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February 4, 2026, 8:50 AM
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Wall Street Journal:
Software and data stocks plunge over fears that new AI developments will supplant software; ADBE closed down 7.31%, CRM fell 6.85%, and Thomson Reuters 15.83%  —  From Legalzoom.com and Expedia to Ares and Apollo, shares of companies that sell or invest in software fell sharply on Tuesday
Liz Napolitano / CNBC:
Bitcoin briefly fell below $73,000 on February 3, hitting its lowest price since November 2024, as heavy selling resumes amid mounting geopolitical concerns
Anthropic:
Anthropic says Claude “will remain ad-free”, users “won't see ‘sponsored’ links adjacent to” conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers  —  There are many good places for advertising.  A conversation with Claude is not one of them.
Ian King / Bloomberg:
AMD reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $10.3B, Data Center revenue up 39% YoY to $5.4B, and forecasts Q1 revenue at $9.8B, below $10B projections; AMD drops 8%+  —  Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares tumbled in late trading after the chipmaker's sales forecast underwhelmed investors …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
On an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su says Microsoft's next-gen Xbox “is progressing well to support a launch in 2027” and will feature an AMD semi-custom SoC
Max Knoblauch / Sherwood News:
Take-Two reports Q3 net bookings up 28% YoY to $1.76B, above $1.58B, net revenue up 25% YoY to $1.7B, and raises its annual bookings forecast; TTWO jumps 5%+  —  “Grand Theft Auto” and “NBA 2K” maker Take-TwoTTWO $223.50 (-4.23%) reported results for its fiscal third quarter on Tuesday.
Rebekah Valentine / IGN:
Q&A with Stardew Valley developer Eric Barone, aka ConcernedApe, on the game turning 10, evolving as a developer, working solo, cozy game growth, and more  —  We spoke to the game's creator about the journey of the last 10 years, and why he keeps returning to the valley.
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Apptopia: ChatGPT's US market share fell from 69.1% to 45.3% from January 2025 to January 2026; Gemini rose from 14.7% to 25.1%, Grok rose from 1.6% to 15.2%
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Chris Tapsell / Eurogamer.net:
An interview with Epic Games Store VP Steven Allison, who says “we have a lot of things” to fix and “the launcher sucks”, on 2026 updates like social features  —  Steven Allison acknowledges some people will always say “F— Epic", as focus finally shifts to player experience.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Adobe reverses its plans to discontinue Animate after creators expressed frustration, saying it won't get new features but will remain available “indefinitely”  —  It won't get new features, but it will still be available. … Adobe is no longer planning to discontinue Adobe Animate on March 1st.
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
A profile of Obsidian, a game studio Microsoft acquired in 2018, as it seeks to expedite game development and reduce costs after releasing three titles in 2025  —  Microsoft's Obsidian Entertainment is searching for ways to make games more quickly and on smaller budgets.
Financial Times:
Sources: the US Commerce Department finished reviewing Nvidia's H200 China license, but the State Department seeks tighter restrictions, delaying its approval  —  The state department has pushed for close scrutiny before approving export licences  —  Michael Acton in San Francisco …
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba Cloud add OpenClaw support, giving users access to the AI agent service; many OpenClaw users run it on a Mac mini  —  As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it out
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple brings agentic coding to Xcode 26.3, allowing developers to use Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, and integrates support for MCP  —  Apple is bringing agentic coding to Xcode.  On Tuesday, the company announced the release of Xcode 26.3, which will allow developers to use agentic tools …
Jill R Shah / Financial Times:
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says initial plans to raise $15B to $20B were a “misconception”; sources say Tether's advisers have floated raising as little as $5B  —  CEO Paolo Ardoino downplays the scale of $185bn stablecoin group's capital raise  —  Tether's chief executive …
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
Bedrock, which aims to automate heavy construction equipment like excavators, raised $270M led by CapitalG and the Valor Atreides AI Fund at a $1.75B valuation  —  The year-old company, founded by veterans of the autonomous vehicle business Waymo, is seeking to automate excavators and other building equipment.
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Resolve AI, which offers autonomous AI agents to monitor source code and infrastructure to resolve outages, raised $125M led by Lightspeed at a $1B valuation  —  Resolve AI, a startup building AI agents to find and fix problems in live software systems, just hit a $1 billion valuation in a new funding round.
Bloomberg:
Egypt plans to ban Roblox in a bid to curb kids' exposure to potentially harmful online material; the Middle East's most populous nation joins Qatar and Turkey  —  Egyptian regulators moved to ban Roblox Corp.'s gaming platform, as the Middle East's most populous nation says it's making …
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:
An interview with Kai-Fu Lee on his startup 01.ai, which builds agentic AI tools for companies, why he thinks China will beat the US in consumer AI, and more  —  Chinese AI pioneer talks about the competition between the technology's two superpowers and why companies need to be more proactive in adopting it

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Tom Jones / Poynter:
At Pete Hegseth's first press conference in months, reporters were threatened with physical removal, and he largely ignored questions from the traditional press

Oliver Darcy / Status:
Sources: Mary Hager, senior executive producer of CBS News' Face the Nation and executive editor of politics, is leaving after over three decades at the network

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
Q&A with WaPo Executive Editor Matt Murray, who says the outlet is close to breaking even financially and expects 2027 will be its best year in seven years

More News

David Pan / Bloomberg:
Galaxy Digital reports a Q4 net loss of $482M, above $282M est., driven primarily by the crypto market crash, and says its trading volumes declined ~40% QoQ
Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg:
Filing: OpenAI accuses xAI of systematically destroying evidence in its antitrust case by directing employees to use auto-deleting “ephemeral messaging tools”
Lee Ying Shan / CNBC:
KKR and Singtel agree to acquire the remaining 82% stake in data center operator STT GDC for ~$5.1B, giving the company an enterprise value of ~$10.86B

Earlier Picks

Alicia Tang / Bloomberg:
OpenAI names Dylan Scandinaro, who worked on AGI safety at Anthropic, as the company's head of preparedness
Bloomberg:
US v. Google: the DOJ and a group of states will appeal the September 2025 ruling in the Search antitrust case in which Google dodged a forced sale of Chrome
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