AI News for February 27, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Anthropic refuses Pentagon demands, CEO says company 'cannot in good conscience' comply: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejected the Pentagon's ultimatum to grant unrestricted military access to Claude, holding firm on two red lines: no mass domestic surveillance and no fully autonomous weapons.
[NEWS] Google launches Nano Banana 2, reclaiming #1 on image generation leaderboards at ~7¢ per image: Google DeepMind released Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), bringing Pro-tier quality to Flash-level speed and pricing.
[NEWS] Block cuts 40% of workforce, 4,000+ jobs, citing AI-driven 'new way of working': Jack Dorsey slashed Block's headcount from 10,000+ to under 6,000 in one of tech's largest single-round layoffs, citing AI tools that enable "a new way of working." Block's stock surged 23% after-hours despite the cuts.
[NEWS] 220+ OpenAI and Google employees sign petition opposing military AI use: Current and former employees at OpenAI and Google signed a joint petition titled "We Will Not Be Divided" opposing AI use for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons without human oversight.
[NEWS] Burger King launches OpenAI-powered 'Patty' chatbot to monitor employee friendliness: Burger King is rolling out an AI chatbot called "Patty" that lives in employee headsets at hundreds of US locations.
[TOOLS] Microsoft previews Copilot Tasks, a cloud-based AI agent for background work: Microsoft announced Copilot Tasks, an AI system that runs on its own cloud-based computer and browser to handle jobs like scheduling appointments, canceling unused subscriptions, and generating study plans.
[NEWS] OpenAI hires Meta AI VP Joelle Pineau despite $200M+ retention offer: OpenAI recruited Joelle Pineau, Meta's VP of AI research, despite Meta reportedly offering her over $200M to stay.
[NEWS] Dell projects $50B in AI server revenue for fiscal year ending January 2027: Dell shares jumped in extended trading after projecting roughly $50B in AI server revenue for its current fiscal year, exceeding analyst estimates.
[NEWS] Bain Capital warns software default rates risk hitting double digits as AI disruption spreads: Software default rates could soar into double digits as AI disruption intensifies and loans come due, according to Bain Capital's head of special situations Angelo Rufino.
[OPINION] Karpathy says 'programming is becoming unrecognizable' as agentic coding accelerates: Andrej Karpathy, who coined "vibe coding," wrote that AI coding agents "basically didn't work before December and basically work since." He described building a video analysis dashboard for home cameras entirely hands-free in 30 minutes, with the agent encountering and resolving errors autonomously.

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