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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 mo...

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

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...

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 t...

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

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” o...

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 D...

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

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, lea...

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

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”...

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 t...

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

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

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 capabil...

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

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, co...

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 "pr...

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

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 exper...

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

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 po...

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

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 finan...

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,...

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 start...

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 ju...

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 fo...

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

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 monitor...

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

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

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

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 yea...

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

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 ar...

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

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 ...

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 Seed...

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

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 pres...

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

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 $...

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

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 don...

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

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 Vi...

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 repo...

New York Times: Sources: some OpenAI execs were surprised by WSJ's report that t...

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 S...

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

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 tem...

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

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 de...

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

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 dat...

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 H...

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

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 b...

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 Jam...

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

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 un...

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

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 analytic...

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

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 b...

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 f...

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Singapore blames Chinese-backed hacking group UNC38...

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 environme...

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

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 dire...

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 tran...

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

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

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

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

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 agains...

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 cam...

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

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 Val...

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 chi...

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

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 c...

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

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