Both Reddit and Discord have got themselves into trouble over the use of a controversial third-party age verification service. Reddit has been fined £14.5 ($19.5M) million for the unlawful use of children’s personal information, while Discord has experienced a user backlash … The UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) requires online platforms to verify the age…
Stripe said its focus was on the ‘inflection point’ driven by AI and the growth of stablecoins rather than from a stock market listing © SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Stripe’s valuation has soared by more than 70 per cent to $159bn in the past year as the payments company agreed its latest employee share sale in…
Warner Bros. Discovery says that it is officially reviewing a sweetened bid for the company from David Ellison’s Paramount. The details of Paramount’s revised bid were not immediately known. The company had offered $30 per share, with a “ticker” that would raise the price for every quarter the deal had not closed past the end…
On Tuesday, Anthropic unveiled its new enterprise agents program, its most aggressive push yet to integrate agentic AI into everyday workplaces. In an official briefing, Anthropic’s head of Americas, Kate Jensen, told reporters that the new system would finally deliver on the promise of agentic AI. “2025 was meant to be the year agents transformed…
Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Investors have been ditching software stocks for months on fears of disruption from artificial intelligence, and upcoming earnings from the group aren’t expected to settle any nerves. A number of software companies report earnings this week, including Workday Inc., Salesforce Inc., Intuit Inc., Autodesk Inc. and Snowflake Inc. But worries about AI’s…
Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly told officials that he slept “with one eye open” after he attended a classified CIA briefing on Taiwan, home to the company’s chipmaker TSMC. US intelligence agencies have been worried for years that China may plan to invade the island, and the briefing warned that this could happen as early…
The Home Depot Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2025 Results; Increases Quarterly Dividend by 1.3%;Provides Fiscal 2026 Guidance ATLANTA, Feb. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The Home Depot®, the world’s largest home improvement retailer, today reported fourth quarter and fiscal 2025 results. Fourth Quarter 2025 Sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025 were $38.2 billion,…
Austan Goolsbee, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, speaks during the National Association of Business Economics (NABE) economic policy conference in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. Graeme Sloane | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said Tuesday that interest rate cuts aren’t…
Warner Bros. Discovery says that it is officially reviewing a sweetened bid for the company from David Ellison’s Paramount. The details of Paramount’s revised bid were not immediately known. The company had offered $30 per share, with a “ticker” that would raise the price for every quarter the deal had not closed past the end…
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IBM’s share price slumped by 13 percent on Monday, seemingly caused by investors reacting to an Anthropic blog post that points out its Claude Code tools can accelerate refactoring of apps written in the ancient COBOL language. Anthropic’s post points out that COBOL applications remain prevalent and often handle critical applications for governments, airlines, and…
Having built a business by remixing content created by others, Anthropic worries that Chinese AI labs are stealing its data. The US-based maker of Claude models on Monday accused China-based DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of conducting “industrial-scale campaigns” to siphon knowledge from its models through a technique known as “distillation.” Model distillation is a…
News Highlights Meta is partnering with AMD to rapidly scale AI infrastructure and accelerate the development and deployment of cutting-edge AI models AMD and Meta agree to a definitive multi-year, multi-generation partnership to deploy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct™ GPUs Built on the AMD Helios rack-scale architecture announced at the 2025 Open Compute…
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 18, 2026. NYSE U.S. equities rose on Tuesday, led by gains in Advanced Micro Devices and software stocks, as investors’ fears around artificial intelligence disruption to certain industries eased. The S&P 500 advanced 0.77% to close at 6,890.07, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 1.04% and…
Please enable JavaScript if it is disabled in your browser or access the information through the links provided below. February 23, 2026 Following earlier actions to remove reputation risk from its supervision of banks, Federal Reserve Board requests comment on proposal to codify that removal For release at 5:00 p.m. EST Following earlier actions to…
Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance leaders spent a busy week in negotiations, and now the WBD board is likely to tell shareholders before the market opens on Tuesday that it is taking the bid under review while still recommending the Netflix transaction that is up for a vote on March 20. Representatives for WBD…
Bitcoin BTC$65,412.74 dipped below $63,000 during Asian trading hours, extending overnight weakness amid President Donald Trump’s tariffs and AI jitters that have soured investor sentiment. The leading cryptocurrency by market value is already down nearly 7% for the week, trading at levels last seen on Feb. 6 when prices nearly dropped to $60,000, CoinDesk data…
Anthropic says companies like DeepSeek are engaged in widespread fraud. By Timothy Beck Werth Timothy Beck Werth Tech Editor Timothy Beck Werth is the Tech Editor at Mashable, where he leads coverage and assignments for the Tech and Shopping verticals. Tim has over 15 years of experience as a journalist and editor, and he has…
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First-time homebuyers in California have just 20 days starting tomorrow to lock in up to $150,000 in down payment assistance through a revived state program aimed at easing the crushing cost of buying in the Golden State. The state’s Dream For All Shared Appreciation Loan Program (DFA) is opening for a limited 20-day window, running from Feb. 24…
UPS’ yearslong effort to redesign its business and cut costs will result in the closure of about two dozen additional buildings in 2026, including one in Atlanta. The Sandy Springs-based shipping giant plans to shutter its Atlanta Hub on Marvin Miller Drive off Fulton Industrial Boulevard on March 2. All employees are being offered positions…
Photo: Avangrid A new report finds Texas is set to overtake California in battery storage as US installs hit a record 57.6 GWh in 2025, up 30% year-over-year. According to the US Energy Storage Market Outlook Q1 2026 from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, installations are now four times higher…
In brief Bitcoin hit $63,822, extending Monday’s losses, amid a tariff-driven market slide. A 50% drawdown from the peak doesn’t mean the leading crypto cycle is broken, Decrypt was told. A drop to $55,000 is possible even as the structural demand remains intact Bitcoin’s drop to $64,000 is the result of compounding macro shocks landing…
Share Article Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org AURORA, Colo.—The Air Force and Northrop Grumman have struck a $4.5 billion deal to speed up production of B-21 bombers by 25 percent. Secretary…
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) building in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. Bloomberg | Getty Images China’s central bank kept its benchmark lending rates unchanged Tuesday as authorities navigate a balancing act of supporting a slowing economy while maintaining currency stability. The People’s Bank of China held its 1-year and 5-year loan…
Feb 23 (Reuters) – Shares of International Business Machines recorded their steepest daily drop in more than 25 years on Monday, after AI startup Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could be used to modernize a programming language run on IBM systems. IBM shares sank 13.2%, their biggest drop since October 18, 2000. COBOL is…
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OpenAI is beefing up partnerships with four major consulting giants as the AI company looks to grow its enterprise business in 2026. OpenAI announced on Monday the “Frontier Alliances,” a signal that the AI lab is willing to try different approaches to get enterprises to meaningfully adopt its technology. The alliance includes multi-year partnerships between…
In this article DPZ Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, a Domino’s pizza sits in a take-out box on July 21, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Domino’s Pizza shares climbed on a Monday after the company posted a better-than-expected quarter and laid out ambitious growth plans. The…
The new and improved LEAF is one of the most affordable EVs on the market, but Nissan was supposed to add a new entry-level trim, starting at under $30,000. Nissan cancels cheaper LEAF trim for the 2026 model Nissan updated the iconic electric hatch with a taller, more SUV-like design, longer driving range, and a…
DeepSeek allegedly targeted Claude’s reasoning capabilities, while generating ‘censorship-safe alternatives to politically sensitive questions.’ DeepSeek allegedly targeted Claude’s reasoning capabilities, while generating ‘censorship-safe alternatives to politically sensitive questions.’ Feb 23, 2026, 8:22 PM UTC Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she…
© Reuters Private credit funds are weirdly skewed towards software borrowers, which might make for squeaky bum time come redemption. But we can’t easily track the market’s view as to their worth, given they are only periodically valued (and, often, by the same folks whose job it is to calm the nerves of end investors)….
Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s nearly $200 million vision for New York’s Seaport is over. Seaport Entertainment Group announced this week that the Tin Building by Jean-Georges closed on Monday, February 23. The end of the food hall comes after years of financial hemorrhaging, workforce upheaval, and a slow retreat from the ambitious scope that defined its opening….