Top Tech Stories of the Week – February 22nd, 2026
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- Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude as US debates AI chip exports – TechCrunch | Link
- DJI sues the FCC for “carelessly” restricting its drones – Ars Technica | Link
- Anthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon – CNN Business | Link
- Google Gemini can book an Uber or order food for you with new agentic AI features – The Verge | Link
- Anthropic weakens its safety pledge in the wake of the Pentagon’s pressure campaign – Engadget | Link
- Amazon’s AGI lab head David Luan resigns – News Bytes | Link
- Instagram will alert parents if teens repeatedly search for suicide or self-harm content – Engadget | Link
- Space Force pauses national security launches on Vulcan – Breaking Defense | Link
- Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s new terms, standing firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance – The Verge | Link
- Google rolls out new AI image model with real-time web grounding, cleaner in-image text, and 4K outputs – Search Engine Land | Link
- Trump Moves to Ban Anthropic From the US Government – WIRED | Link
- Google and OpenAI employees sign open letter in ‘solidarity’ with Anthropic – Engadget | Link
- Paramount agrees to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, pays Netflix $2.8 billion for breakup – Engadget | Link
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