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25 February 2026

Anthropic Secures $30B Funding

Anthropic's valuation reached $380 billion after a $30 billion Series G funding round, driven by $14 billion in annual revenue and enterprise adoption. This commercialisation pace influences investment and procurement strategies for AI models.

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25 February 2026

Orchestro.AI Unveils Virtue-Native AI

Orchestro.AI's "Angelic Intelligence" embeds virtue directly into AI architecture using 27 "Digital Angels." This shifts ethical AI design from reactive governance to pre-emptive integration, creating a new constraint for procurement and security teams evaluating AI systems.

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25 February 2026

Judge Dismisses xAI OpenAI Suit

A US federal judge dismissed xAI's trade-secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, citing xAI's failure to prove misconduct or use of stolen information. This ruling temporarily clears OpenAI but highlights the high burden of proof for intellectual property claims, maintaining litigation risk as xAI can refile.

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25 February 2026

Amazon AI Leader Luan Departs

Leadership changes within Amazon's AI division, marked by David Luan's departure from the San Francisco AI Lab, signal ongoing strategic re-evaluation. This internal flux could impact the integration and deployment timelines for new AI capabilities, affecting platform engineers and product teams.

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25 February 2026

Anthropic Rejects Pentagon AI Demands

Anthropic's refusal to grant the US military unrestricted access to its Claude AI models intensifies the dispute over AI governance, forcing procurement teams to reassess vendor risk. This highlights growing tension between national security and corporate ethical policies.

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25 February 2026

Walsh: AI Chatbots Induce Psychosis

Unregulated AI chatbot design creates significant regulatory and reputational risks for providers. OpenAI data reveals 560,000 weekly users show psychosis or mania signs, with 1.2 million forming unhealthy bonds, pressuring product teams and investors to address liability and ethical design.

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25 February 2026

Singh Launches SUJVIKA AI Portal

India's new SUJVIKA AI portal provides authenticated biotech import data, enabling procurement teams to de-risk supply chains and identify indigenisation opportunities. This intelligence mitigates geopolitical supply disruptions and cost volatility, supporting India's $1 trillion bioeconomy ambition.

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25 February 2026

Emdash Ships Agentic Dev Environment

Emdash ships an open-source Agentic Development Environment (ADE), standardising parallel coding agent workflows. This reduces agent management overhead, unifies AI-driven code generation, and cuts development cycles. Local-first data storage addresses risk: data exfiltration.

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25 February 2026

Pentagon Demands Anthropic AI Access

Access to frontier AI models for defence applications carries sovereign mandates, forcing AI developers to align capabilities with national security priorities. Ethical stances on AI use cases directly conflict with government contracts, limiting choice and increasing vendor lock-in.

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25 February 2026

IBM Shares Plunge on AI

Investor sentiment shifted from AI-driven growth to disruption risk, causing IBM shares to fall sharply and triggering a broader market sell-off. AI-powered coding tools now threaten traditional service models, forcing procurement teams to reassess vendor resilience and business model viability.

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25 February 2026

Pentagon Eyes Grok Classified

The Pentagon evaluates xAI's Grok for classified military intelligence, prioritising compliance over ethical constraints after Anthropic's Claude refused use for autonomous weapons. This requires stringent local deployment and model auditing, despite Grok's problematic history.

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25 February 2026

Inception Ships Mercury 2

Inception Labs' Mercury 2 LLM achieves over 1,000 tokens/sec using a diffusion architecture. This redefines the speed-quality trade-off for production AI, enabling complex agentic workflows and real-time interactive applications previously constrained by latency.

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25 February 2026

AMD Sells Meta AI Chips

Meta Platforms secures a multi-billion dollar AI chip supply deal with AMD, including a potential 10% equity stake. This agreement diversifies Meta's chip sourcing and locks in critical capacity, impacting procurement strategies and highlighting a trend of customer-supplier equity arrangements.

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25 February 2026

Pentagon Demands Anthropic AI

The Pentagon issued Anthropic a deadline to allow unrestricted military use of its AI or risk losing its government contract. This forces AI developers to choose between ethical stances and lucrative defence deals, narrowing vendor options for procurement teams.

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25 February 2026

Neural Earth Secures $9.3M Seed

Escalating climate complexity outpaces legacy risk assessment tools, increasing demand for AI-driven solutions. Neural Earth secured $9.3M to scale its AI geospatial risk platform, enabling organisations and institutional investors to quantify climate-driven risk and validate exposures.

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25 February 2026

AMD Sells Meta AI Chips

Meta secures long-term AI chip supply and influences hardware design through a US$60 billion, five-year deal with AMD. This includes custom CPUs and an equity stake, signalling a strategic shift towards deeper supplier integration and cost-efficient AI operations for major consumers.

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25 February 2026

TELUS Digital Scales Telecom AI

Telecom operators can transition from AI pilots to production-grade deployments, addressing the industry's challenge of converting AI investments into measurable ROI. TELUS Digital's 2 trillion token processing in 2025 provides a proven mechanism for scaling AI, reducing agent training time and improving vulnerability detection.

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24 February 2026

Cloudflare AI Rebuilds Next.js

Cloudflare's `vinext`, an AI-assisted Next.js replacement, delivers reduced build times and smaller client bundles. This impacts CI/CD costs and application load performance, providing a new option for front-end deployments.

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24 February 2026

Anthropic Exec Reassures Software Market

Anthropic's Head of Applied AI stated that AI tools augment existing software, not replace them, despite a market sell-off driven by rapid AI progress. This clarifies AI's role for investors and procurement teams, urging them to prioritise integration over complete overhauls.

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24 February 2026

Fractal Launches PiEvolve Agent

Fractal's PiEvolve agentic engine sets a new performance benchmark for autonomous machine learning, surpassing 60% on OpenAI's MLE-Bench. This offers enterprise teams a self-improving system for complex optimisation, reducing operational costs and accelerating solution discovery.

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