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Hundreds of tech workers have signed an open letter urging the Department of Defense to withdraw its designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk.” The letter also calls on Congress to step in and “examine whether the use of these extraordinary authorities against an American technology company is appropriate.” The letter includes signatories from major technology and venture capital firms including OpenAI, Slack, IBM, Cursor, Salesforce Ventures, and more. It follows a dispute between the DOD and Anthropic after the AI lab last week refused to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems.  Anthropic’s two red lines…

A group of hacktivists calling themselves “Department of Peace” claimed to have hacked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), leaking allegedly stolen documents online. On Sunday, the nonprofit transparency collective DDoSecrets published data relating to contracts between DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and more than 6,000 companies, including defense contractors Anduril, L3Harris, Raytheon, surveillance provider Palantir, as well as tech giants Microsoft and Oracle.  The hacktivist said the data comes from the Office of Industry Partnership, a unit within DHS that procures technology from the private sector. DHS and ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comment.…

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The customer service industry is in a bit of flux, thanks to AI. Investors and corporate leaders have rung alarm bells for the BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) industry. On the other hand, AI-powered customer support startups such as Decagon, Parloa, and Sierra have picked up millions of dollars in funding from venture capitalists. 14.ai, a Y-Combinator-backed startup, is taking an approach of building an AI-native agency that has replaced legacy customer support teams at many startups it has worked with. The company has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Y Combinator with participation from General Catalyst, Base Case…

The landscape of high-end travel is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. For decades, the five-star hotel served as the undisputed benchmark for luxury, offering a reliable, if somewhat predictable, blend of quality and service. Yet, as we move through 2026, a more nuanced definition of the “perfect stay” has emerged. Today’s most discerning travellers, and the consultants who advise them, are increasingly transitioning towards a hospitality model rooted in true autonomy, expansive space, and local integrity. While the world’s iconic hotels remain a vital part of the travel tapestry, there is a growing appetite for the discretion that only…

Key takeawaysAfter paying a $45-million settlement in 2023 and exiting the market, Nexo has reentered the US with a redesigned product model focused on regulatory alignment rather than direct yield issuance.The 2023 crackdown centered on unregistered securities concerns. The SEC alleged that Nexo’s Earn Interest Product functioned as an unregistered security, raising questions about retail yield marketing, transparency, custody practices and counterparty risk.The new model relies on licensed US partners. Instead of directly offering yield products, Nexo now operates through regulated US intermediaries, including licensed entities and, where required, SEC-registered investment advisers.The Bakkt partnership anchors the compliance strategy. By collaborating…

The incident occurred inside The Foundry in Southgate, Chichester, at around 1.30am on Saturday, February 28. The man, who is in his 40s, remains in hospital at this time. A 24-year-old man from Chichester was arrested at the premises on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and he has since been released on bail, police said. A spokeswoman for Sussex Police said: “As police work to establish the full circumstances, we are asking anyone who saw what happened, or who may have mobile footage of the incident to contact police. “If you have anything to report, you can do this…

When 124 founders speak about the same funding model in similar terms, it is worth listening. The nationwide survey carried out independently by Focaldata gathers views from entrepreneurs running current and former VCT backed companies across the UK. Their responses go past abstract support for a tax scheme. They set out how Venture Capital Trust funding altered the direction of their businesses. The numbers are direct as 91% say their company would be smaller without VCT funding. More than a quarter, 27%, believe their business would not exist at all if they had not secured VCT investment. That is not…

Most people I spoke to agreed that technology companies probably wouldn’t take any notice of this kind of protest. “I don’t think that the pressure on companies will ever work,” Maxime Fournes, the global head of Pause AI, told me when I bumped into him at the march: “They are optimized to just not care about this problem.” But Fournes, who worked in the AI industry for 12 years before joining Pause AI, thinks he can make it harder for those companies. “We can slow down the race by creating protection for whistleblowers or showing the public that working in…

With a simple motion, a jack-in-the-box-like spring designed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed the potential of additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, to cut costs and complexity for futuristic space antennas. Called JPL Additive Compliant Canister (JACC), the spring deployed on the small commercial spacecraft Proteus Space’s Mercury One on Feb. 3, 2026. An onboard camera captured this video of the spring popping out of its container as the spacecraft passed over the Pacific Ocean in low Earth orbit. Figure A is a still image of JACC after deployment, taken above Antarctica. JACC is one of two JPL payloads…