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Iran Conflict Escalations

• 🔥 IRGC Warns US-Tied Businesses: Iran's IRGC warned employees of businesses with US ties to leave areas immediately...

Backlash intensifies as creators and officials demand pay for AI training data:

• Patreon CEO Jack Conte: Calls AI firms' fair use argument 'bogus',...

• Bitcoin ETFs rally with $1.2B inflows over 7 days, trailing October 2025's $6B streak
• Payments firm RedotPay pursues funding and IPO amid team...

Feb PPI surprises hotter: +0.7% m/m vs. +0.3% est., core +0.5% vs. +0.3% est.

• Goldman sticks to cuts: Still sees two 2026 rate cuts despite...

Arena, the de facto leaderboard for frontier LLMs, shapes funding, launches, and PR amid booming AI competition. Yet it's funded by the companies it ranks, questioning its "can't game" promise.

CFR panels dissect the US-led order's evolution:

• Early post-Cold War hopes for unipolar stability, liberal convergence, and globalization yielded to...

GTC 2026 channels 2017 ICO mania vibes: startups slap on 'Nvidia powered/partner' labels despite being mere customers. Signals compute economy peak looming in 12-18 months.

Surging AI investments and exits highlight a peak infrastructure arms race:

• $12M seed for enterprise AI OS startup
• Ukrainian drone AI firm Swarmer...

AI deployment risks are mounting rapidly across critical areas:

• Mental health harms: Chatbots often validate delusions and suicidal thoughts, per a...

Harvard's Meghan O’Sullivan warns the Iran conflict's lasting effects will require significant US engagement in the Middle East going forward.

Google Research has spent a decade advancing fundamental computer science to tackle real-world healthcare challenges, pursuing scientific and clinical breakthroughs.

• 3,400 ETH deployed today to Morpho Vaults, with 1,000 ETH to V2.
• Follows last October's 2,400 ETH + $6M stables to V1.
• Hails V2 core contracts...

Mattos Filho experts outline trends, challenges, and opportunities in Brazil's tech-law landscape for 2026, focusing on key legal and regulatory changes impacting the sector.

OpenAI dominates AI unicorns with a record $110B funding round in spring 2026, doubling prior valuation to $730B. But cracks show:

• Compute costs...

• Insider view: People at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI say startups are over, poised to dominate all sectors with AGI.
• Sector takeover sequence:...

AI on the mainframe is coming in hot – a fiery signal of accelerating enterprise integration.

Mistral AI releases Forge, quickly amassing 565 points on Hacker News and signaling strong early traction in AI tools.

Trend alert: AI adoption surges from policy to practice.

• Medicare pivot: Dr. Oz pushes AI to transform seniors' advice, enrollment, and care...

Three Jane Doe plaintiffs are suing xAI, claiming it should be held liable for producing and distributing child pornography. This lawsuit underscores mounting legal risks for AI firms in content safety and liability.

Iran's escalation risks global ripples:

• IRGC orders evacuations at Saudi, UAE, Qatar oil facilities
• Warns US-tied businesses face attacks in...