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| Financial Times: |
OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: OpenAI expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026 — $500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic
More: 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, The Verge, Axios, OpenAI, Fast Company, Reuters, and The Deep View. X: @eric_seufert
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers — OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT's responses, and that it won't sell user data to advertisers.| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Sources: Thinking Machines lacks a clear product or business strategy and has been struggling over the past couple of months to raise a new round of financing — More Thinking Machines employees are in talks to join OpenAI. Also: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe on ACCESS and the Sources Live @ Davos lineup.
More: Newcomer, Implicator.ai, The Information, and Analytics India Magazine
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| Wired: |
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| Darren Loucaides / Financial Times: |
A profile of Wikipedia as it faces myriad challenges, including attacks from Elon Musk and the far right, reduced traffic due to AI, and a legal battle in India — As the website turns 25, it faces myriad challenges from regulators, AI, the far right and Elon Musk
More: Block Club Chicago, ZDNET, PCMag, Chicago Tribune, Futurism, Cord Cutters News, San Francisco Chronicle, and ABC. Bluesky: @sjvn
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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| Reuters: |
Italy's competition watchdog opens two investigations into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard over sales practices the regulator calls “misleading and aggressive” — Italy's competition watchdog on Friday announced investigations into Microsoft's (MSFT.O) Activision Blizzard unit over allegedly … | Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
TikTok says it will roll out new age detection tech, which analyzes profile information to predict whether a user is under 13, across Europe in the coming weeks — TikTok will start rolling out new age-detection technology across Europe in the coming weeks, it told Reuters on Friday …
More: Ukrainian National News, Engadget, UPI, Irish Examiner, and Telecompaper
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| Davis Giangiulio / CNBC: |
Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native for an undisclosed sum, to help it develop a system where AI developers pay creators for training content — Cloudflare is acquiring artificial intelligence data marketplace Human Native, the company said Thursday, as it expands its push …
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| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
DoorDash Chief Revenue Officer Lee Brown is departing the delivery app company after less than six months; long-term VP Shanna Prevé will succeed Brown as CRO — DoorDash Inc. Chief Revenue Officer Lee Brown is departing the delivery app company after less than six months to pursue a new opportunity.
More: The Information
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Meta says it will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16, and stop selling Quests and Horizon services to businesses from February 20 — Meta continues to trickle out the bad news for VR. … Today, the company announced it's shutting that space down …
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X: @yoda, @kojirovr, and @playtest_vr. Bluesky: @flglchicago. Mastodon: @rysiek@mstdn.social. Forums: r/OculusQuest
| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27: Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a “side show”, and more — This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.
More: TESLARATI and Courthouse News Service
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| Elissa Welle / The Verge: |
OpenAI expands its $8/month ChatGPT Go subscription tier to the US and the rest of the world, after previously launching it in India and some other countries — 'ChatGPT Go' is available worldwide for $8 per month. … OpenAI is expanding a low-cost subscription tier called ChatGPT Go to the US and the rest of the world.| Phuong Nguyen / Reuters: |
Vietnam's military-run telecom company Viettel begins construction of the country's first chip plant, with trial production expected to start by late 2027 — Vietnam's military-run telecom company Viettel on Friday began construction of the country's first semiconductor fabrication plant …
More: The Business Times, RCR Wireless News, Tech in Asia, Nikkei Asia, and Vietnam+
| Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
Istanbul-based TaleMonster Games, the studio behind the puzzle game Match Valley, raised a $30M Series A led by Arcadia Gaming Partners and a16z — The mobile game studio behind the innovative puzzle title Match Valley will use the new investment to scale its category-creating casual game.
More: GamesBeat
| Marco Chiappetta / Forbes: |
SiFive says it will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion with its RISC-V processor IP platforms, letting SiFive silicon communicate with Nvidia's and partner chips — SiFive To Integrate Nvidia NVLink Fusion — In a move that could have major implications for future AI datacenters, SiFive …
More: SiFive, The Register, More Than Moore, Futurum, ServeTheHome, and Reuters
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Trump and Northeastern state governors agree to push grid operator PJM to hold an auction for tech companies to fund new power plants, amid the AI boom — President Donald Trump and the governors of several US Northeastern states agreed to push for an emergency wholesale electricity auction …
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LinkedIn: Naureen S. Malik and Almas Kaptagayev. Bluesky: @manuelsalgado. Mastodon: @waltbaldwin@mastodon.energy. Forums: r/Economics
| SemiAnalysis: |
Analysis: Colossus 2, one of the world's largest AI datacenters, will use as much water/year as 2.5 average In-N-Outs, assuming only drinkable water and burgers — A different perspective on the datacenter water debate, forget tokens/watt or tokens/dollar, it's about tokens/burger … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
ClickHouse, a Snowflake challenger that offers an OLAP database management system, raised $400M led by Dragoneer at a $15B valuation, up from $6.35B in May 2025 — Dragoneer is leading a $400 million funding round for the startup. — Database technology startup ClickHouse Inc …
More: Reuters, Financial Post, Towards Data Science, WPXI-TV, and Canadian Press. LinkedIn: Mukund Mohan
| CNBC: |
Replit launches Mobile Apps on Replit, which lets creators and small-business owners vibe code Android and iOS apps and monetize them via a Stripe integration — AI coding startup Replit is now letting users create and publish mobile apps for Apple devices using only natural language prompts …
More: eWeek, Moneycontrol, Digital Trends, and Implicator.ai
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