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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
HP will acquire assets from Humane for $116M; Humane's Ai Pin business will be wound down, and Humane's team, including its founders, will join HP — - 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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| Aaron Souppouris / Engadget: |
Humane says Ai Pin's online features will stop working on February 28, when all customer data will be deleted, and it will refund some customers — Humane is discontinuing the AI Pin and selling out to HP. — AI hardware startup Humane has given its users just ten (10!) days notice that their Pins will be disconnected.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Niantic is in talks to sell its games unit to Saudi Arabia-controlled Scopely for ~$3.5B; the deal would include Pokémon Go and 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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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announces Thinking Machines Lab, a new AI startup that she's leading, 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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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Intel shares close up 16.1% following a February 15 report that both Broadcom and TSMC are potentially weighing deals that could break the chipmaker in two — Intel shares rallied 16.1% on Tuesday following a Wall Street Journal report that both Broadcom and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing …
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| Reuters: |
President Trump said 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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| James Titcomb / Telegraph: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Play Books for iOS will now let 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.
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| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI researchers, using the SWE-Lancer benchmark, 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 about entirely replacing …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta says LlamaCon, its first developer conference dedicated to generative AI, will take place on April 29, and Meta Connect will be held on September 17 and 18 — Meta on Tuesday announced that it'll host its first-ever dev conference dedicated to generative AI.
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| Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: |
Asus ROG Flow Z13 review: the ~$2,300 convertible tablet's integrated GPU in its AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip offers performance comparable to a GeForce RTX 4060 — Looking at this thing, you might expect to see it propped up at an airport bar, in front of somebody talking into wireless headphones about Tim in Product.
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| José Adorno / BGR: |
Protector, an iOS app that offers on-demand personal security, including armed agents, debuts in NYC and LA; adviser Nikita Bier calls it “Uber with guns” — There's a new app on the App Store called Protector, which, as its advisor describes it, is “Uber with guns.”
More: Gizmodo, App Store, and New York Post
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Starting Feb. 19, Meta will store Facebook Live broadcasts for 30 days instead of storing them indefinitely and will remove videos currently older than 30 days — Facebook announced on Tuesday that live videos will now only be stored on the social network for 30 days, after which they will be deleted.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Silver Lake is in exclusive talks to acquire a majority stake in Intel's Altera unit — The private equity firm is thrashing out details of an investment in Altera, whose multi-use chips are primarily deployed in telecommunications networks, according to the people.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Fiverr unveils AI tools, including the Personal AI Creation Model, which lets gig workers configure an AI model trained on their work and set prices to use it — Gig marketplace Fiverr wants to let freelancers train AI on their bodies of work and use it to automate future jobs.| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Solana has lost ~25% of its market value, or ~$20B, since February 14 after Argentine President Javier Milei faced scrutiny for promoting Solana memecoin Libra — - Around $20 billion in Solana market value has been erased — Solana has been a popular blockchain for issuing memecoins
More: Decrypt, Inside Bitcoins, Protos, Disrupt Africa, Cryptopolitan, Benzinga, DL News, The Block, and Blockworks
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Taiwan's ASE Technology, the world's largest chip packaging and testing firm, opens a new plant in Penang, Malaysia, as part of its biggest overseas expansion — PENANG, Malaysia — ASE Technology Holding on Tuesday opened what is set to become its largest overseas operations in Penang …
More: Nikkei Asia, ASE, DigiTimes, Taipei Times, DigiTimes, and Focus Taiwan
| Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
Arkham: FTX users with claims below $50K have started to receive funds via Kraken and BitGo, expected to total $1.2B; users with $50K+ claims will be paid in Q2 — What to know: Creditors with claims below $50,000 have started receiving payouts with 9% interest since November 2022.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X raises its Premium+ subscription to $40 per month, or $395 per year, after raising it to $22 per month in December 2024, following Grok-3's launch — Hours after Elon Musk's AI company, xAI released the latest version of its AI model, Grok 3, X has significantly hiked the price …
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| Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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