In today’s tech news update for February 16:

Elon Musk’s platform X experienced a widespread global outage affecting users across the US, UK, India, and Europe, with over 41,000 reported incidents at peak.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei issued a sharp warning to AI rivals, cautioning against trillion-dollar compute commitments and aggressive capital expenditure that could lead to bankruptcy if revenue projections fall short.

Google revealed that its AI chatbot Gemini faced large-scale “distillation” attacks, including one campaign with over 100,000 prompts aimed at extracting model intelligence.

Meanwhile, NPCI launched UPI One World for foreign delegates attending the India AI Impact Summit 2026, enabling seamless payments without an Indian bank account.

Anthropic also opened its first office in India in Bengaluru, announcing expanded partnerships and strong revenue growth in the region.

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