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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta confirms it is laying off Reality Labs staff and will “reinvest the savings” in wearables; CTO Andrew Bosworth says 1,000+ staff will be notified Tuesday — Meta Platforms Inc. is beginning to cut more than 1,000 jobs from the company's Reality Labs division …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta and EssilorLuxottica are discussing potentially doubling Ray-Ban Meta production to 20M+ units by the end of 2026 and the capability to make 30M+ — Meta Platforms Inc. and EssilorLuxottica SA are discussing potentially doubling production capacity for AI-powered smart glasses … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft changes its data center approach, pledging to pay its own power costs, reject tax breaks, and replenish more water than it uses, amid local opposition — President Trump was right about Microsoft — but he only leaked part of the story. — Microsoft is changing its approach … | Business Insider: |
Trump says that Microsoft will “ensure” Americans don't have higher power bills due to data centers and Big Tech must “pay their own way” for their data centers — - President Donald Trump asks tech companies to “pay their own way” for their data centers.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils Apple Creator Studio, a “groundbreaking collection” of creative apps like Final Cut, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro for $12.99/month or $129/year — Apple has announced Apple Creator Studio, which it describes as a “groundbreaking collection of powerful creative apps designed …
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| Webb Wright / ZDNET: |
Anthropic debuts Cowork for Claude, built on Claude Code, for automating complex tasks with minimal prompting, as a research preview for Claude Max subscribers — ZDNET's key takeaways — Anthropic is launching Cowork for Claude as a research preview. — It's built upon Claude Code and can automate complex tasks.
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Claude Cowork hands-on: a general agent well positioned to bring Claude Code's powerful capabilities to a wider audience, but prompt injection risks remain — New from Anthropic today is Claude Cowork, a “research preview” that they describe as “Claude Code for the rest of your work”.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
IDC: global PC shipments rose 9.6% YoY to 76.4M units in Q4 2025, helped by Microsoft ending Windows 10 support and OEMs pulling forward inventory amid tariffs — IDC expects the PC market to be volatile this year ahead of anticipated price increases.
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
The US House passes a bipartisan bill to expand US export controls to restrict Chinese companies' remote access to US AI chips from data centers outside China — The House of Representatives on Monday passed a bipartisan bill that expands U.S. export controls to restrict Chinese companies' ability …
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple and Google say Apple Foundation Models based on Gemini will help power not only a more personalized Siri, but also “future Apple Intelligence features” — Google today announced that its AI platform Gemini will help power not only a more personalized version of Siri, but a range of future Apple Intelligence features.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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| Politico: |
Gov. Gavin Newsom has engaged in months of negotiations to neutralize a proposed California wealth tax ballot initiative; a compromise does not appear imminent — A compromise does not appear imminent. A union official cast doubt on the possibility of a deal, saying the two sides … | Mike Solana / Pirate Wires: |
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| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
Salesforce makes Slack's new AI-powered Slackbot generally available, helping users answer workflow questions, draft documents, schedule meetings, and more — ZDNET's key takeaways Salesforce made Slackbot generally available.Slackbot is an AI agent for work built in Slack.Business …
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studying LLMs like living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets for the first time — By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some of their secrets for the first time.| Sam Knight / New Yorker: |
A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide — The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike. What are we all doing there?| Decrypt: |
The NYC token, launched by ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$100M after suspicious liquidity activity — On-chain data shows unexplained liquidity withdrawals as Eric Adam's NYC token's market cap continues to bleed. — In brief| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A profile of Eric Migicovsky's Core Devices, a five-person company that he says is “not a startup” and aims to be “sustainable”, as it builds new Pebble devices — Pebble's founder, Eric Migicovsky, is doing things differently with his reboot of the Pebble smartwatch brand and an AI ring.| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Microsoft warns Chinese companies, especially DeepSeek, are winning AI adoption outside the West, gaining significant market share in the Global South — DeepSeek's technology is being rapidly adopted across Africa and beyond, tech group's research shows — Microsoft has warned …
More: Capacity, CTech, and South China Morning Post
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
CrowdStrike acquires Israel-based browser security startup Seraphic, a source says for around $400M; Seraphic has raised around $37M in total — Founded in 2020, the Israeli company focuses on embedding security directly into the browser. — CrowdStrike is acquiring Israeli startup Seraphic Security.
More: Forbes, Globes, CyberScoop, and Business Wire
| Colin Demarest / Axios: |
Onebrief, which makes AI-powered military workflow software, raised a $200M Series D, nearly doubling its valuation from $1.1B to $2.1B in about half of a year — Defense software company Onebrief raised $200 million and snapped up Battle Road Digital, giving its military-planning suite a simulation and wargaming boost.
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| Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
NYC-based Proxima, which uses AI to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised an $80M seed led by DCVC, with participation from Nvidia and others — Proxima, a biotech startup using artificial intelligence to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised $80 million in seed funding … | Will Canny / CoinDesk: |
Sources: CoinGecko, a prominent crypto market data and analytics company, is considering a sale at a ~$500M valuation, after starting the sales process in 2025 — The crypto market data firm has hired investment bank Moelis, as dealmaking across the sector accelerates.| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Austin-based webAI, which is building AI models that run locally on devices, raised “high double-digit” millions in a Series A at a $2.5B pre-money valuation — WebAI, an Austin, Texas-based sovereign AI platform, raised “high double-digit” millions of dollars at a $2.5 billion pre-money valuation, it tells Axios.| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone and other execs discuss the challenges Netflix faces in streaming live events, after broadcasting 200+ live events since March 2023 — After some very public glitches, Netflix thinks it has cracked the code on the tech needed to stream live events.
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| Laura Mandaro / The Information: |
OpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI health care app that aggregates and analyzes medical records; a source says OpenAI is paying about $100M in equity — OpenAI has agreed to buy Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app, for about $100 million in equity, according to a person with direct knowledge of the acquisition.
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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI plans a 60-second Super Bowl ad during NBC's broadcast, the second straight year of doing so; ad buyers say clients pay $8M+ for just 30 seconds — AI companies are engaged in an expensive arms race to attract users and alleviate public anxiety about the technologySponsor Posts
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