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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple says it will spend $500B in the US over the next four years, hire 20,000 new US workers, and produce AI servers in Texas, after Tim Cook met with Trump  —  - Company to begin producing Apple Intelligence servers in Texas  — $500 billion planned to be invested in US over next four years
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Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal:
Analysis of Apple's financials: Apple's announcement of spending $500B over four years in the US is in line with what it could be expected to spend anyway
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended, step-by-step thinking, and Claude Code, an agentic coding tool  —  Anthropic is releasing a new frontier AI model called Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which the company designed to “think” about questions for as long as users want it to.
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
The Trump admin has fired 130+ staff at CISA, replaced staff refusing DOGE access to networks, appointed a DOD CISO whose clearance was suspended in 2021, more  —  One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings …
Bloomberg:
TD Cowen: Microsoft cancels leases for a substantial amount of US data centers, potentially due to over-investment fears; Microsoft plans to spend $80B in 2025  —  - The company has pledged $80 billion toward computing capacity  — Wall Street is questioning AI demand over the longer-term
Davey Winder / Forbes:
Google says it plans to use QR codes for Gmail account authentication, ditching SMS to “reduce the impact of rampant, global SMS abuse”  —  It is certainly no secret that using SMS text messages for security codes used to authenticate your identity is far from ideal.
Arjun Sha / Beebom:
Microsoft quietly launched free, ad-supported desktop versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows, with banner and video ads and limited functionality  —  In Short  — Microsoft has quietly introduced a free ad-supported Office that brings access to desktop Word, Excel, and PowerPoint without any subscription.
NBC News:
Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI  —  The revelation comes as federal workers face a midnight deadline to respond.  —  WASHINGTON — Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email …
Wes Davis / The Verge:
xAI confirms Grok briefly had “Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation” as a public-facing instruction for its responses  —  The system prompt for Musk's chatbot was changed by an employee to block the results.
Elliptic:
An analysis of the $1.46B Bybit hack, by far the largest crypto heist of all time, ahead of Poly Network's $611M in 2021, and possibly the biggest theft ever  —  On February 21st 2025, approximately $1.46 billion in cryptoassets were stolen from Bybit, a Dubai-based exchange.

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Washington Post:
The DOD fires the Stars and Stripes ombudsman after calling the paper “woke”; the ombudsman says she believes she was fired for defending editorial independence

Todd Spangler / Variety:
WBD shareholders vote to approve Paramount Skydance's deal to acquire the company; in a non-binding vote, they reject compensation packages for David Zaslav

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
Sources: Axel Springer decided to forgo extensive due diligence before its £575M Telegraph takeover, an investment it may struggle to recoup

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James Hunt / The Block:
Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, bought 20,356 bitcoin for $1.99B between February 18 and 23, taking its holdings to 499,096, worth $47B, or 2.3% of BTC supply
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Robinhood says it received a letter from the SEC stating the agency is dropping its investigation into Robinhood Crypto, a sign of regulatory change under Trump

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Bert Hubert's writings:
As the Trump administration neuters the PCLOB and reviews the EO behind the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, the EU should stop moving to US clouds
Bloomberg:
Alibaba pledges to invest more than $53B on AI infrastructure, including new data centers, over the next three years
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