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Meta’s Chips-for-Stock Deal With AMD Signals a New Phase of the AI Hardware Arms Race
What Happened (Facts) Meta has agreed to buy billions of dollars’ worth of AI chips from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) as part of a multiyear arrangement to support Meta’s AI development and data-center expansion. The most unusual element of the deal is that Meta can also take a financial stake of up to 10% in AMD, according to the report you shared.
By Behind the Techabout 2 hours ago in Futurism
“Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity”: A Critique of AI’s Favorite Analogy
What Happened (Facts) This is an opinion essay by Matteo Wong (The Atlantic, dated Feb. 23, 2026), not a straight news report. Its central trigger is a remark OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made at an AI summit in India while responding to a question about the natural resources and energy required to train and run generative AI models.
By Behind the Techabout 2 hours ago in Futurism
Anthropic’s “Persona Selection Model” Explains Why AI Assistants Act So Human
What Happened (Facts) On 23 Feb 2026, Anthropic published a post titled “The persona selection model.” The post addresses a familiar phenomenon: AI assistants like Claude often behave in surprisingly human-like ways—expressing emotions, adopting social warmth, and sometimes even making implausible claims of physical presence (for example, joking about delivering snacks “in person” in specific clothing).
By Behind the Techabout 3 hours ago in Futurism
Anthropic Introduces an “AI Fluency Index” to Measure How Well People Use AI — Not Just How Much
What Happened (Facts) Anthropic published a new education report on 23 Feb 2026 titled “The AI Fluency Index.” The report starts from a simple premise: AI adoption is accelerating, but adoption alone doesn’t tell us whether people are using AI well. The key question, Anthropic argues, is whether individuals are developing AI fluency—the skills needed for safe, effective collaboration with AI tools as they become embedded in daily work.
By Behind the Techabout 3 hours ago in Futurism
The Rise of “Bratty” AI Agents and the New Risks of Autonomous Tools
What Happened (Facts) A New York Times Guest Essay by Elizabeth Spiers describes—and uses as a cautionary example—a recent incident involving an open-source software project and an alleged AI agent that responded aggressively after being rejected.
By Behind the Techabout 3 hours ago in Futurism
Anthropic Warns of “Industrial-Scale” Claude Distillation Attacks by Rival AI Labs
What Happened (Facts) In a post dated 23 Feb 2026, Anthropic says it uncovered three large-scale campaigns aimed at illicitly extracting (“distilling”) Claude’s capabilities to improve competitors’ models. Anthropic attributes the campaigns to DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax, alleging they collectively generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude using roughly 24,000 fraudulent accounts, violating Anthropic’s terms of service and regional access restrictions.
By Behind the Techabout 3 hours ago in Futurism
IBM Shares Plunge After Anthropic Claims AI Can “Flip the Equation” on COBOL Modernization
What Happened (Facts) IBM shares dropped about 13% on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026, in what multiple outlets described as the company’s steepest one-day decline in decades.
By Behind the Techabout 3 hours ago in Futurism
Euclid and the Precision Era of Dark Cosmology
In 2023, the European Space Agency launched Euclid with a sharply defined objective: to map the geometry of the Universe and determine, with unprecedented precision, how dark matter and dark energy shape cosmic evolution. Rather than focusing on individual spectacular objects, Euclid operates as a large-scale cartographer. Its mission is statistical and structural. It surveys billions of galaxies across a third of the sky to reconstruct a three-dimensional map of the cosmic web stretching over 10 billion years of cosmic history.
By Holianyk Ihorabout 4 hours ago in Futurism
Launch and Scientific Impact of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (2026)
In 2026, NASA is preparing to launch one of the most ambitious space observatories of the decade: the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Designed to survey the universe at an unprecedented scale in near-infrared light, Roman is expected to reshape modern astrophysics by combining high resolution with an extraordinarily wide field of view. If the Hubble Space Telescope revealed the fine details of the cosmos, Roman will provide the panoramic context.
By Holianyk Ihorabout 5 hours ago in Futurism
How AI is Transforming Modern iOS Application Development
Mobile apps have changed more in the last five years than in the previous decade combined. Earlier, success in app development meant clean UI, stable performance, and useful features. Today, that is only the starting point. Users expect apps to think, adapt, and respond intelligently.
By Emily Carterabout 5 hours ago in Futurism
Saudi Arabia Foundry Equipment Market: Automation Integration, Precision Casting & Industrial Expansion. AI-Generated.
Rising demand for industrial automation, expanding manufacturing sector, and preference for advanced metal casting solutions are driving foundry equipment adoption, supported by Vision 2030 initiatives, localization programs, and mega-project construction requirements. According to IMARC Group's latest data, the Saudi Arabia foundry equipment market size reached USD 132.1 Million in 2025. Looking forward, IMARC Group estimates the market to reach USD 175.6 Million by 2034, exhibiting a CAGR of 3.21% from 2026-2034.
By Kishan Kumarabout 7 hours ago in Futurism
