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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with improvements in coding, consistency, and more, for Free and Pro users; it features a 1M token context window in beta — Claude Sonnet 4.6 is our most capable Sonnet model yet. It's a full upgrade of the model's skills across coding, computer use …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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 — Apple Inc. is accelerating development of three new wearable devices as part of a shift toward artificial intelligence-powered hardware … | Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Ireland's DPC launches a “large-scale inquiry” into X over Grok's creation and publication of “potentially harmful” sexualized images, the latest European probe — ‘Large-scale’ inquiry is latest sign of how regulators are scrutinising the group's Grok chatbot
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| Nicolas Bustamante / @nicbstme: |
How LLMs are dismantling the moats that made vertical SaaS defensible, and why the market selloff is structurally justified but temporally exaggerated — In the past few weeks, nearly $1 trillion was wiped from software and services stocks. FactSet dropped from a $20B peak to under $8B.
More: Financial Times, Chris Roth, Stratechery, and Bloomberg
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| Robbie Whelan / Wall Street Journal: |
Micron, which has undertaken a $200B US expansion, says it can currently meet about 50% to 66% of demand for some key customers, as AI drives memory chip demand — For decades, memory chips were low-margin commodity products. Now the industry can't make enough to satisfy data centers' hunger.
More: Tom's Hardware, Tech Funding News, Motley Fool, Blockonomi, and Bloomberg. Bluesky: @jessefelder
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
| Nathan Bomey / Axios: |
CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the commission will file friend-of-the-court briefs to defend its exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets amid state lawsuits — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is launching a legal campaign to defend its regulatory turf on prediction markets …
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| Assaf Gilead / Globes: |
Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Israeli endpoint security company Koi Security, sources say for ~$400M; Koi raised $48M across two rounds, per PitchBook — Koi has developed a software engine that uses large language models and AI agents to detect malware and vulnerabilities in applications.
More: Palo Alto Networks, Benzinga, CyberScoop, The Information, CTech, Help Net Security, CRN, and Constellation Research. LinkedIn: Mickey Haslavsky
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The European Commission opens a full DSA investigation into Shein over sales of child-like sex dolls that “could constitute child sexual abuse material” — Shein risks hefty European Union penalties after regulators opened a full-scale probe into sales of child-like sex dolls on the Chinese e-commerce platform.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B-parameter open-weight models supporting 70+ languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs — Enterprise AI company Cohere launched a new family of multilingual models on the sidelines of the ongoing India AI Summit.
More: eWeek, Cohere, and Shelly Palmer
| Danilo Masoni / Reuters: |
Raspberry Pi stock rose as much as 42% on Tuesday in a record two-day rally, amid demand for single-board computers to run low-cost AI agents like OpenClaw — Shares in Raspberry Pi (RPI.L) rose as much as 42% on Tuesday in a record two-day rally after CEO Eben Upton bought stock in the beaten … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat launches creator subscriptions in alpha, available to some creators in the US starting February 23; creators set custom monthly pricing — Social network Snapchat announced today it's launching creator subscriptions in alpha with select people in the U.S. starting on February 23.
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| Macarena Munoz Montijano / Bloomberg: |
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez says he asked the country's prosecutor office to investigate X, TikTok, and Meta over the alleged “creation and dissemination” of CSAM — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he is using special public-interest powers to ask the country's prosecutor office … | Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
Qualcomm says UK consumer association Which? is withdrawing its chip royalties lawsuit that sought £480M for 29M iPhone and Samsung users, after a CAT trial — Chipmaker Qualcomm (QCOM.O) said on Tuesday a London lawsuit alleging it had abused its dominant position to force Apple …
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| Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: |
Figma and Anthropic partner to launch Code to Canvas, letting users import code generated in Claude Code directly into Figma as editable designs — Figma is partnering with Anthropic and launching a feature called “Code to Canvas” that converts code generated in artificial intelligence tools … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic adds an AI assistant to WordPress.com, enabling users to perform site-wide layout and style modifications via natural language commands — WordPress.com, the website hosting platform from Automattic, will now include a built-in WordPress AI assistant, the company announced on Tuesday.
More: WordPress.com News
| Pierre Paulden / Bloomberg: |
Palantir moves its HQ from Denver to Miami, as the city's leadership aims to turn it into the next Silicon Valley, with backing of billionaires like Ken Griffin — Palantir Technologies Inc. said it's moved its headquarters to Miami from Denver as more tech firms seek to base themselves …
More: CNBC, Business Insider, Axios, Refresh Miami, and The Floridian
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| David Keohane / Financial Times: |
UK activist investor Palliser says Toto, Japan's largest toilet maker, is an “undervalued and overlooked” AI play due to its “advanced ceramics” used in chips — Toto should make more of its sideline in the chip supply chain, Palliser urges| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages AI infrastructure, in its first acquisition; Koyeb raised $8.6M to date — Mistral AI, the French company last valued at $13.8 billion, has made its first acquisition. The OpenAI competitor has agreed …
More: Sifted, Reuters, Koyeb, and SiliconANGLE
| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Top AI researchers argue that AI is now more useful for mathematics thanks to the latest “reasoning” models, as math becomes a key way to test AI progress — OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic seek to use advanced maths to show how capable AI models really are
Bluesky: @cyrilpedia
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google's Android XR design docs and developer tools hint at the XR glasses' details, including mandatory physical buttons and “Glimmer” UI design language — Android XR glasses are coming in 2026. Here's what you can expect from the user interface and experience.
More: iPhone in Canada, Android Authority, Livemint, SamMobile, Android Headlines, and SammyGuru
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Crypto VC firm Dragonfly closes a $650M fund, its fourth, as the crypto VCs go through a “mass extinction event”; Dragonfly backed Polymarket's Series B — When Rob Hadick signed the paperwork to join Dragonfly Capital in April 2022, he rented a house in the Hamptons.
More: The Block, Ventureburn, NFTgators, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Crypto Briefing. LinkedIn: Annica Benning
| Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: |
Filing: Gemini says its COO, CFO, and chief legal officer are leaving; Cameron Winklevoss will take on many of the COO's duties; GEMI falls 10%+ — What to know: … Gemini Space Station Inc. (GEMI) is parting ways with three top executives, including its chief operating officer (COO) …
More: The Block, Investor's Business Daily, The Crypto Times, Mercury News, CoinGape, and Bloomberg
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Mesh, founded by ex-SpaceX staff to mass produce optical transceivers that convert optical signals to electrical signals, raised a $50M Series A led by Thrive — Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup working on hardware used to move data at high speeds within data centers … | Megan Morrone / Axios: |
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 — - The White House's Genesis Mission — announced in late 2025 — aims to build AI systems trained on massive scientific datasets to speed research breakthroughs.
Bluesky: @metacurity.com
| Urvi Dugar / Reuters: |
Indian conglomerate Adani Group announces plans to invest $100B to build renewable energy-powered AI-ready data centers across India by 2035 — Adani Enterprises (ADEL.NS) said on Tuesday that the group will invest $100 billion to build renewable energy-powered AI-ready data centres by 2035 …
More: Adani, The Economic Times, Data Center Knowledge, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Capital Brief, Forbes, The Decoder, TechCrunch, Times of India, DatacenterDynamics, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Dow Jones Newswires, Economic news, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Asia Financial, Capacity, The American Bazaar, MediaNews4U, Nikkei Asia, Implicator.ai, Network World, Fortune India, Unite.AI, Benzinga, CNBC, The Economic Times, BMI, and Telecompaper
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Braintrust, which helps companies evaluate and monitor their AI tools' performance, raised an $80M Series B led by Iconiq at an $800M post-money valuation — Braintrust, a startup building AI observability and evaluation tools, raised an $80 million Series B led by Iconiq … | Caroline Hyde / Bloomberg: |
Josh Kushner's Thrive raised $10B+ for its tenth and largest fund, lifting its AUM to ~$50B; sources: it distributed 64% of capital raised during the 2021 peak — The backer of OpenAI, Stripe, SpaceX and Skims says it's taking “ride-or-die” approach to investing.
More: The Information, Thrive, and Crypto Briefing
X: @sajithw, @romainhuet, @signulll, @joshuakushner, @ivanhzhao, @jacksondahl, @andrei_serban, @jlopas, @nchirls, @matthdejonge, @matthuang, @harrystebbings, @danprimack, @willmanidis, @taylorcsargent, and @ciaomack
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| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
SEC filing: Liftoff withdraws its IPO filing without specifying a reason, less than two weeks after the mobile ad platform postponed plans to price its IPO — Liftoff Mobile Inc. withdrew its IPO filing, less than two weeks after the mobile advertising platform operator said it was postponing plans to raise as much as $762 million.
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