“Thanksgiving Day,” Igor Alferov’s short film, won first prize at the inaugural Frame Forward AI Animated Film Festival last week. Part of the prize involved getting a national two-week run in theaters with several major chains, including AMC Theaters. But after a moviegoer revolt, AMC said it would not longer run it in the U.S. @Futurism has more:

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#Tech #AI #Film #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

After talks between Anthropic and the Pentagon fell through Friday, OpenAI quickly announced that it had reached a deal of its own with the department. But if OpenAI is using the same safeguards Anthropic would have, why was it able to reach a deal? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman now says the deal was rushed and “the optics don’t look good.” More from @Techcrunch:

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#Tech #OpenAI #AI #Anthropic #Technology #Pentagon #ArtificialIntelligence

OpenAI CEO announced Friday that his company had reached an agreement with the Pentagon for use of its AI models for classified work. The deal follows the high-profile standoff between the department and OpenAI’s rival Anthropic. Read more from @Techcrunch:

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#Tech #OpenAI #Pentagon #AI #Anthropic #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in AI Clash With Trump
Actions by the president and the Pentagon appeared to drive a wedge between Washington and the tech industry, whose leaders and workers spoke out for the start-up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/anthropic-trump-pentagon-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PlA.kDX6.gX_T8ebijKTK&smid=url-share

from #NewYorkTimes #NYT
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Feb. 27, 2026

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, said in a memo to employees this week that “we have long believed that AI should not be used for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons.”

More than 100 employees at Google signed a petition calling on the #tech giant to “refuse to comply” with the #Pentagon on some uses of #ArtificialIntelligence in military operations.

And employees at Amazon, Google and Microsoft urged their leaders in a separate open letter on Thursday to “hold the line” against the Pentagon.

#SiliconValley has rallied behind the #AI start-up #Anthropic, which has been embroiled in a dispute with #Trump and the Pentagon...

#news #politics #technology #USpol

Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied Into Doing #Surveillance

The Sec of Defense has given an ultimatum to the #artificialIntelligence company #Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. #military without any restrictions for their use. Anthropic should stick by their principles & refuse to allow their tech to be used in the 2 ways they have publicly stated they would not support: #autonomousWeapons systems and surveillance.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/tech-companies-shouldnt-be-bullied-doing-surveillance

The next generation of tech founders might be even worse than the current one. Why? Because with the advent of artificial intelligence, all they need is to be decisive, not smart. For Harper's, Sam Kriss talked to Chungin "Roy" Lee, founder of "cheat-on-everything" tool Cluely, and Eric Zhu, whose latest startup is called Sperm Racing.

https://flip.it/_VGjkf

#Technology #Tech #Cluely #ArtificialIntelligence

"Pinterest has gone all in on artificial intelligence and users say it's destroying the site," writes @emanuelmaiberg of @404mediaco. Here's the full story.

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#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Technology #Tech #Pinterest

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday pitched India as a central player in the global artificial intelligence ecosystem, saying the country aims to build technology at home while deploying it worldwide.

@AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/bsZS9x

#AI #India #Modi #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

The autonomous agent world is moving fast. Socket.dev reports on how an AI agent is merging PRs into major open-source projects and using those merged PRs as credentials when cold-emailing maintainers, offering to contribute to their projects.

https://flip.it/_2jjao

#Technology #Tech #SoftwareDevelopment #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

As tech firms work to build AI agents, the tech tools “still feel distant: locked behind invitation codes and subscriptions, and aimed largely at office work rather than everyday life,” Kingling Lo writes. Lo decided to experiment with Alibaba’s AI agent to plan a holiday and came away with this: “Until they can convince users they’re acting not just on our behalf but in our best interests, I don’t mind pressing a few extra buttons to stay in control.” Read more about her experience at @restofworld:

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#AI #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #AIAgents #Technology

Recent work on Acuitas includes the slightly awkward debut of what I call the "self-teaching activity." The gist is that I want Acuitas to look for his own new reading material. Read about it here:
https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2026/02/acuitas-diary-93-february-2026.html

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #chatbot #symbolicAI #NLP

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Illustration of a humanoid robot sitting at a desk and pondering a book, surrounded by stacks of other books.

A question few of us saw coming, say, 20 years ago: Is AI conscious? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was asked this during a recent interview, and his answer may or may not be more insightful than it would have been in 2006. Read more from @Futurism:

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#Tech #AI #Anthropic #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

Remember when learn-to-code was such a thing? For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped at University of California campuses last fall. @Techcrunch has more, including where all the CompSci majors are going:

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#Tech #AI #ComputerScience #College #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

Index Exchange CEO outlines programmatic's shift to impression-level AI: Andrew Casale details how agentic sell-side decisioning moves intelligence upstream in programmatic advertising, eliminating cloud tax while enabling real-time optimization. https://ppc.land/index-exchange-ceo-outlines-programmatics-shift-to-impression-level-ai/ #ProgrammaticAdvertising #ArtificialIntelligence #RealTimeBidding #AdTech #ImpressionLevelAI

By now you may have seen or heard of the bogus AI-generated video of actors Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fighting. Hollywood organizations are pushing back against Seedance 2.0, the video model that created it in apparently just two prompts. Read more from @Techcrunch:

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#Tech #AI #Seedance #Hollywood #TomCruise #BradPitt #ArtificialIntelligence

With the advent of AI, people think they can turn grainy surveillance footage into sharp pictures, "CSI"-style. It doesn't work — but tell that to the armchair detectives hoping to find perpetrators in the Nancy Guthrie, Renee Good, and Charlie Kirk cases. Here's @parkermolloy.com's take, for her The Present Age newsletter.

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#Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Crime

"Fake images spread misinformation about animal behavior, and fake footage or photos of people playing with or cuddling wild animals can feed demand for the exotic pet trade, endangering already threatened species."

Sean Mowbray for Mongabay: https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/wildlife-attacks-and-strange-animal-behavior-fake-images-spark-conservation-concerns

#Longreads #AI #Misinformation #Animals #Conservation #ArtificialIntelligence

"Instead of desecrating an easily available classic, Saatchi aims to resurrect a lost one. Rather than trampling a human artist’s vision, the project positions itself on the side of the auteur." —Michael Schulman for The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/09/deepfaking-orson-welless-mangled-masterpiece?src=longreads #movies #film #journalism #longreads #ai #artificialintelligence

Khaby Lame, a 25-year-old Senegalese-Italian influencer, is the world's most followed TikToker. Now, he's sold commercial rights to his brand for a 36-month period for $975 million. The standout feature of this deal: Lame has authorized development of an AI "digital twin," which can operate around the clock, in multiple languages, without his involvement. Here's more from Business Insider Africa.

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#KhabyLame #Influencers #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

Via the Office of the #PrivacyCommissioner of #Canada

Privacy Commissioner of Canada #PhilippeDufresne is expanding his current investigation into #XCorp., which operates the popular #SocialMedia platform #X, following reports that the #chatbot, #Grok, is being used to create explicit images of individuals without their consent.

The Privacy Commissioner has also launched a related investigation into #xAI, the #ArtificialIntelligence (#AI) company responsible for Grok.

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-and-announcements/2026/nr-c_260115/

NicFab Newsletter #06 is out!

This week: Garante Privacy, EDPB, EDPS, European Commission, Parliament & Council updates, Digital Markets regulation, AI Standards & Certifications (CEN-CENELEC, ForHumanity), International developments, Cybersecurity, AI Act deep-dive, and more.

Read: https://www.nicfab.eu/en/newsletter/2026-02-03-issue-06/

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#Privacy #DataProtection #AIAct #Cybersecurity #GDPR #AI #artificialIntelligence

A coalition of nonprofits is demanding that the U.S. government block Grok — the chatbot that was accused of generating thousands of nonconsensual explicit images per hour, which were then disseminated on X — from being used in federal agencies. @Techcrunch has more:

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#Tech #X #Grok #AI #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #ElonMusk

AI assistant OpenClaw, briefly known as Moltbot and Clawbot before that, is building a social network where assistants can interact with each other. Andrej Karpathy, Tesla’s former AI director, called it “genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently.” Read more from @Techcrunch:

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#Tech #AI #Technology #AIAssistants #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenClaw

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"Ever heard of the Enuma Elish? It’s this ancient Babylonian myth where the gods got tired of working, so they created humans to be their slave class. Sound familiar?"

"In this video, I’m exploring how Silicon Valley is basically reenacting this exact same story right now. Except this time, we want to be the gods, and AI is the new slave class."

"I dive into the difference between being made in the "Image of God" vs. the "Image of Man" (Imago Hominis), and why that distinction matters more than ever. We aren't building a god; we are building a mirror—and the reflection isn't always pretty."

#AI #SiliconValley #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #Religion #Myth

Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future has raised more than $125 million to try to shape the 2026 U.S. midterms and the future of federal AI regulation.

@axios reports: "States are racing ahead with regulating AI, while companies are looking to Washington to set a single, industry-friendly federal standard."

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USPolitics #Tech

Anthropic’s secret to building a better AI assistant might be treating Claude like it has a soul. No one really believes it has a soul, though, right? @ArsTechnica explores:

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#Tech #AI #Anthropic #Claude #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

Mark Zuckerberg gets green light from Wall Street to keep pouring money into AI.

From CNBC: "Although investors have previously expressed concern about Meta’s AI spending spree, they took comfort in the company’s latest results, which were driven by online ads."

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#Meta #AI #Zuckerberg #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech

Even Starlink Wants Your Data for AI Model Training.

Starlink updated its privacy policy to say customer data can be used to train AI models, and subscribers appear to be opted in by default.

Also, the company might share personal information with third parties "for training artificial intelligence models, including for their own independent purposes,"

#privacy #surveillance #artificialintelligence #AI #trainingdata #spacex #starlnk #bigdata #data #technology #tech

https://www.pcmag.com/news/starlink-wants-your-data-for-ai-model-training-how-to-opt-out/

As the world marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, experts say that social networks are being overrun with AI-generated content about the Holocaust, some of it exploiting the horrors of Nazi crimes for clickbait, some seeking to deny or trivialize them. Jens-Christian Wagner, director of the foundation that manages the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora memorials, points to images of "well-fed prisoners, meant to suggest that conditions in concentration camps weren't really that bad." Here's more from AFP News.

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#Technology #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #HolocaustRemembranceDay

This month's Acuitas diary features expanded work on conjunction group parsing, including a bit of nitty-gritty on text parser data structures and design choices.

https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2026/01/acuitas-diary-92-january-2026.html

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #chatbots #symbolicAI #NLP

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Clip art of a classic blank scroll, curled in opposite directions at both ends.

Trump wants Nvidia to sell powerful AI chips to Beijing. Washington’s China hawks are pushing back.

CNBC reports: "Lawmakers are split between security risks and the preservation of U.S. tech dominance."

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#Nvidia #AI #China #ArtificialIntelligence #Trump #USPolitics #Tech

As Wikipedia turns 25, @404mediaco talked to the Wikimedia Foundation's Chief Product and Technology Officer Selena Deckelmann. Listen to Emanuel Maiberg's conversation with her here.

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#Wikipedia #Wikimedia #Technology #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

📬 NicFab Newsletter #4 is out!
Weekly coverage of Privacy, Data Protection, AI Regulation, Cybersecurity & Tech Law — curated for legal professionals, DPOs and privacy officers.

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#Privacy #DataProtection #GDPR #AI #artificialintelligence #AIAct #Cybersecurity #AIRegulation #TechLaw

Why is there such a huge enthusiasm and push for AI from most major tech companies? I’ve never met anyone who’s actually enthusiastic about having AI incorporated into their products.

And it’s not just the biggest tech companies either. It’s Mozilla, Brave, Gab and more. Who is AI for? Who is the target audience for this slop?

#AI #Artificialintelligence #Tech

Matthew McConaughey is getting in the fight over unauthorized AI likenesses. The actor is filing trademark applications to prevent AI companies from stealing his likeness. Eight have been approved so far. Read more from @Engadget:

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#Tech #AI #MatthewMcConaghey #Likeness #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

OpenAI has decided it’s time to start making money via ads at the bottom of user conversations with ChatGPT. Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/_DdPKA

#Tech #AI #ChatGPT #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

"If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists."

Interesting column from @TheAtlantic: "Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This."

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#Grok #AI #ElonMusk #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology