Evening Briefing: Five Signals for February 28, 2026
Anthropic blacklisted. Goldman says AI added zero to GDP. California targets the OS layer. A 29x inference breakthrough. And the de-Google defection accelerates.
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Anthropic blacklisted. Goldman says AI added zero to GDP. California targets the OS layer. A 29x inference breakthrough. And the de-Google defection accelerates.
The Supreme Court said no. Trump raised tariffs anyway. The creator economy is cracking. And the agents are learning to grade themselves.
Anthropic’s talks with the Department of War, Block’s 40% workforce cut, an accelerating layoff wave, OpenClaw’s mainstream arrival, and a streaming-industry freeze show automation turning from promise into an operating constraint.
A viral Substack moving markets, GoCardless agents moving money, a rising tariff floor, banking-as-a-service arbitrage, and the clash between ICE orders and local immunity expose five new ways private infrastructure can outrun public rules.
NVIDIA’s earnings test, India’s AI summit, a shift in the New York Times’ AI narrative, MIT’s safety engineering, and Apple’s wearable-AI play map five fronts where adoption, trust, and infrastructure compete.