Tootfinder

Everybody is (understandably) very excited that Anthropic isn't selling their AI for Hegseth to use to automate his war crimes. But I would gently suggest that we not accept setting the bar quite so low. https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/27/a-cookie-for-dario/

A Cookie for Dario? — Anthropic and selling death
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Source: the DOD appears to have accepted OpenAI's safety red lines, which were similar to Anthropic's, to deploy OpenAI's tech in classified settings (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/pentagon-openai-safety-red-lines-anthropic

OpenAI reaches agreement with Pentagon to use AI models
The Pentagon has complained Anthropic's red lines on military use were "woke."

investors in companies like Apple, Google and Samsung are gonna love this

Rare Disease Day 2026 highlights global inequities and amplifies youth voices in call for lasting change
On 28 February 2026, Rare Disease Day will once again bring together millions of people worldwide to spotlight the realities faced by those living with rare diseases
and to call for more equitable healthcare, research and social inclusion.
There are more than 6,000 identified rare diseases,
together impacting an estimated 300 million people worldwide
– between…

Rare Disease Day 2026 highlights global inequities and amplifies youth voices in call for lasting change
Rare Disease Day 2026 highlights global inequities and amplifies youth voices in call for lasting change

For today‘s 30th anniversary of #Pokémon, The Strait Times in Singapore did a comprehensive data journalism story on everything about the pocket monsters (including a Tree of Life) in their newspaper edition today.

The Pokemon tree of life
To celebrate 30 years of catching ’em all, discover the parallels between the Pokemon universe and our own.

Nuzzle time :3

I've been sending some minor contributions to Mactrix, which is highlighted in TWIM: https://matrix.org/blog/2026/02/27/this-week-in-matrix-2026-02-27/#mactrix (Drafts was me; @…

This Week in Matrix 2026-02-27
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

#TGIQF: Das Quiz rund um Akkus und Batterien
Erst mit leistungsfähigen Akkus begann das mobile Zeitalter mit Internetzugriff von überall. Ein Quiz rund um die Stromspeicher für Laptop, Smartphone und Co.

"Give us your models by 5:01pm or we'll simultaneously seize them for use and also designate them unusable at the same time!"
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/24/hegseth-sets-friday-deadline-for-anthrop…

Pentagon sets Friday deadline for Anthropic to abandon ethics rules for AI — or else
The defense secretary has threatened to cancel the AI startup’s Pentagon work and designate it a supply chain risk, according to a person granted anonymity to describe sensitive talks.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,265,130 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/27/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Senator Wyden says Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, who Trump nominated for the dual-hat role of National Security Agency director and U.S. Cyber Command commander, is unqualified for the job.
https://defensescoop.com/2026/02/27/wyden-blocks-trump-nsa-cyber-com…

Senator puts hold on Trump’s pick for top uniformed cyber chief over lack of experience, ‘vague’ answers to surveillance questions
A Democratic senator on the intelligence committee said he would block Trump’s pick for top uniformed cyber chief because his nominee “is not qualified for this job."

Es ist nun wieder Ende des Monats und das heißt neue Rechnungen für die Server! Wir haben diverse Ausgaben und Moderationsarbeit nimmt leider viel Zeit, weswegen wir uns über eine kleine Unterstützung sehr freuen würden! :boost_requested:
:liberapay: LiberaPay
:paypal:

MastodonDE's profile - Liberapay
You can find a complete and detailed explanation of our maintenance costs here: English German

Much-needed action by the IETF: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9945.html
Tl;dr: Sand has historically been thrown in the gears by disruptive assholes, and the remediation process was ultra-heavyweight and slow.
Axiom: Anything public-facing requires investment in moderation guardra…

I can probably never move again

DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence lab whose low-cost model rattled global markets last year, has not shown U.S. chipmakers its upcoming flagship model for performance optimization, two sources familiar with the matter said, breaking from standard industry practice ahead of a major model update.
Instead, the lab, which is expected to launch its next major update, V4, granted early access to domestic suppliers, including Huawei Technologies, the sources said.
#LLMs #AI

from my link log —
Making wasm a first-class language on the web.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first-class-language-on-the-web/
saved 2026-02-26

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the recent WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The 1.0 version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of applications to efficiently target the web.

Trump says U.S. military has begun major combat operations in Iran
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/28/trump-us-military-iran-strikes-middle-east-oil.html

Like in Orbšn's Hungary, Trump's oligarchs take control of the media. There goes CNN.
CBS News and CNN staffers fear ‘disaster’ as Paramount wins Warner Bros battle
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/27…

In an interview, Apple's SVP of Services Eddy Cue says Brazil is Apple TV's second-largest and fastest growing market in terms of subscribers (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/26/eddy-cue-says-…

Eddy Cue: Brazil is Apple TV’s second-largest market, talks Netflix-Warner merger - 9to5Mac
In an interview, Cue emphasized Brazil’s growing role in Apple TV’s business, and commented on Netflix’s attempt to acquire Warner Bros.

Der Februar 2026 war sehr mild und brachte viel #Niederschlag sowie wenig #Sonnenschein.
Im Norden hielten sich winterliche #Bedingungen länger, während zum Monatsende frühlingshafte…

Wenn ihr heute für das #SocialMediaVerbot für irgendeine Altersgruppe seid, müsst Ihr morgen auf all den Plattformen Euer Alter schätzen lassen (bad luck, wenn's schief geht), oder dem US-Unternehmen Euren Ausweis mit all den Daten schenken.

DHS shutdown could go on for a while -- because voters aren't paying attention (Paul Kane/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/28/dhs-government-shutdown-2026-non-issue-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p9#a260228p9

A friend of mine built this thing called Pysey:
"A desktop emulator and development environment for Pygame-based video synthesis. PYSEY is for visual artists, musicians, and developers who work with EYESY-style video synthesis."
https://pysey-synth.com/

PYSEY Video Synthesizer - A desktop emulator and development environment for Pygame-based video synthesis
A desktop emulator and development environment for Pygame-based video synthesis. Audio-reactive visuals, Syphon output, MIDI control. Free and open-source.

Amerikanische Pfadfinder dürfen sich nicht mehr für Diversity einsetzen und der "Citizen in Society Badge" wird abgeschafft.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/27/the-department-of-war-just-put-scouting-america-on-notice/

Source: Sam Altman told employees the DOD is willing to let OpenAI build its own "safety stack" and won't force OpenAI to comply if its model refuses a task (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/27/openai-in-talks-with-pentago…

Sam Altman tells staff at an all-hands that OpenAI is negotiating a deal with the Pentagon, after Trump orders the end of Anthropic contracts
The negotiations come as rival Anthropic is locked in a more contentious standoff with U.S. defense officials.

Ukrainian ground robot ambush kills two Russian infantrymen on the Pokrovsk axis: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/26/ukrainian-ground-robot-ambush-kills.html

Given how they can only be produced by exploitation of workers from the global majority no system including any of the big LLMs in their production can ever be called "fair".
"Fair LLMs" of the size required to do the tasks people want LLMs to do (badly) do not exist.

Life Hack for those without unlimited downloads:
If you go over your limit, make sure to reupload that data so you don't get charged extra! :blobcatthinksmart:

Fuck.
Live Updates: **U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran** - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/28/world/iran-strikes-trump#iran-strikes-us

FDA Rare Disease Day 2026
February 23 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm EST
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hosted Rare Disease Day,
a virtual public meeting, on Monday, February 23, 2026 in global observance of Rare Disease Week.
The theme is:
“Moving Forward. Looking Ahead. An Event for Patients.”
The goal of this year’s Rare Disease Day is to explore ways to engage and collaborate with patients and their communities to support and accelerate the development …

Shinyhunters published 680,000 Odido customer records, demand ransom and threaten more releases if the Dutch telco doesn't pay one million euros over the next 16 days.
https://nltimes.nl/2026/02/26/hackers-publish-680000-odido-custom…

Good piece from Timothy Snyder argues that Trump is failing at fascism: #USpol

Fascist Failure
The State of Trump

Why Have You Started This War, Mr. President? (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/opinion/iran-attack-trump-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p4#a260228p4

Source: India issued a blocking order on February 24 to restrict access to developer database service Supabase; the government did not publicly cite a reason (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/india…

India disrupts access to popular developer platform Supabase with blocking order | TechCrunch
India, one of Supabase’s biggest markets, is seeing patchy access after a government block order.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116144776295217687
Well tomorrow will be the absolutely last resort to fix that iMac Pro, trying to install macOS from thumb drive
Internet recovery is failing, possibly because the SSD isn’t partitioned right (which is hinted at that while it boots into target disk mode I don’t see any disk when connected to it).
We shall see…

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/116141772946150546
Come on Mozilla.
(They are using Claude for coding but tell it not to add itself as "author" to the repository even if the "agent" itself is doing the committing (so not a hu…

Russia has suffered 'more losses than any major power' since World War II, report says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/28/russia-has-suffered-more-losses.html

Judges question Pam Bondi’s social media posts on Minnesota arrests - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/27/pam-bondi-minnesota-arrests-00805316

In which I’m reminded that I had (note past tense) an Amazon Wish List with additions (books & music) from 2006-2010. Remembered almost none. Ordered one from the public library.
See https://www.404media.co/amazon-wishlist-address-private-third-party/

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address
Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.

President Trump calls Anthropic a "radical left, woke company" and says he is directing every federal agency in the US to stop using its products (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/anthropic-pentagon-supply-chain-risk-claude

Pentagon blacklists Anthropic, labels AI company "supply chain risk"
The penalty is usually reserved for companies from adversarial countries, like China's Huawei.

lofi hip hop radio beats to relax/resist the fascists to

Trump’s likely casus belli for an attack on Iran
– which would be the largest US intervention since the Iraq war
– is fraught with contradictions,
and his top advisers have been left to cover for him as the White House makes the case for intervention.
In his State of the Union address this week, Trump alleged that Iran posed a direct threat to the US
and that the country was “working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America”.
But…

U.S. AND ISRAEL BEGIN "MAJOR COMBAT OPERATIONS" IN IRAN (Dave Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/28/iran-attack-trump-us-israel-strikes
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p7#a260228p7

the fuck does that even mean

OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary financing in Oct.; Amazon invested $50B, Nvidia and SoftBank invested $30B each (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/open-ai-funding-round-amazon.html

OpenAI announces $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank
OpenAI's latest funding round is even bigger than its prior financing, which was a record amount for private tech companies.

‘Attempted corporate murder’: Trump’s threats against Anthropic chill AI industry - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/27/ai-industry-fears-partial-nationalization-as-anthropic-fight-escalates-00805453

In The Information newsletter, on Block layoffs. Quote:
The best way to destroy public support for AI is for companies to use it primarily to slash jobs. Dorsey says that’s coming: “Within the next year, I believe the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion and make similar structural changes.” …Block’s stock, which had been in a slump in recent months, soared 24% in after-hours trading. Investors seem to like the profit implications of a company cutting nearly half the st…

RE: https://dea42.social/@critters/115970099718687759
Kitty!!?

Live Updates: U.S. and Israel Conduct Strikes on Iran (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/28/world/iran-strikes-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p1#a260228p1

Tests of 12 AI-detection tools show many capable of spotting basic fakes, but struggle with complex images; few analyze video, and most identified fake audio (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

Can A.I. Detection Tools Really Spot Fake Images and Videos?
Artificial intelligence detectors are increasingly used to check the veracity of content online. We ran more than 1,000 tests and found several strengths and plenty of weaknesses.

Currently trying to make my wife’s iMac work again by doing a DFU revive
Modern Macs remind me of brittle CONFIG.SYS edits in the early 90s

@… Just go ahead and send me the "Mastodon Support" scam link, I'm busy... 😑

Anthropic to take Trump's Pentagon to court over AI dispute (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/28/anthropic-trump-pentagon-lawsuit-ai-dispute
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p117#a260227p117

Henrietta Lacks’s Family Settles Suit With Novartis Over Use of Her Cells - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/us/novartis-settlement-henrietta-lacks-stolen-cells.html

Amazon is paying ~16x Microsoft's price per OpenAI percentage point, while getting none of Microsoft's exclusives, showing the cost of being late in AI (Om Malik/On my Om)
https://om.co/2026/02/27/amazon-the-cost-of-ai-lateness/

Amazon & The Cost of (AI) Lateness
My word, the torrent of news keeps coming. You have hardly had time to digest the news of the $30 billion raise by Anthropic, and here we are dealing with $110 billion in new funding by OpenAI. (We…

“But gay Klingons aren’t real”
Give me strength oh holy V’Ger

Sleep time *falls asleep in less than 100 seconds*

Pentagon declares Anthropic a threat to national security (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/27/trump-anthropic-claude-drop/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p114#a260227p114

Judge Tosses Trump WH Bid to End SAVE Student Loan Plan | Newsmax.com
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-save-student-loans/2026/02/27/id/1247726/

Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines with respect to AI use by the military, which are "an issue for the whole industry" (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/altman-openai-anthropic-pentagon

Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon fight
But he still wants a Pentagon deal.

Likely there will be some more old computer stuff soon, rn it’s just an few odds and ends

Trump says he's thinking of putting Republican Senator Ted Cruz on Supreme Court (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-hes-thinking-putting-republican-senator-ted-cruz-supreme-court-2026-02-27/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p113#a260227p113

As part of the Amazon-OpenAI deal, the companies plan a "stateful runtime environment" for AWS, letting agents carry context forward to handle ongoing projects (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/amazon-openai-stateful-ai-deal

Amazon's OpenAI deal aims to leapfrog Microsoft
AWS can offer custom OpenAI models, bolstering Amazon's enterprise and Alexa efforts.

Doing a bit of a “listing shit on eBay” spring clean

TMTG says it is in talks to spin off Truth Social into a public company, following the close of its previously announced merger with nuclear fusion startup TAE (Christine Wang/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/truth-social-spin-off

Trump Media & Technology Group in talks to spin off Truth Social
A spin-off would separate President Trump's social media platform of choice from TMTG which currently trades under a ticker with his initials.

what a chart

Flux, which offers an AI-powered platform to design PCBs for electronic devices, raised $37M, including a $27M Series B led by 8VC and a $10M Series A (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/27/exclusive-flux-backed-8vc-raises-3…

Exclusive: Flux, backed by 8VC, raises $37 million to vibe code electronics
Matthias Wagner’s Flux, built to vibe code electronics, has raised $37 million from 8VC, Bain Capital Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Outsiders Fund.

In a newly released deposition in Elon Musk's case against OpenAI, Musk attacked OpenAI's safety record, saying nobody "committed suicide because of Grok" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/musk

Musk bashes OpenAI in deposition, saying 'nobody committed suicide because of Grok' | TechCrunch
In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with nonconsensual nude images.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116143024823038390
Software development these days really reminds me of what large political parties do—no shred of thinking about the whole, not even a little bit of conviction, just churning out mid ever more milquetoast "features" designed to eek out a little more compliance.
Moral stances and ethics be damned.

Deepinder Goyal, who stepped down as Zomato's CEO, raised $54M at a $190M valuation for Temple, which aims to make high-performance wearables for elite athletes (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/after-zoma…

After Zomato, Deepinder Goyal returns with a $54M brain-monitoring bet | TechCrunch
Zomato co-founder Deepinder Goyal's new wearable startup Temple has raised $54 million in a friends-and-family round at a post-money valuation of about $190 million.

anyway, congrats UK for getting a new PM soon

India-based Ultrahuman launches the $479 Ring Pro, available for pre-order globally, excluding the US, after the ITC ruled in favor of Oura in a patent dispute (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/ultr…

Ultrahuman bets on redesigned smart ring to win back U.S. market after Oura dispute | TechCrunch
Ultrahuman’s Ring Pro promises 15-day battery life and a $479 price tag as the wearables maker expands its health-tech push.

The regularity of leftish political parties wondering why they lose voters after they've tried so, so hard to embrace centrism* is truly awe-inspiring
*centrism doesn't exist, it's right-wing politics with some lipstick and eyeshadow

Sources detail how the standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic escalated after discussions about using Claude during hypothetical nuclear missile attacks (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/27/anthropic-pentagon-…

The hypothetical nuclear attack that escalated the Pentagon’s showdown with Anthropic
Start-up Anthropic and the U.S. military are careening toward a clash over government use of artificial intelligence — and whether it should be allowed to kill.

Latest problem that Windows has developed overnight is that it started to open application windows off-screen, despite me having only one monitor

Sources: DeepSeek plans to release its multimodal model V4 next week and worked with Huawei and Chinese AI chipmaker Cambricon to optimize V4 for their products (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e3366881-0622-40a7-9c34-a0d82e3d573e

You look like you need a photo of a cat lounging on a stack of Toshiba laptops from the 1990s

Tether says it has frozen $4.2B of its crypto token over links to "illicit activity", including $3.5B since 2023 and $61M linked to pig-butchering scams (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabi…

RE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/115970247542251391
Tim Cook needs his iAss kicked out of the company

Court docs from a New Mexico trial reveal internal divisions at Meta as Instagram teen safety initiatives conflicted with growth and engagement goals (The Atlantic)
https://www.

How Meta Executives Talked About Child Safety Behind the Scenes
For years, employees acknowledged a problem with potential child groomers, but prioritized growth over fixes.

This camera isn't glitchy, this is just how pictures come out. I only adjusted exposure on this.
Kodak mc3 (0.3MP, 2001)
#ShittyCameraChallenge

A look at a local group's lawsuit against Micron over its $100B New York manufacturing complex, alleging a rushed permitting process and environmental review (Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91495639/micro

Micron’s $100 billion New York semiconductor manufacturing project is facing local pushback
The notoriously dirty semiconductor industry poses potential environmental and health risks for surrounding areas.

Coupang reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.8B, below $8.9B est., and a net loss of $26M, versus $131M net profit in Q4 2024, hurt by fallout from a data breach (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

Sources: SpaceX weighs filing confidentially for an IPO as soon as March, targeting a June listing that could raise up to $50B at a $1.75T valuation (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-27/spacex-is-sa…

Two coalitions of workers, including employees of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, ask their companies to join Anthropic in refusing DOD's demands (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-27/anthropi…

US Congressional Joint Economic Committee report: US consumers lost $20.9B nominally to identity theft from four major data broker breaches over the past decade (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/data-broker-breaches-fueled-do…

Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses
A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.

Sources: TSMC urges clients to apply for N2 production allocation as far out as Q2 2027, with large capacity allotments nearly sold out for the next two years (Tim Culpan/Culpium)
https://www.culpium.com/p/tsmcs-n2-node-is-almost-booked-out

TSMC's N2 Node is Almost Booked Out for the Next Two Years
Exclusive news by Tim Culpan at Culpium on N2 being sold out for the next two years.

Anthropic's dispute with the DOD raises critical questions for US military partners like Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and Palantir, which work closely with Anthropic (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-supply-chain-risk-shockwaves-silicon-valley/…

Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a 'Supply Chain Risk'
Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.

Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil a new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system will have a Groq-designed chip and OpenAI is a customer (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-pla…

Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD to deploy its models in DOD's classified network and asks DOD to extend those terms to all AI companies (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2027578580159631610

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of

Anthropic says it'll challenge "any supply chain risk designation in court" and that the designation would only affect contractors' use of Claude on DOD work (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
Anthropic's response to the Secretary of War and advice for customers

Sources: crypto investment firm Paradigm is looking to raise up to $1.5B for a new fund to expand into AI, robotics, and other forms of frontier tech (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/crypto-firm-paradigm-to…

Dell stock closes up 22%, its biggest single-day gain since March 1, 2024, after the company gave an outlook for sales of its AI servers that exceeded estimates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

TikTok returns to Albania after a year-long ban, ostensibly linked to the death of a teenage boy, expired; Albania says TikTok has tightened safety measures (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/t…

A federal judge issues a preliminary injunction blocking Virginia from enforcing a new law restricting children's social media use, on First Amendment grounds (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/j

Amazon appears to mistakenly alert some AWS employees about planned layoffs in an email invite to a Wednesday "Project Dawn" meeting about company efficiency (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-staff-calen…

Some Amazon employees get 'Project Dawn' calendar invitation discussing upcoming job cuts
The invitation was written by Amazon executive Colleen Aubrey. It was cancelled soon after being sent, stoking confusion among some employees.

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

Paolo Ardoino says Tether now holds ~140 tons of gold, worth ~$23B, has been buying one to two tons a week, and plans to keep doing so for the next few months (Jack Ryan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…