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NASA Eyes March 6 To Launch 4 Astronauts To the Moon On Artemis II Mission (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 NASA

President Trump signs an EO to continue the suspension of the de minimis exemption, despite the SCOTUS' ruling that overturned most of Trump's 2025 tariffs (www.wired.com)
2026-2-21 Trump

“Claws” is becoming a term to describe OpenClaw-like agent systems that usually run on personal hardware and are a new layer on top of LLM agents (x.com)
2026-2-21

Bengaluru-based Sarvam, which is building AI models for local languages, launches its Indus chat app in beta, powered by its Sarvam 105B model (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-21 AI

Pinterest Is Drowning in a Sea of AI Slop and Auto-Moderation (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 AI

The US launches the Tech Corps, a program under the Peace Corps to send volunteers abroad to promote American AI, as the US competes with China for AI dominance (restofworld.org)
2026-2-21 China U.S. AI

Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma says she is committed to “the return of Xbox” and that the company won't “flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop” (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-21 Microsoft AI Xbox

Meta's Metaverse Leaves Virtual Reality (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21

Cyber Stocks Slide As Anthropic Unveils 'Claude Code Security' (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21

India joins Pax Silica, a US-led initiative that aims to build secure supply chains for semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, and critical technologies (apnews.com)
2026-2-21 India Manufacturing

Source: OpenAI is projecting that its revenue will exceed $280B in 2030; last month, OpenAI said its annualized revenue grew to $20B+ in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-21

Goldman Sachs Launches AI-Free Index (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 AI Goldman

Sources: OpenAI is telling investors it's targeting ~$600B in total compute spend by 2030, months after Sam Altman touted $1.4T in infrastructure commitments (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-21

Fury Over Discord's Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21

Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21

Phil Spencer Retiring After 38 Years At Microsoft (games.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 Microsoft

Sources: OpenAI staff raised concerns about a Canadian mass shooting suspect months ago; OpenAI says her activity didn't meet the bar for reporting to police (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-21 Canada

Microsoft Deletes Blog Telling Users To Train AI on Pirated Harry Potter Books (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 Microsoft AI

OpenAI Has No Moat, No Tech Edge, No Lock-in and No Real Plan, Analyst Warns (slashdot.org)
2026-2-21

Phil Spencer will retire after 38 years at Microsoft; Asha Sharma, the president of product in Microsoft's Core AI business, will become the CEO of gaming (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-21 Microsoft AI

Memo: Xbox President Sarah Bond, long thought to be Phil Spencer's heir, is leaving; Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty is promoted to Chief Content Officer (www.ign.com)
2026-2-21 Xbox

Anthropic launches Claude Code Security, which “scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted software patches”; cybersecurity stocks fall (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-21

Several Meta Employees Have Started Calling Themselves 'AI Builders' (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 AI

Code Metal, which uses AI to let engineers translate legacy code into modern languages, raised a $125M Series B led by Salesforce Ventures at a $1.25B valuation (www.wired.com)
2026-2-21 AI Salesforce

AMC Theatres Will Refuse To Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 AI

Learn ethical hacking with this hands-on hacking course deal for $28 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-21

How Streaming Became Cable TV's Unlikely Life Raft (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21

Japanese tech giant Advantest hit by ransomware attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-21 Japan

A US judge rejects Tesla's bid to overturn a $243M jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash, a blow for Tesla as it faces a growing wave of lawsuits (electrek.co)
2026-2-21 Tesla

Sources: Google may invest $100M in Fluidstack at a $7.5B valuation and has backstopped crypto miners that are building datacenters, seeking to expand TPU use (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-21 Google

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