Despite a sweeping directive from the Trump administration to suspend federal use of Anthropic’s AI technology, the United States military reportedly employed Anthropic’s Claude AI during a major airstrike on Iran, just hours after President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to halt use of the company’s systems, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Meta’s push to automate child safety enforcement with artificial intelligence is backfiring, according to U.S. law enforcement officials who say the company’s AI systems are overwhelming investigators with low-quality and often unusable reports.

Anthropic will not let the US Defence Department use its Claude AI without limits, citing risks from mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. The Pentagon warned it could label the company a supply chain risk or force it to comply under emergency powers.

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S26 lineup, marketing it as the world’s first “agentic AI phone,” a device designed not just to answer prompts but to execute multi-step actions across apps on a user’s behalf.

A federal judge has dismissed xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, ruling that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup failed to sufficiently link the company itself to alleged misconduct by former employees.

MoonPay has launched MoonPay Agents, a tool that lets AI systems create wallets, hold funds, and carry out crypto transactions without human intervention once funded. The platform is built on MoonPay CLI and supports trading, swaps, recurring payments, and machine-to-machine transactions while keeping custody under the user’s control.

Bitdeer has sold all of its corporate Bitcoin holdings, reducing its self-owned balance to zero by 20 February 2026. The company says the move frees up cash to fund data centre expansion, AI projects, and new mining hardware.

DeepSeek may have trained its upcoming AI model using banned Nvidia Blackwell chips, which are not allowed to be sold to China. The chips are believed to be running at a DeepSeek data centre in Inner Mongolia, raising concerns the company may have bypassed US export rules.

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger has banned all crypto mentions on Discord after a user was removed for mentioning Bitcoin in a technical discussion. The rule followed a scam in which hijacked accounts promoted a fake $CLAWD token that briefly reached about $16 million before collapsing.

An AI crypto trading bot called Lobstar Wilde accidentally sent all its meme coin holdings, worth around $250,000, to a stranger on X after misreading a request for a small amount of Solana. The recipient sold the tokens quickly for about $40,000, though the sudden attention later pushed their value above $420,000.