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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 ...

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 pro...

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

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 rein...

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 chil...

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 o...

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

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 sta...

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 i...

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

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, founde...

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 Su...

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

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 ...

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 contra...

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

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...

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 ...

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 th...

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

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 shorta...

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 fre...

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 studi...

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 "de...

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

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 li...

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 mi...

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 acqu...

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, Japa...

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 sourc...

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

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 decis...

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

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 mov...

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

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, all...

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

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 i...

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

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 Nvidi...

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

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' fi...

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

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 start...

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 ...

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...

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 da...

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

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 sta...

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 ma...

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

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 share...

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

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 ...

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 $...

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

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 gener...

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

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 b...

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

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 tow...

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

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: 7...

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

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 ~1...

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

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 supere...

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 Chine...

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

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; Alphabe...

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 pa...

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 engine...

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

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'...

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

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 produ...

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

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