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February 26, 2026The AI Industrial Revolution Is Not A Metaphor Anymore
In today's episode:
Nvidia reports Q4 revenue up 73% YoY to $68.13B, above $66.21B est., Data Center revenue up 75% YoY to $62.3B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates

Google launches task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26, enabling Gemini to autonomously perform tasks using apps like Uber and DoorDash

Samsung unveils the $1,299+ Galaxy S26 Ultra with a Privacy Display that limits side-angle screen legibility, a new agentic AI, improved night mode, and more

New York's AG sues Valve over its use of loot boxes, accusing the game developer of violating state gambling laws and threatening to addict children to gambling

Cisco warns of a critical SD-WAN bug that was actively exploited in zero-day attacks since 2023; CISA and its international partners issue emergency directives

Alphabet's Intrinsic, which builds AI models and software for industrial robots, joins Google, but will remain a distinct entity and work with Google DeepMind
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16min
February 25, 2026The Pentagon Blinks First
In today's episode:
Sources: DOD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday

Source: Anthropic has no intention of easing Claude usage restrictions for military purposes, following Dario Amodei's meeting with Pete Hegseth

Sources: MacBook Pros with touch screens, due this fall, will have a Dynamic Island and a refreshed, dynamic UI optimized for touch or point-and-click input

Discord says it won't roll out age verification globally in March as previously planned, delaying the change until H2 2026 after it adds verification options

Apple plans to block users in Australia, Brazil, and Singapore from downloading 18+ rated apps without age assurance and rolls out developer age assurance tools

A US judge sentences ex-L3Harris executive Peter Williams to 7+ years in prison, after he pleaded guilty in 2025 to theft of trade secrets and selling exploits
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13min
February 24, 2026Distilled, Disrupted, and Detained
In today's episode:
Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products

How Silicon Valley has long ignored China's looming Taiwan invasion and its chip supply impact; US officials warned Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm about China's plans

IBM shares closed down 13.15% after Anthropic outlined in a blog post how Claude Code can automate the exploration and analysis phases of COBOL modernization

The UK plans to update the Media Act 2024 to bring streaming platforms with 500K+ users under “enhanced” Ofcom regulation, giving it power to investigate them

Sources: PayPal is attracting takeover interest after a stock slide over the past year wiped out almost half of its market value; PYPL closed up 5.76%

A DOD official says xAI has agreed to let the military use Grok in classified systems and agreed to the “all lawful use” standard, which Anthropic has refused
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16min
February 23, 2026Stargate Stalls, Pentagon Pressure, and the GDP Mirage
In today's episode:
How OpenAI scrambled for compute as Stargate stalled amid clashes with SoftBank; sources say OpenAI building its own data centers is not its near-term priority

Sources: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summons Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning for what is likely to be a tense meeting over Claude usage

A thought experiment imagines the AI-driven “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis”: S&P down, high unemployment, and economy failing, as AI exceeds every expectation

In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the “doomer narrative” may be winning

Sources: Dell, Lenovo, and other PC makers are working with Nvidia on laptops that use the Arm-based Nvidia-MediaTek SoC, which could launch in H1 2026

Economists at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan report the AI boom contributed “basically zero” to US economic growth in 2025, challenging claims of up to 92% growth
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16min
February 22, 2026Space Is Ridiculous, AI Washing Is Real, and Your Firewall Has a Russian Roommate
In today's episode:
Sam Altman says currently “the idea of putting data centers in space is ridiculous” and that it is “not something that's going to matter at scale this decade”

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

Anthropic's data shows software engineering accounts for ~50% of its AI agent tool calls; the remaining verticals are greenfields most founders are overlooking

Trump calls on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or face “consequences,” after she said corporations that “take a knee” to Trump would be held accountable

Analysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M+ on the 2026 US midterms so far, over double the 2024 cycle; crypto PAC Fairshake is the US' fifth most-funded PAC

Amazon details how a Russian-speaking hacker used generative AI as part of a campaign that breached 600+ FortiGate firewalls across 55 countries in five weeks
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10min
February 21, 2026 The Return of Xbox (And the Fall of Cyber Stocks)
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17min
February 20, 2026 The AI That Stayed Quiet
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12min

FAQs about Good Morning Tech News:

How many episodes does Good Morning Tech News have?

The podcast currently has 27 episodes available.