The U.S. labor market faced a significant setback in January 2026, with employers announcing 108,435 job cuts—the highest January total since the Great Recession in 2009. This figure represents a 118% increase from January 2025 and a 205% rise from December 2025, indicating growing corporate caution…

Image: NASA Hubble Space Telescope. According to Professor Kevin Anderson, one of the world’s most respected climate scientists, and based upon a 30-year uninterrupted trendline: “We are headed for 3°C-4°C of warming across this century, an absolute climate catastrophe for all species, including our…

Dear Readers, Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.6 this week and my timeline exploded again. Same story as every model release. “Pentesters are done.” “Bug bounty is dead.” “Agentic AI changes everything.” Daniel Miessler is already calling it proof that all knowledge work is over and we need UBI by…

Google has pledged "at least" $50 million through 2030 on "projects designed to eliminate superpollutants." The company will be joined by a handful of other companies including Amazon and Salesforce in the newly formed Superpollutant Action Initiative. In total, these companies have committed $100…

Training teams to use AI at work has given me a front-row seat to a new kind of professional divide. Some people hand everything over to the machine and stop thinking. Others won’t touch it at all. But there’s a third group. They learn to work with AI critically, treat it like a bright, enthusiastic…

British man charged in Dubai for alleged filming of Iranian missiles 7 hours ago Matt Spivey AFP via Getty Images A 60-year-old British man has been charged under cyber-crime laws in Dubai after allegedly filming Iranian missiles over the city. UK Foreign Office officials are understood to be…

AI use among workers may boost productivity but could also lead to cognitive overload and burnout. Getty Images AI use among workers may boost productivity but could also lead to cognitive overload and burnout. Getty Images One of the great hopes for artificial intelligence—at least, among…

Oracle Layoffs: Tech major Oracle is planning to slash up to 30,000 jobs to fund AI data centres, a new report has said. According to a report by CIO citing research published this week by investment bank TD Cowen, Oracle will also be selling some of its activities as US banks pull back from…

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found evidence Israel used white phosphorus in residential areas of southern Lebanon earlier this month, in violation of international humanitarian law. In a new report released on Monday, the New York-based rights group said it confirmed the authenticity of seven photos…

By the summer of 1945, West Berlin had been reduced to rubble. Allied bombing, the Soviet ground assault and Hitler's insistence on Götterdämmerung had destroyed roughly a third of the city's buildings and left most of the rest damaged. There was no functioning government, no reliable electricity,…

The US military reportedly used Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, to inform its attack on Iran despite Donald Trump’s decision, announced hours earlier, to sever all ties with the company and its artificial intelligence tools. The use of Claude during the massive joint US-Israel bombardment of Iran that…

Downtown San Francisco skyline. HMPV is surging in parts of the Bay Area, wastewater data shows. Vadym Terelyuk/Getty Images If you notice that your office is emptying out, chances are it’s because a respiratory virus that few people have actually heard of is circulating throughout Northern…

The U.S. military has formally designated artificial intelligence firm Anthropic a supply chain risk, a senior Pentagon official and a source directly familiar with the situation told CBS News, a sweeping move that could cut it off from military contracts. The Trump administration and Anthropic —…

WASHINGTON (AP) — American employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month, a sign that the labor market remains under strain. The unemployment rate blipped up to 4.4%. Hiring deteriorated from January, when companies, nonprofits and government agencies added a healthy 126,000 jobs, the Labor…

Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence. The assistance, which has not been…

HEADLINES New Models from OpenAI and Google Although GPT-5.3's non-coding version didn't land last week, OpenAI's release of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is a big deal for AI coding. The model serves inference at 1,000 tokens per second — roughly 15x faster than regular GPT-5.3 Codex — but comes with real…

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Markets |Cybersecurity Cyber Stocks Slide as Anthropic Unveils Claude Security Tool Contact us:Provide news feedback or report an error Confidential tip?Send a tip to our reporters Site feedback:Take our Survey By February 20, 2026 at 6:43 PM UTC Updated on February 20, 2026 at 9:22 PM UTC Takeaways…

For the millions of people across the United States who have spent the last month digging themselves out of above-average levels of snow and ice, this winter has felt especially long and harsh. But the typical winter is actually getting shorter in 80% of major US cities scrutinized by researchers,…

Get our Tracker: ICE newsletter to see what’s happening with immigration enforcement and what’s coming next By signing up, you agree to our user agreement (including class action waiver and arbitration provisions), and acknowledge our privacy policy. Minutes after Donald Trump announced that the US…

By Hannah Pedone For investors to wade back into the software sector, they 'want and need to see the stocks stop trading down on new AI headlines,' one analyst says. CrowdStrike was one of the worst-performing stocks in the S&P 500 on Monday. Artificial-intelligence fears have dogged the software…

35 Min Ago Wall Street mixed on CoreWeave after earnings Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images Many Wall Street analysts may see a brighter future for CoreWeave, but not all are bullish after the artificial intelligence-centric cloud infrastructure provider’s fourth-quarter financial results.…

While OpenAI locks down Washington, Anthropic is locking down users and rocketing to the top of the App Store. Anthropic has been sidelined in Washington following a public dispute with the Department of Defense over how its AI models would be deployed. President Donald Trump ordered federal…

It started on Friday, February 20th, with a limited research preview. Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the Claude family of models, announced Claude Code Security, a tool that scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests targeted software patches for human review. The announcement was…

The Anthropic Claude logo on a laptop arranged in New Hyde Park, New York, on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. Gabby Jones/Bloomberg/Getty Images See all topics Email Link Copied! New York — Just weeks after its new AI tools for the office shook software stocks, Anthropic is pushing even deeper into the…

Introduction After years of exponential growth, the recent capability jump to agentic AI is set to upend the world as we know it beginning in 2026. Here is the uncomfortable truth: AI is no longer just a tool for economic growth; it is a near-direct substitute for human cognitive labor. In the near…

An outbreak of a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu has killed more than two dozen elephant seal pups in California, leading to the temporary closure of seal-viewing areas at a popular Bay Area park. California’s Año Nuevo state park is home to an elephant seal colony with about 5,000 seals during…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday the artificial intelligence company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to allow wider use of its technology. The maker of the AI chatbot Claude said in a statement that it’s not walking away from negotiations, but…

Preface What if our AI bullishness continues to be right...and what if that’s actually bearish? What follows is a scenario, not a prediction. This isn’t bear porn or AI doomer fan-fiction. The sole intent of this piece is modeling a scenario that’s been relatively underexplored. Our friend Alap Shah…

Eli Block – February 20, 2026 Ramp Security Engineering proactively found, validated, and fixed nearly 100 latent security issues in our backend codebase without a human in the loop (until PR review) by deploying a team of home-grown agents and a bit of queuing. The fixed issues were novel: they had…

A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents. Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party. All the parties are sober now. Young people…

A few days ago, I published a post about why OpenClaw feels like a portal to the future, and why that future is scary in a very specific way. The short version: agent gateways that act like OpenClaw are powerful because they have real access to your files, your tools, your browser, your terminals,…

As we embed AI agents into our lives and workflows, we’re learning the (sometimes surprising) ways in which they outperform human beings, and other ways in which they fall short. And occasionally, we find an example where agents, paradoxically, are both better and worse than their human users. Case…

HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to Western Digital's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out. Western Digital's Consumer Share Drops to 5%, as Enterprise Demand Gobbles Up the Supply Well, the ongoing AI supercycle has disrupted supply…

Steve Yegge 13 min read·2 days ago This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on. I first started noticing a concerning new phenomenon a month ago, just after the new year, where people were overworking due to AI. This week I’m suddenly seeing a…

The Temptation of St. Anthony in the Desert, Master of Bonnat (15th c.) In 1972, researchers offered children from the Bing Nursery School at Stanford a simple choice. Left alone with a single marshmallow, they were told they could eat it now or wait fifteen minutes and receive two instead. Years…

A leading Hollywood figure has warned “it’s likely over for us”, after watching a widely disseminated AI-generated clip featuring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting. Rhett Reese, co-writer of Deadpool & Wolverine, Zombieland and Now You See Me: Now You Don’t was reacting to a 15-second video showing…

A recently published document from the Jeffrey Epstein investigative files contains disturbing revelations from a young woman whose coded and encrypted journal was discovered among the 3.5 million pages released by the Department of Justice on January 30. The journal’s cover is a Sweet 16 card —…