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Sources: Apple is developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging that could be released as early as 2027 — Apple is developing an AI-powered wearable pin the size of an AirTag that is equipped with multiple cameras, a speaker …
More: Engadget, Livemint, TechCrunch, MacRumors, XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, iPhone in Canada, Macworld, The Verge, Cult of Mac, Implicator.ai, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, BGR, Mashable, AppleInsider, and Six Colors
X: @kylebrussell, @scobleizer, @mgsiegler, @loudmouthjulia, @signulll, @benbajarin, @glenngabe, @aatilley, @parkerortolani, @autismcapital, @autismcapital, and @parkerortolani. Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com. Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon …
Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to revamp Siri this fall in iOS 27 and macOS 27 by turning it into the company's first AI chatbot, replacing the current Siri interface — Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company's first artificial intelligence chatbot …
More: Macworld, Benzinga, 9to5Mac, The Information, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, SmartCompany, TechCrunch, DigiTimes, Tom's Guide, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Spyglass, CNET, ZDNET, Skift, MacDailyNews, TechRadar, Six Colors, Daring Fireball, The Hans India, The Shortcut, AppleInsider, Reuters, iDrop News, Digital Trends, Engadget, iPhone in Canada, BGR, iClarified, and Tech in Asia
X: @mweinbach, @markgurman, @signulll, @markgurman, @mweinbach, @tuncerdeniz, @markgurman, @itharis, @munster_gene, @mweinbach, @brandonbutch, @mweinbach, and @brandonbutch
Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: |
Anthropic overhauls Claude's “constitution” to enable the AI model to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules — Anthropic is overhauling a foundational document that shapes how its popular Claude AI model behaves.
More: Anthropic, Anthropic, SiliconANGLE, Time, TechCrunch, The Verge, Axios, and GovTech
X: @scaling01, @willmacaskill, @amandaaskell, @anthropicai, @mattyglesias, @boazbaraktcs, @anthropicai, @jkcarlsmith, @miles_brundage, @daniel_c0deb0t, @emollick, @kanikabk, @patio11, @anthropicai, @jkeatn, @simonw, @ziv_ravid, @drew_bent, @nearcyan, @nearcyan, @elder_plinius, @simonw, @scaling01, @anthropicai, and @simonw
LinkedIn: Jim Kaskade, Drew Bent, and Leon Furze
Bluesky: @conorsen and @timkellogg.me
Forums: r/singularity, r/Anthropic, and r/ClaudeAI
| Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
Ubisoft cancels six games and delays others amid a restructuring into five genre-specific “creative houses”; it expects net bookings of ~€1.5B for FY 2025-2026 — Ubisoft Entertainment SA is canceling game projects, shutting down studios and cutting its guidance …
More: Video Games Chronicle, IGN, Ubisoft, GamesIndustry.biz, The Verge, GamesBeat, TheGamer, Game Developer, Destructoid, Kotaku, Screen Rant, Pure Xbox, MobileSyrup, Wall Street Journal, Nintendo Life, TechRaptor, Polygon.com, GamesIndustry.biz, Variety, Le Monde, Comic Book, PC Gamer, and iPhone in Canada
X: @princeofpersia, @synthpotato, @legacykillahd, @gameoverthirty, @thencsmaster, @oliverjia1014, @grummz, @shinobi602, @nintyprime, and @mr_rebs_
Bluesky: @jasonschreier, @stephentotilo, @nickjcal, @campuscodi.risky.biz, @jessthomas, @brianpshea, @dmc-ryan, @errant-signal.com, @stephentotilo, and @jasonschreier
Forums: r/weeklyplanetpodcast, r/pcgaming, and r/anno
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a satellite communications network for enterprise, data center, and government customers, and plans to begin deployment in Q4 2027 — Jeff Bezos' space venture Blue Origin announced Wednesday it plans to deploy 5,408 satellites in space for a communications network that will take on SpaceX and Amazon.
More: Blue Origin, SiliconANGLE, PCMag, The Verge, Seattle Business Journal, GeekWire, Benzinga, Reuters, SpaceNews, Bloomberg, iTnews, Ars Technica, WebProNews, Via Satellite, The Information, Forbes, SPACE.com, Motley Fool, TechCrunch, and DatacenterDynamics
X: @davill, @rmcentush, @sciguyspace, and @blueorigin
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East, looking to raise at least $50B for OpenAI at a valuation of about $750B to $830B — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East to line up funding for a new investment round … | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan publishes his annual letter, saying YouTube aims to reduce “AI slop” and has strengthened parental controls, and teases Shorts updates — The executive published his annual letter to the YouTube community Wednesday, outlining his priorities for the video platform.
More: YouTube Official Blog, CNET, Variety, Music Ally, Dexerto, Daily Ausaf, Neowin, Tubefilter, and MediaPost
X: @updatesfromyt, @loudmouthjulia, @deephumor, @nealmohan, @kylebrussell, @loudmouthjulia, and @nealmohan
LinkedIn: Sean Downey, Chris Schremp, and Tara Walpert Levy
Bluesky: @laikalgagarin and @knoebel
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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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 — Putting data centers in space pushed the billionaire toward an IPO, sources say — SpaceX resisted going public for years.
More: Benzinga, Barron's Online, and WebProNews
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Memo: Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI last week, will lead OpenAI's enterprise push, as part of a broader reorganization — Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI in a swirl of controversy last week, will lead the company's push …
| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
Unsealed docs: Spotify and labels sued Anna's Archive over plans to release scraped Spotify data; a US court grants a temporary order taking down some domains — Spotify and several major record labels, including UMG, Sony, and Warner, have taken legal action against the unknown operators of Anna's Archive.| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Neynar, a startup focused on decentralized social media infrastructure, is acquiring Ethereum-based social media project Farcaster from R&D firm Merkle — - Decentralized social media infrastructure firm Neynar is acquiring Farcaster, the Ethereum-based protocol that was last valued at $1 billion.
More: Neynar, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, TheStreet, The Crypto Times, CoinDesk, and NFTgators
X: @0xsisyphus, @dwr, @karbonbased, @_proxystudio, @ljxie, @alexmasmej, @hishboy, @sxtvik, @macromate8, @0xngmi, @jessepollak, and @serpinxbt
| Mickey Djuric / Politico: |
A Canadian federal court overturned a 2024 order that would have shuttered TikTok Canada's business operations over national security concerns — “We welcome the decision to set aside the order to shut down TikTok Canada, and look forward to working with the Minister towards a resolution that's … | Business Insider: |
Layoffs hit Vimeo for the second time since September 2025, when it laid off 10% of its workforce; Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for around $1.38B in November — - Vimeo is laying off staffers globally in a new round of cuts. — The job cuts arrived a few months after tech holding company Bending Spoons bought Vimeo.
More: CTech. X: @daemon404. Bluesky: @danhon.com. Forums: Hacker News, r/dropout, and r/roosterteeth
| Myles Miller / Bloomberg: |
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 — Applecart, a marketing technology startup, raised $100 million in a minority funding round led by Blackstone Inc.'s growth equity business.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X unveils Bluesky-like “Starterpacks” to help users find accounts that match their interests, curated by X and rolling out in the coming weeks — Bluesky's “Starter Packs,” the curated lists of suggested users to follow, have proven a popular way to help people connect with others …
More: Social Media Today. X: @nikitabier, @luke_metro, and @oalexanderdk. Mastodon: @eloquence@social.coop. Forums: r/BlueskySocial
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is seeking to raise $300M to $500M after talks to sell the company to Intel for about $1.6B, including debt, stalled — Artificial intelligence startup SambaNova Systems Inc. is considering raising up to $500 million after talks to sell to Intel Corp. stalled …
More: Dow Jones Newswires
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including presentation generation, file editing, and creating podcast summaries from docs stored in Adobe Spaces — Adobe has been aggressively adding AI features to all its products in the last few years. The company is now adding more AI tools to Acrobat …
More: The Adobe Blog, XDA Developers, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada, Thurrott, The AI Economy, ZDNET, Engadget, and The Verge. Forums: Slashdot
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
OpenEvidence, which is building “ChatGPT for doctors”, raised $250M led by Thrive and DST at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in October and $1B in February 2025 — A startup widely known as “ChatGPT for doctors” raised a new funding round that values the company at $12 billion.
More: OpenEvidence, WinBuzzer, PitchBook, Reuters, Forbes, Tech in Asia, Refresh Miami, New York Post, Crunchbase News, TechCrunch, MobiHealthNews, PYMNTS.com, Axios, WebProNews, and FinSMEs
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Sources: OpenAI has begun offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, initially charging based on ad view, not ad click, asking for <$1M in commitments — OpenAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, according to two people familiar with the matter.
More: Search Engine Land, MarketWatch, MediaPost, Computerworld, and Reuters
Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com and @garvanwalshe.org
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
ElevenLabs launches an album of original tracks made by artists like Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel in “collaboration” with its Eleven Music AI model — Several well-known music artists have turned to ElevenLabs' AI as a virtual muse — and record producer.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta plans to expand ads on Threads to all users globally starting next week; Threads began testing ads in the US and Japan a year ago — Meta on Wednesday announced it's expanding ads on Threads to all users globally. The expansion, which starts next week, will be gradual …
More: Meta, 9to5Mac, B&T, AdNews, Social Media Today, Android Police, 9to5Google, Neowin, Engadget, Search Engine Land, The Verge, iPhone in Canada, WebProNews, PhoneArena, and MediaPost
Threads: @abelian_cat and @young.mete
| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Superintelligence Labs delivered its first high-profile AI models internally in January, after just six months, which are “very good” — Meta Platforms' (META.O) new artificial intelligence lab has delivered its first high-profile AI models internally this month … | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Sony launches the $230 LinkBuds Clip, open-style earbuds that sit outside the ear canal, with IPX4 water resistance and a 9-hour battery life, available now — Sony Group Corp. introduced its latest pair of consumer earbuds, with a clip-on design that resembles recent efforts from Bose Corp. …
More: The Verge, Mashable, 9to5Toys, ZDNET, Android Headlines, How-To Geek, Android Authority, iPhone in Canada, T3, Gizmodo, Engadget, Android Central, TechEBlog, Tom's Guide, The Shortcut, and CNET
X: @sonyelectronics and @chriswelch
| Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
Jensen Huang says that AI is already bringing economic benefits and needs more investment, and “the AI bubble comes about because the investments are large” — Jensen Huang called for higher investments to further spread the technology across developed and emerging economies
More: The Register, Decrypt, Pivot to AI, Gizmodo, Futurism, Mashable, CNBC, Business Today, Observer, Yahoo Finance, Fortune, Forbes Middle East, Techstrong.ai, PYMNTS.com, Barron's Online, The Economic Times, Investing.com, WebProNews, Bloomberg Law, Blockonomi, Bloomberg, Business Insider, and Axios
X: @ns123abc, @leopoldfeldman, @wef, @jackvdutton, @wallstengine, @wef, @philipjohnston, and @mattzeitlin. Forums: r/artificial
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
AheadComputing, which develops a breakthrough RISC-V CPU architecture for AI, raised a $30M Seed2 led by Eclipse, Toyota, and Cambium, for $53M in total funding — AheadComputing Inc., a company pioneering breakthrough central processing unit microarchitecture to deliver next generation performance …
More: AheadComputing, GeekWire, Portland Business Journal, Portland Oregon startups …, FinSMEs, and Oregonian
LinkedIn: Lakshmi Mandyam and Greg Reichow
| Francesca Maglione / Bloomberg: |
US colleges like Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech are using AI to streamline admissions; Virginia Tech says AI that scores essay questions saved ~8,000 hours — Some schools have even used AI to guard against AI. — Thousands of students will get their college decisions faster this year because of artificial intelligence.| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
Lightning AI merges with data center operator Voltage Park to create an “AI cloud” with a $2.5B+ valuation, managing 35K+ Nvidia GPUs across six data centers — The startup behind open source tool PyTorch Lightning has merged with compute provider Voltage Park to create a …
More: Unite.AI, DatacenterDynamics, Lightning AI, Lightning AI, and VentureBeat. LinkedIn: Harout Vartanyan
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