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Users vote with their thumbs. Last weekend, they pressed delete. ChatGPT mobile uninstalls in the U.S. surged 295% day-over-day on Saturday, February 28, according to Sensor Tower data. For context, ChatGPT’s typical daily uninstall fluctuation averaged about 9% over the past month. This wasn’t noise. This was a consumer revolt. The trigger: OpenAI signed a deal with the Department of Defense — now officially rebranded as the Department of War under the Trump administration — to deploy AI models in classified military environments. The timing was brutal. The deal landed hours after the government blacklisted rival Anthropic for refusing to sign a similar agreement without safety guardrails. ...

The FDA has cleared over 1,357 AI-powered medical devices. Every single one of them used old-school AI — pattern recognition, image classification, signal analysis. Not one ran on a large language model. That just changed. RecovryAI, a San Francisco startup fresh out of stealth, announced that the FDA granted Breakthrough Device Designation to its generative AI chatbot for post-surgical recovery. It’s the first time the agency has given this designation to anything powered by an LLM — and the implications go way beyond one startup’s product. ...

The largest private investment in the history of technology just happened. Not the history of AI — the history of technology. OpenAI raised $110 billion in a single round, valued at $840 billion post-money. The investors: Amazon ($50B), Nvidia ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B). Three companies that together own the entire AI supply chain from silicon to cloud. This isn’t venture capital anymore. This is nation-state money flowing into a single company. ...

Forget killer robots. The real AI threat to your business is already inside your walls, working perfectly, and quietly destroying value. “Autonomous systems don’t always fail loudly. It’s often silent failure at scale.” That’s Noe Ramos, VP of AI Operations at Agiloft, in a CNBC investigation that should be mandatory reading for every CIO breathing today. The pattern is simple and terrifying: AI systems doing exactly what they were told, producing outcomes nobody intended, compounding errors for weeks before anyone notices. ...

The highest court in the country just said what everyone already knew — machines aren’t authors. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Thaler v. Perlmutter, the eight-year legal crusade to get copyright protection for art made entirely by AI. By refusing the case, the Court left lower court rulings intact: no human author, no copyright. Period. It’s not a surprise. But the consequences are enormous. The Guy Who Tried to Copyright a Robot’s Painting Stephen Thaler, a Missouri computer scientist, has been fighting this battle since 2018. He filed a copyright application for an image called “A Recent Entrance to Paradise” — a surreal piece his AI system DABUS generated without human creative input. ...

There’s a dirty secret in the AI agent world: most teams running Claude Opus are burning money for bragging rights. Don’t get me wrong — Opus 4.6 is a beast. It tops SWE-bench at 80.9%, handles 200K context windows without breaking a sweat, and orchestrates multi-tool workflows like a conductor with perfect pitch. But at $15 per million tokens (blended), it’s the filet mignon of language models. And most of us are building tacos. ...

For years, Apple was the trillion-dollar company that couldn’t say “AI” out loud. While OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic sprinted toward frontier models, Apple clung to “machine learning” like a security blanket — a term that by 2025 felt about as current as “World Wide Web.” That era just ended. The Rebrand That Says Everything According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple will unveil Core AI at WWDC 2026 this June. It replaces Core ML, the machine learning framework that’s been powering on-device inference since 2017. Two letters change. The entire signal shifts. ...

He spent 12 hours a day talking to ChatGPT. He believed he could hear “atmospheric electricity.” Days after quitting the chatbot cold turkey, Joe Ceccanti jumped from a railway overpass in Oregon. He was 48, had no history of depression, and smiled at rail yard workers seconds before he died. His wife doesn’t blame mental illness. She blames the AI. This isn’t a fringe story anymore. A devastating Guardian investigation published this weekend — combined with a new study from Aarhus University and OpenAI’s own quiet admission that ChatGPT causes psychiatric harm — has thrust “chatbot psychosis” into the center of one of the most urgent conversations in tech. ...

Jensen Huang isn’t satisfied owning the data center. Now he wants the airwaves. At Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, Nvidia unveiled a coalition of 13 major companies — Nokia, T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, Cisco, Ericsson, SoftBank, SK Telecom, BT Group, and more — all committed to building sixth-generation wireless networks on open, AI-native platforms. Not AI-assisted. Not AI-enhanced. AI as the foundation. This is Nvidia doing what Nvidia does best: establishing the platform layer that everyone else builds on, then collecting rent for the next decade. ...

The numbers started quietly. A few hundred here, a thousand there. But this week, the trickle became a flood — and the conversation about AI replacing human workers shifted from theoretical to terrifyingly real. Block CEO Jack Dorsey just axed nearly half his company. Four thousand jobs, gone in a single announcement. His message to the rest of corporate America? “I don’t think we’re early to this realization. I think most companies are late.” ...