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Tech Brew Ride Home

The Friday Of All The Headlines

Tech Brew Ride Home

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Tech News, News, Technology

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🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

I’ve got everything for you today. OpenAI closed its round. Anthropic draws a line with the Pentagon and Sam Altman supports it. A huge AI inspired layoff round, maybe. Netflix walks away from the deal, and, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions. OpenAI announces $110 billion funding round with backing from Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank (CNBC) Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon fight (Axios) Employees at Google and OpenAI support Anthropic’s Pentagon stand in open letter (TechCrunch) Block shares soar as much as 24% as company slashes workforce by nearly half (CNBC) Netflix ditches deal for Warner Bros. Discovery after Paramount’s offer is deemed superior (CNBC) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored (NYTimes) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.1

Welcome to the Tech Brew, right home for Friday, February 27th, 2026.

0:23.0

I'm Brian McCullough today. I've got everything for you today. Open AI closed its round.

0:28.3

Anthropic drew a line with the Pentagon and Sam Altman supports them.

0:32.8

A huge AI-inspired layoff round, maybe. Netflix walks away from the deal, and of course,

0:39.4

the weekend long read suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

0:48.1

Some Fridays are slow, which is why I have the weekend longreads segment baked into our

0:54.0

process from literally the first week of this show's inception.

0:58.8

And then there are Fridays like this one, where all the news happens all at once.

1:03.2

Here we go.

1:04.4

Open AI closed their next fundraising round, raising $110 billion at a $730 billion pre-money valuation up from their

1:13.3

$500 billion valuation in a secondary financing round from October. Amazon invested $50 billion,

1:20.2

Nvidia and SoftBank invested $30 billion each, quoting CNBC. We're super excited about this deal.

1:30.5

Open AI, CEO Sam Altman told CNBC's Squackbox on Friday, AI is going to happen everywhere. It's transforming the whole economy and the world needs

1:35.5

a lot of collective computing power to meet the demand. In addition to its participation in the

1:40.9

funding round, Amazon announced a multi-year strategic partnership with

1:44.4

Open AI. The companies will develop customized models that will help power Amazon's

1:49.3

customer-facing applications as part of the agreement, according to a release. OpenAI said it

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