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GPT-5.4 is priced at $2.50/1M input and $15/1M output tokens while GPT-5.4 Pro is $30/1M input and $180/1M output tokens, more than GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2 Pro (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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The US DOD says it has "officially informed Anthropic leadership the company and its products are deemed a supply chain risk, effective immediately" (Bloomberg)

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OpenAI says users can now use ChatGPT directly in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets and debuts a suite of financial-services tools to better tackle office work (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

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OpenAI says GPT-5.4's "individual claims are 33% less likely to be false and its full responses are 18% less likely to contain any errors, relative to GPT-5.2" (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

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GPT-5.4 is available in Pro and Thinking versions; its API version has improved tool calling and will be available with context windows of up to 1M tokens (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI says GPT-5.4 produces presentations with stronger, more varied aesthetics and makes more effective use of its image generation tools (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)

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OpenAI launches GPT-5.4, saying it is its "most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work" and its first with native computer use capabilities (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Sources: Oracle is planning to cut thousands of jobs as soon as March, among its moves to handle a cash crunch from a massive AI data center expansion effort (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

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Iran's state media says Iran targeted Amazon's Bahrain data center on March 1 because of the company's support of "US military and intelligence activities" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

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Sources: US officials propose expanding AI chip export controls globally, requiring Commerce Department approval for Nvidia and AMD shipments for each country (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

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Apple implemented geoblocking in January 2026 to prevent US-based users from downloading or updating ByteDance's Chinese apps, even with a Chinese Apple account (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

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Roblox launches "real-time chat rephrasing", an AI feature that replaces banned words with "more respectful language", instead of showing profanities as "####" (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

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The FBI arrests the son of a federal contractor who managed critical services and charges him with stealing ~$46M in crypto from the US Marshals Service (Sander Lutz/Decrypt)

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Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on a production's dailies to be used in postproduction (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Sage, whose AI tools scan for distress and alert caregivers in nursing homes, raised a $65M Series C, bringing its total funding to $124M (Reuters)

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Sam Altman takes subtle swipes at Anthropic, saying "government is supposed to be more powerful than private companies" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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Match eliminates the role of COO, putting Hesam Hosseini out of a job after 18 years with the dating app giant, as part of changes under CEO Spencer Rascoff (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Stockholm-based Validio, whose agentic platform autonomously detects and resolves data quality issues, raised a $30M Series A, bringing its total raised to $47M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Revolut, which has about 70M clients in 40 markets, applies for a US bank charter and appoints former Visa executive Cetin Duransoy as its new US CEO (Reuters)

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Cylake, co-founded by Palo Alto Networks' Nir Zuk to develop an AI-powered cybersecurity platform that doesn't rely on the public cloud, raised a $45M seed (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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