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Bloomberg:
SpaceX acquires xAI; sources say the all-stock deal values the combined company at $1.25T, with SpaceX valued at $1T and xAI at $250B; xAI burns ~$1B per month  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired xAI, in a deal that encompasses the billionaire's increasingly costly ambitions to dominate artificial intelligence and space exploration.
Eric Berger / Ars Technica:
If assumptions hold, SpaceX-xAI could own a full stack of capabilities, from launch to orbital bandwidth to frontier AI models, and offer AI on demand anywhere  —  SpaceX has formally acquired another one of Elon Musk's companies, xAi, the space company announced on Monday afternoon.
New York Times:
Elon Musk's SpaceX-xAI merger further intermingles his companies, creates the world's most valuable private company, and provides a financial lifeline to xAI
Liv McMahon / BBC:
Paris prosecutors say they raided X's French offices with assistance from Europol; Elon Musk and ex-CEO Linda Yaccarino have been summoned to April hearings  —  Offices belonging to Elon Musk's social media platform, X, in France are being raided by the Paris prosecutor.
Financial Times:
The UK ICO launches a new investigation into X and xAI over “serious concerns” about Grok's data use and “its potential to produce harmful sexualized” content
Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI is unsatisfied with some of Nvidia's AI chips used for inference and has sought alternatives since last year, including from Cerebras and Groq  —  OpenAI is unsatisfied with some of Nvidia's latest artificial intelligence chips, and it has sought alternatives since last year …
@oracle:
Oracle says the Nvidia-OpenAI deal has “zero impact” on its financial relationship with OpenAI and it is “highly confident in OpenAI's ability to raise funds”  —  The NVIDIA-OpenAI deal has zero impact on our financial relationship with OpenAI. We remain highly confident in OpenAI's ability to raise funds and meet its commitments.
Brian Barrett / Wired:
The US DOJ releasing emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kicks off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage  —  The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein.
More: Garbage Day, 404 Media, The Verge, Protos, Decrypt, The Verge, Ars Technica, Wired, 404 Media, Wall Street Journal, The Standard, Axios, Financial Times, New York Times, Bloomberg, New York Times, Forbes, New York Magazine, Time, New York Times, People, ZeroHedge News, Gizmodo, and CBS News
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David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI launches a Codex app for macOS, designed to serve as a command center for managing AI agents, and says Codex usage has nearly doubled since mid-December  —  ZDNET's key takeaways  — OpenAI launches a Mac-only Codex app as an agent command center.
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
Waymo raised $16B led by Sequoia, DST, and Dragoneer at a $126B valuation, plans an expansion across the US and into the UK in 2026, and has 400K+ weekly rides  —  Waymo, Alphabet Inc.'s autonomous driving unit, raised $16 billion at a $126 billion valuation, a funding round that reflects its rapid ascent as a robotaxi pioneer.
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q3 revenue of $5.2B, below $5.45B est., a net profit of $1.03B, vs. $950M est., and maintains its 19M Switch 2 sales forecast for fiscal 2026  —  Nintendo maintained its full-year Switch 2 sales forecast on Tuesday allaying some fears that the flagship console was losing momentum.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Nintendo says the Switch 1 sold 155.37M units as of December 31 since its 2017 launch, topping the DS' 154.02M units, becoming its best-selling console ever
Raphael Satter / Reuters:
Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding  —  A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners …
Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
PayPal names HP CEO Enrique Lores as CEO, replacing Alex Chriss on March 1, and reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $8.7B, missing est.; PYPL falls 15% pre-market  —  PayPal Holdings Inc. said HP Inc. Chief Executive Officer Enrique Lores will take the top job from Alex Chriss …
Variety:
Disney names Josh D'Amaro, head of its theme parks and consumer products division, as CEO, replacing Bob Iger, effective March 18; D'Amaro joined Disney in 1998  —  Dana Walden named president and chief creative officer of the company  —  The Walt Disney Co., after a more than two-year saga …
Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …:
A look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta can read users' private data  —  It's not every day that we see mainstream media get excited about encryption apps!  For that reason, the past several days have been fascinating …
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI is prioritizing ChatGPT over long-term research, prompting senior staff departures; Sora and DALL-E teams felt neglected and under resourced  —  Resources at $500bn company are being redirected from long-term research towards improving the flagship chatbot
More: Benzinga.  X: @thedataroom and @thedataroom.  Mastodon: @[email protected].  Forums: r/OpenAI

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Erik Wemple / New York Times:
A district court judge rules in favor of the NYT in its suit challenging rules that limited press access to the Pentagon, citing the First Amendment

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ABC could lose ~$50M in licensing costs to WBD and an estimated $35M in advertising revenue after abruptly pulling the new season of The Bachelorette

Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
A federal judge slows Voice of America return-to-work order and eliminates the March 23 deadline, now ordering 70 people due back each week

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Nikkei Asia:
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Isaac Rouse / Polygon.com:
Crunchyroll is raising its US prices by $2 per month; the cheapest tier gets its first price increase since 2019 and now offers offline downloads on one device
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Adobe plans to discontinue its 2D animation software Animate on March 1; enterprise customers can receive support until March 2029, and others until March 2027
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Palantir reports Q4 revenue up 70% YoY to $1.41B, above $1.33B est., and forecasts FY 2026 and Q1 revenue above estimates; PLTR jumps 6%+

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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Mozilla says Firefox users will be able to disable all AI features in its desktop browser, starting with Firefox 148, rolling out on February 24
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media:
Day AI, which is developing an AI-powered CRM service that can automate data entry, meeting prep, note-taking, and more, raised a $20M Series A led by Sequoia
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Notepad++ and security researchers say Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of its update traffic from June to December 2025
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