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The US launches the Tech Corps, a program under the Peace Corps to send volunteers abroad to promote American AI, as the US competes with China for AI dominance (restofworld.org)
2026-2-21 China U.S. AI

Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma says she is committed to “the return of Xbox” and that the company won't “flood our ecosystem with soulless AI slop” (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-21 Microsoft AI Xbox

A new method to steer AI output uncovers vulnerabilities and potential improvements (www.eurekalert.org)
2026-2-21 AI

Goldman Sachs Launches AI-Free Index (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 AI Goldman

Microsoft Deletes Blog Telling Users To Train AI on Pirated Harry Potter Books (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 Microsoft AI

Phil Spencer will retire after 38 years at Microsoft; Asha Sharma, the president of product in Microsoft's Core AI business, will become the CEO of gaming (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-21 Microsoft AI

Several Meta Employees Have Started Calling Themselves 'AI Builders' (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 AI

Code Metal, which uses AI to let engineers translate legacy code into modern languages, raised a $125M Series B led by Salesforce Ventures at a $1.25B valuation (www.wired.com)
2026-2-21 AI Salesforce

AMC Theatres Will Refuse To Screen AI Short Film After Online Uproar (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 AI

HSBC To Investors: If India Couldn't Build an Enterprise Software Challenger, Neither Can AI (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 India AI HSBC

Claude's C Compiler shows AI elevates the role of human judgment and vision; it's a milestone, but closely mirrors LLVM/GCC, and hard codes things to pass tests (www.modular.com)
2026-2-21 AI

Sources: OpenAI has 200+ people working on AI devices, including a smart speaker priced between $200 and $300, possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-21 AI

Avantos, which develops an AI-native client management system for financial institutions, raised a $25M Series A led by Bessemer, bringing total funding to $35M (www.techinasia.com)
2026-2-21 AI

Amazon Service Was Taken Down By AI Coding Bot (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-21 Amazon AI

Sources: SoftBank plans to form a consortium to build a $33B power plant in Ohio, set to produce 9.2 GW for AI data centers, as part of the US-Japan trade deal (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-2-20 Japan AI

Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (t.co)
2026-2-20 Amazon AI

Microsoft's AI safety team proposed technical standards for detecting AI-generated content, but its CSO declined to commit to using them across its platforms (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-2-20 Microsoft AI

How some political candidates and activists across ideologies and professions are pushing back on the spread of data centers and AI in the US (time.com)
2026-2-20 AI

AI: Why We Can't Stop (but Must Steer) (www.heritage.org)
2026-2-20 AI

OpenClaw Security Fears Lead Meta, Other AI Firms To Restrict Its Use (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-20 AI

Turning AI against the conspiracy theorists (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-2-20 AI Conspiracy

PromptSpy is the first known Android malware to use generative AI at runtime (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-20 Android AI

Sources: Emerald AI, which develops software to curb data center energy demand, is raising a $25M seed extension at a ~$250M post-money valuation (www.axios.com)
2026-2-20 Energy AI

Workers describe a deteriorating culture at Jack Dorsey's Block as morale plunges amid rolling layoffs and a push to use AI tools to improve productivity (www.wired.com)
2026-2-20 AI Layoffs

Toronto-based chip startup Taalas, which hardwires AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, raised $169M, bringing its total funding to $219M (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-20 Startup AI Toronto

Bafta To Reward 'Human Creativity' as Film and TV Grapples With AI (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-20 AI

Sources: AMD agrees to backstop a $300M loan from Goldman Sachs for Crusoe to buy AMD AI chips, the first known case of AMD chips used as debt collateral (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-20 AI Goldman AMD

Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from its advertisers in the results (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-20 AI Reddit

New Study Tracks How Businesses Quietly Replaced Freelancers With AI Tools (slashdot.org)
2026-2-20 AI Freelance

Accenture Links Staff Promotions To Use of AI Tools (slashdot.org)
2026-2-20 AI

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