaign
Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is waging cognitive warfare on a new scale.

The US FCC opens a comment period for a proposal to help return outsourced call center jobs to the US; critics say the plan could drive companies to automation (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.w…

On Wednesday, the government stopped supporting FPDS.gov,
an indispensable resource for finding what ICE, the FBI, and every other agency is buying.
Its replacement site completely sucks.
“FPDS may have been a little clunky, but its simple, old-school interface made it extremely functional and robust.
Every facet of government operations touches on contracting at one point,
and this was the first tool that many investigative journalists and researchers would re…

The Government Just Made it Harder to See What Spy Tech it Buys
On Wednesday, the government stopped supporting FPDS.gov, an indispensable resource for finding what ICE, the FBI, and every other agency is buying. Its replacement site completely sucks.

WhatsApp rolls out features and updates: an AI tool to suggest replies based on a user's conversations, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/whatsapp-c…

WhatsApp can now draft AI-generated responses based on your conversations | TechCrunch
The Meta-owned messaging platform is also launching a way to free up space, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more.

Bermuda-based crypto trading platform STS Digital, which caters to institutional investors, raised $30M led by CMT Digital, with Kraken and others participating (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/26/sts-digital-fundraise-30-million-cmt-digital…

Exclusive: Crypto trading platform raises $30 million from CMT Digital and Kraken
The fundraise for STS Digital, whose product is aimed at institutions, also included Arrington Capital and an investment arm of Fidelity.

Montreal-based Stay22, which helps publishers and creators earn money from online sales, raised $122M from Summit Partners and reports $1B in 2025 transactions (Mathieu Dion/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning "programming is becoming unrecognizable" (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
https://x.com/karpathy/status/2026731645169185220

UK online supermarket Ocado plans to cut ~1,000 jobs and restructure its automated warehouse tech business; Kroger and Sobeys exited their Ocado deals early (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/794fd9ce-d657-4ad1-abc8-6a50a221887f

Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/885110/meta-instagram-parent-alert-teen-…

Instagram will alert parents if their kids ‘repeatedly’ search for self-harm topics
Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents to check on their teen searching for terms related to self-harm or suicide.

An analysis of 1,000 YouTube Shorts videos recommended to kids: the algorithm pushes bizarre, often nonsensical, AI-generated videos, and many lack disclosures (Arijeta Lajka/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/us/ai-videos-children-youtube.html…

How A.I.-Generated Videos Are Distorting Your Child’s YouTube Feed
Experts caution that low-quality, A.I.-generated videos on YouTube geared toward children often feature conflicting information, lack plot structure and can be cognitively overwhelming — all of which could affect young children’s development.

Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new "retirement interview" process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/research/deprecation-updates-opus-3

An update on our model deprecation commitments for Claude Opus 3
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Mistral and Accenture sign a multi-year deal to let Accenture deploy Mistral's models for its clients; Mistral has deals with IBM, Cisco, SAP, ASML, and others (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mistral-ai-lan

As China grapples with a shrinking population and low birthrate, some women are finding romance with AI chatbots, leading Beijing to increase AI regulations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/technol

A.I. Dating Apps Complicate China’s Efforts to Boost Birthrate
As China grapples with a shrinking population and historically low birthrate, people are finding romance with chatbots instead.

As studios like Arc Raiders maker Embark embrace AI for non-essential game elements, gamers worry that AI squeezes the art out of games, amid industry job cuts (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

AI Mistakes Are Infuriating Gamers as Developers Seek Savings
Games and AI, seemingly a perfect match, are off to a rocky start

Google launches task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26, enabling it to autonomously navigate apps like Uber and DoorDash (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/884210/google-gemini-samsung-s26-pixel-10-uber

Gemini is getting its first agentic capabilities
Google’s AI assistant will be able to hail an Uber for you or put together a grocery order — all on its own.