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Who Will Become the Biggest Beneficiary of the Billions of Dollars About To Be Invested in the Gaza Strip? The Terrorist Group Hamas (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-2-24 Terrorism

Sources: Trump's “Board of Peace” is exploring a USD-pegged stablecoin for Gaza; a source says it will not be a “Gaza Coin” or a new Palestinian currency (www.ft.com)
2026-2-24 Trump

PayPal Attracts Takeover Interest After Stock Slump (slashdot.org)
2026-2-24

Sources: PayPal is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after its stock fell ~46% over the last 12 months, giving PayPal a market value of ~$38.4B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-24

Anthropic details the AI Fluency Index, tracking 11 behaviors that represent human-AI collaboration and measure how people collaborate with AI (www.anthropic.com)
2026-2-24 AI

Finnish quantum computing company IQM plans to go public via a SPAC merger with New Jersey-based Real Asset Acquisition in a deal set to value it at $1.8B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-24 Asset Finland Quantum

Climate Physicists Face the Ghosts in Their Machines: Clouds (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-24 Climate

OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances, entering into multiyear deals with Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, and McKinsey to help deploy its enterprise platform Frontier (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-24

Stressful People in Your Life Could Be Adding Months To Your Biological Age (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-24

Sources: Microsoft was forced to announce Xbox leadership changes early on Friday because the news had begun to leak to IGN, causing a day of internal chaos (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-24 Microsoft Xbox

Sam Altman Would Like To Remind You That Humans Use a Lot of Energy, Too (slashdot.org)
2026-2-24 Energy

Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First Action begins running ads urging AI regulations in New Jersey; the PAC raised nearly $50M and now aims to raise $75M (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-24 AI

Economists at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan report the AI boom contributed “basically zero” to US economic growth in 2025, challenging claims of up to 92% growth (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-2-24 AI JPMorgan Goldman

Aalyria, a Google spinoff and a Starlink rival that helps satellite constellations fill network gaps during disasters, raised $100M at a $1.3B valuation (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-24 Google

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Calculate AI's Contribution To U.S. Growth May Be Basically Zero (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-24 AI Morgan Stanley Goldman

Uber launches Uber Autonomous Solutions, offering services like insurance, roadside assistance, and “AV mission control” tools, and will offer fleet financing (t.co)
2026-2-24 Uber Insurance

HR app Humand, used by 1.5M+ “deskless” workers in construction, retail, hospitals, and more, raised a $66M Series A led by Goodwater and Kaszek (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-24 Retail

Sources: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning for what is likely to be a tense meeting over Claude usage (www.axios.com)
2026-2-24 Pentagon

Economists at Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan report the AI boom contributed “basically zero” to US economic growth in 2025, challenging claims of up to 92% growth (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-2-23 AI Morgan Stanley JPMorgan

Is AI Impacting Which Programming Language Projects Use? (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-2-23 AI programming

A thought experiment imagines the AI-driven “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis”: S&P down, high unemployment, and economy failing, as AI exceeds every expectation (www.citriniresearch.com)
2026-2-23 AI Unemployment Intelligence

Data center developers are seeking credit ratings even while facilities are under construction to unlock new capital; S&P, Moody's, and others expand coverage (www.ft.com)
2026-2-23

How Buddy Rizer, an official in Virginia's Loudoun County, helped build the world's largest data center market, with ~200 buildings spanning ~49M square feet (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-23 Virginia

Saudi foreign policy makers have read Sun Tzu well. Have Iran's? (www.juancole.com)
2026-2-23 Iran

“The Dawn of Nothing:” FitzGerald's The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:38 (www.juancole.com)
2026-2-23

Israel and American Hawks are pushing US to Iran War with Catastrophic Consequences (www.juancole.com)
2026-2-23 U.S. Israel Iran

South Korean trade data: chip exports rose 134% YoY, while computer peripherals rose 129% in the first 20 days of February, extending gains driven by AI demand (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-23 Korea AI

Sources: Dell, Lenovo, and other PC makers are working with Nvidia on laptops that use the Arm-based Nvidia-MediaTek SoC, which could launch in H1 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-23 Nvidia Lenovo

Rule-Breaking Black Hole Growing At 13x the Cosmic 'Speed Limit' Challenges Theories (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-23

A look at the rising popularity of “WorkTok” videos, where employees film their daily work routines on TikTok and Instagram, particularly among Gen Z viewers (www.ft.com)
2026-2-23 Instagram

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