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Gambit Security: an unknown hacker used Claude to steal 150GB of Mexican government data, including 195M taxpayer records, in December 2025 and January 2026 (Bloomberg)

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Insurance brokerage Harper, which uses AI to automate submission routing and follow-up, raised $46.8M in combined Series A and seed led by Emergence Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

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Alibaba Cloud releases a cheap AI coding tool built on open-source models like Alibaba's Qwen 3.5, as well as Zhipu, Moonshot, and MiniMax models (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

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Adobe updates Firefly to add Quick Cut, a new AI tool to edit footage and B-roll to create a first draft of the final video based on user prompts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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London-based enterprise coding startup SolveAI raised a $45M Series A led by GV in November 2025 and a $5M pre-seed led by Accel in August 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

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A study finds GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash deployed tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war game scenarios, and never surrendered (Chris Stokel-Walker/New Scientist)

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Google disrupts Chinese-linked group UNC2814, which breached 53+ organizations across 42 countries and utilized Google Sheets to manage targeting and data theft (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)

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Stablecoin operator Circle reports Q4 revenue up 77% YoY to $770M, vs. $747M est., and $133.4M net income; USDC ended 2025 with ~$75B in circulation, up 72% YoY (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Deutsche Bank partners with Google Cloud to build agentic AI to monitor 1TB of daily communications and 40+ channels for market abuse and data loss prevention (William Shaw/Bloomberg)

Diplomatic cable: US officials order diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate how US tech companies handle foreigners' data, citing risks to AI services (Reuters)

A top US export control official says Nvidia has yet to sell any H200 chips to China, two months after President Trump's decision to allow AI chip shipments (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Sources: General Atlantic is selling a stake in ByteDance in a deal that values it at $550B, up 66% since September 2025, the first divestment since its US sale (Reuters)

Sources: SAP investors and partners raise doubts about the company's AI products; VW tested SAP's flagship AI assitant Joule and did not find it mature enough (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

DoorDash says it plans to exit Qatar, Singapore, Japan and Uzbekistan, winding down both Deliveroo and Wolt, and make limited operational changes elsewhere (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)

Malaysia blocks access to Grindr's and Blued's websites and says it may engage with Google and Apple to curb the LGBTQ dating apps in the Muslim-majority nation (Anuradha Raghu/Bloomberg)

Sources: Japan's FTC raids Microsoft's Japan offices as part of a probe into whether Azure customers were improperly hindered from using other cloud services (Nikkei Asia)

Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri says Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI use Workday tools and "no amount of vibe coding" could replace them; WDAY is down about 40% YTD (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Workday reports Q4 revenue up 14.5% YoY to $2.53B, vs. $2.52B est., and forecasts FY 2027 subscription revenue below estimates; WDAY drops 9%+ pre-market (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

A look at TAT-8, the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable, which went into service in 1988, was retired in 2002, and is now being pulled up for recycling (Jane Ruffino/Wired)

A look at Motif Technologies and Upstage, South Korean AI startups competing with SK Group and LG in the race for a national AI foundation model (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Zetrix, a publicly traded Malaysian digital infrastructure provider, raised ~$40M from the World Bank's IFC and plans to list its AI unit on Nasdaq by end-2026 (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Sources: China's top chipmakers, with strong government backing, aim to increase advanced chip production capacity fivefold to 100K wafers within two years (Nikkei Asia)

HP says memory now accounts for 35% of its PC bill of materials, up from 15% to 18% in Q4 2025, and expects RAM's share to rise through 2026 (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

Analysis: overseas investors bought a net $2.77B of Taiwan equities on February 24, the most since December 2005, signaling confidence in an AI driven chip boom (Bloomberg)

Sensor Tower: India was the largest market for GenAI app downloads in 2025, surging 207% YoY; India accounts for 20% of global installs but 1% of in-app revenue (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Australian freight software maker WiseTech plans to cut ~2,000 jobs, or ~30% of its workforce, this fiscal year and next, amid CEO Zubin Appoo's embrace of AI (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)

Koah, which embeds sponsored ads directly into AI chatbots and aims to build an AdSense for AI, raised a $20.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

SOTU: Trump says he told tech companies to build their own plants to power data centers; sources say the White House expects to formalize the effort in March (Richard Valdmanis/Reuters)

A survey of US teens: 57% use AI chatbots to search for info, 54% use them to do schoolwork, 47% for fun or entertainment, 12% for emotional support, and more (Pew Research Center)

OpenAI hires Arvind KC as chief people officer, replacing Julia Villagra who left in August 2025; KC has held senior roles at Roblox, Google, Palantir, and Meta (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)

A look at how both small and large companies are tracking and enforcing employees' AI usage and considering it during performance reviews (Wall Street Journal)

Anthropic starts rolling out Remote Control for Claude Code, letting users control a session begun in the terminal from the Claude mobile app or the web (Claude/@claudeai)

London-based self-driving startup Wayve raised a $1.2B Series D at an $8.6B post-money valuation, with Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and Nissan among investors (Financial Times)

HP reports Q1 revenue up 6.9% YoY to $14.44B, vs. $13.94B est., and expects FY 2026 results to be at the low end of its forecasts; HPQ drops 6%+ after hours (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

David Luan, the head of Amazon's AGI lab, is leaving the company less than two years after he joined through an acqui-hire deal of his startup Adept (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

A US judge sentences ex-L3Harris exec Peter Williams to over 7 years in prison, after he pleaded guilty in 2025 to theft of trade secrets and selling exploits (Greg Otto/CyberScoop)

The US Treasury sanctions Russian zero-day broker Operation Zero, its founder Sergey Zelenyuk, and others for acquiring and reselling stolen US defense exploits (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Sources: MacBook Pros with touch screens, due this fall, will have a Dynamic Island and a refreshed, dynamic UI optimized for touch or point-and-click input (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Apple will block users in Australia, Brazil, and Singapore from downloading apps rated 18+ without age assurance and rolls out new age assurance tools for devs (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

Sources: Stripe, which is privately held, has expressed preliminary interest in a potential acquisition of PayPal or its assets; PYPL closed up 6.7% (Bloomberg)

Sources: CoreWeave is seeking an ~$8.5B loan from banks, backed by a contract Meta signed last year to pay CoreWeave up to $14.2B for its services (Bloomberg)

Source: Anthropic has no intention of easing Claude usage restrictions for military purposes, following Dario Amodei's meeting with Pete Hegseth (David Jeans/Reuters)

Anthropic updates its Responsible Scaling Policy, including separating the safety commitments it'll make unilaterally and its recommendations for the industry (Billy Perrigo/Time)

A California judge dismisses a lawsuit from xAI that accused OpenAI of stealing its trade secrets, with permission for xAI to refile the case at a later date (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Discord says it won't roll out age verification globally next month as previously announced, delaying the change until H2 after it adds verification options (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

YouTube updates its $7.99-per-month Premium Lite subscription to let users download videos for offline access and play videos in the background (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sources: DOD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a "supply chain risk", if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday (Axios)

Waymo opens its robotaxi service to "select riders" in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando, expanding its operations to 10 US cities (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Software stocks rebound as Anthropic announces partnerships integrating its AI tools with enterprise apps, including Slack, Intuit, Docusign, and FactSet (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

SambaNova, which says its SN50 AI chip runs 5x faster than its rivals and will be deployed by SoftBank, raised a $350M Series E led by Vista Equity and Cambium (Bloomberg)