Mistral releases Large 4, a major new flagship model from a leading European lab.
OpenAI announces its models will be available through Google Cloud, reshaping major-cloud AI distribution.
OpenAI details agents coordinating a global response to vulnerabilities they uncover.
Microsoft says China-linked hackers used AI pentesting tool ARTEX in a ConnectWise campaign hitting hundreds.
AJ Vicens / Reuters : Microsoft says China-linked hackers used AI penetration testing tool ARTEX to compromise ConnectWise as part of a campaign targeting hundreds of organizations — A Chinese state-aligned hacking group used an AI-driven penetration testing tool to compromise IT services firm ConnectWise as part …
GitLab issues a critical patch release; immediate reading for teams operating its DevOps platform.
New Mexico's DOJ announces a $25B penalty against Meta over Facebook privacy deception.
SemiAnalysis examines Huawei-DeepSeek compute, kernel optimization, and Ascend 950PR benchmarks.
SemiAnalysis : A look at Huawei and DeepSeek's mutual reliance, where Huawei provides compute hardware while DeepSeek contributes model workloads and kernel optimization — Huawei Ascend 950PR Deep dive & µbenchmarks, DSv4.1 Flash Analysis, DeepSeek support for Ascend, AICPU, Tilelang Ascend
OpenAI reports using thousands of AI agents to generate new leads from biological data.
AWS documents two PHP web-runtime CVEs, including mitigation details for affected deployments.
Primary Australian federal-court judgment in Epic v. Apple, with major implications for iOS app distribution.
Barclays plans 5,000 cuts by end-2026, framing AI-driven savings around support and developer roles.
William Shaw / Bloomberg : Barclays plans to cut 5,000 jobs, or ~5% of its workforce, by the end of 2026 as part of AI-driven cost cutting, with ~60% coming from support and developers — Barclays to Cut 5,000 Jobs as AI Starts to Create Efficiency — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 69.77% Playback Rate
OpenAI publishes its CLI, a new direct developer interface to its platform.
Walmart launches an MCP-based Agent Gateway and profiles for delegated AI-agent shopping.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Walmart unveils Agent Gateway, an MCP server for AI agents to shop its site, and Agent Profiles to authorize agents and track their purchases separately — Walmart is embracing agentic commerce with the launch of its own Agent Gateway to manage transactions and other new features aimed …
Hirundo finds Qwen3-Coder produces less secure code when prompted with a US persona.
Trail of Bits examines the verification problem when an AI agent fixes a bug but changes other code.
Cloudflare describes protections deployed against the php2shell vulnerability.
NIST records CVE-2026-111943 for a compromised intermediate certificate authority.
Daniel Mangum explains why many MCUs avoided impact from the eMudhra intermediate-CA compromise.
GitHub introduces infrastructure intended to make Git work at agent scale.
LayerFS proposes a filesystem designed specifically for AI coding agents.
Omnara releases an open-source alternative to Claude Managed Agents.
A 360M-parameter model is trained to simulate a terminal, with an unusual compact-agent interface.
Google publishes a Rust Style Guide, a consequential reference for Rust teams.
A new paper proposes an O(n log n) integer-multiplication algorithm.
Palantir says neither it nor the US government has a kill switch for NATO's Maven platform.
Andrew Gray / Reuters : Palantir says that neither the company nor the US government has a “kill switch” for its Maven platform that NATO uses, after Ukraine's Starlink disruptions — US software company Palantir (PLTR.O) sought to reassure Europeans that its military AI system used by NATO has no …
Foreign Affairs analyzes US and Chinese efforts to build competing AI-centered spheres of power.
Foreign Affairs : How AI is an inherently imperial technology, and how the US and China are building rival “AI empires” with different approaches to extend their power — The Rise and Fall of a New Global Order — In the span of a few years, China and the United States have each assembled …
Bloomberg reports AI startup rounds are being repriced upward even within the same financing.
Bloomberg : Pressure to back promising AI startups is upending the VC investment process, with investors willing to buy into the same round at rapidly escalating valuations — Venture capitalists are fighting to invest in AI startup Emulate, driving its valuation into the billions …
Google staff resign over the company's AI contracts with the military, according to the BBC.
Texas Tribune reports that data-center growth could reverse decades of Texas air-quality gains.
A technical critique explains why using an LLM itself for confidence scoring can be unreliable.
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg : Spotify reports Q3 revenue up 16% YoY to €4.97B, below €4.98B est., subscribers up 9% to 306M, MAUs up 11% to 788M, meeting est., and €672M operating income — Spotify Technology SA reported monthly active users grew 1% in the third quarter, over the prior quarter …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball : iPhone Duo review: the outer device is by far the worst iPhone Apple has ever made, while the inner device is a splendid tablet with a UI that bests the iPad's — The very nature of the iPhone Duo raises numerous obvious questions about what it's like to use. Does it not feel thick and heavy, awkward both to pocket and unpocket?
Milana Vinn / Reuters : Source: Elon Musk's public endorsement of a SpaceX-Tesla merger rattled some insiders, who worry his comments could invite shareholder scrutiny and delays — Elon Musk's public endorsement this week of a potential $3.5 trillion merger between SpaceX (SPCX.O) and Tesla (TSLA.O) …
Financial Times : Sources: Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner proposed joining a bid for TikTok's European business over lunch with Charles Kushner, the US ambassador to France — Axel Springer boss Mathias Döpfner raised idea over lunch with US ambassador to France Charles Kushner.
Nikkei Asia : A Micron labor union staged Taiwan's first-ever strike in the semiconductor industry on Thursday, demanding a regular profit-sharing scheme for its employees — TAIPEI — A Micron Technology labor union launched Taiwan's first-ever strike in the semiconductor industry on Thursday amid …
New York Times : SEC filings show how Meta restructured its stock to shield Mark Zuckerberg from California's proposed wealth tax, after he said he'd sell his Palo Alto home — The billionaire told Meta's board that he planned to list his Silicon Valley home for sale. The company remade its stock structure to help him pay the tax if voters pass it.
Rhea Rose Abraham / Reuters : Epic says “Fortnite is coming back to the App Store in Australia tomorrow” after an Australian federal judge ordered Apple to open up iOS in an antitrust case — Epic Games said its shooter title “Fortnite” will return to Apple's (AAPL.O) App Store in Australia on Thursday …
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac : An Australian federal judge rules Apple must let Australian iPhone users install apps from third-party app stores starting March 1, 2027; Apple plans to appeal — An Australian federal judge has ordered Apple to make sweeping changes to its App Store rules following a years-long antitrust battle with Epic Games.