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Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s new terms, standing firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance

Less than 24 hours before the deadline in an ultimatum issued by the Pentagon, Anthropic has refused the Department of Defense's demands for unrestricted access to its AI. It's the culmination of a dr...

The Verge • Feb 26, 2026 • Hayden Field
Technology Feb 26, 2026

‘Uncanny Valley’: Pentagon vs. ‘Woke’ Anthropic, Agentic vs. Mimetic, and Trump vs. State of the Union

Our hosts unpack the news of the week, starting with the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Plus: All you ...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Anthropic CEO stands firm as Pentagon deadline looms

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that he "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Pentagon's demands to give th...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Neanderthals seemed to have a thing for modern human women

"Neanderthal deserts" in our genomes suggest a strong pattern in matings.

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win

Article URL: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-backs-out-warners-deal-paramount-win-1236...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Anthropic says company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to Pentagon's demands

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-ai-pentagon-hegseth-dario-amodei-9b28dda41bdb52b6a378fa9fc80b8fda Com...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Netflix walks away from its deal to buy Warner Bros. after Paramount came back with a better offer

Netflix has dropped its $83 billion deal to acquire the Warner Bros. studio, HBO, and its streaming service HBO Max. In ...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Microsoft’s “Copilot Tasks” AI uses its own computer to get things done

Microsoft is previewing a new AI-powered "Copilot Tasks" designed to take care of busywork for you in the background, th...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Perplexity announces "Computer," an AI agent that assigns work to other AI agents

It's also a buttoned-down, ostensibly safer take on the OpenClaw concept.

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Statement from Dario Amodei on Our Discussions with the Department of War

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

PayPal might not be looking to sell itself, report

PayPal may not be in talks to be acquired, sources have told Semafor, after a previous news report that Stripe was sniff...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

xAI spent $7M building wall that barely muffles annoying power plant noise

“Temu sound wall” not enough to quell fury over xAI’s power plant.

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Hydroph0bia – a fixed SecureBoot bypass for UEFI firmware based on Insyde H2O

Article URL: https://coderush.me/hydroph0bia-part3/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47172730 Points:...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Jack Dorsey’s Block cuts nearly half of its staff in AI gamble

Jack Dorsey's Block, the financial tech company that runs Square and the Cash app, is cutting its workforce by "nearly h...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Smartphone Mkt to Decline 13% in '26, Largest Drop Ever Due to Memory Shortage

Article URL: https://www.idc.com/resource-center/press-releases/wwsmartphoneforecast4q25/ Comments URL: https://news.yc...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Lenovo leak reveals a foldable gaming handheld that’s also a Windows laptop

Lenovo's next gaming laptop could be a shapeshifting foldable called the Legion Go Fold, which can be used as a laptop o...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Why no magnets in Galaxy S26? Samsung R&D chief explains

Magnet rings have changed my life. I grip and mount and satisfyingly snap awesome accessories on and off my phone all da...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

The physics of squeaking sneakers

Geometry of tread patterns determines frequency, so blocks were designed to play Star Wars musi...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Smartphone sales could be in for their biggest drop ever

The smartphone industry could experience a record-breaking decline in 2026 as a result of the RAM shortage stemming from...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Layoffs at Block

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/block-laying-off-about-4000-...https://www.marketwatch.com/story/block-plans-to-lay-off...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Google paid startup Form Energy $1B for its massive 100-hour battery

The deal paves the way for Form Energy to raise a new funding round before potentially going public next year.

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Samsung exec confirms you can blame RAM — and other materials — for the Galaxy S26’s higher pricetag

The Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus are "more of the same for more money," my colleague Allison Johnson reported this we...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

This AI Agent Is Designed to Not Go Rogue

The new open source project IronCurtain uses a unique method to secure and constrain AI assistant agents before they fli...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Cronboard: A terminal-based dashboard for managing cron jobs

Article URL: https://github.com/antoniorodr/cronboard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171773 Point...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice

Article URL: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/america-and-probably-the-world-stands Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

FTC declines to enforce a kids privacy law for data collected to verify users’ ages

The Federal Trade Commission is encouraging companies to adopt age verification technologies by announcing it will not e...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

Qualcomm won’t be announcing Windows gaming handhelds at GDC after all

In January, Qualcomm hinted to The Verge that it might finally bring its powerful Arm-based Snapdragon processors to Win...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

So, we’re getting Prada Meta AI glasses, right?

Mark Zuckerberg was at Prada's fashion week event in Milan, leaving everyone to wonder if we're getting Meta AI glasses ...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

How Chinese AI Chatbots Censor Themselves

Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to ...

Technology Feb 26, 2026

What does " 2>&1 " mean?

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/818255/what-does-21-mean Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...