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Microsoft's Executive Vice President for Gaming, Asha Sharma, says that the next-generation of Xbox console will play both Xbox and PC games. It is possible that the console's access to PC games could be limited to Microsoft's existing streaming solution via PC Game Pass, or to games designed for Microsoft's own Xbox-branded PC SDC and the PC Xbox app. However, this could also mean that Microsoft is getting ready to open up its next console to a complete Windows installation. The move could be a response to Valve's upcoming Steam Machine, which is threatening to bring Windows-free PC gaming to living rooms everywhere in the near future.

OpenAI has released GPT-5.4. It is available as two new API models, gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.4-pro, and also in ChatGPT and Codex CLI. The model has a knowledge cut of date of August 31, 2025, and a one-million-token context window. OpenAI put a particular focus on improving the model's ability to create and edit spreadsheets, presentations, and documents. It beats GPT-5.3-Codex on all relevant benchmarks.

Senator Ted Cruz has introduced a new bill to step up the pressure on NASA to create competition among private companies to develop replacements for the International Space Station. The bill mandates that NASA publicly release requirements for commercial space stations in low-Earth orbit within 60 days, release the final request for proposals to solicit industry responses within 90 days, and enter into contracts with two or more commercial providers for such stations within 180 days. The legislation extends the International Space Station's lifespan from 2030 to 2032, but an extension must still be approved by international partners.

Neurotechnology company Science Corp. has raised $230 million, bringing its valuation to $1.5 billion. The funds will be used to commercialize its implant for blindness and develop even more advanced brain devices. Science Corp. is now the second-most valuable brain implant company after Neuralink. Its retina implant, PRIMA, is a chip that sits at the back of the eye to help blind people see with the assistance of a special pair of glasses that projects images into the eye. It has been demonstrated to improve vision for patients with advanced age-related macular degeneration. The device is currently under regulatory review in Europe and the US.

AI agents don't visit your product page. They pull data, strip context, and recompose assets into layouts you never approved. That expensive hero shot? A thumbnail in a competitor grid. Brands that combine 3D + AI infrastructure stay visible. Those without get skipped. Read the full breakdown.

Claude Code plans to launch Auto Mode in research preview no earlier than March 11. Auto Mode lets Claude handle permission decisions during coding sessions so developers can run longer tasks without being interrupted for manual approvals. It is designed to be a safer alternative to bypassing permissions entirely. Users should only use Auto Mode in isolated environments, as it isn't perfect and won't catch every action that could be considered risky.

A version of Cline published to npm on February 17 was byte-identical to the previous version. However, it had a one-line change that installed OpenClaw onto users' machines. This resulted in approximately 4,000 OpenClaw downloads before the package was pulled. The attacker got the npm token by injecting a prompt into a GitHub issue title, which an AI triage bot read, interpreted as an instruction, and executed.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has apologized for a leaked memo in which he questioned the motives for the US Department of War's declaration that the AI company was a supply-chain risk and severing its government relationships. He had written that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was attempting to spin/gaslight by claiming to support Anthropic's position while signing his own pact. This is one of the first times the supply-chain risk designation has been applied to a US company. The decision could have consequences for other businesses wanting to do business with the government. Anthropic is challenging the decision in court as it doesn't believe the action is legally sound.

An essay is only valuable as it costs the writer something. That cost could be the years of experience that seasoned the piece that took hours to write, or it may be in the hours, weeks, or months of research and writing and editing and rewriting until the piece is good enough. A machine writing the same essay, word for word, wouldn't have paid the same price. Humans can read and feel the costlessness of it, even as the prose improves. We demand a cost.

AI is a force multiplier with high variance for engineers, but it is unclear whether this means organizations will be more productive.

A lot of what we knew is being destroyed before our eyes, but new opportunities are being born.

Brand is what's left when the substantive differences between products disappear.

The next unicorn will be a software company masquerading as a services firm.

Epic took the settlement in the antitrust lawsuit with Google because it removed uncertainty and brought a quicker cut in commission fees for game developers worldwide.

Officials in the US Commerce Department have written draft regulations that could restrict AI chip shipments to anywhere in the world without American approval.