2:13 PMCommercial Carrier Journal75%TA Dedicated cuts accidents and injuries 20% with culture-first safety initiative
1:35 PMTechmeme75%How some companies are trying to become the "Strava of tennis" by offering match video, stats, highlights, social features, and performance analysis for players (Charlie Eccleshare/The Athletic)
12:00 PMFreightWaves - Trucking75%Borderlands Mexico: Canada, Mexico draw record foreign investment in 2025
11:42 AMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%China BlueChemical Hands Fudao Chemical Operations to CNOOC Unit Under De Minimis ...
10:35 AMTechmeme75%Inside the world's largest crypto casino Stake, which claims ~4% of all BTC transactions, with popularity boosted by celebs like Drake and influencers on Kick (Bloomberg)
9:30 AMTechmeme75%[Thread] In an AMA, Sam Altman says DOD blacklisting Anthropic sets an "extremely scary precedent", OpenAI rushed its deal to "de-escalate things", and more (Sam Altman/@sama)
8:41 AMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%Plans submitted to build extension at Darlington school | The Northern Echo
7:00 AMTechmeme75%Netflix actually won by walking away from the WBD bid, collecting a $2.8B termination fee and driving up the price and debt load of the Paramount-WBD merger (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
6:20 AMTechmeme75%Multiple AWS developers say they are asked to take on new roles with AI tools' assistance, and engineers are now required to complete technical writing tasks (Financial Times)
6:10 AMTechmeme75%Block's plan to lay off over 4,000 employees, citing AI work automation, adds to growing angst among white-collar workers over AI's potential for job disruption (Chip Cutter/Wall Street Journal)
4:44 AMGoogle News - The Home Depot75%Photos: ICE Out of The Home Depot rally - San Diego Union-Tribune
4:25 AMTechmeme75%Sources: the Pentagon used Claude in its major air attack in Iran, hours after Trump declared that the federal government will end its use of Anthropic's tools (Wall Street Journal)
2:20 AMTechmeme75%Polymarket trades on contracts tied to strikes on Iran hit $529M, and six new accounts profited a total of $1M by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
12:05 AMTechmeme75%OpenAI says it does not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and it has made its position on this clear to the Pentagon (@openai)
12:00 AMTechmeme75%OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and "has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's" (OpenAI)
11:43 PMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%Trump Tells Iranians to 'Take Over' Their Government. But How? - The New York Times
10:20 PMTechmeme75%AI coding agents are fueling productivity panic among executives and engineers, as a UCB study finds those offloading work to AI are also working longer hours (Issie Lapowsky/Bloomberg)
8:35 PMTechmeme75%An interview with Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis on plans to use in-house chips, Trainium and Inferentia, to develop AI models more cheaply, and more (Wall Street Journal)
7:45 PMTechmeme75%China faces a dilemma as it looks to balance productivity gains from AI with labor displacement risks due to automation, which could trigger an economic spiral (Bloomberg)
7:05 PMTechmeme75%Xiaomi launches the €999 Xiaomi 17, the €1,499 17 Ultra, and the €1,999 Leica-branded Leitzphone, all featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, in Europe (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
6:45 PMTechmeme75%Xiaomi launches the €15 Xiaomi tag, an AirTag-like device that works with both Apple Find My and Android Find Hub, and the €300 Xiaomi Watch 5, in Europe (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
5:55 PMTechmeme75%Claude became the #1 free app in the US App Store on Saturday, after DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk; it hovered in the top 20 for much of February (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
5:35 PMTechmeme75%Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect (Wall Street Journal)
5:10 PMTechmeme75%Q&A with Reiner Pope, a former Google TPU architect and CEO of MatX, which designs specialized chips for LLMs, on the limitations of current AI chips, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint)
3:35 PMTechmeme75%The Pentagon's fight with Anthropic sparks fears in Silicon Valley and the Capitol of a fundamental shift in the balance of power between DC and the AI industry (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)
2:41 PMGoogle News - Supply Chain75%Goods and Services Deficit on the Rise - Supply & Demand Chain Executive
2:16 PMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%New MCAD regulations facing pushback from bar | Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
2:09 PMAtlantic Council Tariff Tracker75%Experts react: The US and Israel just unleashed a major attack on Iran. What’s next?
1:40 PMTechmeme75%Dario Amodei says "we are patriotic Americans" and Anthropic fears some AI uses could clash with American values as AI's potential gets "ahead of the law" (Jo Ling/CBS News)
1:35 PMTechmeme75%How India's outsourcing industry, which employs 6M+ people and is worth nearly $300B, is racing to adapt as AI promises to automate white-collar work (New York Times)
12:55 PMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%UK tribunal rules 5% VAT should apply to public EV charging | EasternEye
10:40 AMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%Tax tribunal rules EV public charging VAT rate should be 5% - TransportXtra
10:35 AMTechmeme75%AI's deflationary impact on India's IT industry, which has never seen a decline in software exports in 24 years, will likely take years to fully materialize (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)
7:35 AMTechmeme75%Tests of 12+ AI-detection tools show many can spot basic fakes, but struggle with complex images; few analyze video, and most identified fake audio (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
7:15 AMTechmeme75%US Congressional Joint Economic Committee report: US consumers lost $20.9B nominally to identity theft from four major data broker breaches over the past decade (Dell Cameron/Wired)
6:51 AMThe Loadstar75%BBC: Israel says it has launched attack on Iran, as explosions reported in Tehran
6:30 AMTechmeme75%Sources: TSMC urges clients to apply for N2 production allocation as far out as Q2 2027, with large capacity allotments nearly sold out for the next two years (Tim Culpan/Culpium)
6:27 AMGoogle Alert - de minimis75%AGRISNAP-GR: Παράταση για τις φωτογραφίες λόγω προβλημάτων στο σύστημα
6:15 AMTechmeme75%Anthropic's dispute with the DOD raises critical questions for US military partners like Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and Palantir, which work closely with Anthropic (Wired)
5:40 AMTechmeme75%Coupang reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.8B, below $8.9B est., and a net loss of $26M, versus $131M net profit in Q4 2024, hurt by fallout from a data breach (Reuters)
4:15 AMTechmeme75%Source: India issued a blocking order on February 24 to restrict access to developer database service Supabase; the government did not publicly cite a reason (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
3:25 AMTechmeme75%Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil a new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system will have a Groq-designed chip and OpenAI is a customer (Wall Street Journal)
3:20 AMTechmeme75%Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD to deploy its models in DOD's classified network and asks DOD to extend those terms to all AI companies (Sam Altman/@sama)