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Techmeme - 2026-02-21T21:01:22-05:00

Sources: DOJ's review of Netflix's WBD takeover examines whether Netflix wields anticompetitive leverage over creators in violation of Clayton and Sherman Acts (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-21T21:00:01-05:00

Sam Altman says there is some "AI washing", where companies blame AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, alongside "real displacement by AI" of some jobs (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo) - 2026-02-21T20:10:01-05:00

Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of contributions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-21T17:10:01-05:00

Google is ending Gmailify and POP access in Gmail; new users will lose access in Q1 2026, and existing users will keep both features until later in 2026 (David Nield/Wired) - 2026-02-21T15:15:01-05:00

English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K+ links to be removed (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica) - 2026-02-21T13:40:01-05:00

Interviews with Cluely's Roy Lee, Donald Boat, and other highly "agentic" young men, as agency becomes more valuable than technical skills in Silicon Valley (Sam Kriss/Harper's) - 2026-02-21T12:40:01-05:00

A look at the fundamental questions facing OpenAI: its models have a very large user base but very narrow engagement, incumbents are matching its tech, and more (Benedict Evans) - 2026-02-21T10:20:06-05:00

An interview with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Custom Notion AI agents launching in the coming week, over 50% of Notion databases now being built by agents, and more (Sources) - 2026-02-21T07:30:02-05:00

How Claude Code, released publicly a year ago, cemented Anthropic as a leader in the lucrative, emerging market for AI coding tools (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-21T02:30:04-05:00

Pinterest users, especially artists, say the platform has gotten worse in the past year due to AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI features (Matthew Gault/404 Media) - 2026-02-21T01:40:58-05:00

Google announces a partnership with Sea to develop AI tools for Sea's Shopee, Southeast Asia's most dominant e-commerce platform, and Sea's gaming unit Garena (Stanley Widianto/Reuters) - 2026-02-21T00:05:14-05:00

President Trump signs an EO to continue the suspension of the de minimis exemption, despite the SCOTUS' ruling that overturned most of Trump's 2025 tariffs (Zeyi Yang/Wired) - 2026-02-20T22:35:00-05:00

NanoClaw and other "claws", smaller OpenClaw-like systems that can run on personal hardware, form a new layer running on top of agents that run on LLMs (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy) - 2026-02-20T21:40:51-05:00

Bengaluru-based Sarvam, which is building AI models for local languages, launches its Indus chat app in beta, powered by its Sarvam 105B model (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-20T21:05:03-05:00

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 (Viola Zhou/Rest of World) - 2026-02-20T20:20:02-05:00