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On February 13, 2026, Fox News reported that Anthropic’s Claude AI was used during the US military’s January 3 operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro — making Claude the first frontier AI model confirmed in a classified Pentagon operation.…
Samsung announced commercial shipments of HBM4 on February 12, claiming “industry first” status with 3.3 TB/s bandwidth per stack. There’s just one problem: Micron’s CFO Mark Murphy confirmed volume HBM4 shipments a day earlier, on February 11. And SK Hynix,…
On February 12, 2026, Anthropic closed a $30 billion Series G at a $380 billion valuation — the second-largest venture deal in history. Nine days earlier, on February 3, Claude Cowork had triggered a $300 billion software stock selloff. Capital…
On February 10, Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström told investors on the Q4 2025 earnings call that the company’s most senior engineers “haven’t written a single line of code since December.” The system behind this claim is Honk, Spotify’s internal AI…
On February 6, an anonymous model called Pony Alpha appeared on OpenRouter — free, 200K context, optimized for agentic workflows. Within 48 hours it topped the platform’s popularity rankings, and developer @gosrum reported it achieved a perfect ts-bench score matching…
Zero out of sixteen Anthropic staff believe Claude Opus 4.6 could replace an entry-level researcher. Those same staff report productivity uplifts as high as 700%. One number kept the model below ASL-4 safeguards. The other explains why it’s deployed across…
A randomized controlled trial published by METR in July 2025 tested 16 experienced open-source developers across 246 real tasks. The developers predicted AI tools would save them 24% of their time. After each task, they estimated a 20% speedup. The…
For the first time in a decade, NVIDIA’s AI monopoly is cracking—not in training, but where it matters most for products: inference. OpenAI just signed a deal with Cerebras reportedly worth over $10 billion while NVIDIA preemptively blocked a competing…
Less than 10 months after Claude failed spectacularly at Pokemon Red on Twitch, the same AI successfully navigated a $2.7 billion rover across 400 meters of Martian terrain—without human waypoint planning. On December 8 and 10, 2025, NASA’s Perseverance rover…
