Roughly 50 people protested outside Palantir’s Cherry Creek headquarters for their collaboration with ICE and business practices in Denver, Colo. on Friday, Jan. 23, 2026. WIRED reported last April that Palantir had won a $30 million contract with ICE to build an ‘ImmigrationOS’ surveillance platform to monitor individuals going through the self-deportation process, who have…
YouTube experienced a widespread outage Tuesday, with thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.com. More than 390,000 users had reported problems with the platform as of 5:24 p.m. PT, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from multiple sources. Most users reported issues with the application. YouTube TV also has over…
Anthropic’s latest flagship model, Claude Sonnet 4.6, is out now. By on February 17, 2026 Claude Sonnet 2.6 is out now. Here’s what you need to know. Credit: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images Anthropic has just released its latest Large Language Model (LLM), Claude Sonnett 4.6. The Tuesday release quickly follows the launch of Claude Opus…
A massive recall for peanut butter products has been issued across 40 states by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Among the 40 states included in the recall is Washington. According to the FDA, the recall occurred after Ventura Foods LLC found pieces of blue plastic in a filter. The recall was first issued last April, but…
United States President Donald Trump’s son Eric is investing in an Israeli drone manufacturer, prompting renewed conflict-of-interest concerns as the Trump family expands its business holdings during its patriarch’s second term as president. Eric Trump is investing in a $1.5bn merger between Israeli drone maker Xtend and Florida-based JFB Construction Holdings, a small construction company,…
Founded in 1974 in the wake of the first oil crisis of that decade, the Paris-based IEA produces forward-looking scenarios documenting the transition to renewable fuels that set the standard for the energy world. Wright will be in Paris Wednesday and Thursday to attend a ministerial meeting of the agency. “We don’t need a net-zero…
Greg Abel took over day-to-day operations of the sprawling investment-to-industrials business at the start of this year © Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Berkshire Hathaway on Tuesday took the rare step of offloading part of its utility business, selling nearly $2bn of power assets in Washington state after wildfires caused billions of dollars in damages. The company’s PacifiCorp…
Are boneless wings any different from chicken nuggets? A federal judge weighed in Tuesday in a lawsuit against Buffalo Wild Wings. In a 10-page ruling, U.S. District Judge John Tharp in Illinois said the sports bar franchise can continue to call its popular menu item “boneless wings,” even though they are “essentially chicken nuggets.” A…
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is stepping in to stop what it calls an “onslaught” of state-level regulation of prediction markets. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig said Tuesday in a video posted on X that the agency has filed a “friend of the court brief” in support of Crypto.com in its escalating legal battle with…
Paramount has responded to Warner Bros. Discovery, which, with the backing of Netflix, will start seven days of talks through Feb. 23 with the David Ellison company on a potential deal. “Paramount acknowledges the announcement from Warner Bros. Discovery that, acting with Netflix, they have decided to provide Paramount a 7-day ‘waiver’ for negotiation. In…
Over the past 15 years, password managers have grown from a niche security tool used by the technology savvy into an indispensable security tool for the masses, with an estimated 94 million US adults—or roughly 36 percent of them—having adopted them. They store not only passwords for pension, financial, and email accounts, but also cryptocurrency…
Meta’s AI Roadmap Supported by Large-Scale Deployment of NVIDIA CPUs, Networking and Millions of NVIDIA Blackwell and Rubin GPUs News Summary: Meta expands NVIDIA CPU deployment and significantly improves performance per watt in its data centers. Meta scales out AI workloads with NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet, supporting network efficiency and throughput. Meta has adopted NVIDIA Confidential…
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The United States is rapidly accelerating toward a definitive tipping point in its financial history, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) wrote in response to the latest 10-year outlook from the Congressional Budget Office. The nonpartisan budget watchdog issued a stark assessment: The current trajectory of borrowing, which is running at double the…
IKEA is expanding again in Colorado, this time with plans to open a store in Fort Collins this year. The Swedish furniture and home goods retailer announced Tuesday that the new location will mark its third in the state. A specific site has not been disclosed yet, nor has it been specified when construction will begin….
Anthropic has released a new version of its midsized Sonnet model, keeping pace with the company’s four-month update cycle. In a post announcing the new model, Anthropic emphasized improvements in coding, instruction-following, and computer use. Sonnet 4.6 will be the default model for Free and Pro plan users. The beta release of Sonnet 4.6 will…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement Tuesday to resolve thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer. The proposed settlement comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to hear arguments…
Transportation The automaker’s EV skunkworks team is using ‘bounties’ to guide engineering decisions that track gains in battery range and reductions in cost. Feb 17, 2026, 4:00 PM UTC Transportation The automaker’s EV skunkworks team is using ‘bounties’ to guide engineering decisions that track gains in battery range and reductions in cost. Feb 17, 2026,…
Michael Selig, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as Commodity Futures Trading Commission chairman, testifies in a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on his nomination on Capitol Hill, Nov. 19, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed an amicus brief in federal court on Tuesday to assert the agency’s right to enforce…
Colorado will welcome a new IKEA store in Fort Collins in 2026, part of IKEA’s U.S. expansion plan. FORT COLLINS, Colo. — IKEA will open a new store in northern Colorado in 2026, the company announced on Tuesday. The 64,000-square-foot IKEA will be located in Fort Collins at the Front Range Village Shopping Center at 4250…
NEW YORK (AP) — A quiet finish for the U.S. stock market on Tuesday masked big swings underneath the surface as companies talked about how discouraged their customers are feeling and some tech stocks continued to feel the downside of the artificial-intelligence boom. The S&P 500 rose 0.1% after flipping earlier between a gain of…
Mobileum’s ex-chief financial officer Andrew Warner and former chief of delivery operations Kishore Vangipuram allegedly ‘pocketed millions of dollars in personal proceeds’ © Andrew Kelly/Reuters US prosecutors charged two former senior executives at a private equity-owned software group with fraud, accusing them of falsifying financial results to inflate the company’s value when it was sold…
The UK’s unemployment rate has increased again – to the highest level in nearly five years, according to new official figures. The jobless rate ticked up to 5.2% in December, the highest since the three months up to January 2021, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed. The figure had stood at 4.1%…
In a major update to its ongoing sale process, Warner Bros. Discovery has set a March 20 vote for its blockbuster deal with Netflix … but the company says that it will reengage with David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance to see if it can resolve the outstanding issues it had with PSKY’s bid, and to secure…
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR), a global science and technology innovator, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Masimo Corporation (NASDAQ: MASI) a leading specialty diagnostics provider of pulse oximetry and other patient monitoring solutions, primarily in acute care settings. Under the terms of the agreement,…
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When it comes to electric vehicles, Detroit was in denial for too long. Then it panicked and launched a flurry of flawed initiatives and hurried Hail Marys. That knee-jerk reaction is now costing the auto companies—and America—a fortune. In December 2025, Ford announced a $19.5 billion write-down on its electric vehicle investments—one of the largest…
Oil Bears Are Dangerously Underestimating Geopolitical Risk | OilPrice.com Irina Slav Irina is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry. More Info Trending Discussions Premium Content By Irina Slav – Feb 16, 2026, 7:00 PM CST The current sense of security in the oil market…
Dollar positioning has reached its most negative level on record in Bank of America’s survey, reflecting broad expectations of US softness and potential Fed easing, with labour market risks seen as the main catalyst for further weakness. Summary: Investor positioning in the US dollar has fallen to its most negative level since at least January…
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PHILADELPHIA, PA / ACCESS Newswire / February 17, 2026 / Datavault AI Inc. (NASDAQ:DVLT) (“Datavault AI” or the “Company”), a leader in data monetization, credentialing, digital engagement and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization technologies, today announced its updated preliminary (unaudited) fiscal year 2025 revenue is estimated to be $38 to $40 million, exceeding its prior estimate…
In a major update to its ongoing sale process, Warner Bros. Discovery has set a March 20 vote for its blockbuster deal with Netflix … but the company says that it will reengage with David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance to see if it can resolve the outstanding issues it had with PSKY’s bid, and to secure…