100 million users cut off as Kremlin demands migration to "National Messenger"; Telegram also faces throttling in massive "sovereign internet" push. In the most aggressive move to date in its campaign for digital isolation, the Russian government officially began a nationwide block of WhatsApp on February 12, 2026. The move, confirmed by the Kremlin, effectively severs the country’s 100 million users from the Meta-owned platform, marking the end of the last major Western soci

Series G Round Propels Claude maker past expected $350b mark; revenue run-rate skyrockets to $14b as "claude code" dominates enterprise. The AI valuation ceiling has been shattered again. On February 12, 2026, Anthropic officially confirmed it has raised a monumental $30 billion in Series G funding. The round values the "safety-first" AI firm at $380 billion post-money, surpassing the $350 billion figure previously rumored in January and cementing its status as the world’s se

Formal complaint to Congress alleges Chinese startup "Free-Rides" on American R&D. Editorial credit: miss.cabul / Shutterstock The AI "Cold War" has reached a boiling point. Last week, OpenAI sent a high-stakes memorandum to the House Select Committee on China, formally accusing the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek of systematic intellectual property theft. The charge? Using a technique called "distillation" to siphon the intelligence of American frontier models, including GPT-4 a

Legal firestorm ignites as Viral AI videos of Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, and Marvel Heroes Flood Social Media; "It’s a virtual smash-and-grab," says Disney, The "honeymoon phase" for ByteDance’s groundbreaking video model, Seedance 2.0, lasted exactly 24 hours. On February 13, 2026, The Walt Disney Company and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) launched a massive legal and public relations offensive against the TikTok owner, accusing it of "wholesale theft" and "hijacking" some

The vision of a self-sustaining, carbon-free "AI Fortress" is moving from blueprint to reality. On February 13, 2026, a multidisciplinary consortium led by Swiss-American energy firm Deep Atomic submitted its final delivery planning to the Department of Energy (DOE) to construct the nation’s first fully integrated, nuclear-powered data center campus at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Editorial credit: Michael Vi / Shutterstock The project is the spearhead of a broader fe