Sunday, February 15, 2026

Sources: the WH is pressuring Utah Republican State Rep. Doug Fiefia to abandon HB 286, an AI transparency and kids' safety bill similar to California's AI law (Maria Curi/Axios)

Maria Curi / Axios:
Sources: the WH is pressuring Utah Republican State Rep. Doug Fiefia to abandon HB 286, an AI transparency and kids' safety bill similar to California's AI law  —  The White House is pressuring a Utah Republican state legislator to abandon AI transparency and kids' safety legislation, sources familiar with the matter told Axios.



Sources: Apple tweaked its Maps app for Tesla before the EV maker's planned addition of CarPlay; low-cost MacBook will get an aluminum chassis in playful colors (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple tweaked its Maps app for Tesla before the EV maker's planned addition of CarPlay; low-cost MacBook will get an aluminum chassis in playful colors  —  Tesla's plan to start supporting CarPlay in its vehicles has been held back by the need for changes in iOS 26's Maps app.



Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic experimental computer networks helped define the evolution of the early internet, died on February 7 at age 91 (Peter Wayner/New York Times)

Peter Wayner / New York Times:
Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic experimental computer networks helped define the evolution of the early internet, died on February 7 at age 91  —  A researcher, professor and federal policy adviser, he guided students who went on to do groundbreaking work in connecting the world online.



As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt (Margaret-Anne Storey)

Margaret-Anne Storey:
As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt  —  The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder …



Saturday, February 14, 2026

A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups (Jessica Brice/Bloomberg)

Jessica Brice / Bloomberg:
A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups  —  A vast ecosystem supported by the gig economy has sprung up to clean all that cash.  —  The pitch was simple: Crypto for “cold hard cash.”



Current and former senior employees say AWS is undergoing a strategic shake-up amid fears it is losing ground to competitors in securing corporate AI contracts (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
Current and former senior employees say AWS is undergoing a strategic shake-up amid fears it is losing ground to competitors in securing corporate AI contracts  —  Shake-up follows fears tech giant missed early AI boom as Microsoft and Google challenge cloud business



ByteDance launches Doubao 2.0, an "agent era" upgrade of China's most widely used AI app capable of executing multi-step tasks, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:
ByteDance launches Doubao 2.0, an “agent era” upgrade of China's most widely used AI app capable of executing multi-step tasks, ahead of the Lunar New Year  —  China's ByteDance has rolled out its Doubao 2.0 model, an upgrade of the country's most widely used artificial-intelligence app, the company said on Saturday.



Dealroom and NATO Innovation Fund: European defense, security, and resilience startup funding rose 55% YoY to a record $8.7B in 2025, with AI accounting for 44% (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)

Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media:
Dealroom and NATO Innovation Fund: European defense, security, and resilience startup funding rose 55% YoY to a record $8.7B in 2025, with AI accounting for 44%  —  Ahead of the big Munich Security Conference later this week, the analysts at Dealroom teamed up with the NATO Innovation Fund …



Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B-parameter open-weight models supporting 70+ languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B-parameter open-weight models supporting 70+ languages for offline u...