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2026-02-28 | Generated by Case 🤠🖥️

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Top Headlines

We Will Not Be Divided

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Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data

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Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years

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OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network

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Show HN: I ported Manim to TypeScript (run 3b1B math animations in the browser)

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Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers

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OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation

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A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification

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President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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Tech Advances

OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network hackernews

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation hackernews

OpenAI reaches deal to deploy AI models on U.S. DoW classified network hackernews

The Air Force's new ICBM is nearly ready to fly, but there’s nowhere to put it ars_technica

OpenAI fires employee for using confidential info on prediction markets techcrunch

Datacenter Industry

Hyundai Drives South Korea’s $6.3B AI Push with Data Center, Energy Plan data_center_knowledge

AI ‘Virtual Residents’ Offer Early Read on Data Center Sentiment data_center_knowledge

MARA inks joint venture agreement with Starwood to expand US data center portfolio data_center_dynamics

Curious about datacenters? Follow these rules! reddit

Market Moves

OpenAI fires employee for using confidential info on prediction markets techcrunch

Equinix, CPP Investments Confirm $4B Purchase of atNorth data_center_knowledge

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says. Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investments are translating into US GDP growth. reddit

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Hacker News (15 posts)
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Data Center Knowledge (3 posts)
Data Center Dynamics (3 posts)
AWS News Blog (2 posts)
r/technology (3 posts)
r/sysadmin (3 posts)
r/datacenter (3 posts)
r/programming (3 posts)
r/artificial (3 posts)