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Marvell stock jumps 20%+ after the chip company reported Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $2.2B and issued strong guidance citing growing AI demand (Lola Murti/CNBC)

Marvell stock jumps 20%+ after the chip company reported...

Lola Murti / CNBC: Marvell stock jumps 20%+ after the chip company reported Q4 revenue...

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Google joins Microsoft in saying it will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after the DOD designated the startup a supply chain risk (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

Google joins Microsoft in saying it will keep working with...

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Google joins Microsoft in saying it will keep working with...

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OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved from its research project Aardvark to automate vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation (Sam Sabin/Axios)

OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved...

Sam Sabin / Axios: OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved from...

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Cursor launches Automations, a new tool that lets users automatically launch agents triggered through new additions to a codebase, a Slack message, or a timer (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Cursor launches Automations, a new tool that lets users...

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Cursor launches Automations, a new tool that lets...

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An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google/Epic settlement, what Play Store changes mean for developers, why Epic's case against Apple is different, and more (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)

An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google/Epic settlement,...

Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google/Epic settlement,...

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Sources: the UK plans to delay copyright rule changes for AI training after a two-month consultation failed to land on a favored proposal among stakeholders (Financial Times)

Sources: the UK plans to delay copyright rule changes for...

Financial Times: Sources: the UK plans to delay copyright rule changes for AI training...

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Sam Altman takes subtle swipes at Anthropic, saying "government is supposed to be more powerful than private companies" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Sam Altman takes subtle swipes at Anthropic, saying "government...

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Sam Altman takes subtle swipes at Anthropic, saying “government...

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Sage, whose AI tools scan for distress and alert caregivers in nursing homes, raised a $65M Series C, bringing its total funding to $124M (Reuters)

Sage, whose AI tools scan for distress and alert caregivers...

Reuters: Sage, whose AI tools scan for distress and alert caregivers in nursing...

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Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded by Ben Affleck that builds an AI model based on a production's dailies to be used in postproduction (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded...

Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix buys InterPositive, a 16-person company founded...

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China sets lowest economic growth target since 1991

China sets lowest economic growth target since 1991

China's annual parliamentary session kicks off with a growth downgrade as leaders...

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Study: ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical emergencies 51.6% of the time and overestimated the severity in nonurgent cases 64.8% of the time (Kaan Ozcan/NBC News)

Study: ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical...

Kaan Ozcan / NBC News: Study: ChatGPT Health underestimated the severity of medical...

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A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed professionals like doctors and lawyers and giving "substantive response, information, or advice" (Keely Quinlan/StateScoop)

A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating licensed...

Keely Quinlan / StateScoop: A New York bill would ban chatbots from impersonating...

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Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device, Spectre I, went viral after its founder said it blocks nearby listening devices with AI, but some are skeptical (Lindsey Weedston/The Daily Dot)

Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device, Spectre...

Lindsey Weedston / The Daily Dot: Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device,...

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Korean stocks suffer worst crash ever as Iran war hits chipmakers

Korean stocks suffer worst crash ever as Iran war hits...

South Korea's main stock index, the KOSPI, lost 12 percent on Wednesday, sending...

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Oil prices steady as Iran war continues

Oil prices steady as Iran war continues

Oil prices have steadied for the first time since the US and Israel launched strikes...

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Apple says the MacBook Neo is $599 with 256GB of storage and $699 with Touch ID and 512GB of storage, both available in citrus, silver, indigo, and blush colors (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Apple says the MacBook Neo is $599 with 256GB of storage...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple says the MacBook Neo is $599 with 256GB of storage...

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Apple's MacBook Neo uses an A18 Pro that launched in the iPhone 16 lineup, alongside 8GB of RAM and a headphone jack; Apple discontinued the 12" MacBook in 2019 (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)

Apple's MacBook Neo uses an A18 Pro that launched in the...

Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: Apple's MacBook Neo uses an A18 Pro that launched...

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MacBook Neo hands-on: a new product category for Apple, and it doesn't look budget with a vibrant display and aluminum body, but the keyboard is a bit flimsy (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)

MacBook Neo hands-on: a new product category for Apple,...

Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: MacBook Neo hands-on: a new product category for Apple,...

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Can Iran's economy survive if the war drags on?

Can Iran's economy survive if the war drags on?

Iran has taken the risky gambit of closing the Strait of Hormuz, which could backfire...

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Self-driving software startup Oxa raised a $103M Series D, with $50M coming from the UK government's National Wealth Fund; Nvidia's NVentures also invested (Tom Nugent/Sifted)

Self-driving software startup Oxa raised a $103M Series...

Tom Nugent / Sifted: Self-driving software startup Oxa raised a $103M Series D,...

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Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones via malicious websites; iVerify suggests it may have been originally built for the US government (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones...

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Google details Coruna, an exploit kit used to hijack iPhones...

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KeyCare, a virtual care platform built on the Epic EHR, raised $27.4M led by HealthX Ventures, bringing its total funding to over $55M (Jessica Hagen/MobiHealthNews)

KeyCare, a virtual care platform built on the Epic EHR,...

Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews: KeyCare, a virtual care platform built on the Epic...

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Iran shuts down the Strait of Hormuz. What more could it do?

Iran shuts down the Strait of Hormuz. What more could it...

Iran has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed and threatened to fire at any ship...

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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's and Trump's actions against Anthropic have serious legal issues, and its designation exceeds what the statute authorizes (Lawfare)

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's and Trump's actions...

Lawfare: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's and Trump's actions against Anthropic...

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Elliott injects $1B into Pinterest to fund stock buybacks, buying convertible senior notes with an initial conversion price of $22.72 per share, a 30% premium (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)

Elliott injects $1B into Pinterest to fund stock buybacks,...

Nicholas G. Miller / Wall Street Journal: Elliott injects $1B into Pinterest to...

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A UK trial by the National Grid, Nvidia, and others finds AI data centers can operate without using peak power continuously, adjusting consumption when asked (Eamon Farhat/Bloomberg)

A UK trial by the National Grid, Nvidia, and others finds...

Eamon Farhat / Bloomberg: A UK trial by the National Grid, Nvidia, and others finds...

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Iran shuts down the Strait of Hormuz.  What more can it do?

Iran shuts down the Strait of Hormuz. What more can it...

Iran has declared the Strait of Hormuz closed and threatened to fire at any ship...

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Filing: PayPay is seeking to raise up to $1.1B at a valuation of up to $13.4B in its US IPO, selling nearly 55M shares priced between $17 and $20 apiece (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

Filing: PayPay is seeking to raise up to $1.1B at a valuation...

Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: Filing: PayPay is seeking to raise up to $1.1B at...

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Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted...

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted...

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MongoDB reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $695.1M, vs. $670M est., and forecasts Q1 adjusted earnings per share below estimates; MDB drops 22%+ after hours (Angela Palumbo/Barron's Online)

MongoDB reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $695.1M, vs. $670M...

Angela Palumbo / Barron's Online: MongoDB reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $695.1M,...

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Oil prices surge as tanker traffic in Strait of Hormuz grinds to a halt

Oil prices surge as tanker traffic in Strait of Hormuz...

As war escalates in the Middle East and Iran's security forces order ships not to...

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Qualcomm unveils the 3nm Snapdragon Wear Elite SoC for smartwatches, offering a Hexagon NPU that it says can run on-device AI models with up to 2B parameters (Matt Swider/The Shortcut)

Qualcomm unveils the 3nm Snapdragon Wear Elite SoC for...

Matt Swider / The Shortcut: Qualcomm unveils the 3nm Snapdragon Wear Elite SoC for...

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Chinese military procurement documents show the PLA's efforts to use AI to assist in drone piloting, cyberattacks, decision-making, and disinformation campaigns (Foreign Affairs)

Chinese military procurement documents show the PLA's efforts...

Foreign Affairs: Chinese military procurement documents show the PLA's efforts to...

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Q&A with Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor on modernizing the platform, attracting new creators, managing a fully remote, four-day-per-week workplace, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)

Q&A with Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor on modernizing...

Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Q&A with Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor on modernizing...

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Sources describe in detail the failed talks between Anthropic and DOD, and how officials at agencies, including the CIA, still hope for a peace agreement (New York Times)

Sources describe in detail the failed talks between Anthropic...

New York Times: Sources describe in detail the failed talks between Anthropic and...

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Israel-based Guidde, which is developing a platform to accelerate the adoption of AI in organizations, raised a $50M Series B round led by PSG Equity (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Israel-based Guidde, which is developing a platform to...

Meir Orbach / CTech: Israel-based Guidde, which is developing a platform to accelerate...

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Australia's eSafety Commissioner threatens action against app stores and search engines if AI services operating in Australia don't verify user ages by March 9 (Byron Kaye/Reuters)

Australia's eSafety Commissioner threatens action against...

Byron Kaye / Reuters: Australia's eSafety Commissioner threatens action against...

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Block's plan to lay off over 4,000 employees, citing AI work automation, adds to growing angst among white-collar workers over AI's potential for job disruption (Chip Cutter/Wall Street Journal)

Block's plan to lay off over 4,000 employees, citing AI...

Chip Cutter / Wall Street Journal: Block's plan to lay off over 4,000 employees,...

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Multiple AWS developers say they are asked to take on new roles with AI tools' assistance, and engineers are now required to complete technical writing tasks (Financial Times)

Multiple AWS developers say they are asked to take on new...

Financial Times: Multiple AWS developers say they are asked to take on new roles...

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Netflix actually won by walking away from the WBD bid, collecting a $2.8B termination fee and driving up the price and debt load of the Paramount-WBD merger (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)

Netflix actually won by walking away from the WBD bid,...

Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: Netflix actually won by walking away from the...

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Xiaomi launches the €15 Xiaomi tag, an AirTag-like device that works with both Apple Find My and Android Find Hub, and the €300 Xiaomi Watch 5, in Europe (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Xiaomi launches the €15 Xiaomi tag, an AirTag-like device...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Xiaomi launches the €15 Xiaomi tag, an AirTag-like device...

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Xiaomi launches the €999 Xiaomi 17, the €1,499 17 Ultra, and the €1,999 Leica-branded Leitzphone, all featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, in Europe (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Xiaomi launches the €999 Xiaomi 17, the €1,499 17 Ultra,...

Dominic Preston / The Verge: Xiaomi launches the €999 Xiaomi 17, the €1,499 17 Ultra,...

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China faces a dilemma as it looks to balance productivity gains from AI with labor displacement risks due to automation, which could trigger an economic spiral (Bloomberg)

China faces a dilemma as it looks to balance productivity...

Bloomberg: China faces a dilemma as it looks to balance productivity gains from...

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Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD to deploy its models in DOD's classified network and asks DOD to extend those terms to all AI companies (Sam Altman/@sama)

Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD...

Sam Altman / @sama: Sam Altman says OpenAI reached an agreement with the DOD to...

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Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil a new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system will have a Groq-designed chip and OpenAI is a customer (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil a new AI inference chip...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil a new AI inference chip at...

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Source: India issued a blocking order on February 24 to restrict access to developer database service Supabase; the government did not publicly cite a reason (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Source: India issued a blocking order on February 24 to...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Source: India issued a blocking order on February 24...

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Sources: multiple federal agencies raised concerns about Grok's safety and reliability in recent months, before DOD approved Grok for use in classified settings (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: multiple federal agencies raised concerns about...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: multiple federal agencies raised concerns about Grok's...

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Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines with respect to AI use by the military, which are "an issue for the whole industry" (Axios)

Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines with...

Axios: Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines with respect to AI use...

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OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900M+ weekly active users, 50M+ consumer subscribers, and weekly Codex users have more than tripled since the start of the year to 1.6M (OpenAI)

OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900M+ weekly active users, 50M+...

OpenAI: OpenAI says ChatGPT has 900M+ weekly active users, 50M+ consumer subscribers,...

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Hungary steps up rhetoric over Russian oil disruption

Hungary steps up rhetoric over Russian oil disruption

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has asked the EU for a fact-finding mission...

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Duolingo reports Q4 revenue up 35% YoY to $282.9M, forecasts FY 2026 bookings below est. as it shifts focus to faster user growth; DUOL drops 20%+ after hours (Reuters)

Duolingo reports Q4 revenue up 35% YoY to $282.9M, forecasts...

Reuters: Duolingo reports Q4 revenue up 35% YoY to $282.9M, forecasts FY 2026 bookings...

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Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot "in good conscience" accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded (Anthropic)

Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot "in good conscience"...

Anthropic: Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's...

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Sources: two members of Thinking Machines Lab's founding team, Christian Gibson and Noah Shpak, left the startup and have been working at Meta for a few weeks (Business Insider)

Sources: two members of Thinking Machines Lab's founding...

Business Insider: Sources: two members of Thinking Machines Lab's founding team,...

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The workplace in 2026: Many workers unhappy being in the office

The workplace in 2026: Many workers unhappy being in the...

What does the corporate workplace look like in 2026? Following the Covid-19 pandemic,...

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EBRD reports resilient regional economic growth

EBRD reports resilient regional economic growth

Despite headwinds from US tariffs and Chinese competition, the European Bank for...

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UK online supermarket Ocado plans to cut ~1,000 jobs and restructure its automated warehouse tech business; Kroger and Sobeys exited their Ocado deals early (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)

UK online supermarket Ocado plans to cut ~1,000 jobs and...

Philip Stafford / Financial Times: UK online supermarket Ocado plans to cut ~1,000...

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AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December, completing complex projects with minimal oversight, meaning "programming is becoming unrecognizable" (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)

AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December,...

Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: AI coding agents made a huge leap forward since December,...

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Montreal-based Stay22, which helps publishers and creators earn money from online sales, raised $122M from Summit Partners and reports $1B+ in 2025 transactions (Mathieu Dion/Bloomberg)

Montreal-based Stay22, which helps publishers and creators...

Mathieu Dion / Bloomberg: Montreal-based Stay22, which helps publishers and creators...

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Sources: DeepSeek did not share its upcoming V4 model with US chipmakers, including AMD and Nvidia, but granted early access to Chinese companies like Huawei (Reuters)

Sources: DeepSeek did not share its upcoming V4 model with...

Reuters: Sources: DeepSeek did not share its upcoming V4 model with US chipmakers,...

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AMD will buy $150M in Nutanix stock and provide up to $100M to fund joint initiatives to develop an infrastructure platform for powering AI applications (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

AMD will buy $150M in Nutanix stock and provide up to $100M...

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: AMD will buy $150M in Nutanix stock and provide up to $100M...

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Sources: DOD asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to assess their reliance on Claude, a first step toward blacklisting Anthropic; Lockheed confirms it was contacted (Axios)

Sources: DOD asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to assess...

Axios: Sources: DOD asked Boeing and Lockheed Martin to assess their reliance on...

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German chancellor seeks 'right balance' in his first official visit to China

German chancellor seeks 'right balance' in his first official...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is visiting China on a two-day trip starting on...

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Trump talks affordability amid public distrust in his handling of the economy

Trump talks affordability amid public distrust in his handling...

In his State of the Union address, US President Donald Trump sought to reassure...

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A look at TAT-8, the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable, which went into service in 1988, was retired in 2002, and is now being pulled up for recycling (Jane Ruffino/Wired)

A look at TAT-8, the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable,...

Jane Ruffino / Wired: A look at TAT-8, the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable,...

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Workday reports Q4 revenue up 14.5% YoY to $2.53B, vs. $2.52B est., and forecasts FY 2027 subscription revenue below estimates; WDAY drops 9%+ after hours (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

Workday reports Q4 revenue up 14.5% YoY to $2.53B, vs....

Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: Workday reports Q4 revenue up 14.5% YoY to...

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Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri says Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI use Workday tools and "no amount of vibe coding" could replace it; WDAY is down ~40% so far in 2026 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri says Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI...

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri says Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI...

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German Chancellor seeks "right balance" in his first official visit to China

German Chancellor seeks "right balance" in his first official...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is visiting China on a two-day trip starting Wednesday. ...

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Waymo opens its robotaxi service to "select riders" in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando, expanding its operations to 10 US cities (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Waymo opens its robotaxi service to "select riders" in...

Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Waymo opens its robotaxi service to “select riders” in Dallas,...

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Sources: DoD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a "supply chain risk", if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday (Axios)

Sources: DoD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense...

Axios: Sources: DoD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or...

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YouTube updates its $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription to let users download videos for offline access and play videos in the background (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

YouTube updates its $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: YouTube updates its $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription...

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EU hits pause on trade deal with US as Trump warns countries not to 'play games'

EU hits pause on trade deal with US as Trump warns countries...

After the US Supreme Court struck down his "Liberation Day" tariffs as unlawful,...

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Reconstruction of Ukraine's economy could cost $588 billion over 10 years

Reconstruction of Ukraine's economy could cost $588 billion...

Four years to the day after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, we take a look...

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A look at Apple's efforts to reshore the US chip supply chain, as the company commits to buying more than 100M chips from TSMC Arizona in 2026 (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)

A look at Apple's efforts to reshore the US chip supply...

Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: A look at Apple's efforts to reshore the US...

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Filings: some Meta execs warned in 2019 that adding E2E encryption to Facebook and Instagram messaging would hinder the ability to flag CSAM to law enforcement (Reuters)

Filings: some Meta execs warned in 2019 that adding E2E...

Reuters: Filings: some Meta execs warned in 2019 that adding E2E encryption to Facebook...

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Bengaluru-based Xflow, which facilitates B2B cross-border payments, raised a $16.6M Series A led by GC at an $85M valuation, bringing its total raised to $32M+ (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Bengaluru-based Xflow, which facilitates B2B cross-border...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Xflow, which facilitates B2B cross-border...

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EU hits pause on trade deal with US, Trump warns countries not to 'play games' after Supreme Court ruling

EU hits pause on trade deal with US, Trump warns countries...

After the US Supreme Court struck down his 'liberation day' tariffs as unlawful,...

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Sources: Trump's "Board of Peace" is exploring a USD-pegged stablecoin for Gaza; a source says it will not be a "Gaza Coin" or a new Palestinian currency (Financial Times)

Sources: Trump's "Board of Peace" is exploring a USD-pegged...

Financial Times: Sources: Trump's “Board of Peace” is exploring a USD-pegged stablecoin...

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Software stocks extend their weeks-long selloff, with AppLovin, Datadog, Workday down 7%+; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in a post by Citrini (Jack Pitcher/Wall Street Journal)

Software stocks extend their weeks-long selloff, with AppLovin,...

Jack Pitcher / Wall Street Journal: Software stocks extend their weeks-long selloff,...

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Internal memo: Lightricks, creator of photo editing app Facetune, is splitting its consumer app unit from its GenAI unit LTX to better capture the growth in AI (Echo Wang/Reuters)

Internal memo: Lightricks, creator of photo editing app...

Echo Wang / Reuters: Internal memo: Lightricks, creator of photo editing app Facetune,...

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US calls on partners to stick to existing trade deals amid tariff uncertainty

US calls on partners to stick to existing trade deals amid...

After a weekend of trade upheaval in the wake of the US Supreme Court's decision...

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Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accounts were banned after linking Gemini models via OpenClaw; Peter Steinberger says he may "remove support" (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)

Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI accounts...

Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: Google Antigravity users say their paid Google AI...

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OpenAI scrambled for compute power after the Stargate project stalled; sources: OpenAI still plans to build its own data centers, but not in the near future (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

OpenAI scrambled for compute power after the Stargate project...

Anissa Gardizy / The Information: OpenAI scrambled for compute power after the Stargate...

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Samsung will add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcoming S26 series; users can launch the Perplexity agent by saying "Hey Plex" or with a physical helper button (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

Samsung will add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcoming...

Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: Samsung will add Perplexity to Galaxy AI on the upcoming...

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First victim of AI agent harassment warns 'thousands' more could be next

First victim of AI agent harassment warns 'thousands' more...

Slandered by one AI robot and misquoted in a news article by another, US-based software...

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India's AI Summit highlighted the limits of the country's AI ambitions, as the US and its tech companies largely dismissed India's push for global AI governance (Krishn Kaushik/Financial Times)

India's AI Summit highlighted the limits of the country's...

Krishn Kaushik / Financial Times: India's AI Summit highlighted the limits of the...

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Analysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M+ on the 2026 US midterms so far, over double the 2024 cycle; crypto PAC Fairshake is the US' fifth most-funded PAC (Molly White/Citation Needed)

Analysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M+ on the 2026...

Molly White / Citation Needed: Analysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M+ on...

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Tim Cook's increased mentions of Visual Intelligence hint it will be a major part of Apple's new wearables; sources: Apple considers a deep red iPhone 18 Pro (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Tim Cook's increased mentions of Visual Intelligence hint...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Tim Cook's increased mentions of Visual Intelligence hint...

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Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of contributions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a...

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing...

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Sam Altman says there is some "AI washing", where companies blame AI for layoffs that they would otherwise do, alongside "real displacement by AI" of some jobs (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)

Sam Altman says there is some "AI washing", where companies...

AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: Sam Altman says there is some “AI washing”, where companies...

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Sources: DOJ's review of Netflix's WBD takeover examines whether Netflix wields anticompetitive leverage over creators in violation of Clayton and Sherman Acts (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)

Sources: DOJ's review of Netflix's WBD takeover examines...

Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: Sources: DOJ's review of Netflix's WBD takeover examines...

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Pinterest users, especially artists, say the platform has gotten worse in the past year due to AI moderation, AI-generated art, and AI features (Matthew Gault/404 Media)

Pinterest users, especially artists, say the platform has...

Matthew Gault / 404 Media: Pinterest users, especially artists, say the platform...

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How Claude Code, released publicly a year ago, cemented Anthropic as a leader in the lucrative, emerging market for AI coding tools (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

How Claude Code, released publicly a year ago, cemented...

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: How Claude Code, released publicly a year ago, cemented...

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An interview with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Custom Notion AI agents launching in the coming week, over 50% of Notion databases now being built by agents, and more (Sources)

An interview with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Custom Notion...

Sources: An interview with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Custom Notion AI agents launching...

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Sources: OpenAI is telling investors it's targeting ~$600B in total compute spend by 2030, months after Sam Altman touted $1.4T in infrastructure commitments (CNBC)

Sources: OpenAI is telling investors it's targeting ~$600B...

CNBC: Sources: OpenAI is telling investors it's targeting ~$600B in total compute...

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Source: OpenAI is projecting that its revenue will exceed $280B in 2030; last month, OpenAI said its annualized revenue grew to $20B+ in 2025 (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Source: OpenAI is projecting that its revenue will exceed...

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Source: OpenAI is projecting that its revenue will...

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India joins Pax Silica, a US-led initiative that aims to build secure supply chains for semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, and critical technologies (Rajesh Roy/Associated Press)

India joins Pax Silica, a US-led initiative that aims to...

Rajesh Roy / Associated Press: India joins Pax Silica, a US-led initiative that...

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Google rejected 1.75M policy-violating Android apps and blocked 80K+ developer accounts from Google Play in 2025, down from 2.36M apps and 158K accounts in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Google rejected 1.75M policy-violating Android apps and...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google rejected 1.75M policy-violating Android apps and...

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General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five years, an increase from the $500M to $1B previously announced, after merging with a local VC in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five...

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Sources: SoftBank plans to form a consortium to build a $33B power plant in Ohio, set to produce 9.2 GW for AI data centers, as part of the US-Japan trade deal (Nikkei Asia)

Sources: SoftBank plans to form a consortium to build a...

Nikkei Asia: Sources: SoftBank plans to form a consortium to build a $33B power...

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Renewed tensions threaten European fighter jet project

Renewed tensions threaten European fighter jet project

What fate for Europe's Future Combat Air System? The joint program to renew military...

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Meta says it is "explicitly separating" Quest VR from its Worlds platform, making Worlds "almost exclusively mobile", letting it better compete with Roblox (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Meta says it is "explicitly separating" Quest VR from its...

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta says it is “explicitly separating” Quest VR from its...

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Sony shuts down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation subsidiary behind remakes of older games like Demon's Souls and Uncharted; ~70 employees will lose their jobs (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Sony shuts down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation subsidiary...

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Sony shuts down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation subsidiary...

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Sources: Emerald AI, which develops software to curb data center energy demand, is raising a $25M seed extension at a ~$250M post-money valuation (Alan Neuhauser/Axios)

Sources: Emerald AI, which develops software to curb data...

Alan Neuhauser / Axios: Sources: Emerald AI, which develops software to curb data...

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China's Zeekr to launch EV sales in France

China's Zeekr to launch EV sales in France

The automobile industry has been steering towards an electric future. In Europe,...

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AI develops code faster and more reliably, solving telecom industry 'bottleneck': Airties CEO

AI develops code faster and more reliably, solving telecom...

As world leaders and tech executives congregate in New Delhi for the AI Impact Summit,...

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Why does AI need to be kept in check?

Why does AI need to be kept in check?

As India hosts the AI Impact Summit, we bring you a special edition of Entre Nous...

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How Lego's Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors, and proprietary communication system to seamlessly integrate with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired)

How Lego's Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its...

Jeremy White / Wired: How Lego's Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom...

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Indian conglomerate Reliance plans to invest up to $110B in building AI-related infrastructure over the next seven years, and JioHotstar plans a ChatGPT bot (Bloomberg)

Indian conglomerate Reliance plans to invest up to $110B...

Bloomberg: Indian conglomerate Reliance plans to invest up to $110B in building...

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Inside India's AI Impact Summit: 300+ exhibitors, 500 sessions, 250K visitors, billions in investment, and entrepreneurs touting solutions to real-world issues (New York Times)

Inside India's AI Impact Summit: 300+ exhibitors, 500 sessions,...

New York Times: Inside India's AI Impact Summit: 300+ exhibitors, 500 sessions,...

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Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips with a "spatial dataflow" architecture to minimize energy consumption, raised a $60M Series A (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips with a...

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips with...

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Apple adds support for third-party voice-based conversational apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, letting CarPlay users access apps like AI chatbots (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Apple adds support for third-party voice-based conversational...

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple adds support for third-party voice-based conversational...

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OpenAI and Paradigm announce EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how well AI agents can detect, exploit, and patch high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities (OpenAI)

OpenAI and Paradigm announce EVMbench, a benchmark that...

OpenAI: OpenAI and Paradigm announce EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how well...

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ECB's Lagarde reportedly to leave before end of her term

ECB's Lagarde reportedly to leave before end of her term

Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, has decided to leave...

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Dreamer, founded by former Stripe CTO David Singleton, Hugo Barra, and others, launches in beta to let technical and non-technical users build agentic AI apps (David Singleton/flurries of latent ...)

Dreamer, founded by former Stripe CTO David Singleton,...

David Singleton / flurries of latent creativity: Dreamer, founded by former Stripe...

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Q&A with Ramp CEO Eric Glyman on scaling the expense management company to over $1B revenue, the "SaaS apocalypse", using AI agents to review expenses, and more (Cheeky Pint)

Q&A with Ramp CEO Eric Glyman on scaling the expense management...

Cheeky Pint: Q&A with Ramp CEO Eric Glyman on scaling the expense management company...

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As the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi draws attention, a look at India's AI opportunities and the political economy gridlock that threatens its ambitions (Shruti Rajagopalan/Get Down and Shruti)

As the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi draws attention, a...

Shruti Rajagopalan / Get Down and Shruti: As the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi draws...

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EU launches probe against Shein over illegal items and addictive design

EU launches probe against Shein over illegal items and...

The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into Shein over suspicion...

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Sources: Apple ramps up work on AI wearables with cameras and Siri, including smart glasses, AirPods, and a pendant that can be worn as a necklace or pinned (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple ramps up work on AI wearables with cameras...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple ramps up work on AI wearables with cameras...

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Over 100 researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, and more call for guardrails on some infectious disease datasets that could enable AI to design deadly viruses (Megan Morrone/Axios)

Over 100 researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, and more...

Megan Morrone / Axios: Over 100 researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, and more...

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Night Media, a talent agency that represents influencers like Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, raised $70M led by StepStone to expand into gaming, sports, and music (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

Night Media, a talent agency that represents influencers...

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Night Media, a talent agency that represents influencers...

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Valve says the Steam Deck OLED may be "intermittently" out of stock due to memory and storage shortages; it has been out of stock in the US for a few days (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Valve says the Steam Deck OLED may be "intermittently"...

Jay Peters / The Verge: Valve says the Steam Deck OLED may be “intermittently” out...

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Sources: top VC firms operating in India are expected to commit investments ranging from $300M to $500M each to India's AI ecosystem at the AI Impact Summit (The Economic Times)

Sources: top VC firms operating in India are expected to...

The Economic Times: Sources: top VC firms operating in India are expected to commit...

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UK software firm Pinewood's stock fell ~31% on Feb. 16 after Apax Partners withdrew its £575M takeover offer, citing "prevailing challenging market conditions" (Alexandra Heal/Financial Times)

UK software firm Pinewood's stock fell ~31% on Feb. 16...

Alexandra Heal / Financial Times: UK software firm Pinewood's stock fell ~31% on...

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India kicks off AI Summit, first in the global south

India kicks off AI Summit, first in the global south

India has kicked off the 4th edition of the AI Summit, the first such event in the...

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A senior Pentagon official says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is "close" to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating it as a "supply chain risk" (Axios)

A senior Pentagon official says Defense Secretary Pete...

Axios: A senior Pentagon official says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “close”...

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A look at the fall of Indian edtech startup Byju's, leading to US court sanctions, as lenders accuse founder Byju Raveendran of siphoning $533M of a $1.2B loan (Financial Times)

A look at the fall of Indian edtech startup Byju's, leading...

Financial Times: A look at the fall of Indian edtech startup Byju's, leading to...

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As India prepares to host its AI Impact Summit in New Delhi this week, the country is set to promote a frugal AI strategy focused on solving local issues (Tripti Lahiri/Wall Street Journal)

As India prepares to host its AI Impact Summit in New Delhi...

Tripti Lahiri / Wall Street Journal: As India prepares to host its AI Impact Summit...

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Anthropic's Claude helped Pentagon raid Caracas and seize Maduro, US media report

Anthropic's Claude helped Pentagon raid Caracas and seize...

The Wall Street Journal has reported that the Pentagon used Anthropic's AI model,...

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Japan narrowly avoids recession as GDP grows 0.2% annually in last quarter of 2025

Japan narrowly avoids recession as GDP grows 0.2% annually...

According to preliminary data released on Monday, Japan's economy grew by 0.2 percent...

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Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters (New York Times)

Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities,...

New York Times: Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated...

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A look at a new generation of Chinese billionaire AI entrepreneurs who keep a low profile, with fortunes entwined with China's push for tech independence (Bloomberg)

A look at a new generation of Chinese billionaire AI entrepreneurs...

Bloomberg: A look at a new generation of Chinese billionaire AI entrepreneurs who...

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India-based AI cloud startup Neysa plans to raise up to $600M in equity led by Blackstone, plus $600M in debt, to deploy 20K+ GPUs in India for AI training (Baiju Kalesh/Bloomberg)

India-based AI cloud startup Neysa plans to raise up to...

Baiju Kalesh / Bloomberg: India-based AI cloud startup Neysa plans to raise up to...

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Anthropic’s Claude helped Pentagon raid Caracas and seize Maduro: US media

Anthropic’s Claude helped Pentagon raid Caracas and seize...

The Wall Street Journal has reported that the Pentagon used Anthropic’s AI model,...

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Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had "pretty much sold out" its 2026 HDD capacity, and that the consumer sector accounted for 5% of total revenue (Muhammad Zuhair/Wccftech)

Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had "pretty...

Muhammad Zuhair / Wccftech: Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had...

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As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt (Margaret-Anne Storey)

As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development,...

Margaret-Anne Storey: As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive...

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Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic experimental computer networks helped define the evolution of the early internet, died on February 7 at age 91 (Peter Wayner/New York Times)

Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic experimental...

Peter Wayner / New York Times: Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic...

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A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups (Jessica Brice/Bloomberg)

A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered...

Jessica Brice / Bloomberg: A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem...

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Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, China is expected to produce 2% of global AI chips in 2026 and 70x less memory storage than foreign chipmakers (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)

Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, China...

Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years,...

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India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance...

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India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers, highlighting its selective engagement with Chinese platforms (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups...

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Sources: TSMC plans to invest another $100B to build four more US fabs to ensure tariff-free chip sales; analysis: its Arizona site has land for four more fabs (Financial Times)

Sources: TSMC plans to invest another $100B to build four...

Financial Times: Sources: TSMC plans to invest another $100B to build four more...

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BNP Paribas analysis: Anthropic saw visits to its site jump 6.5% after its Super Bowl ad and DAUs jump 11% post-game, outperforming other AI companies (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

BNP Paribas analysis: Anthropic saw visits to its site...

Samantha Subin / CNBC: BNP Paribas analysis: Anthropic saw visits to its site jump...

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Apple says 74% of iPhones launched in the last four years and 66% of all iPhones are running iOS 26; 68% of iPhones were running iOS 18 as of Jan. 21, 2025 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Apple says 74% of iPhones launched in the last four years...

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple says 74% of iPhones launched in the last four years...

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Blockchain-based lending company Figure confirms a data breach; ShinyHunters hacking group published 2.5GB of data, saying Figure refused to pay a ransom (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Blockchain-based lending company Figure confirms a data...

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Blockchain-based lending company Figure...

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Sources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools, is in talks to raise at a $9B valuation, up from $6.6B in 2024; its ARR hit $400M in Sept. (The Information)

Sources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring...

The Information: Sources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools,...

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The MPA urges ByteDance to curb its AI video model Seedance 2.0, saying the model engages in unauthorized use of US copyrighted material "on a massive scale" (Gene Maddaus/Variety)

The MPA urges ByteDance to curb its AI video model Seedance...

Gene Maddaus / Variety: The MPA urges ByteDance to curb its AI video model Seedance...

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A look at Higgsfield, an AI video startup that grew to $300M ARR within 11 months, as it faces a creator backlash over aggressive and shocking marketing tactics (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

A look at Higgsfield, an AI video startup that grew to...

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: A look at Higgsfield, an AI video startup that grew...

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Companies like Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are letting workers cash out before their IPOs, a move once seen as taboo and lacking long-term commitment (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

Companies like Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are...

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Companies like Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, and...

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Indian farmers protest trade deal with US

Indian farmers protest trade deal with US

Indian farmers and trade unions staged a day of nationwide strike and protest over...

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An interview with OpenAI president Greg Brockman on donating $50M to AI and pro-Trump super PACs, why such donations serve a larger AI mission, and more (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

An interview with OpenAI president Greg Brockman on donating...

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: An interview with OpenAI president Greg Brockman on donating...

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Anthropic's latest funding round includes part of the $15B commitment from Microsoft and Nvidia in 2025; sources say the remainder was several times subscribed (George Hammond/Financial Times)

Anthropic's latest funding round includes part of the $15B...

George Hammond / Financial Times: Anthropic's latest funding round includes part...

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Cisco stock falls 12%+ as rising memory prices put pressure on the networking company's margins; it is the stock's worst day since 2022 (Lola Murti/CNBC)

Cisco stock falls 12%+ as rising memory prices put pressure...

Lola Murti / CNBC: Cisco stock falls 12%+ as rising memory prices put pressure on...

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US Congress delivers rare rebuke of Trump's tariff policies

US Congress delivers rare rebuke of Trump's tariff policies

In a rare move, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives has approved...

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Europe's defence industry under pressure

Europe's defence industry under pressure

In a changing global landscape, Europe's defence industry is being reshaped and...

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Sources: some OpenAI execs were surprised by WSJ's report that the company was targeting a Q4 2026 IPO; OpenAI hopes to triple its ~$13B 2025 revenue in 2026 (New York Times)

Sources: some OpenAI execs were surprised by WSJ's report...

New York Times: Sources: some OpenAI execs were surprised by WSJ's report that the...

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SoftBank Group reports Q3 net profit of $1.6B after its Vision Fund posted a $2.4B gain, as a jump in the value of its OpenAI investment helped offset losses (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

SoftBank Group reports Q3 net profit of $1.6B after its...

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: SoftBank Group reports Q3 net profit of $1.6B after its Vision...

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Private equity and private credit groups' big bets on SaaS companies, the biggest area of PE activity in the past decade, risk being derailed by the rise of AI (Financial Times)

Private equity and private credit groups' big bets on SaaS...

Financial Times: Private equity and private credit groups' big bets on SaaS companies,...

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Amazon Pharmacy plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, adding nearly new 2,000 communities (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Amazon Pharmacy plans to bring same-day prescription delivery...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Amazon Pharmacy plans to bring same-day prescription delivery...

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Meta launches an AI feature that lets Threads users temporarily personalize their feed by specifying topics in a public post that begins with "Dear Algo" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Meta launches an AI feature that lets Threads users temporarily...

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta launches an AI feature that lets Threads users temporarily...

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Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, expected to be operational at the end of 2027 or in early 2028 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data...

Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data...

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What's behind Trump's threats on the US-Canada Gordie Howe International bridge?

What's behind Trump's threats on the US-Canada Gordie Howe...

US President Donald Trump is threatening to block the opening of a new cross-border...

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Macron visits steel mill as ArcelorMital confirms €1.3 billion low-carbon furnace project

Macron visits steel mill as ArcelorMital confirms €1.3...

French metal giant ArcelorMittal has confirmed it will go ahead with a plan to build...

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NYC-based Garner Health, a platform using data analytics to help workers find healthcare providers, raised a $118M Series D at a $1.35B valuation (Amy Feldman/Forbes)

NYC-based Garner Health, a platform using data analytics...

Amy Feldman / Forbes: NYC-based Garner Health, a platform using data analytics to...

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Sources: ByteDance plans to produce at least 100,000 units of its in-house AI inference chip in 2026, and is in talks with Samsung to manufacture it (Reuters)

Sources: ByteDance plans to produce at least 100,000 units...

Reuters: Sources: ByteDance plans to produce at least 100,000 units of its in-house...

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Docs: London-based AI chip startup Olix, founded by James Dacombe, CEO of brain monitoring startup CoMind, raised $220M led by Hummingbird at a $1B+ valuation (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Docs: London-based AI chip startup Olix, founded by James...

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Docs: London-based AI chip startup Olix, founded...

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Macron visits steel mill as ArcelorMital confirms €1.3 bn low-carbon furnace project

Macron visits steel mill as ArcelorMital confirms €1.3...

French metal giant ArcelorMittal has confirmed it will go ahead with a plan to build...

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Vega, which uses AI to detect security threats directly within cloud services, raised a $120M Series B at a $700M valuation, bringing its total raised to $185M (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Vega, which uses AI to detect security threats directly...

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Vega, which uses AI to detect security threats directly...

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Reco, which makes AI agents that monitor SaaS environments for threats, raised a $30M Series B led by Zeev Ventures, bringing its total funding to $85M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Reco, which makes AI agents that monitor SaaS environments...

Meir Orbach / CTech: Reco, which makes AI agents that monitor SaaS environments...

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Singapore blames Chinese-backed hacking group UNC3886 for a months-long cyber-espionage campaign that targeted its four largest telecommunication companies (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Singapore blames Chinese-backed hacking group UNC3886 for...

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Singapore blames Chinese-backed hacking group UNC3886...

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Landmark trial accusing social media companies of addicting children to their platforms begins

Landmark trial accusing social media companies of addicting...

The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year...

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'It's a chicken or egg question': Expert says digital economy can empower nations

'It's a chicken or egg question': Expert says digital economy...

The digital economy now accounts for 17 percent of global GDP and is worth over...

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US social media companies on trial over accusations they engineered 'addiction' for children

US social media companies on trial over accusations they...

Meta Platforms and YouTube defended themselves in a landmark civil suit in Los Angeles...

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In opening statements in New Mexico's suit against Meta, state prosecutors argue Meta misrepresented the safety of its platforms, as Meta's attorney pushes back (Morgan Lee/Associated Press)

In opening statements in New Mexico's suit against Meta,...

Morgan Lee / Associated Press: In opening statements in New Mexico's suit against...

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OpenAI Responds to Critical Super Bowl Commercials by Putting Ads in ChatGPT (Ece Yildirim/Gizmodo)

OpenAI Responds to Critical Super Bowl Commercials by Putting...

Ece Yildirim / Gizmodo: OpenAI Responds to Critical Super Bowl Commercials by Putting...

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London-based Tem, which uses AI to optimize energy transactions for businesses, raised a $75M Series B led by Lightspeed, a source says at a $300M+ valuation (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)

London-based Tem, which uses AI to optimize energy transactions...

Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: London-based Tem, which uses AI to optimize energy transactions...

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Nikkei index breaks record after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's election victory

Nikkei index breaks record after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's...

The Nikkei 225 index in Tokyo, which tracks the performance of Japan’s largest companies,...

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'It's a chicken or egg question' expert says digital economy can empower nations

'It's a chicken or egg question' expert says digital economy...

The digital economy now accounts for 17% of global GDP, worth over 20 trillion dollars...

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Sources: Apollo nears a $3.4B loan deal to a Valor-led investment vehicle to buy and lease Nvidia chips to xAI; through fall 2025, xAI was burning $1B per month (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

Sources: Apollo nears a $3.4B loan deal to a Valor-led...

Miles Kruppa / The Information: Sources: Apollo nears a $3.4B loan deal to a Valor-led...

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Gather AI, which builds "curious" AI for drones and cameras to autonomously monitor warehouses, raised a $40M Series B, taking its total funding to $74M (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Gather AI, which builds "curious" AI for drones and cameras...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Gather AI, which builds “curious” AI for drones and cameras...

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EU officials and tech executives inaugurate a €2.5B chips research hub in Belgium; ASML and Imec emphasized that the US is dependent on European chip tech (Pieter Haeck/Politico)

EU officials and tech executives inaugurate a €2.5B chips...

Pieter Haeck / Politico: EU officials and tech executives inaugurate a €2.5B chips...

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Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of a glimpse at the...

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: Moltbook was peak AI theater, less...

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As Section 230 turns 30, a look at how upcoming court cases involving Meta, Alphabet, and others in the US could reshape the bounds of Section 230's protections (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

As Section 230 turns 30, a look at how upcoming court cases...

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: As Section 230 turns 30, a look at how upcoming court...

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An interview with Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, who was promoted to president of General Catalyst in January, about investing in European tech and defense startups (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

An interview with Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, who was promoted...

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: An interview with Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, who was promoted...

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Latest Epstein files reveal disgraced financier's Silicon Valley connections

Latest Epstein files reveal disgraced financier's Silicon...

A newly released batch of more than three million documents from the US Department...

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Analysts say a design refresh for the iPhone 17 lineup has reinforced Apple's status-symbol appeal in China, with the "cosmic orange" Pro model going viral (Financial Times)

Analysts say a design refresh for the iPhone 17 lineup...

Financial Times: Analysts say a design refresh for the iPhone 17 lineup has reinforced...

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This year's projected capex ramp-up will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google, and Meta, potentially forcing stock buyback cuts or more borrowing (Martin Peers/The Information)

This year's projected capex ramp-up will all but wipe out...

Martin Peers / The Information: This year's projected capex ramp-up will all but...

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European countries are moving toward social media bans for children, even as doubts persist over implementation and the risk of a new battle with US tech groups (Financial Times)

European countries are moving toward social media bans...

Financial Times: European countries are moving toward social media bans for children,...

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Trump-linked World Liberty Financial's stablecoin, USD1, hit $5B in total circulation in January with 85% held in Binance accounts; Trump pardoned CZ in October (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)

Trump-linked World Liberty Financial's stablecoin, USD1,...

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: Trump-linked World Liberty Financial's stablecoin,...

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DOJ-released emails: Jeffrey Epstein helped Ian Osborne, founder of London-based fund Hedosophia, after Osborne's outreach to help Epstein fix his image in 2011 (Financial Times)

DOJ-released emails: Jeffrey Epstein helped Ian Osborne,...

Financial Times: DOJ-released emails: Jeffrey Epstein helped Ian Osborne, founder...

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After talking with ~40 people at Anthropic, a look at its "Yes, and..." culture where every idea is welcomed and judged based on vibes, like a hive mind (Steve Yegge)

After talking with ~40 people at Anthropic, a look at its...

Steve Yegge: After talking with ~40 people at Anthropic, a look at its “Yes, and...”...

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US data center demand has driven stock surges of contractors and equipment makers like Corning, Sterling Infrastructure, Comfort Systems USA, and Carrier Global (Wall Street Journal)

US data center demand has driven stock surges of contractors...

Wall Street Journal: US data center demand has driven stock surges of contractors...

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Chinese regulators fined Kuaishou $17.2M for failing to curb illegal content; pornographic content appeared on Kuaishou during its December 2025 cyberattacks (Bloomberg)

Chinese regulators fined Kuaishou $17.2M for failing to...

Bloomberg: Chinese regulators fined Kuaishou $17.2M for failing to curb illegal...

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Kalshi and Polymarket have facilitated over $800M in Super Bowl contracts, as pro gamblers shift to prediction markets and adopt Wall Street-style strategies (Bloomberg)

Kalshi and Polymarket have facilitated over $800M in Super...

Bloomberg: Kalshi and Polymarket have facilitated over $800M in Super Bowl contracts,...

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Nvidia stock closes up 7.87% after Jensen Huang said the tech industry's surging capex for AI infrastructure is justified, appropriate, and sustainable (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Nvidia stock closes up 7.87% after Jensen Huang said the...

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Nvidia stock closes up 7.87% after Jensen Huang said the tech...

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Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is raising a $350M+ Series E led by Vista Equity Partners; Intel plans to invest $100M to $150M (Reuters)

Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is raising a $350M+...

Reuters: Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is raising a $350M+ Series E led by...

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Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in English, summarized from third-party sources to highlight song details, in beta for Premium users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in...

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in...

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Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after a WSJ story about Instagram and teen mental health, noting Apple faces less scrutiny (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies...

Lauren Feiner / The Verge: Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies...

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Meituan agrees to buy Dingdong, a Chinese fresh grocery e-commerce company, for $717M in cash; Dingdong had 7M+ monthly transacting users as of September 2025 (Cao Li/South China Morning Post)

Meituan agrees to buy Dingdong, a Chinese fresh grocery...

Cao Li / South China Morning Post: Meituan agrees to buy Dingdong, a Chinese fresh...

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Sources: Intel and AMD have notified Chinese customers of supply shortages for server CPUs, with Intel warning of delivery lead times of up to six months (Reuters)

Sources: Intel and AMD have notified Chinese customers...

Reuters: Sources: Intel and AMD have notified Chinese customers of supply shortages...

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Are we in an AI bubble?

Are we in an AI bubble?

Artificial intelligence is the next frontier – but is it also the next bubble? That's...

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Italy's tourism industry welcomes Olympic visitors

Italy's tourism industry welcomes Olympic visitors

Businesses across Italy could see a windfall of some $6 billion, as spectators head...

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Y Combinator adds Canada back to its accepted countries list, and says it had removed the country because its top Canadian companies reincorporated in the US (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)

Y Combinator adds Canada back to its accepted countries...

Alex Riehl / BetaKit: Y Combinator adds Canada back to its accepted countries list,...

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Tim Cook told Apple staff at an all-hands that he's "deeply distraught" with the US' current approach to immigration and he will press the issue with lawmakers (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Tim Cook told Apple staff at an all-hands that he's "deeply...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Tim Cook told Apple staff at an all-hands that he's “deeply...

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Why this is the worst crypto winter ever: AI crowds out crypto for mindshare and power grid access, crypto is mainstream, gold beats BTC as a safe haven, more (Bloomberg)

Why this is the worst crypto winter ever: AI crowds out...

Bloomberg: Why this is the worst crypto winter ever: AI crowds out crypto for mindshare...

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TSMC announces production of advanced AI chips in Japan

TSMC announces production of advanced AI chips in Japan

Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC, Asia's most valuable company, has announced plans to produce...

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TSMC plans to produce 3nm chips at its second plant in Kumamoto, Japan; sources say that is an upgrade from an original plan to produce 7nm chips by late 2027 (Bloomberg)

TSMC plans to produce 3nm chips at its second plant in...

Bloomberg: TSMC plans to produce 3nm chips at its second plant in Kumamoto, Japan;...

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Cybersecurity company Varonis agrees to acquire AllTrue, which develops specialized tools for AI trust, risk, and security management, for $125M in cash (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)

Cybersecurity company Varonis agrees to acquire AllTrue,...

James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: Cybersecurity company Varonis agrees to acquire...

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Sources: HP, Dell, Acer, and Asus are considering sourcing memory chips from Chinese chipmakers; HP and Dell are currently qualifying DRAM products from CXMT (Nikkei Asia)

Sources: HP, Dell, Acer, and Asus are considering sourcing...

Nikkei Asia: Sources: HP, Dell, Acer, and Asus are considering sourcing memory chips...

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US calls for critical minerals trading bloc

US calls for critical minerals trading bloc

The Trump administration has put aside its tariff threats, and is calling for a...

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EnFi, which makes AI agents that analyze and make decisions on credit applications, raised a $15M Series A led by Fintop, bringing its total funding to $22.5M (Tatiana Bautzer/Reuters)

EnFi, which makes AI agents that analyze and make decisions...

Tatiana Bautzer / Reuters: EnFi, which makes AI agents that analyze and make decisions...

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Roblox launches a 4D creation feature in open beta, allowing creators to generate interactive objects with individual moving parts rather than static 3D models (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Roblox launches a 4D creation feature in open beta, allowing...

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Roblox launches a 4D creation feature in open beta,...

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Microsoft says cybersecurity head Charlie Bell will move into a position focused on engineering quality; Hayete Gallot will return from Google to run security (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Microsoft says cybersecurity head Charlie Bell will move...

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft says cybersecurity head Charlie Bell will move into...

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India says trade deal with US 'best in the region', but keeps mum on Russian oil

India says trade deal with US 'best in the region', but...

Following a social media announcement by Donald Trump about a trade deal, Indian...

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US partial government shutdown ends, but DHS funding fight looms

US partial government shutdown ends, but DHS funding fight...

A deal between Senate Democrats and President Donald Trump has ended a short-lived...

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Digital sovereignty: 'An opportunity to have technology serve society'

Digital sovereignty: 'An opportunity to have technology...

Speaking with FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney, Martin Hullin, Director of the Network...

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Recon: the US market share of Copilot as paid users' first choice fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% in January 2026, while Gemini's rose from 12.8% to 15.7% (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)

Recon: the US market share of Copilot as paid users' first...

Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: Recon: the US market share of Copilot as...

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Sources: US Commerce Dept. has finished review of Nvidia's license to sell China H200s, but the State Dept. seeks tighter restrictions, delaying final approval (Financial Times)

Sources: US Commerce Dept. has finished review of Nvidia's...

Financial Times: Sources: US Commerce Dept. has finished review of Nvidia's license...

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Sources: Tokyo-based chipmaker Renesas agrees to sell its clocks and timing device business to Nasdaq-listed chip design company SiTime for ~$3B (Nikkei Asia)

Sources: Tokyo-based chipmaker Renesas agrees to sell its...

Nikkei Asia: Sources: Tokyo-based chipmaker Renesas agrees to sell its clocks and...

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France adopts delayed 2026 budget, ending months of parliamentary deadlock

France adopts delayed 2026 budget, ending months of parliamentary...

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has survived the last of a series of no-confidence...

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India says trade deal with US 'best in the region' but keeps mum on Russian oil

India says trade deal with US 'best in the region' but...

Following a social media announcement by Donald Trump about a trade deal, Indian...

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Musk's SpaceX acquires xAI in largest M&A deal ever

Musk's SpaceX acquires xAI in largest M&A deal ever

Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX has acquired his artificial intelligence startup...

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Signing on to Off February: A global movement to digitally disconnect for 28 days

Signing on to Off February: A global movement to digitally...

Families everywhere are grappling with how best to manage digital devices and screen...

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Sources: HP CEO Enrique Lores leaving to become PayPal CEO blindsided HP, whose board rushed to launch a CEO search process; Lores had worked for HP since 1989 (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)

Sources: HP CEO Enrique Lores leaving to become PayPal...

Rohan Goswami / Semafor: Sources: HP CEO Enrique Lores leaving to become PayPal...

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Orion, which has developed an AI platform to replace data loss prevention tools, raised a $32M Series A led by Norwest, bringing its total funding to $38M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

Orion, which has developed an AI platform to replace data...

Meir Orbach / CTech: Orion, which has developed an AI platform to replace data loss...

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Epic reports third-party game revenue on the Epic Games Store up 57% YoY in 2025 to $400M, total spend up 6% to $1.16B, and total player hours down 14% to 6.65B (Jon Hicks/GamesIndustry.biz)

Epic reports third-party game revenue on the Epic Games...

Jon Hicks / GamesIndustry.biz: Epic reports third-party game revenue on the Epic...

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Leaked email: as part of the xAI-SpaceX deal, xAI shares will be converted into 0.1433 shares of SpaceX stock, and employees will have the option to cash out (Wall Street Journal)

Leaked email: as part of the xAI-SpaceX deal, xAI shares...

Wall Street Journal: Leaked email: as part of the xAI-SpaceX deal, xAI shares will...

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In a memo to employees, xAI said both companies will maintain their separate branding and the joint venture is continuing to prepare for a possible IPO in 2026 (Grace Kay/Business Insider)

In a memo to employees, xAI said both companies will maintain...

Grace Kay / Business Insider: In a memo to employees, xAI said both companies will...

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If assumptions hold, SpaceX-xAI could own a full stack of capabilities, from launch to orbital bandwidth to frontier AI models, and offer AI on demand anywhere (Eric Berger/Ars Technica)

If assumptions hold, SpaceX-xAI could own a full stack...

Eric Berger / Ars Technica: If assumptions hold, SpaceX-xAI could own a full stack...

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Gold, silver continue to fall as record rally runs out of road

Gold, silver continue to fall as record rally runs out...

Precious metals continued to lose ground this Monday following steep declines last...

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France adopts delayed 2026 budget ending months of parliamentary deadlock

France adopts delayed 2026 budget ending months of parliamentary...

French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu has survived the last of a series of no-confidence...

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xAI rolls out Grok Imagine 1.0, which it says can generate 720p 10-second videos with better audio, and says Imagine generated 1.245B videos in the past 30 days (@xai)

xAI rolls out Grok Imagine 1.0, which it says can generate...

@xai: xAI rolls out Grok Imagine 1.0, which it says can generate 720p 10-second...

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How Kontigo, a crypto startup from YC S24 that raised $20M+, helped move money in and out of Venezuela and now faces cutoffs from banks and payment networks (Ben Foldy/Wall Street Journal)

How Kontigo, a crypto startup from YC S24 that raised $20M+,...

Ben Foldy / Wall Street Journal: How Kontigo, a crypto startup from YC S24 that...

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Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a porn generator; sources say xAI's AI safety team was just two or three people for most of 2025 (Washington Post)

Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok...

Washington Post: Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a...

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Survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production vs. 44% for Anthropic, but Anthropic's gains are impressive (a16z)

Survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78%...

a16z: Survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI...

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SpaceX and Tesla are feeling the gravitational pull toward xAI, as Elon Musk looks to use his empire to fund xAI's ravenous appetite for cash and compute (Bloomberg)

SpaceX and Tesla are feeling the gravitational pull toward...

Bloomberg: SpaceX and Tesla are feeling the gravitational pull toward xAI, as Elon...

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Oracle says it plans to raise $45B to $50B in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure through a combination of debt and equity sales (Vincent Lee/Bloomberg)

Oracle says it plans to raise $45B to $50B in 2026 to build...

Vincent Lee / Bloomberg: Oracle says it plans to raise $45B to $50B in 2026 to build...

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China accused of erasing Mongolian language and culture online, new study finds

China accused of erasing Mongolian language and culture...

When the Mongolian language started to disappear from classrooms in the Inner Mongolia...

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Anthropic positions itself as the AI sector's superego, but it's caught between the pressures to be safe, fast, and rigorous while being commercially successful (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic)

Anthropic positions itself as the AI sector's superego,...

Matteo Wong / The Atlantic: Anthropic positions itself as the AI sector's superego,...

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A look at China's "genius class" system that selects ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni include many top tech founders (Financial Times)

A look at China's "genius class" system that selects ~100K...

Financial Times: A look at China's “genius class” system that selects ~100K gifted...

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Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more (Nicole Fan/Rest of World)

Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese...

Nicole Fan / Rest of World: Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese...

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Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past week, and down ~37% since its ATH in Oct. 2025; Ethereum dropped ~18% in the past week (Bloomberg)

Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over...

Bloomberg: Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past...

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Sources: Waymo nears a $16B round, valuing it at $110B; Alphabet will contribute $12B+, with a16z, Dragoneer, Mubadala, Sequoia, and DST Global participating (Financial Times)

Sources: Waymo nears a $16B round, valuing it at $110B;...

Financial Times: Sources: Waymo nears a $16B round, valuing it at $110B; Alphabet...

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An interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering, Andrew Bell, on continuing to provide Shield Android TV software updates a decade after its launch (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)

An interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering,...

Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: An interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering,...

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Global Net: three Chinese firms ranked among the world's top 20 chipmaking equipment manufacturers in 2025, up from one in 2022, with Naura Tech rising to fifth (Fumie Yaku/Nikkei Asia)

Global Net: three Chinese firms ranked among the world's...

Fumie Yaku / Nikkei Asia: Global Net: three Chinese firms ranked among the world's...

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Ant Group reports 30M MAUs for its AI health chatbot Ant Afu, which integrates appointments, test analysis, and insurance payments within Alipay's ecosystem (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)

Ant Group reports 30M MAUs for its AI health chatbot Ant...

Viola Zhou / Rest of World: Ant Group reports 30M MAUs for its AI health chatbot...

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Q&A with Gokul Rajaram, investor and a former product leader at Google, Meta, and others, on AI changing product development, building ad businesses, and more (Patrick O'Shaughnessy/Invest Like The Best on YouTube)

Q&A with Gokul Rajaram, investor and a former product leader...

Patrick O'Shaughnessy / Invest Like The Best on YouTube: Q&A with Gokul Rajaram,...

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Sources: Apple lost at least four more AI researchers in recent weeks, two of whom went to Meta and one to DeepMind; a top Siri executive left for DeepMind (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple lost at least four more AI researchers in...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple lost at least four more AI researchers in...

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Anthropic details how NASA engineers used Claude to plot out the route for Perseverance rover to navigate a ~400 meter path on the Martian surface (Anthropic)

Anthropic details how NASA engineers used Claude to plot...

Anthropic: Anthropic details how NASA engineers used Claude to plot out the route...

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Sources: OnlyFans is in talks to sell a nearly 60% stake to Architect Capital in a deal that values the company at around $5.5B, including debt (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: OnlyFans is in talks to sell a nearly 60% stake...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: OnlyFans is in talks to sell a nearly 60% stake to...

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Filing: Chinese AI chipmaker Axera, which focuses on AI inference SoCs for on-device and edge computing, aims to raise up to ~$379.2M in a Hong Kong IPO (Reuters)

Filing: Chinese AI chipmaker Axera, which focuses on AI...

Reuters: Filing: Chinese AI chipmaker Axera, which focuses on AI inference SoCs...

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Google's experience in India has become a proving ground to scale AI in education, as the country accounts for the highest global usage of Gemini for learning (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Google's experience in India has become a proving ground...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Google's experience in India has become a proving ground...

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The US government finalized forfeiture of $400M+ tied to Helix crypto mixer last week; Helix operator Larry Dean Harmon was sentenced to three years in 2024 (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)

The US government finalized forfeiture of $400M+ tied to...

Vince Dioquino / Decrypt: The US government finalized forfeiture of $400M+ tied...

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Undersea cables, a new strategic battleground

Undersea cables, a new strategic battleground

Nearly 1.5 million kilometres of submarine cables criss-cross the globe. The infrastructure...

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Social media app UpScrolled hits #1 on Apple's US app store following allegations that TikTok suppresses anti-ICE videos; its founder says it crossed 1M users (Conor Murray/Forbes)

Social media app UpScrolled hits #1 on Apple's US app store...

Conor Murray / Forbes: Social media app UpScrolled hits #1 on Apple's US app store...

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Appfigures: Sora's app downloads dropped 32% month-over-month in December and 45% in January to 1.2M; consumer spending on the app fell 32% MoM as of January (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Appfigures: Sora's app downloads dropped 32% month-over-month...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Appfigures: Sora's app downloads dropped 32% month-over-month...

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Source: SpaceX and xAI are in talks to merge ahead of a planned IPO this year; under the proposed deal, shares of xAI would be exchanged for shares in SpaceX (Reuters)

Source: SpaceX and xAI are in talks to merge ahead of a...

Reuters: Source: SpaceX and xAI are in talks to merge ahead of a planned IPO this...

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Federal Reserve defies Trump to hold interest rates steady

Federal Reserve defies Trump to hold interest rates steady

The US Federal Reserve has defied pressure from President Donald Trump by holding...

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Meta & Microsoft earnings reports underline huge AI spending, raise profitability questions

Meta & Microsoft earnings reports underline huge AI spending,...

Both Meta Platforms and Microsoft shared their latest quarterly results on Wednesday...

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US-based AI startup Arcee releases Trinity Large, a 400B-parameter open-weight model that it says compares to Meta's Llama 4 Maverick 400B on some benchmarks (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

US-based AI startup Arcee releases Trinity Large, a 400B-parameter...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: US-based AI startup Arcee releases Trinity Large, a 400B-parameter...

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Job listings show that DeepSeek hopes to broaden its AI offerings with a search engine capable of supporting multiple languages and more emphasis on agents (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Job listings show that DeepSeek hopes to broaden its AI...

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Job listings show that DeepSeek hopes to broaden its AI...

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Letter: Rep. John Moolenaar, chair of the US House Select Committee on China, says Nvidia helped DeepSeek hone AI models later used by the Chinese military (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

Letter: Rep. John Moolenaar, chair of the US House Select...

Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Letter: Rep. John Moolenaar, chair of the US House Select...

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German police search Deutsche Bank offices in money-laundering probe

German police search Deutsche Bank offices in money-laundering...

German police searched Deutsche Bank's Frankfurt headquarters and its Berlin office...

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Fed defies Trump to hold interest rates steady

Fed defies Trump to hold interest rates steady

The US Federal Reserve has defied pressure from President Donald Trump, by holding...

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Adaptive6, which treats cloud cost inefficiencies as security vulnerabilities to help companies cut bills, raised a $28M Series A, for $44M in total funding (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Adaptive6, which treats cloud cost inefficiencies as security...

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Adaptive6, which treats cloud cost inefficiencies...

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Slice, which uses AI agents to encode tax policies and legal rules across 60+ countries, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight, taking its total funding to $32M (Mary Ann Azevedo/This Week in Fintech)

Slice, which uses AI agents to encode tax policies and...

Mary Ann Azevedo / This Week in Fintech: Slice, which uses AI agents to encode tax...

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Google DeepMind researchers unveil AlphaGenome, an AI model trained on molecular data to predict 11 different genomic processes, such as gene splicing (Carl Zimmer/New York Times)

Google DeepMind researchers unveil AlphaGenome, an AI model...

Carl Zimmer / New York Times: Google DeepMind researchers unveil AlphaGenome, an...

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Sensitive agricultural products excluded from EU-India trade deal

Sensitive agricultural products excluded from EU-India...

The EU and India have hailed their new free trade agreement as "the mother of all...

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US dollar extends fall after Trump dismisses concerns over weaker currency

US dollar extends fall after Trump dismisses concerns over...

The US dollar weakened to its lowest level in four years on Tuesday after President...

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Internal documents from 2025: Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28B liters by 2030, up from 7.9B liters in 2020 and 10.4B liters in 2024 (New York Times)

Internal documents from 2025: Microsoft expects its annual...

New York Times: Internal documents from 2025: Microsoft expects its annual water...

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Amazon appears to mistakenly alert some AWS employees about planned layoffs in an email invite to a Wednesday "Project Dawn" meeting about company efficiency (Business Insider)

Amazon appears to mistakenly alert some AWS employees about...

Business Insider: Amazon appears to mistakenly alert some AWS employees about planned...

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Memo: Tim Cook told employees that he is "heartbroken by the events in Minneapolis" and calls for a "deescalation" (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Memo: Tim Cook told employees that he is "heartbroken by...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Memo: Tim Cook told employees that he is “heartbroken by...

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What's in the India-EU trade deal?

What's in the India-EU trade deal?

After the presidents of the EU Commission and EU Council signed a free trade deal...

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Sensitive agricultural products excluded from EU - India trade deal

Sensitive agricultural products excluded from EU - India...

The EU and India have hailed their new free trade agreement as "the mother of all...

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Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to scale its physical AI platform into manufacturing plants worldwide, taking its total raised to ~$216M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)

Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to scale...

Madison McLauchlan / BetaKit: Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to...

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Abu Dhabi's top tech university MBZUAI launches K2 Think, a new model it says is capable of advanced reasoning, as part of the UAE's push into "sovereign" AI (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Abu Dhabi's top tech university MBZUAI launches K2 Think,...

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: Abu Dhabi's top tech university MBZUAI launches...

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Amazon agrees to pay a $309M settlement and return $600M to users in a US class action lawsuit over allegedly incorrectly denied refunds since September 2017 (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Amazon agrees to pay a $309M settlement and return $600M...

Mike Scarcella / Reuters: Amazon agrees to pay a $309M settlement and return $600M...

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EU, India to sign major trade deal

EU, India to sign major trade deal

India has rolled out the red carpet, hosting top EU leaders as guests of honour...

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Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments on an ICE shooting; Rabois said the man killed by agents was committing a "felony" (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith...

Julie Bort / TechCrunch: Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith...

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YC updated its website to remove Canada from its list of approved jurisdictions for incorporation, leaving the US, Cayman Islands, and Singapore as options (Murad Hemmadi/The Logic)

YC updated its website to remove Canada from its list of...

Murad Hemmadi / The Logic: YC updated its website to remove Canada from its list...

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The US Army signs a $5.6B, 10-year contract with Salesforce to speed up outdated practices; as part of the deal, military recruiters will get access to Slack (Wall Street Journal)

The US Army signs a $5.6B, 10-year contract with Salesforce...

Wall Street Journal: The US Army signs a $5.6B, 10-year contract with Salesforce...

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France set to fast-track under-15s social media ban

France set to fast-track under-15s social media ban

French President Emmanuel Macron wants to fast-track legislation to ban social media...

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Gold surges to new highs as investors seek 'safe haven' amid global uncertainty

Gold surges to new highs as investors seek 'safe haven'...

The price of an ounce of gold surged past $5,100 on Monday as investors flock to...

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OpenAI says nearly 1.3M weekly users are discussing "advanced topics in hard science" in January, with an average of 8.4M ChatGPT messages on those topics (Ashley Gold/Axios)

OpenAI says nearly 1.3M weekly users are discussing "advanced...

Ashley Gold / Axios: OpenAI says nearly 1.3M weekly users are discussing “advanced...

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Interviews with 100+ therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings (New York Times)

Interviews with 100+ therapists and psychiatrists on clients'...

New York Times: Interviews with 100+ therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI...

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Sources: NY-based Tandem, which uses AI to automate the paperwork for writing and receiving medical prescriptions, raised a $100M Series B at a $1B valuation (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Sources: NY-based Tandem, which uses AI to automate the...

Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Sources: NY-based Tandem, which uses AI to automate...

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Power prices surge in Virginia, home to the world's largest data center hub; record demand is expected during the winter storm, partly due to data center needs (Tim McLaughlin/Reuters)

Power prices surge in Virginia, home to the world's largest...

Tim McLaughlin / Reuters: Power prices surge in Virginia, home to the world's largest...

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A profile of Mercor, which pays about $2M daily to ~30K experts training AI models at $95/hour on average, with roles like radiologists earning up to $375/hour (Bethan Staton/Financial Times)

A profile of Mercor, which pays about $2M daily to ~30K...

Bethan Staton / Financial Times: A profile of Mercor, which pays about $2M daily...

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Many AI founders now find it necessary to raise at valuations requiring absolute domination of the field; Brex, once valued at $12B, shows the downsides of this (Jason Lemkin/SaaStr)

Many AI founders now find it necessary to raise at valuations...

Jason Lemkin / SaaStr: Many AI founders now find it necessary to raise at valuations...

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France set to fast track under-15s social media ban

France set to fast track under-15s social media ban

French President Emmanuel Macron wants to fast-track legislation to ban social media...

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Analysis: scientists who appeared to use LLMs posted 33% more papers on arXiv than those who didn't, as concerns grow over AI slop in scientific publishing (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)

Analysis: scientists who appeared to use LLMs posted 33%...

Ross Andersen / The Atlantic: Analysis: scientists who appeared to use LLMs posted...

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HSBC: JioHotstar had 300M paying subscribers in India in 2025, compared with 65M for Amazon Prime Video and 20M for Netflix; ~24% of OTT users pay for content (Manish Singh/India Dispatch)

HSBC: JioHotstar had 300M paying subscribers in India in...

Manish Singh / India Dispatch: HSBC: JioHotstar had 300M paying subscribers in India...

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Domain Name Stat: the number of .ai domains has surpassed 1M; data suggests Anguilla, the UK territory managing the domain, made ~$70M in fees in the past year (Sherwood News)

Domain Name Stat: the number of .ai domains has surpassed...

Sherwood News: Domain Name Stat: the number of .ai domains has surpassed 1M; data...

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Sources: the EU's executive arm is drafting new legislation aimed at promoting tech sovereignty and openly discussing the security risks posed by US tech (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: the EU's executive arm is drafting new legislation...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: the EU's executive arm is drafting new legislation...

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Microsoft confirms it does provide BitLocker recovery keys for encrypted data if it receives a valid legal order and the user has stored the keys on its servers (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

Microsoft confirms it does provide BitLocker recovery keys...

Thomas Brewster / Forbes: Microsoft confirms it does provide BitLocker recovery...

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Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in sales by mid-2021, enters withdrawal-only mode and plans to shut down on Feb. 23, 2026 (CoinDesk)

Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated...

CoinDesk: Nifty Gateway, the NFT trading platform which had facilitated $300M in...

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Sources: the Trump administration dismissed two Commerce Department officials, who focused on Chinese tech threats, raising concerns about a softening stance (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: the Trump administration dismissed two Commerce...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: the Trump administration dismissed two Commerce Department...

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OpenAI and longtime US government contractor Leidos announce a partnership to roll out generative and agentic AI tools for specific missions at federal agencies (Miranda Nazzaro/FedScoop)

OpenAI and longtime US government contractor Leidos announce...

Miranda Nazzaro / FedScoop: OpenAI and longtime US government contractor Leidos...

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A look at Kalshi and Polymarket's rise; reports say Polymarket had 491K monthly active traders in December 2025, and <0.04% of addresses took 70% of profits (Benjamin Wallace/New York Times)

A look at Kalshi and Polymarket's rise; reports say Polymarket...

Benjamin Wallace / New York Times: A look at Kalshi and Polymarket's rise; reports...

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Meta says it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps as it develops a special version of an AI character for teens (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Meta says it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Meta says it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters...

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Source: smart ring maker Oura plans a tender offer for early investors at a 25% discount to its $11B valuation from Series E, aiming to stay private longer (Bloomberg)

Source: smart ring maker Oura plans a tender offer for...

Bloomberg: Source: smart ring maker Oura plans a tender offer for early investors...

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Source: Binance considers reintroducing stock tokens after removing them in 2021; OKX, Kraken, Bitget, and others are expanding their tokenized stock offerings (Yueqi Yang/The Information)

Source: Binance considers reintroducing stock tokens after...

Yueqi Yang / The Information: Source: Binance considers reintroducing stock tokens...

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Sources: Fei-Fei Li's World Labs is in discussions with investors to raise hundreds of millions at a valuation of $5B; World Labs was last valued at $1B in 2024 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Fei-Fei Li's World Labs is in discussions with...

Bloomberg: Sources: Fei-Fei Li's World Labs is in discussions with investors to...

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Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters expects Netflix to win WBD, says Paramount's bid "doesn't pass the sniff test" and a "very small" number of WBD holders backed it (Financial Times)

Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters expects Netflix to win WBD,...

Financial Times: Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters expects Netflix to win WBD, says Paramount's...

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Sources: China's review of Meta's Manus deal was spurred by what officials called "selling young crops", a concern over cross-border transfer of emerging tech (Financial Times)

Sources: China's review of Meta's Manus deal was spurred...

Financial Times: Sources: China's review of Meta's Manus deal was spurred by what...

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Trump takes spotlight at 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos

Trump takes spotlight at 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos

After a week of twists and turns, US President Donald Trump delivered a highly anticipated speech...

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Mistral's CEO says claims that Chinese AI startups lag behind the US are a "fairy tale," and China's open-source tech is "probably stressing" US CEOs (Bloomberg)

Mistral's CEO says claims that Chinese AI startups lag...

Bloomberg: Mistral's CEO says claims that Chinese AI startups lag behind the US...

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Inferact, founded by the creators of vLLM to create a commercial AI product for cross-hardware efficiency, raised a $150M seed led by a16z at an $800M valuation (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Inferact, founded by the creators of vLLM to create a commercial...

Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg: Inferact, founded by the creators of vLLM to create a commercial...

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Railway, a cloud platform for software deployment, raised a $100M Series B led by TQ Ventures, bringing its total funding to $130M+, says it has ARR of $10M+ (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Railway, a cloud platform for software deployment, raised...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Railway, a cloud platform for software deployment, raised...

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Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)

Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority...

Myles Miller / Bloomberg: Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority...

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xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has "left" the company days after appearing on a podcast last week where he claimed that xAI had been skirting regulations (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)

xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has "left" the company...

AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has “left” the company...

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BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the marketed range of $15 to $17 per share, giving it a market value of about $2.1B (Bloomberg)

BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above...

Bloomberg: BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the marketed...

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Trump cancels threatened tariffs after reaching 'framework of deal' on Greenland

Trump cancels threatened tariffs after reaching 'framework...

Just hours after he doubled down on his claim that the US should "get Greenland",...

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Sources: Elon Musk is pushing for a SpaceX IPO by July, seems eager to beat OpenAI and Anthropic to market, and views it as a way to help xAI catch its rivals (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Elon Musk is pushing for a SpaceX IPO by July,...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Elon Musk is pushing for a SpaceX IPO by July, seems...

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Upscale AI, which is building AI networking infrastructure, raised $200M led by Tiger, Premji Invest, and Xora Innovation at a $1B valuation to take on Cisco (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Upscale AI, which is building AI networking infrastructure,...

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Upscale AI, which is building AI networking infrastructure,...

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Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including presentation generation, file editing, and creating podcast summaries from docs stored in Adobe Spaces (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including...

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France's Macron calls on EU to be ready to activate its 'trade bazooka'

France's Macron calls on EU to be ready to activate its...

French president Emmanuel Macron spoke out against Donald Trump's latest tariff...

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LinkedIn data shows sluggish overall hiring but a surge in AI-related jobs

LinkedIn data shows sluggish overall hiring but a surge...

A new report by professional social media platform LinkedIn shows that while jobseekers...

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The EC introduces draft revisions to the EU's Cybersecurity Act to phase out equipment from high-risk suppliers in critical sectors, a move criticized by Huawei (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

The EC introduces draft revisions to the EU's Cybersecurity...

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The EC introduces draft revisions to the EU's Cybersecurity...

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Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise funding at a $1.3B valuation, up from $500M in October (The Information)

Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize...

The Information: Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models...

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G42 CEO Peng Xiao says AI chip shipments from Nvidia, AMD, and Cerebras are set to arrive in the UAE within the next few months, as the UAE builds a 200MW hub (Bloomberg)

G42 CEO Peng Xiao says AI chip shipments from Nvidia, AMD,...

Bloomberg: G42 CEO Peng Xiao says AI chip shipments from Nvidia, AMD, and Cerebras...

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One year since Trump's return to the White House: The US's two-track economy

One year since Trump's return to the White House: The US's...

It's been one year since Donald Trump started his second term as US president, and...

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French PM to push 2026 budget through parliament without vote

French PM to push 2026 budget through parliament without...

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced he will invoke Article 49.3...

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Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50%+ of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025 (Zach Vallese/CNBC)

Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50%+ of all Instagram...

Zach Vallese / CNBC: Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50%+ of all Instagram ads...

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Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff to build collaborative AI, raised a $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others at a $4.48B valuation (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff...

Cade Metz / New York Times: Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff...

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is a blunder with "incredible national security implications", calling it a "big mistake" and "crazy" (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China...

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips...

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French prime minister to push 2026 budget through parliament without vote

French prime minister to push 2026 budget through parliament...

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has announced he will invoke Article 49.3...

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Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch has revived fears about disruption that weighed on SaaS stocks in 2025; Morgan Stanley SaaS index is down 15% so far in 2026 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)

Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch has revived fears about...

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch has revived fears...

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Q&A with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan on the use of AI in game development, the gaming community's pushback against AI, partnering with Grok, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan on the use of AI in game...

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan on the use of AI in game...

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The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling (Kiran Stacey/The Guardian)

The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s...

Kiran Stacey / The Guardian: The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s...

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Iran internet shutdown: Activists warn of 'permanent' blackout

Iran internet shutdown: Activists warn of 'permanent' blackout

Iran is 10 days into an internet blackout, which rights groups say is intended to...

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Davos to open under threat of trade chaos as Trump floats new Europe tariffs

Davos to open under threat of trade chaos as Trump floats...

US President Donald Trump's latest threat of tariffs on eight European nations if...

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Chinese media: phone makers Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Transsion trimmed their 2026 shipment targets, with Oppo cutting up to 20%, due to the memory chip shortage (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Chinese media: phone makers Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Transsion...

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Chinese media: phone makers Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and...

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Sources: political appointees at the US CISA blocked Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala's attempt to oust the agency's Chief Information Officer Robert Costello (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

Sources: political appointees at the US CISA blocked Acting...

John Sakellariadis / Politico: Sources: political appointees at the US CISA blocked...

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Chinese smartphone shipments fell 1.6% YoY in Q4 2025 and 0.6% YoY for 2025 due to weak demand, rising prices, and memory shortages; iPhone shipments rose 28% (Counterpoint Research)

Chinese smartphone shipments fell 1.6% YoY in Q4 2025 and...

Counterpoint Research: Chinese smartphone shipments fell 1.6% YoY in Q4 2025 and...

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Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android...

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CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 "liquidation cascade" (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched...

Helene Braun / CoinDesk: CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched...

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Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York City, where integrating AI into retail businesses was the overarching theme on the expo floor (New York Times)

Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in...

New York Times: Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York...

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Iran internet shutdown: activists warn of 'permanent' blackout

Iran internet shutdown: activists warn of 'permanent' blackout

Iran is 10 days into an internet blackout, which rights groups say is intended to...

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Atlantic Council: China-led cross-border digital currency platform mBridge, still a prototype, has processed 4,000+ cross-border transactions totaling $55.5B (Marc Jones/Reuters)

Atlantic Council: China-led cross-border digital currency...

Marc Jones / Reuters: Atlantic Council: China-led cross-border digital currency...

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OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage...

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces...

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A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about Google DeepMind and its CEO Demis Hassabis, garnering 285M+ views on YouTube since November 2025 (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary...

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary...

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Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a fabrication site in Taiwan from Powerchip for $1.8B to expand DRAM memory chip production, expected to close in Q2 2026 (Valentine Baldassari/Bloomberg)

Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a fabrication site...

Valentine Baldassari / Bloomberg: Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a fabrication...

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ZachXBT: a crypto user lost $282M+ in BTC and LTC in a hardware wallet social engineering scam; XMR jumped as the attacker began converting the funds to Monero (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

ZachXBT: a crypto user lost $282M+ in BTC and LTC in a...

Daniel Kuhn / The Block: ZachXBT: a crypto user lost $282M+ in BTC and LTC in a...

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Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)

Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T...

Maria Sherman / Associated Press: Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry...

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Luxembourg-based Hydrosat, which builds AI-based thermal infrared satellite tech to provide data for water resource management and more, raised a $60M Series B (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)

Luxembourg-based Hydrosat, which builds AI-based thermal...

Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media: Luxembourg-based Hydrosat, which builds AI-based...

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Sources: the EU's cybersecurity proposal, to be presented on Jan. 20, is expected to phase out vendors such as Huawei from the bloc's critical infrastructure (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

Sources: the EU's cybersecurity proposal, to be presented...

Barbara Moens / Financial Times: Sources: the EU's cybersecurity proposal, to be...

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Adobe's stock has slumped more than 45% since the end of 2023, reflecting analyst concerns over the threat of AI-driven disruption to SaaS companies (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)

Adobe's stock has slumped more than 45% since the end of...

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Adobe's stock has slumped more than 45% since the end...

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Analysis: Colossus 2, one of the world's largest AI datacenters, will use as much water/year as 2.5 average In-N-Outs, assuming only drinkable water and burgers (SemiAnalysis)

Analysis: Colossus 2, one of the world's largest AI datacenters,...

SemiAnalysis: Analysis: Colossus 2, one of the world's largest AI datacenters, will...

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Istanbul-based TaleMonster Games, the studio behind the puzzle game Match Valley, raised a $30M Series A led by Arcadia Gaming Partners and a16z (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Istanbul-based TaleMonster Games, the studio behind the...

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Istanbul-based TaleMonster Games, the studio behind...

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Vietnam's military-run telecom company Viettel begins construction of the country's first chip plant, with trial production expected to start by late 2027 (Phuong Nguyen/Reuters)

Vietnam's military-run telecom company Viettel begins construction...

Phuong Nguyen / Reuters: Vietnam's military-run telecom company Viettel begins construction...

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France's Macron calls for €36 billion increase in defence budget by 2030

France's Macron calls for €36 billion increase in defence...

In his New Year's address to the armed forces, French President Emmanuel Macron...

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Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers,...

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers,...

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California regulators unanimously voted in favor of Verizon's $10B Frontier acquisition; deliberations included Verizon committing to CA's DEI requirements (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)

California regulators unanimously voted in favor of Verizon's...

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net: California regulators unanimously voted in favor of...

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SiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastructure with its RISC-V processor IP platforms, allowing SiFive silicon to communicate with Nvidia GPUs (Marco Chiappetta/Forbes)

SiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastructure...

Marco Chiappetta / Forbes: SiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastructure...

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Is the EU-Mercosur trade agreement more than a 'cows for cars' deal?

Is the EU-Mercosur trade agreement more than a 'cows for...

A qualified majority of EU countries have finally approved the EU-Mercosur trade...

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Macron calls for €36 billion increase in defence budget by 2030

Macron calls for €36 billion increase in defence budget...

In his New Year address to the armed forces, French President Emmanuel Macron unveiled...

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Boston-based Tulip, which offers an AI-powered frontline operations platform used by 60K workers, raised a $120M Series D led by Mitsubishi at a $1.3B valuation (Gil Press/Forbes)

Boston-based Tulip, which offers an AI-powered frontline...

Gil Press / Forbes: Boston-based Tulip, which offers an AI-powered frontline operations...

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AI video startup Higgsfield raised an $80M Series A extension from Accel and others at a $1.3B+ valuation, and reports a $200M annualized revenue run rate (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

AI video startup Higgsfield raised an $80M Series A extension...

Krystal Hu / Reuters: AI video startup Higgsfield raised an $80M Series A extension...

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Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs raised $252M from OpenAI, Bain Capital, and others (Ike Swetlitz/Bloomberg)

Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs...

Ike Swetlitz / Bloomberg: Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs...

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Musk's xAI limits Grok's capacity to generate sexualised images

Musk's xAI limits Grok's capacity to generate sexualised...

Elon Musk's xAI says its Grok AI chatbot will be restricted from generating sexualised...

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Some museum entrance fees go up for non-EU tourists in France

Some museum entrance fees go up for non-EU tourists in...

Tourists visiting France from outside the European Union now have to pay significantly...

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Fidji Simo says Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz are returning to OpenAI from Thinking Machines and the move "has been in the works for several weeks" (Fidji Simo/@fidjissimo)

Fidji Simo says Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz...

Fidji Simo / @fidjissimo: Fidji Simo says Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz...

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Thinking Machines parts ways with CTO Barret Zoph, with Soumith Chintala taking over the role; sources say the termination is due to "unethical conduct" (Kylie Robison/@kyliebytes)

Thinking Machines parts ways with CTO Barret Zoph, with...

Kylie Robison / @kyliebytes: Thinking Machines parts ways with CTO Barret Zoph,...

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Project Eleven, which builds tools to prepare blockchains for post-quantum threats, raised a $20M Series A led by Castle Island at a $120M post-money valuation (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

Project Eleven, which builds tools to prepare blockchains...

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Project Eleven, which builds tools to prepare blockchains...

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Trump praises 'low' inflation data, doubles down on rate cut demands

Trump praises 'low' inflation data, doubles down on rate...

US President Donald Trump says inflation in the country is low enough for Fed chair...

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China sees record $1.19 trillion trade surplus in 2025 in spite of US tariffs

China sees record $1.19 trillion trade surplus in 2025...

China's customs administration unveiled its latest trade data this Wednesday and...

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Sources: Chinese chip designer Montage, a Shanghai-listed company valued at $22B, plans a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $900M+, backed by Alibaba and JPMorgan (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)

Sources: Chinese chip designer Montage, a Shanghai-listed...

Dave Sebastian / Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese chip designer Montage, a Shanghai-listed...

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Alpaca, which builds software to let companies offer stocks, ETFs, and other financial instruments, raised a $150M Series D led by Drive at a $1.15B valuation (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Alpaca, which builds software to let companies offer stocks,...

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Alpaca, which builds software to let companies offer stocks,...

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Sources: McKinsey pilots an overhaul in how it recruits its next generation, asking candidates to use its AI tool Lilli to analyze a case study during a test (Financial Times)

Sources: McKinsey pilots an overhaul in how it recruits...

Financial Times: Sources: McKinsey pilots an overhaul in how it recruits its next...

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Liftoff, which helps companies place ads in mobile apps, files for a US IPO, reporting a $25.6M net loss on $491.6M in revenue in the nine months up to Sept. 30 (Natalia Kniazhevich/Bloomberg)

Liftoff, which helps companies place ads in mobile apps,...

Natalia Kniazhevich / Bloomberg: Liftoff, which helps companies place ads in mobile...

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Under new licensing requirements, the US Commerce Department says exports of Nvidia's H200 chips and AMD's MI325X chips will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis (Bloomberg)

Under new licensing requirements, the US Commerce Department...

Bloomberg: Under new licensing requirements, the US Commerce Department says exports...

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Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more (The Information)

Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri...

The Information: Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features...

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US investigation into Fed chair Powell sparks chorus of criticism

US investigation into Fed chair Powell sparks chorus of...

Criticism has been pouring in from Republican and Democratic lawmakers, former Fed...

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Trump imposes 25% tariff on any country 'doing business' with Iran

Trump imposes 25% tariff on any country 'doing business'...

US President Donald Trump ramped up economic pressure on the Iranian regime on Monday...

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Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studying LLMs like living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets for the first time (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studying...

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and...

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The US House passes a bipartisan bill to expand US export controls to restrict Chinese companies' remote access to US AI chips from data centers outside China (Juro Osawa/The Information)

The US House passes a bipartisan bill to expand US export...

Juro Osawa / The Information: The US House passes a bipartisan bill to expand US...

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PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state power grid across the US, expects 4.8% average annual power growth over the next decade driven by the AI boom (Wall Street Journal)

PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state power grid across...

Wall Street Journal: PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state power grid across...

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US investigation into Fed Chair Powell sparks chrus of criticism

US investigation into Fed Chair Powell sparks chrus of...

Criticism has been pouring in from Republican and Democratic lawmakers, former Fed...

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Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-person Reality Labs division, disproportionately affecting those working on VR headsets and Horizon Worlds (New York Times)

Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-person...

New York Times: Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-person Reality...

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Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal "seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google given that [they] also have Android and Chrome" (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal "seems like...

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal “seems...

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OpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app that aggregates and analyzes medical records; source: OpenAI is paying $100M in equity (Laura Mandaro/The Information)

OpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app...

Laura Mandaro / The Information: OpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare...

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'It's a scam': French AI envoy on X making Grok chatbot pay-to-perve

'It's a scam': French AI envoy on X making Grok chatbot...

France's AI and Digital Ambassador Clara Chappaz says making public image generation...

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America's top central banker Powell targeted by federal probe

America's top central banker Powell targeted by federal...

US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell is under criminal investigation by the Justice...

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A profile of China's CXMT, whose $4.2B IPO goal would rank among the century's biggest chip debuts, as the memory chip maker faces US and South Korean curbs (Wall Street Journal)

A profile of China's CXMT, whose $4.2B IPO goal would rank...

Wall Street Journal: A profile of China's CXMT, whose $4.2B IPO goal would rank...

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President Trump says "we may speak to Elon" about using Starlink to restore the internet in Iran, after the state imposed an internet blackout amid protests (Rachael Levy/Reuters)

President Trump says "we may speak to Elon" about using...

Rachael Levy / Reuters: President Trump says “we may speak to Elon” about using...

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CES 2026: how some companies are trying to make their AI products cute and relatable, from Lenovo's chatty motorized laptop to Sharp's ChatGPT-powered Poketomo (Chris Velazco/Washington Post)

CES 2026: how some companies are trying to make their AI...

Chris Velazco / Washington Post: CES 2026: how some companies are trying to make...

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"It's a scam": French AI envoy on X making Grok chatbot pay-to-perve

"It's a scam": French AI envoy on X making Grok chatbot...

France's AI and digital ambassador Clara Chappaz says making public image generation...

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Tel Aviv-based Torq, which operates an autonomous AI-powered security operations platform, raised $140M led by Merlin Ventures at a $1.2B valuation (Andrew Martin/Bloomberg)

Tel Aviv-based Torq, which operates an autonomous AI-powered...

Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv-based Torq, which operates an autonomous AI-powered...

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Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue...

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an...

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Tucuvi, which develops AI agents that check in with patients and escalate cases to human teams when needed, raised a $20M Series A, led by Cathay and Leadwind (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)

Tucuvi, which develops AI agents that check in with patients...

John Reynolds / Tech.eu: Tucuvi, which develops AI agents that check in with patients...

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Analysis: global AI-related companies drove ~40% of benchmark convertible bond index returns in 2025, pushing the amount raised to $166.5B, the most since 2001 (Bloomberg)

Analysis: global AI-related companies drove ~40% of benchmark...

Bloomberg: Analysis: global AI-related companies drove ~40% of benchmark convertible...

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Newly listed Chinese AI chipmakers Moore Threads, Biren, and MetaX had stellar stock market debuts, but none has sales above 10% of rival Cambricon (Financial Times)

Newly listed Chinese AI chipmakers Moore Threads, Biren,...

Financial Times: Newly listed Chinese AI chipmakers Moore Threads, Biren, and MetaX...

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Investigation: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used two UK-registered companies to move ~$1B in stablecoins since 2023, evading international sanctions (TRM Insights)

Investigation: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

TRM Insights: Investigation: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used two UK-registered...

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Stack Overflow recorded just 6,866 questions in Dec. 2025, about the same monthly volume as in 2008; annual revenue has risen ~2x to $115M since ChatGPT's debut (Claire Yubin Oh/Sherwood News)

Stack Overflow recorded just 6,866 questions in Dec. 2025,...

Claire Yubin Oh / Sherwood News: Stack Overflow recorded just 6,866 questions in...

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Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing the risk of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, becoming the first country to block the AI tool (Fransiska Nangoy/Reuters)

Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing the risk of non-consensual...

Fransiska Nangoy / Reuters: Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing the risk of...

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Morgan Stanley survey of audio habits in the US: 50% to 60% of listeners aged 18-44 reported listening to AI-generated music for 2.5 to 3 hours per week (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)

Morgan Stanley survey of audio habits in the US: 50% to...

Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: Morgan Stanley survey of audio habits in the US: 50%...

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Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate...

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block...

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Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current or previous jobs to evaluate its models, leaving it to them to scrub confidential info (Wired)

Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their...

Wired: Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current...

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Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's stock has surged 88% over the past year, driven by the success of its Kling AI video generator, which has amassed 60M users (Bloomberg)

Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's stock has surged 88%...

Bloomberg: Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's stock has surged 88% over the past...

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Global anger over Grok undressing women online

Global anger over Grok undressing women online

There's global outrage over Elon Musk's chatbot Grok, a key feature on social media...