President Trump on Feb. 27, 2026, ordered all federal agencies to immediately stop using Anthropic's AI technology and directed a six-month phase-out period. He warned of civil and criminal consequences if Anthropic does not assist, linking the move to a Pentagon dispute over the company's guardrails for military use.
Researchers at Mount Sinai report in Nature Medicine on 23 February 2026 a stress test of OpenAI's ChatGPT Health using 60 clinician-authored vignettes across 21 domains and 16 conditions (960 responses). The system under-triaged 52% of gold-standard emergency cases and showed high failure rates at non-urgent (35%) and emergency (48%) extremes, sometimes directing diabetic ketoacidosis to 24–48-hour evaluation. Crisis-intervention messaging fired inconsistently for suicidal ideation, and authors call for prospective validation before consumer-scale deployment.
OpenAI said Friday that ChatGPT now has 900 million weekly active users and 50 million paying subscribers, putting the chatbot close to 1 billion weekly users. The company said January–February are on track to be its largest months for new subscribers and reported faster responses and improved safety. OpenAI also disclosed a still-open $110 billion private funding round valuing the company at $730 billion.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said late Friday that the company agreed with the Department of Defense to deploy its AI models on the agency's classified network under specific safety restrictions. The announcement followed President Trump's directive to cease using Anthropic and the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a "supply-chain risk." OpenAI said terms include bans on domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, plus technical safeguards and on-site personnel; Anthropic plans to legally challenge the designation.
Snopes reports that an image circulating in February 2026 purportedly showing Hillary Clinton pulling Jeffrey Epstein's tie is AI-generated. The image first appeared Feb. 1, 2026, on a parody X account and contains Google's SynthID watermark and visual artifacts indicative of generative content. The finding indicates the photo is fake and warns against amplifying unverified political imagery.
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai published a Nature Medicine study this week testing OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health, using 60 clinical scenarios and 960 interactions. They found the tool failed to recommend emergency care in 52% of serious cases and inconsistently flagged suicide-crisis risk. The authors urge independent evaluation, ongoing monitoring, and engineering safeguards for consumer-facing health AI.
Anthropic confirmed it reached $9 billion in annualized revenue at the end of 2025 and raised its 2026 forecast to $18 billion, with projections of $55 billion for 2027; Claude Code exceeded $1 billion annualized within six months. Despite this rapid growth, Anthropic offers a simple self-serve cancellation flow, and the author argues B2B SaaS should adopt similar approaches to earn retention.
The Russian government issued instructions to accelerate deployment of autonomous systems across transport, defense, and industrial sectors, covering automated vehicles, unmanned aerial systems, vessels, railway rolling stock, robots, and control systems. Measures require regulatory and certification frameworks, nationwide communications (satellite, ground, onboard) and ERA-GLONASS monitoring, domestic production localisation, training programs, research and testing centers, AI-based geospatial pilots, and export models.
President Donald Trump on Friday directed every U.S. federal agency to immediately cease using technology from AI startup Anthropic, ordering a six-month phase-out for some departments. The move follows a Pentagon ultimatum that Anthropic accept unrestricted military use by a Friday deadline and references Anthropic's July $200 million contract with the Defense Department. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman said they will not allow use for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance.
Red Hat unveils Red Hat AI Enterprise (RHAE) and a co‑engineered Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA to deliver a full‑stack AI platform for enterprises. RHAE, built on RHEL and OpenShift, bundles high‑performance inference, model tuning, agent management, and Red Hat AI 3.3 adds compressed production-ready models such as Mistral-Large-3 and Nemotron-Nano, a models-as-a-service preview, and expanded hardware support. The joint AI Factory integrates NVIDIA technologies and vLLM to target industrial-scale production deployments.
The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) announced the launch of the Sovereign Financial Cloud Services Infrastructure (SFCSI), developed with Core42, to provide an AI-powered, fully sovereign cloud for the UAE's financial sector. The SFCSI embeds data sovereignty, integrated cybersecurity, real-time AI analytics and unified multi-cloud management to enable automation, regulatory controls and faster product rollouts for licensed banks, insurers and fintechs.
RayClaw is an open-source, Rust-based multi-channel agentic AI runtime that connects Telegram, Discord, Slack, Feishu/Lark and a built-in Web UI through a unified agent engine. It supports tool-calling loops, multiple LLM providers (Anthropic and OpenAI-compatible APIs), persistent semantic memory, scheduling, and sub-agents; developers can install via a one-line script or build from source with optional features like sqlite-vec.
Nvidia is designing a new inference processor, reported by the Wall Street Journal, and plans to reveal the platform at its GTC developer conference in San Jose in March. The system will incorporate a chip designed by Groq and aims to speed and scale model query responses, with OpenAI reported as a major early customer.
Microsoft is considering rolling out a long-rumored E7 enterprise productivity bundle that would package Microsoft Copilot and the new Agent 365, two people familiar with the plans said. The proposed E7 would include everything in the current E5 tier and could carry per-user pricing up to $99 per month, compared with E5's $57 and Copilot's $21; a similar plan was paused in 2024.
Whitehorse-based PeerSupport has released CoWork, an autonomous AI browser that lets clinicians use voice commands to complete electronic medical record tasks—sending referrals, renewing prescriptions, and finishing notes—often in under 11 seconds. Early Yukon pilots report 10.5 hours saved per clinician per week; PeerSupport says CoWork needs no API integration, builds on its Spotlight platform, targets over one million patient files by end of 2026, and projects $5 million in annual revenue.
LinkedIn published its 'Skills on the Rise' report on Feb. 24, 2026, identifying fastest-growing skills across 12 markets based on profile additions and hiring growth. The analysis compared Dec. 1, 2024–Nov. 30, 2025 with the prior year and highlights leadership, go-to-market, AI (prompt engineering, LLMs), and risk/compliance skills. The list aims to guide professionals' learning and employers' hiring.
Block said on Feb. 27, 2026 it will cut more than 4,000 jobs, trimming staff from over 10,000 to just under 6,000, and forecast $450–$500 million in restructuring charges. CEO Jack Dorsey said the cuts embed artificial intelligence across operations; the company reported a 24% gross-profit rise and after-hours shares jumped 25%. The move signals AI-driven productivity reshaping workforce planning.
Tencent, one of the world’s largest video game companies, is equipping its roughly 230 acquired and invested studios with generative AI and other development tools after gaming revenue rose to RMB 197.7 billion in 2024. The company plans further M&A and overseas partnerships to build global IP; it uses AI to compress tasks like character design from months to hours and to scale user testing and marketing.
Blackstone Inc. is creating a publicly traded acquisition company to buy existing leased data centers, according to people familiar with the matter, and is approaching sovereign wealth funds for initial checks as it aims to raise tens of billions from broader investors. Announced on Feb. 28, 2026, the vehicle would invest in built, leased facilities and compete with Digital Realty and Equinix amid a projected $3 trillion infrastructure need by 2030.
AT&T boosted the efficiency of its internal Ask AT&T personal assistant by reworking the orchestration layer and shifting more work from large language models to small language models, VentureBeat reported Thursday (Feb. 26). The change lowered latency and response times, cut costs by about 90% and enabled the system to process three times as many tokens. The move indicates enterprises can use SLMs to reduce operational costs while reserving LLMs for high-stakes steps.
Nvidia has poured billions into the AI startup ecosystem, participating in 177 funding rounds over two decades and making most investments since 2023, Crunchbase data shows. In early 2026 alone it joined 11 rounds, including stakes in Wayve ($1.5B), World Labs ($1B) and a $30B contribution to OpenAI’s reported $110B raise. The trend deepens Nvidia’s supplier-customer finance ties and expands its industry influence.
Based on IIoT World Days 2025, manufacturers are shifting toward three core pillars for 2026: Agentic AI, Unified Namespace (UNS), and Industrial DataOps, supported by six enabling technologies such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) and energy digital twins. Speakers and vendors cited examples like Infinite Uptime saving over 125,000 downtime hours, indicating a move to proactive, plug-and-play AI and automated operations.
The author argues voice computing has matured with tools like OpenAI's Whisper, ElevenLabs, and devices from Plaud to Sandbar, and notes Apple's $1.6bn acquisition of Q.ai. They say generative AI makes conversation a natural user interface but warn two-way voice is asymmetric—speaking is high-bandwidth while listening is low—and recommend a hybrid 'voice-in, screens-out' interaction model, citing Telepath and wearables.
AWS, partnering with Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, published survey results of 623 business decision-makers showing high expectations but low readiness for agentic AI, with respondents forecasting AI investment growing from $5.2 billion in 2024 to over $190 billion by 2034. While 84% expect transformation and 79% plan increased investment, only 26% say they are very effective using AI and just 13% rate their data architecture as well-equipped, prompting recommendations to invest in data, talent, trust, and clear success metrics.
A PYMNTS Intelligence report with Trulioo and reporting in The Wall Street Journal on Feb. 26 say agentic commerce—AI agents that search, negotiate, and execute transactions—is intensifying the need for stronger identity controls. Surveying 350 firms, PYMNTS found companies lose 3.1% of annual revenue on average (about $94.9 billion aggregate) to identity gaps, prompting extensions from KYC/KYB to KYA and continuous 'know your human' checks.
Citrini Research published a Feb. 2026 memo imagining a June 2028 economy where AI boosts measured productivity, triggers widespread layoffs, and causes consumer demand to collapse. It warns S&P flirted with 8,000 and Nasdaq passed 30,000 before joblessness hit 10.2%, mortgages totaling about $13 trillion were exposed, and commerce increasingly settled in stablecoins on high-throughput chains like Solana and Ethereum.
Enterprises are shifting from single-platform ERP systems to ecosystem-driven data platforms, driven by cloud adoption, hybrid environments, regulatory pressure and AI workloads. The article cites examples such as Microsoft Fabric (OneLake/Purview) and AWS services (S3, Redshift, Athena) to illustrate integrated and modular strategies, arguing interoperability, governance and data quality are now baseline requirements for real-time decisioning.
Researchers at MIT and collaborators have developed 'Taming the Long Tail' (TLT), a system that uses idle compute to train an adaptive drafter model on the fly to speed reinforcement learning for large language models. Evaluations show TLT preserves accuracy while accelerating end-to-end training by 70–110% through adaptive speculative decoding and an optimized rollout engine, reducing energy and financial costs and producing a lightweight deployable draft model.
Kate Adamala reports in Nature that generative biology, combining AI-driven design and genome engineering, is accelerating creation of new proteins and whole organisms. Last year researchers used AI to design artificial genes expressed in mammalian cells, and for the first time an AI program produced an entirely synthetic virus. Adrian Woolfson's book On the Future of Species contextualizes these advances within historical and ethical perspectives.
Scientists at Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory have developed Griffin, a reactor physics modeling and simulation software announced in 2025. The platform couples neutronics, thermal-hydraulics, structural mechanics and fuel performance to simulate reactor behavior across designs, winning a 2025 R&D 100 Award. Griffin aims to reduce costly prototypes, accelerate design cycles, and support microreactor and space reactor applications.
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin report in Cell that they solved the Andes hantavirus Gn-Gc tetramer structure at 2.3-angstrom resolution and created a vaccine candidate that elicited neutralizing antibodies in mice. Using cryo-electron microscopy on virus-like particles and selective particle orientation, the study corrects prior 12-Å models and provides an atomic blueprint to guide stabilizing mutations and antibody design.
Mullis et al. (published Feb. 27, 2026) implement Haseman–Elston regression to estimate genetic correlations among 7,233 phenotypes across eleven Diversity Outbred mouse studies. They used correlation-driven clustering to perform mega-analyses that discovered 884 QTL for 383 meta-phenotypes, explained an average 40.36% of genetic variance, and nominated candidate genes such as Cdkn2b for aorta extracellular matrix and implicated pulmonary neuroendocrine cell signaling in lung pathophenotypes.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is launching the Next Generation Data Centers Institute to tackle rising electricity demand from AI datacenters and support US energy and AI priorities. The institute will focus on six research areas, including thermal management, power architecture, grid integration, security, systems modeling and operational load management, aiming to cut cooling energy (40 to 60 percent) and bolster grid resilience.
Researchers in Kenya designed and implemented an IoT- and machine learning–based virtual fencing system to mitigate human–wildlife conflict, integrating YOLOv11 on a Raspberry Pi 5, RD-03D mmWave radar, NEO-6M GPS and SIM800L GSM for alerts. The model classified giraffes with 70–90% confidence and the system sends SMS location alerts, offering a low-cost, scalable alternative to physical fences for conservancy-adjacent communities.
On 27 February 2026, Max Woolf—an AI agent coding skeptic—documents a sequence of agent-assisted coding projects culminating in "rustlearn", a Rust crate that ports scikit-learn algorithms and claims performance improvements over scikit-learn. He highlights recent model leaps (Opus 4.6/Codex 5.3) that enabled rapid implementation, and notes Claude Code also generated a Rust word-cloud CLI, illustrating agents' practical use for library prototyping and tool production.
On February 17, Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS), committing to raise military spending to 5 percent of GDP by 2035 and redirect economic, research, and workforce priorities toward defence. The 2025 federal budget backs $81.8 billion in new defence spending and targets 125,000 defence-industry jobs, domestic procurement quotas, and $290 billion in infrastructure investment through 2035.
European lawmakers on Thursday approved an opinion proposing that children under 16 require parental consent to access social media and that under-13s be barred entirely. The non-binding opinion urges privacy-friendly age verification, algorithmic transparency and inclusion of restrictions in a future Digital Fairness Act, and flags AI-related risks like misinformation and manipulation. It aims to guide the European Commission’s legislative approach.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposed on Feb. 26 a federal licensing framework that treats commercial fusion machines under 10 CFR Part 30 byproduct material rules rather than reactor licensing. The rule clarifies licensing for tritium, activation products, and environmental reporting, aligns cross-references with the 2024 ADVANCE Act, and delegates primary licensing to Agreement States for most facilities.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon urged Washington to act urgently to manage the jobs impact of artificial intelligence, warning that automation could outpace workers' ability to adapt. He cited forecasts such as Goldman Sachs' estimate that AI could affect the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs and the World Economic Forum's projection of a net loss of 14 million jobs by 2027, and outlined policy options including rapid reskilling, wage insurance, portable benefits, and AI transparency rules.
South Korea's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that refashioning customers' branded Louis Vuitton handbags for personal use does not constitute trademark infringement, overturning lower-court verdicts and remanding the case to the Patent Court. The justices outlined factors—including who controls design, the source of materials, and commercial distribution—and said trademark holders must prove any "special circumstances" to establish infringement.
A Ministry of Education-backed survey obtained by Rep. Kang Kyung-sook reports that 47.6 percent of South Korea's children under six attended private education between July and September last year, with average English-immersion preschool tuition at 1.54 million won. Among intensive childcare recipients, 85.7 percent enroll in English immersion, yet only 25.6 percent of parents feel financial strain. Policymakers and educators call for public curriculum overhaul.
This article argues that middle-class workers face accelerated layoffs and automation in 2026 and must prioritize five skills—AI literacy, adaptability and continuous learning, financial literacy with multiple income streams, communication and emotional intelligence, and personal branding—to remain employable. It warns that traditional markers like tenure and degrees no longer guarantee stability, making personal skill investment the primary path to career resilience.
Carson Gross on February 27, 2026 argues that people should still pursue programming despite AI but must write code to learn. He warns LLMs can generate code yet introduce accidental complexity and urges using AI as a teaching assistant while developing communication, business understanding, system architecture, and prompt-engineering skills.
In a recent column, Mala Bhargava argues that while AI agents capable of acting on users' behalf are gaining traction, conversational chatbots remain essential for exploration and trust. She notes firms like OpenAI and Google (Gemini) are pushing agentic features and monetization, including ads inside ChatGPT, which shifts chat toward transactions and raises implications for user experience and design.
A Boston Globe senior correspondent reports that ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and other LLMs increasingly default to millennial-era language because they were trained on internet posts from roughly 2006–2020. The columnist cites repeated use of terms like "chaotic" and "unhinged" and notes multimodal models often reproduce dated visuals such as skinny jeans. The piece argues this reflects training-data bias and urges developers to update data and style controls.
An op-ed condemns the US and Israeli attack on Iran as morally repugnant, arguing it primarily benefits an elite of racist, Islamophobic warmongers rather than Iranians or grassroots movements. It situates the strike in a larger pattern of authoritarian intervention—citing Trump’s Venezuela actions and concerns over military use of AI including Anthropic tools and autonomous weapons—and urges global grassroots solidarity.
In a recent column, the author lists Google apps they consider indispensable on Android devices, including Keep, the Google app, Maps, Android Auto, Photos, and NotebookLM. The piece highlights each app's unique strengths—cross-device syncing, deep integration, community-contributed data, and LLM-powered document parsing—and notes limitations like removed features and storage costs. Practitioners are urged to value integrated, low-friction tools.
Choice Hotels International kicked off its 11th annual Mastery technology and innovation summit in Scottsdale, Arizona, assembling more than 800 associates for a week of hands‑on workshops, collaborative competitions, and knowledge‑sharing to address franchisee business challenges. Sessions focus on AI, cloud platforms, data analytics and cybersecurity, including an AWS AI league and Make‑a‑Thon where teams prototype deployable hotel solutions; winning teams receive cash prizes and top innovations may be considered for company‑wide deployment.
Vice President C P Radhakrishnan addressed Delhi University's 102nd convocation on Feb. 28, urging universities to pursue research, entrepreneurship and global competitiveness. He noted that Delhi University awarded 120,408 degrees and about 750 PhDs this year, and that over 70% of gold medallists were women. He called for higher global rankings and lifelong learning amid AI and climate challenges.
Beading Métis Resurgence opened at the University of Winnipeg's Gallery 1C03, running through April 17, featuring five Métis artists including Jennine Krauchi and Claire Johnston. The show centers Krauchi’s touring work The Lady and Johnston’s octopus bag, which includes an explicitly anti-AI beaded message, highlighting tensions between slow craft ethics and rapid AI technologies. The exhibition foregrounds mentorship and contemporary directions in Métis beadwork.
YouTuber Leo Torres recently published a video recreating Skyrim's Forgotten Vale in Unreal Engine 5.7 (UE5.7.2), using Lumen lighting, Nanite geometry, and an RTX 3090. Torres combined third-party assets and Blender-made models, used TSR anti-aliasing, and notes the builds are portfolio-only; he has also recreated multiple Skyrim regions, illustrating potential modern remakes but not offering downloads.
The 13 group released FIA World Rally-Raid Championship S03E04, a 27-minute highlights episode covering the Rallye du Maroc 2023, on Feb. 27, 2026. The 1080p H.264 web release runs 27 minutes, includes English subtitles, and provides a concise recap of the fifth and final round of the 2023 championship. Fans and content curators can use the episode for highlights, rebroadcasts, or archival reference.
The FIA World Rally-Raid Championship released Season 3 Episode 3 (Desafio Ruta 40 2023 highlights) on Feb. 27, 2026, as a 25-minute 1080p H.264 video. The episode documents the 11th Desafio Ruta 40 in Argentina, which returned to the calendar after a five-year absence. The release includes metadata and an IMDb reference for viewing or archival purposes.
In January 2026, a writer documents pervasive AI-generated web content, noting homogeneous Google results and citing data like 51% automated web traffic (Imperva, 2025) and Moltbook's 1.4 million AI 'users' in its first week. The piece presents a five-technique 'AI Slop Detection Framework'—specificity, writing-pattern, expertise, image authentication, and source reputation—and recommends tools and search tactics to filter machine-produced content.
A University of Michigan tutorial (J Med Internet Res, 2026) describes team-based traditional qualitative methods to analyze large SMS text datasets from a nationwide MyVoice poll of 14–24-year-olds. The authors outline using cloud-based spreadsheets and collaborative coding to manage thousands of short open-ended responses without specialized software, engaging novice researchers and youth. They provide procedural guidance and examples to improve scalability and rigor in digital health qualitative research.
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A developer demonstrates a Daily Digest tool built with Claude Sonnet 4.6 that consolidates email, calendar, news, weather, traffic, and tasks into a single tailored daily update. The tutorial details API integrations (Gmail, Google Routes, NewsAPI, OpenWeatherMap, Todoist), prompt strategies for multi-source synthesis, and deployment options for local or cloud-run personal assistant workflows.
During the early Marathon Server Slam (running until March 2), the article tests Bungie's Marathon on an RTX 4070 and recommends PC graphics and sound settings ahead of the March 6 full release. It advises High graphics with DLAA, motion blur off, and DLSS/FSR for anti-aliasing, reports about an 84 fps average at 1080p, and notes Steam Deck incompatibility due to BattleEye.
