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Ride-hailing company Uber announced Uber Autonomous Solutions, offering a suite of services to robotaxi partners to help manage infrastructure, fleet operations, and user experience. The infrastructure solutions includes training data from Uber’s fleet of test vehicles and help with mapping data, fleet assistance services can provide access to a real-time view of every vehicle, and user experience services offers help designing in-car software. Uber Autonomous Solutions are aimed at AV companies like Wayve, WeRide, Nuro, and others without the deep cash backing companies like Waymo and Tesla have available for their own services.
Source: The Verge
On Monday, OpenAI announced a multi-year partnership with four consulting firms called “Frontier Alliances”, with Accenture, Boston Consulting Group, Capgemini, and McKinsey & Co. Earlier in February OpenAI announced Frontier as its enterprise platform, an intelligence layer for organizations to unite internal data and systems and for better management, deployment, and building of AI agents. Capgemini’s chief strategy and development officer Fernando Alvarez says OpenAI’s Frontier Alliances will help roll out its technology at scale. OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC earlier this year that enterprise accounts for ~40% of OpenAI’s business, expecting to rise to 50% by the end of 2026.
Source: CNBC
Turkey’s data protection watchdog opened a review over how six major social media platforms process children’s personal data. The Personal Data Protection Board will review TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, X and Discord’s data processing steps and any safeguards in place to protect children. The Justice and Development Party (AKP) will submit a draft “family package” bill introducing rules for social media accounts like identity verification and age restrictions. Children under 15 will be banned from opening accounts and restrictions would be introduced for all users under 18. The draft reportedly also contains a provision authorizing rapid takedowns of ‘illegal content’ without a court order.
Source: Turkish Minute
On Saturday, Germany passed a motion to ban social media for users under 14 and implement digital verification checks for teenagers. Christian Democratic Union’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz also called for fines against platforms failing to enforce limits and a European Union harmonization of age standards. This move continues a trend after last year’s Australian ban on social media access for children, with reviews on bans also ongoing in Spain, Greece, France and Britain.
Source: Reuters
In advance of Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event on February 25th, Samsung announced another addition to the support of multiple AI agents in Galaxy AI with Perplexity being added as an option for the upcoming S26 series. The wakeup phrase will be “Hey Plex”. The announcement states the Perplexity AI agent will work with Samsung Notes, Clock, Gallery, Reminder, and Calendar, as well as “select third-party apps”, though no specific details on which apps are available at this time.
Source: Engadget
The UK’s regulatory and competition authority, the Office of Communications (Ofcom), fined porn company 8579 LLC £1.35m over the failure to introduce and enforce proper age verification measures on its websites under the Online Safety Act (OSA), with an additional fine of £50,000 for not responding to Ofcom’s probe. Ofcom also ordered 8579 LLC to provide a complete list of sites it operates, imposing an ongoing daily fine of £250 if it does not comply, capping after 60 days. The Online Safety Act, which came into effect in July 2025, requires pornography providers to check the age of all of visitors from within the UK.
Source: BBC
Firefox will end support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 at the end of February. Critical security updates are currently available through Extended Support Release (ESR), though regular support stopped back in January 2023. Mozilla notes that most browsers, like Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, had already discontinued support for those older operating systems, and states Windows 10 support will continue “for the foreseeable future”. In the announcement Mozilla also states “If your current hardware can’t handle Windows 10 or higher for some reason, you can switch to a Linux-based operating system. The vast majority of Linux distributions come with Firefox as the default browser.”
Source: PC Gamer