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Anthropic researchers detail “disempowerment patterns” in AI assistant interactions where AI potentially distorts a user's reality, beliefs, or actions (arstechnica.com)
2026-2-2 AI

EU Deploys New Government Satcom Program in Sovereignty Push (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2

Apple, long dominant in the electronics supply chain, is starting to be outbid by AI companies for components like memory as suppliers gain leverage over Apple (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-2 AI Apple

TikTok US says it has resolved technical issues and glitches that have impacted core features, such as video likes and view counts, over the past week (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-2-2

What Go Programmers Think of AI (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Programmer AI

Anthropic's $200M Pentagon Contract at Risk Over Objections to Domestic Surveillance, Autonomous Deployments (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Pentagon

Oracle says it plans to raise $45B to $50B in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure through a combination of debt and equity sales (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-2 Oracle Equity

SpaceX and Tesla are feeling the gravitational pull toward xAI, as Elon Musk looks to use his empire to fund xAI's ravenous appetite for cash and compute (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-2 Tesla Elon Musk SpaceX

Is Meta's Huge Spending on AI Actually Paying Off? (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 AI

Bitcoin Drops 40% in Four Months. Bloomberg Blames Absence of Buyers and Belief (slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Bitcoin

Survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production vs. 44% for Anthropic, but Anthropic's gains are impressive (www.a16z.news)
2026-2-2 AI

Walmart Begins Building Out Nationwide EV Charging Network Across America (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 U.S. Walmart

When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Bill Gates

Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before it banned them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-2-2 AI Ban

India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-2 India Tax

Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X “outlining concrete steps” to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-2 Ban Indonesia

Sources: Apple execs question if it has the ingredients to win in AI-first era, new MacBook Pros are about to launch, Apple considers clamshell foldable iPhone (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-2 iPhone AI Apple MacBook

Fourth US Wind Farm Project Blocked By Trump Allowed to Resume Construction (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Trump

99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026 (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Energy

Scientists Create Programmable, Autonomous Robots Smaller Than a Grain of Salt (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Robot

India to exempt foreign companies from being taxed when providing equipment to their contract manufacturers in the country, a rule change Apple lobbied for (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-2 India Apple

Exposed MongoDB instances still targeted in data extortion attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-2

New Apple privacy feature limits location tracking on iPhones, iPads (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-2 Apple

Microbes In Space Mutated and Developed a Remarkable Ability (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2

Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B+ (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-2 Startup Robot Intelligence

Eliminate recurring costs with lifetime 2TB FileJump storage for $99 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-2

A look at iOS 26's call-screening feature, which some say is like having an assistant to filter out unwanted calls, as some complain it makes them miss calls (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-2 IOS

99% of New US Will Be Green in 2026 (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2

Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more (restofworld.org)
2026-2-1 China AI Robot

China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-1 China

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