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Sources: Together AI is in talks to raise ~$1B at a $7.5B pre-money valuation, up from $3.3B in 2025; its annualized revenue has hit ~$1B, up 3x+ from mid-2025 (The Information)

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Anthropic says Claude's free active users grew 60%+ and daily signups grew 4x since the start of the year, with Monday being its strongest day ever (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

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Anthropic launches an early-warning system for potential AI-driven destruction of white-collar jobs, says it shows "limited evidence" of AI-led job loss so far (Courtenay Brown/Axios)

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Microsoft's new gaming CEO, Asha Sharma, teases the next-gen Xbox, codenamed Project Helix, saying it "will lead in performance and play your Xbox and PC games" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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X revamps its Creator Subscriptions with exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, a new dashboard, a shareable subscriptions card, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Meta says it hired the engineering team from Atma Sciences, the startup that makes the vibe coding app Gizmo, earlier in 2026 to join its Superintelligence Labs (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)

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GPT-5.4 is priced at $2.50/1M input and $15/1M output tokens while GPT-5.4 Pro is $30/1M input and $180/1M output tokens, more than GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2 Pro (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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The US DOD says it has "officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately" (Bloomberg)

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OpenAI says users can now use ChatGPT directly in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets and debuts a suite of financial-services tools to better tackle office work (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

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OpenAI says GPT-5.4's "individual claims are 33% less likely to be false and its full responses are 18% less likely to contain any errors, relative to GPT-5.2" (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

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GPT-5.4 is available in Pro and Thinking versions; its API version has improved tool calling and will be available with context windows of up to 1M tokens (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI says GPT-5.4 produces presentations with stronger, more varied aesthetics and makes more effective use of its image generation tools (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, saying it is its "most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work" and its first with native computer use capabilities (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Sources: Oracle is planning to cut thousands of jobs as soon as March, among its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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Iran's state media says Iran targeted Amazon's Bahrain data center on March 1 because of the company's support of "US military and intelligence activities" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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Sources: US officials propose expanding AI chip export controls globally, requiring Commerce Department approval for Nvidia and AMD shipments for each country (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

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Apple implemented geoblocking in January 2026 to prevent US-based users from downloading or updating ByteDance's Chinese apps, even with a Chinese Apple account (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

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Roblox launches "real-time chat rephrasing", an AI feature that replaces banned words with "more respectful language", instead of showing profanities as "####" (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

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The FBI arrests the son of a federal contractor who managed critical services and charges him with stealing ~$46M in crypto from the US Marshals Service (Sander Lutz/Decrypt)

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Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on a production's dailies to be used in postproduction (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Sage, whose AI tools scan for distress and alert caregivers in nursing homes, raised a $65M Series C, bringing its total funding to $124M (Reuters)

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Sam Altman takes subtle swipes at Anthropic, saying "government is supposed to be more powerful than private companies" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Match eliminates the role of COO, putting Hesam Hosseini out of a job after 18 years with the dating app giant, as part of changes under CEO Spencer Rascoff (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Stockholm-based Validio, whose agentic platform autonomously detects and resolves data quality issues, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total raised to $47M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Revolut, which has about 70M clients in 40 markets, applies for a US bank charter and appoints former Visa executive Cetin Duransoy as its new US CEO (Reuters)

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Cylake, co-founded by Palo Alto Networks' Nir Zuk to develop an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that doesn't rely on the public cloud, raised a $45M seed (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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AWS launches Amazon Connect Health, an agentic AI tool that automates clinical documentation, billing and procedure coding, and patient identity verification (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

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Canada says Sam Altman agreed to take immediate steps to strengthen OpenAI's safety protocols around notifying police about potentially suspicious ChatGPT use (Paul Vieira/Wall Street Journal)

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Apple's MacBook Neo is a serious threat to OEMs like HP, Lenovo, and Dell, as their $599 laptops seem inferior and Windows 11's reputation is at an all-time low (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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Brain tech startup Science Corp. raised $230M, a source says at a $1.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $489M, to commercialize its implant for blindness (Ike Swetlitz/Bloomberg)

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Lio, which uses AI agents to automate enterprise procurement, including document reading and supplier evaluation, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

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China's new five-year blueprint introduces an "AI+ action plan", mentions AI 50+ times, and outlines investments in quantum computing, 6G, embodied AI, and more (Reuters)

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Nominal, which makes software for the defense, space, energy, and automotive sectors, raised an $80M Series B extension led by Founders Fund at a $1B valuation (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

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Reclaim Security, which uses AI-driven automation to remediate threat exposures, raised a $20M Series A led by Acrew Capital and a $6M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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NYSE parent company ICE invests in crypto exchange OKX at a $25B valuation, without sharing the investment's size or terms, and will take a seat on OKX's board (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

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Meta agrees to let rival "general purpose AI chatbots" access WhatsApp for a fee in Europe for a 12-month period to avoid potential interim measures from the EU (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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Analysis: soaring NAND prices threaten Nintendo's software sales; the average games purchased per console came to 2.18 in December 2025, vs. 3.88 in March 2018 (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

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Google expands its Canvas workspace to everyone in the US using Google Search's AI Mode so they can get the latest info to organize plans, draft docs, and more (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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China's Hang Seng Tech Index, which includes Chinese tech giants like Tencent and Alibaba, is down 28% since October 2025, shedding nearly $600B in market value (Bloomberg)

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JD.com reports Q4 revenue up 1.5% YoY to ~$51.1B and a ~$391M net loss, its first quarterly loss since 2022, on weak Chinese spending and a food delivery war (Bloomberg)

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Google's Epic settlement term sheet prohibits Tim Sweeney from criticizing Google's app practices until at least September 2032 and mandates that he praise them (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

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Amsterdam-based Silverflow, a cloud-native card payment processing service with a single API to card networks, raised a $40M Series B led by Picus Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

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Huawei dominated MWC as the largest exhibitor, illustrating the challenge facing the EU as it pushes to outlaw the Chinese supplier from European networks (Mathieu Pollet/Politico)

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A look at Munich's UnternehmerTUM, which tops the FT ranking of Europe's startup hubs for the third year straight and has supported 1,000+ companies since 2002 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)

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Grammarly is offering an AI-powered tool called "Expert Review" that simulates feedback from famous writers, dead and living, without their permission (Miles Klee/Wired)

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Staff memo: Alibaba says it is setting up a new task force to accelerate foundation model development, after the resignation of its Qwen AI head Lin Junyang (Reuters)

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In its latest quarterly report, Capcom says "PC sales account for approximately 50% of total unit sales, and we expect this ratio to continue increasing" (Shaun Prescott/PC Gamer)

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Oslo-based Unleash, which develops tools that let enterprises manage risks in AI-accelerated software development, raised a $35M Series B led by One Peak (Paul Gillin/SiliconANGLE)

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A look at Lisbon's Unicorn Factory, a startup hub where 300 businesses joined in 2025, up from 250 in 2024; 17 unicorns moved to Lisbon since hub's 2022 launch (Michael Dempsey/Financial Times)

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NATO officials say its main focus at its July 2026 summit will be on investments into drones and AI systems, rather than primarily conventional defense hardware (Bloomberg)

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