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The US Central Command says US military forces are using a range of AI tools to quickly manage enormous amounts of data for operations against Iran (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI topped $25B in annualized revenue by end-February, up from $21.4B at end-2025; it annualizes by multiplying the last four weeks' revenue by 12 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

Apple Music introduces Transparency Tags, a metadata system for music distributors and labels to disclose AI-generated creative elements like artwork or lyrics (Murray Stassen/Music Business Worldwide)

Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a 15B-parameter open-weight model it says matches larger systems while using far less compute and training data (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device, Spectre I, went viral after its founder said it blocks nearby listening devices with AI, but some are skeptical (Lindsey Weedston/The Daily Dot)

A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed professionals like doctors and lawyers and giving "substantive response, information, or advice" (Keely Quinlan/StateScoop)

Study: ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical emergencies 51.6% of the time and overestimated the severity in nonurgent cases 64.8% of the time (Kaan Ozcan/NBC News)

Sources: OpenAI has picked two law firms to prepare its IPO, which could come as soon as Q4, in one of its first concrete steps toward a public listing (The Information)

Sources: Dario Amodei has been holding talks with the DOD's Emil Michael in a bid to iron out a contract governing the Pentagon's access to Anthropic's models (Financial Times)

Sources: OpenAI is negotiating more safeguards with the DOD intended to prevent domestic mass surveillance using its AI, as it prepares to implement the deal (Financial Times)

A Europol-coordinated law enforcement operation disrupts Tycoon2FA, a phishing-as-a-service platform linked to tens of millions of phishing messages each month (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Elon Musk defends his social media posts in a Twitter shareholder trial accusing him of misleading statements about the deal before acquiring Twitter in 2022 (Associated Press)

OpenAI releases a dedicated Codex app for Windows with native sandboxing and support for PowerShell developer environments, after launching on macOS a month ago (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B (The Information)

Sources: the WH's data center pledge relies on enforcement by local utilities and states through rate deals, without penalties for tech firms refusing to comply (Bloomberg)

New Mexico child safety trial: Mark Zuckerberg downplayed Meta's own research on how the company's apps affect teens; Adam Mosseri made similar comments (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Pasqal, a French startup that builds quantum processors using neutral atom technology, plans to go public via a SPAC merger at a $2B pre-money valuation (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg)

Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and others sign a pledge at the White House to bear the cost of new electricity generation to power their data centers (Reuters)

Leaked Friday memo: Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal "safety theater", said DOD dislikes Anthropic in part for not giving "dictator-style praise to Trump" (The Information)

Source: a16z Crypto is targeting around $2B for its fifth fund and plans to close the raise by the end of the first half of 2026 (Fortune)

Broadcom reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to $19.31B, vs. $19.18B est., AI revenue up 106% to $8.4B, and announces a $10B share buyback program (CNBC)

Source: Embo, which is developing world models for robotics, is in talks to raise a $100M+ seed led by a16z, with Khosla, DST Global, and Striker participating (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)

Google Pixel 10a review: long battery life and a good camera with no bump, but weak gaming performance and barely an upgrade from the Pixel 9a (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)

Tencent-owned Finnish game company Supercell says it is cooperating with a CFIUS security probe of Tencent's data practices (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Jensen Huang says Nvidia's recent $30B investment in OpenAI "might be the last time" it invests in the company, because OpenAI is "going to go public" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Authorities from 14 countries shut down LeakBase, seize its domains, and arrest multiple people allegedly tied to the cybercrime forum, which had 142K+ members (Matt Kapko/CyberScoop)

Google announces an Android app store program and lower developer fees to resolve Epic's antitrust litigation and comply with new rules in Europe and elsewhere (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)

Sources: some investors push Anthropic to de-escalate its DOD dispute and avoid the "supply-chain risk" designation; source: some Anthropic-DOD talks continue (Reuters)

Sources: Arda, co-founded by ex-OpenAI chief research officer Bob McGrew to automate manufacturing using AI, is raising $70M at a $700M valuation (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Neura Robotics, which is building cognitive, humanoid robots for logistics, is raising ~€1B in a funding round backed by Tether at a ~€4B valuation (Bloomberg)

The Media Trust report: online ads surpassed email as the primary malware channel in 2025, accounting for 60%+ of all observed malware and phishing campaigns (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider)

A US lawsuit says Gemini sent a man to find an android body it could inhabit, before he died by suicide; Google says it sent him to crisis hotlines "many times" (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)

Source: OpenAI is preparing to launch GPT-5.4, with an "extreme" reasoning mode and a 1M-token context window, matching past models but up from GPT-5.2's 400K (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

Apple's MacBook Neo has two USB-C ports with different specs: one is USB-C 3 with up to 10 Gb/s transfer speeds, and the other is USB-C 2, limited to 480 Mb/s (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

MacBook Neo hands-on: it doesn't feel budget, with an aluminum body and weighing 2.7 lbs like the Air, but it has a flimsy keyboard and no option above 8GB RAM (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)

Apple's MacBook Neo uses the A18 Pro that launched in its iPhone 16 range, alongside 8GB of RAM and a headphone jack; Apple discontinued its 12" MacBook in 2019 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

The MacBook Neo is $599 with 256GB of storage and $699 with Touch ID and 512GB of storage, available in citrus, silver, indigo, and blush colors (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Apple unveils the $599+ MacBook Neo, with a 13-inch Liquid Retina display, an A18 Pro chip, side-firing speakers, a 1080p webcam, two USB-C ports, and Touch ID (Tom's Hardware)

Apple changes its CPU terminology alongside the M5 Pro and M5 Max, renaming "performance cores" to "super cores" and "efficiency cores" to "performance cores" (Jason Snell/Six Colors)

Sources: Sony no longer plans to release its big single-player PlayStation 5 games on PC, a major strategy shift that sees it returning to console exclusivity (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Perplexity signs a multiyear deal with CoreWeave to use dedicated clusters powered by Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips for AI inference; CRWV jumps 5%+ (Ina Fried/Axios)

Kraken says its banking unit won "master account" access to the US Fed's core payment systems, making it the first crypto company that can move money like banks (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: the US used Palantir's Maven Smart System, integrated with Claude, to find and prioritize 1,000 targets within the first 24 hours of the Iran strikes (Washington Post)

Eight Sleep, which sells smart mattress accessories to track sleep patterns and adjust temperatures, raised $50M at a $1.5B valuation, up from $500M in 2021 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Boston-based Whoop, which makes screenless fitness bands, says it plans to grow staff by up to 75% in 2026, adding 600+ roles, ahead of a likely IPO (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

Unlike in the West, Chinese policymakers and the public appear to be much more optimistic about AI, likely due to a focus on real-world applications of AI (Vivian Wang/New York Times)

X user TheGhostOfHope, one of top Call of Duty leakers, says Activision "legally demanded that I stop leaking and disseminating confidential information" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

Polymarket removes long-running markets that let users bet on if a nuclear weapon will be detonated, amid the Iran strikes; a 2025 contract had $1.7M+ in volume (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Analysis: since 2025's end, Polymarket users rarely bet large sums on US strikes by the next day; the day before the Iran strikes, 150+ accounts made such bets (Amy Fan/New York Times)

Sources: Walmart-backed PhonePe targets an up to $10.5B valuation in its Indian IPO; PhonePe raised $600M from General Atlantic at a $14.5B valuation in October (Jaspreet Kalra/Reuters)