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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
HP plans to acquire assets from Humane for $116M, wind down Humane's Ai Pin business, and add Humane's team, including its founders, as an AI-focused division — - Humane's Ai pin business to be wound down after rocky launch — New unit at HP will focus on implementation of AI in devices
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Forums: r/hardware, r/LinusTechTips, r/Android, r/gadgets, r/technology, and r/apple
| Aaron Souppouris / Engadget: |
Humane says Ai Pin's online features will stop working at 12PM PT on February 28, when it will delete all customer data, and it will refund some newer customers — Humane is discontinuing the AI Pin and selling out to HP. — AI hardware startup Humane has given its users just ten (10!) …
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| VentureBeat: |
Sources: Chinese game publisher NetEase has been directed to divest its overseas holdings, starting with hit game Marvel Rivals, which laid off its Seattle team — Chinese game publisher NetEase raised fears with recent moves that it is unloading as much as all of its overseas holdings …
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X: @stephentotilo, @zhugeex, @marvelrivals, @gigawattconduit, @lordbalvin, @wario64, @rivalsassembled, @slashlp89, @hh_varuna, @directfeedgames, @1exi, @alecrobbins, @bellulargaming, @coopercooperco, @neferpitoup, @jakesucky, @lordbalvin, @knoebelbroet, and @ianrile42523693
LinkedIn: Thaddeus Sasser and Jack Burrows
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Signal updates its app with phishing protections after Google warned Russia-linked hackers are using fake QR codes for group invites to trick Ukrainian soldiers — Google warns that hackers tied to Russia are tricking Ukrainian soldiers with fake QR codes for Signal group invites that let spies steal their messages.
More: Google Cloud Blog, BleepingComputer, The Record, Infosecurity, CyberInsider, Forbes, Politico, SiliconANGLE, GovInfoSecurity.com, ComputerWeekly.com, and Cyber Security News
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, and r/technews
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Niantic is in talks to sell its video games unit to Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely for ~$3.5B; the deal would include Pokémon Go and its other mobile games — A deal could be announced in coming weeks. The price being discussed is about $3.5 billion, according to one of the people.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/PikminBloomApp, r/Ingress, r/gaming, r/nintendo, r/pokemongo, r/TheSilphRoad, and Slashdot
| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Source: in text messages, Libra co-creator Hayden Davis bragged he could “control” Argentine President Javier Milei by making payments to Milei's sister, Karina — A key player behind the Libra token bragged about buying access to Argentine President Javier Milei's inner circle months …
More: Gizmodo, Protos, Bloomberg, Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoSlate, and The Block
X: @bykatherineross, @marchochstein, @beaniemaxi, @tier10k, @chilearmy123, @realdannynelson, @skesslr, and @tier10k. Forums: Hacker News
| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
More: Wired, Blockchain News, Yahoo Finance, CoinDesk, CoinGape, and The Crypto Times
X: @davidrkadler, @divine_economy, @harikunzru, @trading_axe, @asslatam, @0xpepo, and @julian__fahrer. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Sources: X is in talks to raise funds at a $44B valuation, matching the price Elon Musk paid for Twitter in 2022, as his proximity to Trump alters X's prospects — - Valuation is the same as Musk's 2022 Twitter acquisition — Billionaire has recently tapped private markets for big sums| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils the $599+ iPhone 16e, with an A18 chip, a 48MP camera, Apple Intelligence, and an Apple-designed 5G cellular modem, the C1, shipping February 28 — Apple has officially taken the wraps off of the all-new iPhone 16e. The device features an all-new design paired with the A18 chip inside …
More: Apple, MacRumors, The Verge, and TechRadar
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| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI researchers build the SWE-Lancer benchmark and find that real-world freelance software engineering work remains challenging for frontier language models — Large language models (LLMs) may have changed software development, but enterprises will need to think twice …
More: arXiv, OpenAI, WinBuzzer, Analytics India Magazine, and Maginative
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Forums: r/accelerate and Slashdot
| James Hunt / The Block: |
Binance.US resumes USD deposits and withdrawals for the first time since June 2023, when the US SEC sued Binance, Binance.US, and co-founder Changpeng Zhao — - Binance.US customers can deposit and withdraw U.S. dollars on the platform for the first time in nearly two years.| Erik Larson / Bloomberg: |
TMTG and Rumble sue a Brazilian Supreme Court Justice in Florida for allegedly illegally suppressing the US social media activity of conservative Brazilians — - Suit, joined by Rumble, accusing the judge of stifling speech — Brazilian judge has long attacked ‘fake news,’ disinformation
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| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Google launches an AI co-scientist, a new Gemini 2.0-based system to help scientists create novel hypotheses and research plans, available to select testers — Lab assistant powered by artificial intelligence can help generate scientific hypotheses — Google has built an artificial …
More: Telegraph, New Scientist, Google Research, The Keyword, Analytics India Magazine, The Independent, and Imperial News. Forums: Slashdot
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
French privacy startup Murena unveils the €539 Murena Pixel Tablet, running its open-source, forked /e/OS, after releasing a “deGoogled” smartphone in 2023 — Murena, the French privacy firm that's forked Android to deliver so-called deGoogled smartphones, has repeated the trick with a tablet.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati unveils AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, which she's leading as CEO, with Barret Zoph as CTO and John Schulman as chief scientist — - “Instead of focusing solely on making fully autonomous AI systems, we are excited to build multimodal systems that work …
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| Muvija M / Reuters: |
UK CMA submission: Apple says some of the CMA's mobile browser remedies will slow innovation and it would “not be appropriate” to mandate WebKit and iOS access — Apple (AAPL.O) has told Britain's competition regulator that some of the remedy options proposed by the watchdog … | Bloomberg: |
Some US ByteDance investors argue that they don't need US TikTok for success, as China, which accounts for 80% of ByteDance's revenue, is the real driving force — Some American ByteDance investors say they don't need US TikTok for success — As TikTok fights to keep its popular video app available … | Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Intel's stock closed up 16.1% days after a February 15 report that Broadcom and TSMC are potentially weighing independent deals that could split the chipmaker — Intel shares rallied 16.1% on Tuesday following a Wall Street Journal report that both Broadcom and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing …
More: PCWorld, Capacity Media, and MarketWatch
| Reuters: |
President Trump says tariffs on semiconductors would start at “25% or higher” and that he planned to provide some time for chip makers to set up US factories — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he intends to impose auto tariffs “in the neighborhood of 25%” …
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Verkada, which makes smart cameras, alarms, sensors, and more for enterprises, raised a $200M Series E at a $4.5B valuation, up from $3.2B in September 2022 — In 2017, Filip Kaliszan pulled an all-nighter at the Beverly Hills Equinox. — A luxury gym isn't the obvious place to work through the night … | The Information: |
Sources: Alibaba and others approached DeepSeek about funding after its rise, but CEO Liang Wenfeng is cautious; High-Flyer is discussing a pivot from research — DeepSeek's sudden rise to artificial intelligence stardom has created a dilemma for the Chinese startup: whether to raise money.
More: Reuters
| Bloomberg: |
Internal documents, emails, and federal data suggest Indian IT giant TCS has used L-1A manager visas in ways that raise concerns about undercutting US workers — New data show how TCS makes heavy use of employment visas reserved for managers. Ex-staffers say it was to get around H-1B rules.| Camillus Eboh / Reuters: |
Court documents: Nigeria sues Binance to reclaim $79.5B in alleged economic losses it says were caused by its operations in the country and $2B in back taxes — Nigeria has filed a lawsuit seeking to compel cryptocurrency exchange Binance to pay $79.5 billion for economic losses it says were caused …
More: Nairametrics, CryptoSlate, Techpoint Africa, and CryptoNinjas
| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
Crunchbase launches AI tools to predict where startups are heading, including funding, acquisitions, and IPOs, based on its 17 years of startup data — The data company is using AI to forecast startup funding, acquisitions and public offerings—but its biggest challenge may be predicting its own future| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Play Books for iOS now lets users complete their e-book or audiobook purchase on the Google Play website, under Apple's “reader apps” exception — Google has gained permission to sell its e-books and audiobooks directly to customers through its iOS app, Google Play Books.
More: The Keyword, Moneycontrol, MacRumors, New Jersey Online, Good e-Reader, BGR, Neowin, and Gizchina.com
| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Shift4 agrees a $1.5B deal to buy Swiss tax-free shopping services provider Global Blue Group; Shift4 handles $250B in annual payments from 200K+ companies — Global Blue helps retailers including Nike and Prada with tax-free transactions — Shift4 Payments has struck a deal for Global Blue Group …
More: FinTech Futures and Global Blue
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