Tech

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus is raising tens of billions to buy companies hit by AI; it was valued at ~$30B in November 2025 when it raised $6.2B (t.co)
2026-2-27 AI Jeff Bezos

Sources: DOD was in talks with leading AI companies about building AI tools to automate reconnaissance of China's power grids, utilities, and sensitive networks (t.co)
2026-2-27 China AI

Anthropic CEO Says AI Company 'Cannot In Good Conscience Accede' To Pentagon (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-27 AI Pentagon

The Japanese government plans to invest ~$1.6B in Rapidus over the next two fiscal years to help it mass-produce 2nm logic chips and potentially challenge TSMC (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-27 Japan

Letter: 100+ Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-27 Google AI

CISA's interim director Madhu Gottumukkala is reassigned as DHS' director of strategic implementation; executive assistant director Nick Andersen will take over (abcnews.com)
2026-2-27

xAI co-founder Toby Pohlen is leaving the company, the seventh of 12 xAI co-founders to depart; Elon Musk put Pohlen in charge of Macrohard earlier this month (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-27 Elon Musk

OpenAI says it will overhaul safety protocols and establish direct contact with Canadian police, after not alerting authorities about the Tumbler Ridge suspect (www.politico.com)
2026-2-27 Canada

Q&A with Terence Tao on AI-generated Erd&odblac;s solutions, “cheap wins”, hybrid human AI contributions, push-of-a-button workflows, new ways of doing math, and more (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-2-27 AI Mathematics

Sources: two members of Thinking Machines Lab's founding team, Christian Gibson and Noah Shpak, left the startup and have been working at Meta for a few weeks (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-27 Startup

Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded (www.anthropic.com)
2026-2-27

Four Convicted Over Spyware Affair That Shook Greece (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-27 Greece

Block reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $6.25B, gross profit up 24% to $2.87B, driven by a 33% surge in Cash App, and forecasts Q1 gross profit up 22% to $2.8B (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-27 4Q

Duolingo reports Q4 revenue up 35% YoY to $282.9M, forecasts FY 2026 bookings below est. as it shifts focus to faster user growth; DUOL drops 20%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-27 4Q

Intuit reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $4.65B, vs. $4.53B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue growth of ~10% and EPS below expectations; INTU drops 5%+ after hours (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-27

Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-27

Source: Meta has signed a multiyear deal to rent Google's TPUs to develop new models and has also been in talks to buy TPUs for its data centers as soon as 2027 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-27 Google

Jack Dorsey's Block Cuts Nearly Half of Its Staff In AI Gamble (slashdot.org)
2026-2-27 AI

Anthropic says new DOD “contract language” made “virtually no progress” on preventing Claude's use for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons (www.axios.com)
2026-2-27

Netflix is walking away from a deal to buy WBD's studio and streaming assets after the WBD board deemed a revised bid by Paramount Skydance to be superior (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-27 Netflix Asset

The Pentagon says it has offered compromises to Anthropic, including putting in writing that laws already bar the military from mass surveillance of Americans (www.cbsnews.com)
2026-2-27 U.S. Pentagon

What's the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework? (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-27 AI

Social media addiction trial: 20-year-old plaintiff KGM testifies her social media use, which began in childhood, exacerbated depression and suicidal thoughts (apnews.com)
2026-2-27

Google Launches Nano Banana 2 Model With Faster Image Generation (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-27 Google

CoreWeave reports Q4 revenue up 110% YoY to $1.57B, vs. $1.55B est., and adjusted loss of $284M, vs. $258.9M est.; CRWV drops 5%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-27 4Q

Chinese Official's Use of ChatGPT Revealed a Global Intimidation Opperation (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-27 China

Previously harmless Google API keys now expose Gemini AI data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-27 Google AI

Dell reports Q4 revenue up 39% YoY to $33.4B, vs. $31.73B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 10%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-27 4Q

Block says it is laying off more than 4,000 of its 10,000+ employees; XYZ jumps 19%+ in extended trading (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-27

Sources: Meta last week scrapped the most advanced AI chip it was developing, after struggling with the design, and shifted its focus to a less complicated chip (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-27 AI

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