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Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments on an ICE shooting; Rabois said the man killed by agents was committing a “felony”  —  To understand the stance of an unwavering Trump loyalist after United States Custom and Enforcement shocked the nation …
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Tim Cook attending a private White House screening of the documentary Melania hours after US agents killed a man suggests horrible judgment, or worse, cowardice  —  Tim Cook is captured.  There is simply no other explanation for his actions over the past year or so.
Bloomberg:
Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2.5, saying the model can process text, images, and videos simultaneously and beats its open-source peers in some tests  —  Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.-backed Moonshot AI released an upgrade of its flagship model, heating up a domestic arms race ahead …
Kimi:
Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 builds on K2 with “pretraining over ~15T mixed visual and text tokens” and “can self-direct an agent swarm with up to 100 sub-agents”  —  Today, we are introducing Kimi K2.5, the most powerful open-source model to date.
Dan Whateley / Business Insider:
TikTok US says it is working to restore services after a data center power outage, and that any algorithm changes users noticed were likely due to the outage  —  - TikTok's algorithm was disrupted on Sunday as the company dealt with a data center outage.  — Users reported seeing a flurry of old videos in their feeds.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
UpScrolled, a platform for sharing photos, videos, and text that claims political impartiality, says user growth has surged since TikTok's US takeover
Tyler Katzenberger / Politico:
California Governor Gavin Newsom says he will launch a review into whether TikTok is violating state laws by censoring content critical of President Trump
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings  —  Meta plans to test new subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on it apps, the company told TechCrunch on Monday.
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post:
A test of ChatGPT Health and Claude for Healthcare with data from Apple Health finds the chatbots provided questionable and inconsistent responses  —  ChatGPT now says it can answer personal questions about your health using data from your fitness tracker and medical records.
Axios:
In a 38-page essay, Dario Amodei warns of civilization-level damage from superintelligent AI, questioning whether humanity has the maturity to handle such power  —  - Massive job loss: “I ... simultaneously think that AI will disrupt 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs over 1-5 years …
Robert Hart / The Verge:
Anthropic rolls out a new extension to MCP to let users interact with apps directly inside the Claude chatbot, with support for Asana, Figma, Slack, and others  —  Anthropic's one step closer to having an everything app. … Anthropic's Claude got a bit livelier today thanks …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils the Maia 200, its second-generation AI accelerator built on TSMC's 3nm process, deploying today in its Azure US Central data center region  —  The Maia 200 chip is starting to roll out to Microsoft's data centers today. … Microsoft is announcing a successor to its first in-house AI chip today, the Maia 200.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Google agrees to pay $68M to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that Google Assistant inappropriately recorded private conversations on users' devices  —  Google agreed to pay $68 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that its voice-activated assistant spied inappropriately on smartphone users, violating their privacy.
Washington Post:
US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to “destructively scan” up to 2M books with a hydraulic “cutting machine” led by an ex-Google exec  —  In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet.

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Natalie Korach / Status:
Sources: WaPo is laying off up to 300 employees, including over 100 staffers in the sports, metro, and foreign teams; the sports desk may be shuttered entirely

The Detroit News:
USA Today Co., which owns the Detroit Free Press, plans to acquire The Detroit News from MediaNews Group and continue to publish it separately

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources: Bari Weiss plans to announce new CBS contributors, including existing Free Press writers like conservative historian Niall Ferguson, at an all-hands

More News

Reuters:
Micron plans to invest $24B over the next decade to build a 700,000-square-foot memory chip facility in Singapore, with wafer output set to start in H2 2028
Murad Hemmadi / The Logic:
YC updated its website to remove Canada from its list of approved jurisdictions for incorporation, leaving the US, Cayman Islands, and Singapore as options
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Wikimedia data: iOS 26 adoption was ~50% in January, below iOS 18's 72% in 2025, as Apple slows auto-updates; Statcounter had 15% after missing Safari changes

Earlier Picks

Qwen:
Qwen releases Qwen3-Max-Thinking, its flagship reasoning model that it says demonstrates performance comparable to models such as GPT-5.2 Thinking and Opus 4.5
Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal:
Upwind Security, which filters out false security alerts in cloud apps to let security teams address actual risks, raised a $250M Series B at a ~$1.5B valuation
Jesse Coburn / ProPublica:
Sources: the US DOT plans to use Gemini to draft federal regulations, cutting the process to just 30 days; the DOT used it to draft a still-unpublished FAA rule
The Information:
Source: OpenAI targets ~$60 per 1,000 views for ChatGPT ads, on par with live NFL broadcasts and above Meta's sub-$20 CPM, while offering little conversion data
Tim De Chant / TechCrunch:
Nvidia announces its Earth-2 Medium Range weather model, built on its Atlas architecture, claiming it outperforms Google DeepMind's GenCast in 70+ variables
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
Apple unveils a second-gen AirTag with an updated speaker and the same second-gen Ultra Wideband chip as in the iPhone 17, costing $29 for one and $99 for four
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into xAI over Grok generating sexualized images of women and children; xAI faces fines of up to 6% of global revenue
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