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Sarah Lane
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Sarah Lane
These are the daily tech headlines for the week ending Saturday, February 21st 1st 2026. I'm Sarah Lane. Let's catch up on the news. Microsoft's gaming chief Phil Spencer is retiring after 38 years at the company, with Asha Sharma set to become CEO of Gaming and report to Satya. Nadella Sharmer is a former Instacart executive who joined Microsoft in 2024 and most recently led product in its core AI division. Spencer's departure comes as Xbox revenue fell nearly 10% in in the December quarter. Sharma said Microsoft will recommit to console gaming and core Xbox players while integrating AI thoughtfully. Xbox president Sarah Bond also resigned, with Xbox Game Studio head Matt Booty now reporting to Sharma as Chief content officer. The U.S. government is sending a Peace Corps style tech corps to send STEM trained volunteers abroad for one to two years to promote adoption of American AI technologies in sectors like healthcare, agriculture and education, while US firms like OpenAI and Anthropic dominate in advanced enterprise systems. Chinese open weight models from companies like Alibaba, Minimax and Moonshot have traction in developing countries due to lower costs, customization and the ability to run on local infrastructure. Meta introduced a new Threads feature that lets users share posts directly to their Instagram stories without leaving the Threads app. Threads says since launching back in 2023, it now has more than 400 million monthly active users and 150 million daily users. Threads has relied heavily on integration with Instagram and Facebook to accelerate adoption. Last month, data from similar web showed that it now surpasses X in daily mobile usage, though X still leads on the Web. The Wall Street Journal sources say About a dozen OpenAI employees debated last June whether to alert Canadian police after a user described gun violence scenarios in chat GPT, but management decided the activity didn't meet its threshold for credible and imminent threats and decided to suspend the account instead. Months later, the user was identified as the suspect in a school shooting in Tumblr Ridge, British Columbia. The that left eight people dead and at least 25 injured. OpenAI says it contacted authorities after the attack and is cooperating with the investigation. A Federal judge rejected Tesla's attempt to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida, clearing the way for Tesla to have to pay. The jury found Tesla 33% liable in the crash, awarding $43 million in compensatory damages and and 200 million in punitive damages. Tesla had previously declined a 60 million settlement and plans to appeal. Anthropic launched Claude Code Security, a new feature that scans code bases for vulnerabilities and suggests fixes for human review. The company says the system reasons through code like a security researcher rather than relying on pattern matching and assigns severity and confidence ratings to findings. The tool is in limited research preview for enterprise and team customers, with free access for some open source models. Microsoft deleted a blog from 2024 that encouraged developers to train AI models on a Kaggle data set containing all seven Harry Potter books, which had been mistakenly marked as public domain. They definitely were not public domain. The blog suggested using the data set to create Q and A systems and fan fiction. With Claude AI features, Microsoft could face secondary liability for promoting use of infringing material, though there are fair use arguments, too. The data was removed after Ars Technica verified the issue and the uploader confirmed the public domain marking was an error. Amazon surpassed Walmart to become the world's largest company by revenue, reporting $717 billion in 2025, compared with Walmart's 713.2 billion the year ending January 31. Amazon has obviously had extreme growth since 1994, when it was an online bookseller, and is now a global e commerce and cloud computing powerhouse. Google and Singapore based Sea Limited the owner of Shopee and Garena, announced a partnership to develop artificial intelligence tools for seas, e commerce and gaming businesses. The company's plan to jointly explore an AI agentic shopping prototype for Shopee to enhance online shopping experiences and Garena will use Google's AI to boost game development productivity. For more analysis of the tech news of the day and the week, subscribe to DailyTech News Show.com you can find show notes and links to all these headlines there as well. I am Sarah Lane. Thanks for listening. Hope you enjoy your weekend and we'll talk to you Monday. Foreign.
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