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25 Feb 2026

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns AI power is concentrating 'overnight and by accident'

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has voiced deep concerns about the rapid concentration of power in the AI industry, describing it as happening 'almost overnight' and 'almost by accident.' Speaking on a podcast, he compared the current AI era to the Gilded Age of corporate concentration and warned that a handful of AI labs now wield influence that could shape the global economy.

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Judge dismisses xAI vs OpenAI trade secrets lawsuit over employee poaching allegations

A federal judge dismissed Elon Musk's xAI trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, ruling the company failed to prove OpenAI stole confidential information through employee poaching. While two former xAI employees admitted to downloading source code, the judge found no evidence OpenAI directed the theft or used the stolen data. xAI has until March 17 to amend its complaint in what OpenAI calls a "campaign of harassment."

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AMD's $60 billion Meta deal includes equity stake, while Nvidia keeps its chips close

AMD landed a massive AI chip agreement with Meta worth over $60 billion, but the deal comes with a catch: Meta could own nearly 10% of AMD through performance-based warrants. Nvidia, meanwhile, secured similar partnerships without diluting shareholders, highlighting the contrasting competitive positions of the two chipmakers in the AI accelerator market.

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Meta and AMD forge $60 billion AI chip deal as Zuckerberg diversifies compute infrastructure

Meta and AMD have signed a multi-billion dollar partnership that will see the social media giant purchase up to 6 gigawatts of AI GPUs over five years, beginning in late 2026. In exchange for the massive hardware commitment worth approximately $60 billion, Meta will acquire a 10% equity stake in AMD through performance-based warrants. The deal mirrors AMD's similar arrangement with OpenAI and signals Meta's strategy to diversify AI chip suppliers beyond Nvidia.

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Federal Reserve struggles to predict AI's impact on jobs and inflation as divide emerges

Federal Reserve officials face mounting uncertainty over artificial intelligence's economic effects as Block announces 4,000 job cuts due to AI. While Fed chair nominee Kevin Warsh advocates for lower rates based on AI-driven productivity gains, other policymakers warn of structurally higher unemployment and inflation pressures. Meanwhile, the central bank cautiously deploys AI technology internally with strict guardrails.

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Goldman Sachs says AI delivered 'basically zero' GDP growth despite massive tech spending

Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius reveals that AI contributed essentially nothing to US economic growth in 2025, despite hundreds of billions in investment. The problem: most spending flows to overseas manufacturing in Taiwan and Asia, not American GDP. While tech companies plan $700 billion in AI infrastructure spending for 2026, analysts calculate only 0.2% of the country's 2.2% growth came from AI investment.

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AI chatbots interpret 'likely' as 80% probability while humans assume 65%, new study reveals

A new study published in NPJ Complexity reveals that AI chatbots and humans interpret probability words differently, with language models assigning 'likely' to 80% while humans assume 65%. This probability misalignment poses risks in high-stakes fields like healthcare and government policy, where miscommunication about uncertainty could lead to flawed decisions.

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MatX AI chip startup raises $500 million to challenge Nvidia's dominance in LLM processing

MatX, an AI chip startup founded by former Google engineers, has secured $500 million in Series B funding led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness. The company aims to deliver processors 10 times better at training and running large language models than Nvidia's GPUs, with plans to begin shipping in 2027.

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Axelera AI Secures $250 Million to Scale Energy-Efficient Chips for Edge Computing

Dutch chipmaker Axelera AI raised more than $250 million in a funding round led by Innovation Industries with participation from BlackRock and Samsung Catalyst. The company designs power-efficient semiconductors for AI inference at the edge, aiming to reduce reliance on energy-intensive data centers. With over $450 million raised since 2021, Axelera AI plans to launch its next-generation Europa chip before June 2026.

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AI leadership reckoning exposes why only 5% of pilots reach production with real business impact

After three years of heavy AI investment, most organizations remain unchanged—just faster versions of their old selves. Only 5% of AI pilots make it to production with measurable value, according to MIT Media Lab. The bottleneck isn't technology; it's a failure of leadership to adapt, as executives approve experiments but step back when scaling requires hard decisions about workflows, roles, and strategy.

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New Relic unveils Agentic Platform to build and deploy AI agents for observability at scale

New Relic launched its Agentic Platform, a no-code solution enabling enterprises to build and deploy AI agents for data observability. The platform addresses manual toil that costs engineers 33% of their time, while new OpenTelemetry tools aim to simplify enterprise adoption of the open-source framework.

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Red Hat launches AI Enterprise platform to accelerate hybrid cloud AI deployments at scale

Red Hat introduced Red Hat AI Enterprise, a unified AI platform designed to deploy and manage AI models, agents and applications across hybrid cloud environments. Alongside Red Hat AI 3.3 and the co-engineered Red Hat AI Factory with NVIDIA, the new metal-to-agent stack addresses enterprise challenges in scaling AI projects beyond the pilot phase through integrated lifecycle management.

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CrowdStrike reports 89% surge in AI-driven cyberattacks as breakout times collapse to 29 minutes

CrowdStrike's 2026 Global Threat Report documents an 89% year-over-year increase in AI-enabled adversary operations, with average breakout time plummeting to just 29 minutes. Nation-state actors from Russia, China, and North Korea are deploying LLM-enabled malware and targeting enterprise AI systems directly, marking a fundamental shift in the cyber threat landscape.

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24 Feb 2026

Thomson Reuters Stock Soars 12% as CoCounsel AI Tool Reaches One Million Users Across 107 Countries

Thomson Reuters shares surged 12% after announcing its AI-powered legal assistant CoCounsel has reached one million users across 107 countries. The milestone marks a shift from experimentation to production and eases investor fears about AI disruption. CEO Steve Hasker emphasized the company's fiduciary-grade AI strategy, built on 175 years of authoritative content and validated by domain experts.

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ChatGPT Health fails to recognize half of medical emergencies in first independent safety test

OpenAI's ChatGPT Health missed over half of medical emergencies in a Nature Medicine study, directing patients to routine appointments instead of emergency rooms. With 40 million daily users seeking health guidance, the AI tool also showed alarming inconsistencies in suicide-crisis safeguards, triggering alerts for low-risk cases while failing to respond when users described specific self-harm plans.

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