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Techmeme - 2026-02-28T15:35:54-05:00

An interview with Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis on plans to use in-house chips, Trainium and Inferentia, to develop AI models more cheaply, and more (Wall Street Journal) - 2026-02-28T15:35:01-05:00

China faces a dilemma as it looks to balance productivity gains from AI with labor displacement risks due to automation, which could trigger an economic spiral (Bloomberg) - 2026-02-28T14:45:01-05:00

Xiaomi launches the €999 Xiaomi 17, the €1,499 17 Ultra, and the €1,999 Leica-branded Leitzphone, all featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, in Europe (Dominic Preston/The Verge) - 2026-02-28T14:05:00-05:00

Xiaomi launches the €15 Xiaomi tag, an AirTag-like device that works with both Apple Find My and Android Find Hub, and the €300 Xiaomi Watch 5, in Europe (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-28T13:45:00-05:00

Claude hit #2 on Apple's US App Store, hours after the DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk; it bounced between #20 and #50 for much of February (Jordan Novet/CNBC) - 2026-02-28T12:55:01-05:00

Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect (Wall Street Journal) - 2026-02-28T12:35:01-05:00

Q&A with Reiner Pope, a former Google TPU architect and CEO of MatX, which designs specialized chips for LLMs, on the limitations of current AI chips, and more (John Collison/Cheeky Pint) - 2026-02-28T12:10:01-05:00

The Pentagon's fight with Anthropic sparks fears in Silicon Valley and the Capitol of a fundamental shift in the balance of power between DC and the AI industry (Brendan Bordelon/Politico) - 2026-02-28T10:35:01-05:00

Dario Amodei says "we are patriotic Americans" and Anthropic fears some AI uses could clash with American values as AI's potential gets "ahead of the law" (Jo Ling/CBS News) - 2026-02-28T08:40:06-05:00

How India's outsourcing industry, which employs 6M+ people and is worth nearly $300B, is racing to adapt as AI promises to automate white-collar work (New York Times) - 2026-02-28T08:35:00-05:00

AI's deflationary impact on India's IT industry, which has never seen a decline in software exports in 24 years, will likely take years to fully materialize (Manish Singh/India Dispatch) - 2026-02-28T05:35:01-05:00

Tests of 12+ AI-detection tools show many capable of spotting basic fakes, but struggle with complex images; few analyze video, and most identified fake audio (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times) - 2026-02-28T02:35:01-05:00

US Congressional Joint Economic Committee report: US consumers lost $20.9B nominally to identity theft from four major data broker breaches over the past decade (Dell Cameron/Wired) - 2026-02-28T02:15:02-05:00

Sources: TSMC urges clients to apply for N2 production allocation as far out as Q2 2027, with large capacity allotments nearly sold out for the next two years (Tim Culpan/Culpium) - 2026-02-28T01:30:01-05:00

Anthropic's dispute with the DOD raises critical questions for US military partners like Nvidia, Google, Amazon, and Palantir, which work closely with Anthropic (Wired) - 2026-02-28T01:15:01-05:00