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Israel, U.S. stiff-arm U.N. during emergency Security Council meeting
Iran's ambassador said the airstrikes have killed and injured hundreds of Iranian civilians, which he called a war crime and a crime against humanity.
Thomas Massie among few Republicans to criticize Trump over war powers: ‘This is not ‘America First”
Key members of Congress are demanding a swift vote on a war powers resolution that would restrain President Donald Trump's military attack on Iran.
A month before Iran strikes, Trump told Iranian protesters help was on the way amid a government crackdown
Human rights groups reported that thousands were killed in the Iranian crackdown.
Marjorie Taylor Greene rips Iran strikes as Trump betraying America First: ‘It’s always a lie and it’s always America Last’
In 10 years, Trump went from criticizing regime change in the Middle East to urging Iranians to "seize control of your destiny."
Russia accuses America of ‘pre-planned and unprovoked act of armed aggression’ against Iran
The Arab League called the Iranian attacks “a blatant violation of the sovereignty of countries that advocate for peace and strive for stability.”
American, Israeli strike on Iran came 2 days after latest talks, as theocracy struggled with nationwide protests
The nationwide protests began over the economy but turned into anti-government ones. The UN Security Council met in an urgent session.
Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei dies after major attack by Israel and the U.S., Iranian state media confirms
Neither Iranian state television nor the state-run IRNA news agency reported a cause of death for the 86-year-old.
Trump says U.S. will bomb Iran uninterrupted ‘as long as necessary’ to achieve peace in Mideast and the world after confirming Khamenei’s death
Trump signaled even more expansive ambitions and longevity for his attacks on Iran.
The trap Anthropic built for itself
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and others have long promised to govern themselves responsibly. Now, in the absence of rules, there's not a lot to protect them.
Pentagon chief blocks officers from attending Ivy League schools and other top universities, including partners on AI and space
"We will no longer invest in institutions that fail to sharpen our leaders' warfighting capabilities or that undermine the very values they are sworn to defend."
Why did Netflix back down from its deal to acquire Warner Bros.?
Netflix's co-CEO reportedly told Trump, "I took your advice."
What to know about the landmark Warner Bros. Discovery sale
Learn more about Paramount's planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery — a historic Hollywood megadeal valued at $111 billion — as it continues to develop.
Anthropic’s Claude rises to No. 2 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute
Anthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon.
The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom
Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI.
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman announces Pentagon deal with ‘technical safeguards’
OpenAI's CEO claims its new defense contract includes protections addressing the same issues that became a flashpoint for Anthropic.
Xiaomi launches 17 Ultra smartphone, an AirTag clone, and an ultra slim powerbank
We round up everything Xiaomi announced at its Mobile World Congress event.
Why China’s humanoid robot industry is winning the early market
China’s push into humanoid robots is accelerating, with domestic firms shipping more units and iterating faster than U.S. competitors in a still-nascent market.
Vibe coding with overeager AI: Lessons learned from treating Google AI Studio like a teammate
Most discussions about vibe coding usually position generative AI as a backup singer rather than the frontman: Helpful as a performer to jump-start ideas, sketch early code structures and explore new directions more quickly. Caution is often urged regarding its suitability for production systems where determinism, testability and operational reliability are non-negotiable.
Anthropic vs. The Pentagon: what enterprises should do
The relationship between one of Silicon Valley's most lucrative and powerful AI model makers, Anthropic, and the U.S. government reached a breaking point on Friday, February 27, 2026.
India disrupts access to popular developer platform Supabase with blocking order
India, one of Supabase’s biggest markets, is seeing patchy access after a government block order.
Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a ‘Supply Chain Risk’
Anthropic says it would be “legally unsound” for the Pentagon to blacklist its technology after talks over military use of its artificial intelligence models broke down.
Google's Opal just quietly showed enterprise teams the new blueprint for building AI agents
For the past year, the enterprise AI community has been locked in a debate about how much freedom to give AI agents. Too little, and you get expensive workflow automation that barely justifies the "agent" label.
OpenAI's big investment from Amazon comes with something else: new 'stateful' architecture for enterprise agents
The landscape of enterprise artificial intelligence shifted fundamentally today as OpenAI announced $110 billion in new funding from three of tech's largest firms: $30 billion from SoftBank, $30 billion from Nvidia, and $50 billion from Amazon. But while the former two players are providing money, OpenAI is going further with Amazon in a new direction, establishing an upcoming fully "Stateful Runtime Environment" on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world's most used cloud environment.
OpenAI fires employee for using confidential info on prediction markets
The company said such trades violates its internal company policies about using confidential information for personal gain.
Pentagon moves to designate Anthropic as a supply-chain risk
"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post.
Trump Moves to Ban Anthropic From the US Government
President Donald Trump’s sudden order comes after the Defense Department pressured Anthropic to drop restrictions on how its AI can be used by the military.
Musk bashes OpenAI in deposition, saying ‘nobody committed suicide because of Grok’
In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with nonconsensual nude images.
OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Insider Trading
Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: OpenAI Takes The Spotlight With Record-Setting $110B Round
It was going to be a fairly business as usual top 10 list this week until OpenAI decided to disrupt our Friday with news that it raised $110 billion in new funding. We also a number of megadeal rounds in sectors including semiconductors, AI, healthcare and biotech.
Enterprise MCP adoption is outpacing security controls
AI agents now carry more access and more connections to enterprise systems than any other software in the environment. That makes them a bigger attack surface than anything security teams have had to govern before, and the industry doesn't yet have a framework for it.
OpenAI’s New $110B Raise At A $840B Valuation Marks The Largest Venture Deal Ever
OpenAI announced Friday that it has closed on a staggering $110 billion fundraise at an $840 billion post-money valuation. The financing marks the largest raise ever, according to Crunchbase data.
Wall Street Has AI Psychosis
A “thought experiment” about the impacts of AI sent stocks tumbling earlier this week. It’s probably going to keep happening.
Sector Snapshot: Space Tech Startup Funding Still Flying High
Venture funding to companies in Crunchbase space tech and satellite categories hit a high last year of nearly $12 billion. So far, 2026 is off to a brisk start as well.
Jack Dorsey's Block cuts 40% of staff, 4,000+ people — and yes, it's because of AI efficiencies
Former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's new company Block — the parent of merchants payment system Square, mobile peer-to-peer payments Cash App, music streamer Tidal, and open source AI orchestration system Goose — is sending shockwaves across the business world tonight after announcing a more than 40% headcount, cutting its workforce by more than 4,000 people out of a prior total of 10,000, despite its latest quarterly earnings statement released today showing $2.87 billion in gross profit up 24% year-over-year. The culprit?
Microsoft's new AI training method eliminates bloated system prompts without sacrificing model performance
In building LLM applications, enterprises often have to create very long system prompts to adjust the model’s behavior for their applications. These prompts contain company knowledge, preferences, and application-specific instructions.
‘Uncanny Valley’: Pentagon vs. ‘Woke’ Anthropic, Agentic vs. Mimetic, and Trump vs. State of the Union
Our hosts unpack the news of the week, starting with the ongoing feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon. Plus: All you need to know about TAT-8 and undersea cables.
This AI Agent Is Designed to Not Go Rogue
The new open source project IronCurtain uses a unique method to secure and constrain AI assistant agents before they flip your digital life upside down.
How Chinese AI Chatbots Censor Themselves
Researchers from Stanford and Princeton found that Chinese AI models are more likely than their Western counterparts to dodge political questions or deliver inaccurate answers.
Are You ‘Agentic’ Enough for the AI Era?
Silicon Valley built AI coding agents that can handle most of the grunt work. Now, the most valuable skill in tech is deciding what they should do.
Fintech Plaid Completes Tender Offer At $8B Valuation
Fintech infrastructure company Plaid revealed on Thursday that it has completed a new fundraise to provide liquidity to employees at a valuation of $8 billion.
OpenAI Announces Major Expansion of London Office
The San Francisco-based AI lab is growing its research team in London. The move puts it in direct competition with Google DeepMind for top research talent in the UK.
How This GV Investor Looks For The Next Stripe And Other ‘Compounding’ Startups In Fintech And AI
Crunchbase News recently spoke with GV partner Elena Sakach to find out more about her investment thesis, her thoughts on what defines winning fintech and AI companies, how AI is affecting traditional software businesses, and how she determines what truly is a large opportunity.
Why Sierra the Supercomputer Had to Die
For seven years, she ran high-security nuclear simulations for the US government. Now, this famous supercomputer is being put to death.
Riley Walz, the Jester of Silicon Valley, Is Joining OpenAI
The software engineer is famous for his online stunts. Now he’s joining the company behind ChatGPT to work on new ways for humans to use AI systems.
OpenClaw Users Are Allegedly Bypassing Anti-Bot Systems
An open source project called Scrapling is gaining traction with AI agent users who want their bots to scrape sites without permission.
IPOs Are Holding Up In 2026, But SaaS Debuts Aren’t Happening
While the first couple months of the year brought a steady stream of market entries from companies in sectors such as construction tech, space tech and biotech, new offerings from SaaS companies, long an IPO market staple, are notably absent.
The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued into 2026. See the latest companies to cut roles.
Fintech Giant Stripe’s Valuation Soars to $159B In Latest Secondary Stock Sale
Payments infrastructure giant Stripe announced Tuesday that it has inked deals with investors to provide liquidity to current and former employees through a tender offer at a $159 billion valuation.
Beyond Secondaries: Turbine Wants To Unlock Liquidity For Venture LPs
The founders of Turbine's goal is to provide venture capital and private equity firms with early liquidity options for their investors. To learn more about the firm's business model and efforts, we posed some questions to co-founder and CEO Mike Hurst.
5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: Plant-Based Clothing Dyes, A Shoebox-Picking Robot, And Power Generated On The Moon
A host of interesting, under-the-radar recently funded startups caught our attention in the past month: one that’s developing nuclear-waste generated electricity on the moon, and another that aims to use AI to extract business intelligence from enterprise contracts. Let’s take a closer look.
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