This is the Daily Tech News Month in review for February 2026.

We're going to look back on what the biggest stories of the month were and try to help ourselves and you understand what the heck was going on.

It was a short month, but a lot of stories.

Oh, man.

This month we had Ramageddon continuing and scaring everybody.

Microsoft got a new head of gaming and the world wrestled with open claw.

Yes, the claw. The claw continued. I'm Tom Merritt.

I'm Jen Cutter.

Let's look back on some of the biggest stories of February

26. First, we'd like to ask an LLM what it thinks are the biggest stories of the month.

And so this month, Jen suggested, let's try perplexity. We haven't tried perplexity yet.

So I told it, what are the biggest tech stories this month?

I kept it very simple with this prompt.

It said AI chips and data center arms race.

Pretty good.

We're going to have, that's our, that's our first one too.

It talked about meta-inking multi-year deals, which I thought was a weird way to start that, but also Nvidia and AMD continuing to post record quarters. We're going to get into that.

It mentioned the Samsung Galaxy S-26 launch, which was definitely a big story. It mentioned

Apple planning its March launch, which will be one of the big stories of March, I have a feeling,

but kind of a big story that people are anticipating it and they're doing it differently than they have done before by not having a

single keynote, but stretching a few announcements across a week.

TikTok's proposed U.S. venture and negotiations around who controls its recommendation algorithm.

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