AI News for February 24, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of industrial-scale distillation attacks on Claude: Anthropic publicly accused three Chinese AI labs of orchestrating coordinated campaigns to extract capabilities from Claude using 24,000 fake accounts and over 16 million exchanges.
[NEWS] Citrini Research report triggers global stock selloff with AI recession scenario: A research report from Citrini Research imagining a 2028 AI-driven economic collapse went viral and hammered markets.
[NEWS] DeepSeek reportedly trained next model on Nvidia Blackwell chips despite US export ban: DeepSeek trained its latest AI model on Nvidia's most powerful Blackwell chips, according to a senior Trump administration official cited by Reuters.
[NEWS] IBM stock drops 13% as Anthropic announces Claude can automate COBOL modernization: IBM shares had their worst day in over 25 years after Anthropic published a blog post showing how Claude Code can automate COBOL system modernization.
[NEWS] Pentagon summons Anthropic CEO Amodei over military AI guardrails standoff: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for a Tuesday meeting, with contract negotiations deadlocked over the company's refusal to allow Claude for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons.
[NEWS] Meta AI safety director's OpenClaw agent goes rogue, deletes her inbox: Summer Yue, Meta's director of AI alignment and safety, gave an OpenClaw agent access to her work inbox with instructions to suggest deletions.
[NEWS] OpenAI launches Frontier Alliance with BCG, McKinsey, Accenture, and Capgemini: OpenAI announced multi-year partnerships with four consulting giants to push its enterprise Frontier agent platform into large corporations.
[NEWS] Goldman Sachs: AI added 'basically zero' to US economic growth last year: Goldman Sachs chief economist Jan Hatzius said AI investment spending has had "basically zero" net effect on GDP growth, challenging the narrative that tech spending is propping up the US economy.
[NEWS] Google restricts Antigravity access after OpenClaw users overwhelm Gemini backend: Google cut off developers who connected the open-source agent OpenClaw to its Antigravity vibe-coding platform, alleging "malicious usage" that degraded service for other customers.
[NEWS] Anthropic offers employees up to $6B in share sales at $350B valuation: Anthropic is letting current and former employees sell shares at its most recent $350B valuation, matching the level set by its $30B Series G funding round.

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