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Business Insider:

The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 — - Tech industries are losing their strength. — One economist said tech job losses outpaced the past two recessions. — Still, there is weakness in other areas of the job market.

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Jennifer Elias / CNBC:

Google and Amazon join Microsoft in saying they will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk — Google said it will continue offering Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology for clients, excluding for defense work …

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Financial Times:

A draft guidance from the US GSA tightens rules for civilian AI contracts to require AI companies to allow “any lawful” use by the government of their models — The Trump administration has drawn up tight rules for civilian artificial intelligence contracts that would require AI companies …

More: New York Times, Reuters, and Tech in Asia

Noah Smith / Noahpinion:

The Pentagon is right in trying to coerce Anthropic as AI may become a superweapon and nation-states must have a monopoly on the use of force

More: Inc.com, Wall Street Journal, Anthropic, and Bloomberg

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Pirate Wires:

Interview with Pentagon AI head Emil Michael on his view that Anthropic leaked negotiations to the press to win anti-Trump users, dealing with Amodei, and more

Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:

Sources: the US believes Chinese state-affiliated hackers breached an FBI computer network that holds information related to some domestic surveillance orders — The FBI said it has addressed ‘suspicious activities’ on its networks — U.S. investigators believe hackers affiliated …

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Bobby Allyn / NPR:

A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow — There's one word Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour is loath to say: Polymarket. — Like a politician swiping his never-to-be-spoken …

More: Mediaite and Entrepreneur

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Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Kalshi and Polymarket are each eyeing valuations of ~$20B in fundraising talks; Kalshi was valued at $11B in December and Polymarket at $9B in October — Prediction market rivals are speaking to investors about roughly doubling their previous valuations

More: Cointelegraph, StrictlyVC, The Crypto Times, Crypto Briefing, and Deseret News

Wall Street Journal:

How prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket are aggressively targeting college students through fraternity partnerships and student influencers

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Bluesky: @bobbyallyn, @bobbyallyn, @davepell, @jessefelder, @klong, and @cwarzel. Forums: r/technology

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Bloomberg:

Sources: Oracle and OpenAI abandoned plans to expand a Stargate Texas data center amid financing disputes; Meta considers leasing the planned expansion site — Oracle Corp. and OpenAI have scrapped plans to expand a flagship artificial intelligence data center in Texas after negotiations dragged …

Tim Starks / CyberScoop:

The Trump administration debuts its cyber strategy, outlining priorities including promoting offense operations, securing AI tech, and streamlining regulations — The administration also released an executive order on cybercrime and fraud. — Learn more.

More: The White House, Cybersecurity Dive, Bloomberg Law, Politico, Nextgov/FCW, and Defense One

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Catherine Lucey / Bloomberg:

President Trump signs an EO aimed at fighting cybercrime, directing officials to identify robust tools to combat transnational criminal organizations

More: The White House, DataBreachToday.com, New York Times, and NewsMax.com

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Jessica Lyons / The Register:

Google's TIG documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2025, up from 78 in 2024; commercial spyware vendors and China-linked groups led the abuse — Of the 90 zero-days GTIG tracked in 2025, 43 hit enterprise tech — Zero-day exploitation targeting enterprise tech products reached …

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Forbes:

How Cursor is evolving through its Composer coding models built on Chinese open models, as coding agents like Claude Code threaten to make code editors obsolete — After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality: developers may no longer need a code editor at all.

More: The Decoder, Inc.com, Towards Data Science, and The Deep View

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Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:

Anthropic launches Claude Marketplace, letting companies buy third-party software using some of their committed annual spending on Anthropic's services — Anthropic PBC is launching a new platform for its corporate customers to purchase third-party software, broadening the AI developer's offerings …

More: Claude, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, and NextBigWhat

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LinkedIn: Harsh Mehta and Timur Cuceloglu Yarnall. Forums: r/Anthropic

Nikkei Asia:

China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price hikes as memory chip crunch deepens; Meizu announces it will suspend developing new mobile hardware — TOKYO — China's smartphone market is seeing one of its biggest and widest price hikes ever, affecting almost all brands and product categories …

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The Information:

Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a $10B+ valuation, up from $4.5B in July; its annualized revenue run rate has hit ~$2B — Online retailer Quince is in talks with investors to raise a funding round that would value the company at above $10 billion after the investment …

X: @anngehan. LinkedIn: Katie Roof

Financial Times:

US investors are pushing Asian fund managers to create special vehicles so they can invest in Asia while avoiding US investment restrictions on Chinese tech — Institutional clients increasingly want so-called parallel funds that exclude certain assets — US investors are increasingly …

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A study of 14,419 self-published novels on Amazon using Pangram's AI detection tools: in 2,168 of the books, 50%+ of prose was AI, and in 970 books, 90%+ was AI

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Nicole Carpenter / Aftermath:

Nintendo of America sues the US government, seeking a refund with interest for tariffs that the company says Trump implemented in “unlawful” EOs

Sam Sabin / Axios:

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Lola Murti / CNBC:

Marvell stock closed up 18.35% on Friday after the company reported Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $2.2B and issued strong guidance citing growing AI demand

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Alexandra Alper / Reuters:

Pentagon names ex-DOGE employee Gavin Kliger as Chief Data Officer to lead its AI efforts; Kliger previously reposted white supremacist Nick Fuentes' content

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Joe Tidy / BBC:

Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people

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Alex Heath / Sources:

OpenAI says it is delaying the launch of ChatGPT Adult Mode, originally planned for Q1, to focus on higher priorities, like gains in intelligence

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Mozilla says Claude Opus 4.6 found 100+ bugs in Firefox in two weeks in January, 14 of them high-severity, more than the bugs typically reported in two months

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