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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
HP plans to 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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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 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.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Signal updates its apps to add phishing protections after Google warned Russia-linked hackers are using fake QR codes to target 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.| 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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| 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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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Source: in text messages, Libra co-creator Hayden Davis bragged he could “control” Argentine President Javier Milei due to payments to Milei's sister — A key player behind the Libra token bragged about buying access to Argentine President Javier Milei's inner circle months …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
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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 closed 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 … | Bloomberg: |
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| 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| 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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Forums: r/singularity and r/accelerate
| 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.| 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 … | 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.
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| 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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| 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.
More: Dave2D on YouTube, Just Josh on YouTube, ASUS, The Verge, G Style Magazine, TechEBlog, HotHardware, and PC Gamer
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| 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.| Chainalysis: |
In 2024, sanctioned jurisdictions and entities received $15.8B in crypto, or ~39% of all illicit crypto transactions; Tornado Cash inflows jumped 108% from 2023 — In 2024, sanctions shifted in both scope and strategy, reflecting a broader evolution in illicit on-chain activity in response to increasing geopolitical tension.| 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
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Analog Devices, one of the largest analog chip makers, increases its stock buyback program by $10B to $11.5B; sales dropped 23% in 2024 as chip demand slows — The buyback plans will bring the total size of the program to $11.5 billion, the company said in a statement Tuesday.
More: Investor's Business Daily and Analog Devices
| 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 …
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