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Trump Orders Federal Agencies To Stop Using Anthropic AI Tech 'Immediately'

Par : BeauHD
27 février 2026 à 22:40
President Donald Trump has ordered all U.S. federal agencies to "immediately cease" using Anthropic's AI technology, escalating a standoff after the company sought limits on Pentagon use of its models. CNBC reports: The company, which in July signed a $200 million contract with Pentagon, wants assurances that the Defense Department will not use its AI models will not be used for fully autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance of Americans. The Pentagon had set a deadline of 5:01 p.m. ET Friday for Anthropic to agree to its demands to allow the Pentagon to use the technology for all lawful purposes. If Anthropic did not meet that deadline, Pete Hegseth threatened to label the company a "supply chain risk" or force it to comply by invoking the Defense Production Act. "The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution," Trump said in a post on Truth Social. "Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY." "Therefore, I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic's technology," Trump wrote. "We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again! There will be a Six Month phase out period for Agencies like the Department of War who are using Anthropic's products, at various levels," Trump said. On Friday, OpenAI said it would also draw the same red lines as Anthropic: no AI for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons.

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AI Mistakes Are Infuriating Gamers as Developers Seek Savings

Par : msmash
27 février 2026 à 20:10
The $200 billion video game industry is caught between studios eager to cut ballooning development costs through AI and a player base that has grown openly hostile to the technology after a string of visible blunders. As Bloomberg News reports, Arc Raiders, a surprise hit from Stockholm-based Embark Studios that sold 12 million copies in three months, was briefly vilified online for its robotic-sounding auto-generated voices -- even as CEO Patrick Soderlund insists AI was only used for non-essential elements. EA's Battlefield 6 and Activision's Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 both drew gamer anger this winter over thematically mismatched or poorly generated graphics, and Valve's Steam has added labels to flag games made using AI. Some 47% of developers polled by research house Omdia said they expect generative AI to reduce game quality, and PC gamers -- now facing inflated hardware prices from AI-driven demand for graphics chips -- have turned reflexively antagonistic.

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Metacritic Will Kick Out Media Attempting To Submit AI Generated Reviews

Par : msmash
27 février 2026 à 17:32
An anonymous reader shares a report: While some see AI as a tool to be used, its specific use and how it is deployed responsibly is being heavily debated online across a wide range of industries. In terms of journalistic content, and in this particular instance, reviews, review aggregator Metacritic has taken a firm stance on content published and submitted to their platform, that have been generated by artificial intelligence in some way. In a statement by co-founder Marc Doyle, sent to Gamereactor, he says this: "Metacritic has been a reputable review source for a quarter century and has maintained a rigorous vetting process when adding new publications to our slate of critics. However, in certain instances such as a publication being sold or a writing staff having turned over, problems can arise such as plagiarism, theft, or other forms of fraud including AI-generated reviews. Metacritic's policy is to never include an AI-generated critic review on Metacritic and if we discover that one has been posted, we'll remove it immediately and sever ties with that publication indefinitely pending a thorough investigation." So, what is this about specifically? Well, it's probably a sound guess, that this pertains to Videogamer's review of Resident Evil 9: Requiem, which was removed from the platform after a barrage of comments accusing the review of being AI-written, and for the author of being made up.

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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Shares Anthropic's Red Lines in Pentagon Fight

Par : msmash
27 février 2026 à 16:40
An anonymous reader shares a report: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a memo to staff that he will draw the same red lines that sparked a high-stakes fight between rival Anthropic and the Pentagon: no AI for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons. If other leading firms like Google follow suit, this could massively complicate the Pentagon's efforts to replace Anthropic's Claude, which was the first model integrated into the military's most sensitive work. It would also be the first time the nation's top AI leaders have taken a collective stand about how the U.S. government can and can't use their technology. Altman made clear he still wants to strike a deal with the Pentagon that would allow ChatGPT to be used for sensitive military contexts. Despite the show of solidarity, such a deal could see OpenAI replace Anthropic if the Pentagon follows through with its plan to declare the latter a "supply chain risk."

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OpenAI Raises $110 Billion in the Largest Private Funding Round Ever

Par : msmash
27 février 2026 à 14:00
OpenAI has closed what is now the largest private financing in history -- a $110 billion round at a $730 billion pre-money valuation that more than doubles the $40 billion raise it completed just a year ago, itself a record for a private tech company at the time. Amazon invested $50 billion, SoftBank put in $30 billion, and Nvidia committed $30 billion, and additional investors are expected to join as the round progresses. The valuation is a sharp jump from the $500 billion OpenAI commanded in a secondary financing in October, and the round dwarfs recent raises by rivals Anthropic ($30 billion) and xAI ($20 billion). The company has been telling investors it is now targeting roughly $600 billion in total compute spend by 2030, a more measured figure than the $1.4 trillion in infrastructure commitments CEO Sam Altman had touted months earlier. OpenAI is projecting more than $280 billion in total revenue by 2030, split roughly equally between consumer and enterprise. ChatGPT now has over 900 million weekly active users and more than 50 million paying subscribers.

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Memory Price Hikes Will Kill Off Budget PCs and Smartphones, Analyst Warns

Par : BeauHD
27 février 2026 à 13:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Ballooning memory prices are forecast to kill off entry-level PCs, leading to a decline in global shipments this year -- and a similar effect is going to hit smartphones. Analyst biz Gartner is projecting a drop in PC shipments of more than 10 percent during 2026, and a decline of around 8 percent for smartphones, all due to the AI-driven memory shortage. Some types of memory have doubled or quadrupled in price since last year, and Gartner believes DRAM and NAND flash used in PCs and phones is set for a further 130 percent rise by the end of 2026. The upshot of this is that the budget PC will disappear, simply because vendors won't be able to build them at a price that will satisfy cost-conscious buyers, according to Gartner research director Ranjit Atwal. "Because the price of memory is increasing so much, vendors lose the ability to provide entry-level PCs -- those below about $500," he told The Register. PC makers could just raise the price of their cheap and cheerful boxes to above that level to compensate for the memory hike, however, price-sensitive buyers simply won't bite, he added. Another factor expected to add to declining fortunes of the PC industry this year is AI devices -- systems equipped with special hardware for accelerating AI tasks, typically via a neural processing unit (NPU) embedded in the CPU. These systems were predicted to take the market by storm, but they require more memory to support AI processing and vendors like to mark them up to a premium price. "Historically, downgrading specifications was the way to go when prices were being squeezed, but that's difficult here," Atwal said. "The thinking was that the average price [of AI PCs] would fall this year, and lead to more adoption," said Atwal, "but that's not happening." The lack of killer applications isn't helping either.

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Fou, faucon calculateur et Dr Jekyll et M. Hyde : les profils terrifiants des IA quand elles ont des armes nucléaires

27 février 2026 à 08:25

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Dans le film culte Wargames, un supercalculateur menaçait de lancer une guerre nucléaire. En 2026, la réalité dresse un constat tout aussi plus inquiétant : placées aux commandes de simulations géopolitiques, les intelligences artificielles de pointe comme GPT-5.2 ou Gemini 3 Flash choisissent l'escalade atomique dans 95 % des cas.

The AI Case Against Indian IT Ignores What Indian IT Actually Does

Par : msmash
26 février 2026 à 17:20
A fictional memo set in June 2028, published by short seller Citrini Research, wiped roughly $10 billion off Indian IT stocks in a single trading session on February 24 and sent the Nifty IT index down as much as 5.3% -- its worst single-day fall since August 2023 -- on the argument that AI coding agents have collapsed the cost advantage of Indian developers to the price of electricity. The index has shed more than $68 billion in market value in February alone, its worst month since 2003. But the core claim that India's entire $205 billion software export industry rests on cheap labor is roughly 15 years out of date, an analysis argues, custom application maintenance alone accounts for about 35% of a typical Indian IT firm's revenue, per HSBC, and enterprise platforms require deterministic outputs that probabilistic AI systems cannot wholesale replace. HSBC estimates gross AI-led revenue deflation for the sector at 14-16%, a measured headwind rather than an extinction event. The story adds: 24 years of software export data that has never posted a decline, $200 billion in annual revenue, partnerships with the very AI labs whose products are supposed to be the instrument of the sector's destruction, possibly a new $1.5 trillion market category emerging at the intersection of services and software, and the largest U.S. corporates in the middle of mapping their entire workforces into process architectures that require technology partners to modernise. I think India's IT is going to be fine.

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Burger King Will Use AI To Check If Employees Say 'Please' and 'Thank You'

Par : msmash
26 février 2026 à 16:03
An anonymous reader shares a report: Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice-enabled chatbot, called "Patty," is part of an overarching BK Assistant platform that will not only assist employees with meal preparation but also evaluate their interactions with customers for "friendliness." Thibault Roux, Burger King's chief digital officer, tells The Verge that the company compiled information from franchisees and guests on how to measure friendliness, resulting in the fast food chain training its AI system to recognize certain words and phrases, such as "welcome to Burger King," "please," and "thank you." Managers can then ask the AI assistant how their location is performing on friendliness. "This is all meant to be a coaching tool," Roux says, adding that the company is "iterating" on capturing the tone of conversations as well.

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On a simulé des guerres nucléaires gérées par des IA : le résultat fait froid dans le dos

26 février 2026 à 14:02

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Dans le film culte Wargames, un supercalculateur menaçait de lancer une guerre nucléaire. En 2026, la réalité dresse un constat tout aussi plus inquiétant : placées aux commandes de simulations géopolitiques, les intelligences artificielles de pointe comme GPT-5.2 ou Gemini 3 Flash choisissent l'escalade atomique dans 95 % des cas.

La révolution IA de Jony Ive est une enceinte connectée…

26 février 2026 à 12:54

L’image d’illustration est une radio de Dieter Rams, voir plus loin

Le vieux fantasme d’un assistant à la Jarvis dans Iron Man a la peau dure. Le projet révolutionnaire annoncé par IO, la société de Jony Ive créée après son exfiltration d’Apple, sera une bête enceinte connectée à une IA d’OpenAI. Une révolution de pacotille donc.

Jony Ive avait présenté son projet avec de grands superlatifs. Évoquant un objet plus révolutionnaire que le premier smartphone d’Apple. Au final, il s’agira d’une énième interface entre une IA LLM et un humain. Interface qui pourra enregistrer vos questions et proposer des réponses. En, proposant en prime une petite solution de reconnaissance faciale au travers d’une caméra.

La différence entre ce produit et ceux déjà présentés par d’autres startups du genre comme Rabbit ou Humane. C’est qu’OpenAI dispose de sa propre IA, de ses algorithmes et de ses serveurs. Il ne compte donc pas sur un tiers pour effectuer ce travail à leur place. Pour le reste, c’est sur le papier assez identique. 

Jony Ive et Sam Altman

OpenAI a dépensé 6,5 milliards de dollars pour acquérir IO. Un studio de design qui va proposer peu ou prou la même chose que tout le monde. Une nouvelle interface qui accédera à son service. Au menu des atouts de l’objet, la présence d’une caméra qui pourra analyser son environnement. Une approche semblable aux gadgets des startups précédentes et déjà présente dans…. tous les smartphones. Un micro permettra de comprendre une conversation ou un ordre. Là encore, une fonction déjà intégrée dans l’appareil présent dans votre poche. Petit bonus ? La promesse d’une solution de reconnaissance faciale permettant de valider des achats… Là encore, une fonction biométrique très semblable à ce que les smartphones modernes proposent.

Difficile de trouver de l’intérêt pour le produit annoncé pour 2027. Mis à part qu’il se positionnera chez vous et sera donc encore plus intrusif qu’une enceinte connectée d’Amazon ou Google. OpenAI voit ce produit comme un moyen de proposer des interactions continues avec son LLM. On pourra avoir une conversation avec ChatGPT de manière naturelle, sans recourir à un PC ou un smartphone. De quoi s’enfoncer encore un peu plus dans l’illusion d’une amitié ou d’une véritable écoute.

OpenAI ne s’en cache pas et voit dans ce gagdet une présence permanente dans la maison, un objet qui deviendra vite le recours parfait à toutes les questions du quotidien. Une présence qui posera vite question car elle supprimera ce qui sauve encore un peu les utilisateurs des IA de ce type. La possibilité de contrôler ce qui est proposé. Sans écran ni clavier pour vérifier la réponse proposée par l’interface, l’objet impose de faire confiance à l’IA. Et cela même si elle vous raconte n’importe quoi, comme c’est très souvent le cas.

Comme je n'ai pas de photos de l'enceinte de Jony Ive, je vous propose celle de Dieter Rams et de sa petite radio. Une *large* source d'inspiration des appareils modernes...

Comme je n’ai pas de photos de l’enceinte de Jony Ive, je vous propose celle de Dieter Rams et de sa petite radio. Une *large* source d’inspiration des appareils modernes…

Reste qu’il va être difficile de séduire le public, même avec Jony Ive

L’enceinte de Jony Ive devrait être proposée entre 200 et 300 dollars… en plus d’un abonnement au service. Il est impossible pour OpenAI de ne pas proposer un abonnement à OpenAI avec l’objet. Sinon on se retrouvera dans la même impasse que le Rabbit R1. Imaginez que chaque requête effectuée sur l’appareil coûte quelques dollars en calcul aux centres de données d’OpenAI, même vendue à 300 $ pièce, l’enceinte dépasserait la marge réalisée en quelques heures de test. Même avec un abonnement payant, il est difficile d’imaginer une rentabilité à ce type d’appareils. Si le prix de chaque requête effectuée sur un LLM comme OpenAI est secret et qu’il est délicat de l’estimer, il existe. Et un appareil de ce type ne peut donc pas durer sans un abonnement.

Sans même parler du débat écologique lié au coût de l’analyse des questions et du calcul des réponses. Le coût en énergie et en eau d’un déploiement massif de ce type d’appareils semble déjà monstrueux. Il pourrait empirer à terme car OpenAI travaillerait également sur d’autres outils dérivés du même principe. En particulier des lunettes connectées. Et cela en plus d’autres acteurs du monde de l’IA qui seraient en train de réfléchir aux mêmes types d’appareils. Comme Apple, l’ex-employeur de Jony Ive.

Source : 9to5mac

La révolution IA de Jony Ive est une enceinte connectée… © MiniMachines.net. 2026

Perplexity lance un « ordinateur » d’IA qui travaille à votre place 

26 février 2026 à 10:02

Lancée le 26 février 2026, la plateforme « Perplexity Computer » ambitionne de transformer l’IA en véritable ordinateur autonome dans le cloud, capable d’orchestrer plusieurs modèles pour exécuter des tâches complexes de bout en bout.

Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude To Steal Sensitive Mexican Data

Par : msmash
25 février 2026 à 19:00
A hacker exploited Anthropic's AI chatbot to carry out a series of attacks against Mexican government agencies, resulting in the theft of a huge trove of sensitive tax and voter information, according to cybersecurity researchers. From a report: The unknown Claude user wrote Spanish-language prompts for the chatbot to act as an elite hacker, finding vulnerabilities in government networks, writing computer scripts to exploit them and determining ways to automate data theft, Israeli cybersecurity startup Gambit Security said in research published Wednesday. The activity started in December and continued for roughly a month. In all, 150 gigabytes of Mexican government data was stolen, including documents related to 195 million taxpayer records as well as voter records, government employee credentials and civil registry files, according to the researchers.

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Samsung dévoile les Galaxy S26 et S26 Ultra : le résumé des nouveautés

25 février 2026 à 18:03

Samsung vient de dévoiler sa nouvelle gamme de smartphones haut de gamme : les Galaxy S26, S26+ et S26 Ultra. Le design évolue peu par rapport à la génération précédente (il s'uniformise pour plus de cohérence entre les trois modèles), mais Samsung impressionne avec une nouveauté majeure : le Privacy Display.

Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge

Par : msmash
25 février 2026 à 14:00
Anthropic, the AI company that has long positioned itself as the industry's most safety-conscious research lab, is dropping the central commitment of its Responsible Scaling Policy -- a 2023 pledge to never train an AI system unless it could guarantee beforehand that its safety measures were adequate. "We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments ... if competitors are blazing ahead," chief science officer Jared Kaplan told TIME. The overhauled policy, approved unanimously by CEO Dario Amodei and Anthropic's board, instead commits the company to matching or surpassing competitors' safety efforts and to delaying development only if Anthropic considers itself to be leading the AI race and believes catastrophic risks are significant. The company also plans to publish detailed "Risk Reports" every three to six months and release "Frontier Safety Roadmaps" laying out future safety goals. Chris Painter, director of policy at the AI evaluation nonprofit METR, who reviewed an early draft, told TIME the shift signals that Anthropic "believes it needs to shift into triage mode with its safety plans, because methods to assess and mitigate risk are not keeping up with the pace of capabilities."

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Le Pentagone donne 72 heures à Anthropic pour lui fournir un accès illimité à son IA

25 février 2026 à 11:34

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Le ministère américain de la Défense donne 72 heures à Anthropic pour lui accorder un accès sans restriction à son modèle d’intelligence artificielle Claude. En cas de refus, l’entreprise s’expose à de lourdes sanctions.

Meta AI Security Researcher Said an OpenClaw Agent Ran Amok on Her Inbox

Par : msmash
24 février 2026 à 22:30
Meta AI security researcher Summer Yue posted a now-viral account on X describing how an OpenClaw agent she had tasked with sorting through her overstuffed email inbox went rogue, deleting messages in what she called a "speed run" while ignoring her repeated commands from her phone to stop. "I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb," Yue wrote, sharing screenshots of the ignored stop prompts as proof. Yue said she had previously tested the agent on a smaller "toy" inbox where it performed well enough to earn her trust, so she let it loose on the real thing. She believes the larger volume of data triggered compaction -- a process where the context window grows too large and the agent begins summarizing and compressing its running instructions, potentially dropping ones the user considers critical. The agent may have reverted to its earlier toy-inbox behavior and skipped her last prompt telling it not to act. OpenClaw is an open-source AI agent designed to run as a personal assistant on local hardware.

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Hegseth Gives Anthropic Until Friday To Back Down on AI Safeguards

Par : msmash
24 février 2026 à 19:00
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access to its AI model or face harsh penalties, Axios has learned. Hegseth told Amodei in a tense meeting on Tuesday that the Pentagon will either cut ties and declare Anthropic a "supply chain risk," or invoke the Defense Production Act to force the company to tailor its model to the military's needs. The Pentagon wants to punish Anthropic as the feud over AI safeguards grows increasingly nasty, but officials are also worried about the consequences of losing access to its industry-leading model, Claude. "The only reason we're still talking to these people is we need them and we need them now. The problem for these guys is they are that good," a Defense official told Axios ahead of the meeting. Anthropic has said it is willing to adapt its usage policies for the Pentagon, but not to allow its model to be used for the mass surveillance of Americans or the development of weapons that fire without human involvement.

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Sam Altman compare l’IA à l’humain pour justifier son appétit en ressources

24 février 2026 à 07:49

En marge du sommet de New Delhi, le PDG d’OpenAI a justifié la consommation énergétique de l’IA en la comparant à celle d’un être humain, tout en qualifiant de « fausses » les affirmations sur la consommation d’eau de ChatGPT.

Viral Doomsday Report Lays Bare Wall Street's Deep Anxiety About AI Future

Par : BeauHD
24 février 2026 à 00:45
A 7,000-word "doomsday" thought experiment from Citrini Research helped trigger an 800-point drop in the Dow, "painting a dark portrait of a future in which technological change inspires a race to the bottom in white-collar knowledge work," reports the Wall Street Journal. From the report: Concerns of hyperscalers overspending are out. Worries of software-industry disruption don't go far enough. The "global intelligence crisis" is about to hit. The new, broader question: What if AI is so bullish for the economy that it is actually bearish? "For the entirety of modern economic history, human intelligence has been the scarce input," Citrini wrote in a post it described as a scenario dated June 2028, not a prediction. "We are now experiencing the unwind of that premium." Many of Monday's moves roughly aligned with the situation outlined by Citrini, in which fast-advancing AI tools allow spending cuts across industries, sparking mass white-collar unemployment and in turn leading to financial contagion. Software firms DataDog, CrowdStrike and Zscaler each plunged more than 9%. International Business Machines' 13% decline was its worst one-day performance since 2000. American Express, KKR and Blackstone -- all name-checked by Citrini -- tumbled. That anxiety, coupled with renewed uncertainty about trade policy from Washington, weighed down major indexes Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average led declines, falling 1.7%, or 822 points. The S&P 500 shed 1%, while the Nasdaq composite retreated 1.1%. [...] Monday's market swings extended a run of AI-linked volatility. A small research outfit that has garnered a huge Substack following for macro and thematic stock research, Citrini said in its new post that software firms, payment processors and other companies formed "one long daisy chain of correlated bets on white-collar productivity growth" that AI is poised to disrupt. [...] Shares in DoorDash also veered 6.6% lower Monday after Citrini's Substack note called the delivery app a "poster child" for how new tools would upend companies that monetize interpersonal friction. In the research firm's scenario, AI agents would help both drivers and customers navigate food deliveries at much lower costs.

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