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Top Story President Trump ordered the U.S. government to stop using Anthropic's AI products and the Pentagon designated the company a national security risk on Friday, while rival OpenAI announced it had struck a deal with the Defense Department to provide its AI technology for classified networks
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Top Story OpenAI announced one of the largest private funding rounds in history on Friday, raising $110 billion against a $730 billion pre-money valuation from Amazon ($50 billion), Nvidia ($30 billion), and SoftBank ($30 billion). The round remains open with additional investors expected to join, potentially adding another $10 billion
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Top Story Investors are now aggressively rotating capital out of high-flying semiconductor stocks and into a battered software sector that is finally proving it can turn AI capabilities into cold, hard cash. Conversely, software companies, which spent much of 2024 and 2025 in a technical bear market, are seeing a
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Meta just signed a $60 billion check that will reshape the AI industry. Not for more ChatGPT features. Not for better customer service bots. For chips. The five-year AMD deal, announced February 26, includes an option for Meta to acquire 10% of AMD. That's not procurement—that'
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Top Story Meta Platforms announced a historic five-year agreement to buy up to $60 billion worth of AMD artificial intelligence chips, including an option for Meta to acquire up to 10% of AMD. Under the deal, AMD will deliver six gigawatts of AI computing capacity, beginning with its MI450 platform
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Top Story MatX, an AI chip startup founded by two alumni of Google's semiconductor business, has raised more than $500 million in a new funding round to produce hardware that competes with Nvidia Corp., with the company now valued at several billion dollars. The financing was led by
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Top Story The enterprise software market is weathering its most volatile period since the 2022 rate hikes, as a massive sell-off - now being dubbed the "SaaSpocalypse" - wipes out nearly $1 trillion in market value. On February 23, 2026, the bloodletting reached a fever pitch, with major
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Nearly half of all AI-generated code contains security vulnerabilities. Veracode tested over 100 LLMs across 80 coding tasks and found a 45% insecure code rate, with no improvement across newer or larger models. A Tenzai assessment found 69 vulnerabilities across 15 applications built with vibe coding tools, including half a
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Top Story ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Forces Copyright Reckoning as AI Video Quality Leaps Forward ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video generation model, launched February 12, has created cinematic videos of celebrities in absurd situations that have gone viral online, with the new model being among the
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Top Story ByteDance's Seedance 2.0, launched this week as one of the most sophisticated AI video generation models to date, has triggered fierce resistance from Hollywood studios and creators who say the tool enables "blatant" copyright infringement. The model generates 15-second videos from text prompts
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Top Story Fei-Fei Li's World Labs Raises $1 Billion for Spatial Intelligence Revolution World Labs, the spatial intelligence startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, raised $1 billion in new funding from investors including AMD, Nvidia, software firm Autodesk, Emerson Collective, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and Sea.
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Top Story The "AI Scare Trade" reached a crescendo yesterday as global markets witnessed what analysts called a "violent rotation of capital" away from service-oriented sectors including wealth management, financial services, and real estate. The catalyst was a convergence of technological breakthroughs, specifically the launch of