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Policy anthropic.com Feb 26

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Rejects Pentagon Demands for Unrestricted Claude AI Access

In a direct statement, Amodei declares the company 'cannot in good conscience accede' to DoD requests to loosen safety guardrails, as a deadline looms amid national security pressures.

Big Tech fool.com Feb 26

Why CoreWeave Stock Is Plunging in After-Hours Trading

CoreWeave beat Q4 revenue estimates but posted a steeper-than-expected net loss of $452M, leading to a 7.9% after-hours drop. The AI cloud provider's widening loss margin highlights profitability challenges in hyperscale AI compute.

Policy floridaphoenix.com Feb 26

Florida Senate Unanimously Passes Bill to Regulate Booming AI Data Centers

Legislation targets power consumption, water use, and environmental impacts of AI facilities amid explosive growth in Florida.

Chips ir.mara.com Feb 26

MARA Announces Strategic Partnership with Starwood for 1GW AI-Capable Data Centers

MARA and Starwood team up to build hyperscale infrastructure delivering 1GW near-term IT capacity for AI and enterprise, expandable to 2.5GW, blending Bitcoin mining with HPC workloads.

Big Tech theinformation.com Feb 26

Meta's internal AI chip design efforts hit roadblocks

Meta Platforms struggles with in-house AI chip development, turning to supply deals with AMD and Nvidia as design challenges persist.

Big Tech theinformation.com Feb 26

Salesforce, Workday leaders take swipes at AI rivals: 'Parasites' to 'SaaSquatch'

Execs from Salesforce, Workday, and Snowflake mock AI wrappers and startups, positioning their platforms as true AI beneficiaries amid enterprise adoption.

AI fortune.com Feb 26

Citadel Securities demolishes viral doomsday AI essay, arguing the real ‘Global Intelligence Crisis’ is ignorance of macro fundamentals

Citadel critiqued a viral essay predicting AI-driven economic collapse via job displacement, using labor data and historical tech adoption to argue AI boosts productivity without systemic ruin. The report counters doomsday narratives amid debates like the 'Engels pause.'

Startups hpcwire.com Feb 26

Domino Data Lab Unveils Platform for Safely Scaling Enterprise Agentic AI

Major update enables governed end-to-end workflows for deploying agentic systems at scale in businesses.

Chips reuters.com Feb 26

Nvidia expects gaming chips shortage to last until year-end

NVIDIA warns of ongoing gaming GPU shortages through 2026, even as AI drives core growth, highlighting supply chain strains.

Startups techcrunch.com Feb 26

Mistral AI inks multi-year deal with Accenture for enterprise AI solutions

Mistral partners with Accenture to build enterprise tech powered by Mistral models, with Accenture adopting the tech for its employees and clients.

Startups finance.yahoo.com Feb 26

C3.ai stock plunges 22% on revenue miss, widened losses and major layoffs

C3.ai's Q3 revenue tanked to $53M vs expectations, with Q4 guidance lowered and 26% workforce cuts announced amid enterprise AI slowdown.

AI coindesk.com Feb 26

AI rout hits software stocks, but Grayscale says blockchains stand to benefit

As AI pressures software shares, Grayscale argues blockchains will enable intelligent agent transactions and mitigate risks in the agentic era.

Chips streetinsider.com Feb 26

RBC Capital: Nvidia Stock Already Discounts Major AI Spending Slowdown

Analysts argue current levels bake in capex pullback, maintaining buy despite post-earnings drop.

Research home.dartmouth.edu Feb 26

Dartmouth celebrates AI milestone, charts future path where AI began

Dartmouth hosts event marking AI's origins, gathering researchers to shape next era of artificial intelligence.

Big Tech fool.com Feb 26

Palantir Down 27% YTD: Analysts Weigh Buy-the-Dip Opportunity Post-Nvidia

Despite high valuation at 97x forward earnings, PLTR seen benefiting from agentic AI shift highlighted in Nvidia's call.

Policy latimes.com Feb 26

L.A. schools face crisis amid investigation into Carvalho, AI contract

Los Angeles schools superintendent faces probe over a controversial AI contract, sparking crisis amid broader scrutiny of edtech deals.

Big Tech aws.amazon.com Feb 26

AWS Updates Large Model Inference Container with Support for DeepSeek v3.2 and Mistral Large 3

New LMI features boost performance for latest open models, enabling faster, cheaper inference on AWS Trainium and Inferentia.

Startups bizjournals.com Feb 26

Andrew Ng-backed Profitmind raises $9M Series A for AI hotel revenue optimization

Profitmind, an AI startup optimizing revenue management for hotels, secured $9M in Series A funding led by Accenture Ventures.

Policy politico.com Feb 26

‘Incoherent’: Hegseth’s Anthropic ultimatum confounds AI policymakers

Pentagon chief demands full military access to Claude AI or faces bans, threatening to override ethics on surveillance and weapons. Tech experts call it contradictory, risking Silicon Valley-DoD ties.

Big Tech x.com Feb 26

Perplexity partners with Samsung to integrate into Galaxy S26 as system-level AI

Every Galaxy S26 ships with Perplexity pre-installed, activated by 'Hey Plex', marking deep hardware-software AI fusion.

Startups prnewswire.com Feb 26

Fractional AI Acquires Y Combinator Startup Fabius to Advance Applied AI Solutions

Fractional AI snapped up Fabius, enhancing its platform for deploying specialized AI agents in enterprise workflows.

Startups channele2e.com Feb 26

UpGuard Targets AI-Driven Risk Operations With $75M Raise

Cybersecurity platform UpGuard raises $75M to supercharge AI for third-party vendor risk amid supply chain AI threats.

Startups techcrunch.com Feb 26

Self-driving truck startup Einride raises $113M PIPE ahead of public debut

Autonomous freight leader Einride secures $113M from VCs including Volkswagen to scale AI-powered electric trucks toward IPO.

AI blufftontoday.com Feb 26

Homesage.ai Launches AI-Powered Property Condition Grading System

Real estate AI tool rolls out automated home assessments to streamline valuations and inspections.

Quick Bites

Anthropic: 'Cannot in good conscience' give DoD full Claude access
NVDA closes at $184.89 (-5.49%), after hours $185.19 (+0.16%)
NVDA -5.5% AH despite $68.1B Q4 (+73% YoY), $78B Q1 guide on AI capex fears
NVDA stock -5.2% to $185 despite Q4 beat, AI capex fears weigh
NVIDIA Vera Rubin: 6 new chips for 10x lower inference token cost vs Blackwell
NVDA shares slide ~4% to $186 despite Q4 beat and $78B guide on valuation/AI bubble fears
NVIDIA Data Center $62.3B, 91% of revenue on AI surge
NVIDIA Q1 guide $78B (+/-2%) >> consensus, excludes China impact

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Nvidia leads AI chip selloff with 5.5% drop despite earnings beat, as bubble fears resurface

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