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Google claims it's building data centers that barely use any water Feb 25, 2026

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The new design uses air cooling and supposedly limits water to on-site kitchens.

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xAI's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI has been dismissed, the Pentagon giving Anthropic until Friday to let it use Claude as it sees fit, and Uber previewed its Dubai air taxi service Feb 25, 2026

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-OpenAI has successfully convinced the court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s xAI, accusing the company of stealing its trade secrets.

-Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will reportedly give Anthropic until Friday to drop certain guardrails for military use, as reported by Axios.

-Uber is one step closer to going airborne. On Wednesday, the company previewed its air taxi booking service ahead of an expected launch in Dubai later this year.

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The creators of Dark Sky have a new weather app Feb 24, 2026

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The app shows a range of weather predictions for increased accuracy.

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US military may use Grok AI in its classified systems, Anthropic accused 3 Chinese AI labs of abusing Claude, and Bungie said 'no second chances' Feb 24, 2026

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-The US Department of Defense has reportedly reached a deal to use Elon Musk's Grok in its classified systems. That’s according to a report by Axios. That follows news that the Pentagon is currently in a dispute with another AI company, Anthropic, over limits on its technology for things like mass surveillance.

-Anthropic is issuing a call to action against AI "distillation attacks," after accusing three AI companies of misusing its Claude chatbot. On its website, Anthropic claimed that DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax have been conducting "industrial-scale campaigns…to illicitly extract Claude’s capabilities to improve their own models."

-Bungie isn't taking any prisoners when it comes to cheating on its upcoming extraction shooter, Marathon.

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Apple's next event to bring at least five products over a 'three-day blitz' Feb 23, 2026

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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said the multiple product reveals will culminate with an in-person "experience" on March 4th.

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The US will send Tech Corps members to foreign countries, a Colorado bill would make it illegal to 3D print firearms and gun parts, and the recent 13-hour AWS outage may have been caused by its own AI tools Feb 23, 2026

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-Tech Corps volunteers will be placed in Peace Corps countries that are part of the American AI Exports Program, which was created last year from an executive order from President Trump as a way to bolster the US' grip on the AI market abroad.

-Colorado's proposed law would "prohibit the use of a three-dimensional printer, or similar technology, to make a firearm or a firearm component."

-A recent Amazon Web Services outage that lasted 13 hours was reportedly caused by one of its own AI tools, according to reporting by Financial Times.

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Meta is shuttering Messenger’s standalone website, which is a thing that exists Feb 20, 2026

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It goes dark in April, but the app will remain.

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Google Play used AI to help block bad apps last year, Samsung's Bixby is more conversational, and 'Freedom.gov' will allow Europeans to view hate speech Feb 20, 2026

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-Google has announced that with the help of AI, it blocked 1.75 million apps that violated its policies in 2025, significantly down from 2.36 million in 2024.

-Samsung has launched the latest version of Bixby with the new One UI 8.5 beta

-According to Reuters, the US State Department is building a web portal, where Europeans and anyone else can see online content banned by their governments.

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Federal court rules that OpenAI must stop using the term 'Cameo' Feb 19, 2026

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The company's video generator Sora offered a feature bearing the name.

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Is Meta planning to release a smartwatch this year?, Nevada is suing Kalshi, and Gemini can now generate a 30-second clip of what real music sounds like Feb 19, 2026

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-Meta is reportedly gearing up to enter another segment of the wearables market. According to The Information, the company is planning to release its first smartwatch sometime this year. Meta has revived its smartwatch initiative internally called “Malibu 2."

-Nevada's gambling regulators and attorney general sued Kalshi on Tuesday accusing the company of bypassing Nevada law by operating a sports gambling market without proper licenses. In addition, they say Kalshi provides services to individuals under 21, which violates state law.

-Google has announced that using its newly incorporated Lyria 3 model, Gemini users will be able to generate 30-second music tracks based on a prompt, or remix an existing track to their liking.

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