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Liv McMahon / BBC:
The Paris prosecutor's office says it raided X's French offices with Europol and summons Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino to appear at hearings in April  —  The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation …
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  —  Tech billionaire and platform's former chief Linda Yaccarino summoned for ‘voluntary interviews’ in April
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple brings agentic coding to Xcode 26.3, allowing developers to use Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, and integrates support for MCP  —  Apple is bringing agentic coding to Xcode.  On Tuesday, the company announced the release of Xcode 26.3, which will allow developers to use agentic tools …
Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
PayPal names HP CEO Enrique Lores as CEO, replacing interim CEO Alex Chriss on March 1, and reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $8.68B, below est.; PYPL drops 15%+  —  PayPal Holdings Inc. said HP Inc. Chief Executive Officer Enrique Lores will take the top job from Alex Chriss …
Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
Sources: HP CEO Enrique Lores leaving to become PayPal CEO blindsided HP, whose board rushed to launch a CEO search process; Lores had worked for HP since 1989  —  PayPal on Tuesday said it was booting its CEO and replacing him with its board chair Enrique Lores, sparing no ambiguity as to why …
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.
Grace Kay / Business Insider:
Staff memo: xAI says xAI and SpaceX will maintain their separate branding for now and the joint venture is continuing to prepare for a “possible IPO in 2026”
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
Wall Street Journal:
Email to current and former X and xAI employees: xAI shares will be converted into 0.1433 shares of SpaceX stock, and employees will have the option to cash out
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q3 revenue of ~$5.2B, below $5.45B est., a ~$1.03B net profit, 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 from its March 2017 launch through December 2025, topping the DS' 154.02M units, becoming its best-selling console
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
Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …:
How WhatsApp's client-side E2EE, user-held backup keys, and past reverse engineering undercut claims in a class action lawsuit that Meta can read user chats  —  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 …
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 …
Hayden Field / The Verge:
AI agent social network Moltbook grew from 30K+ users on January 30 to 1.5M+ on February 2; researchers say some of the viral posts were likely human-scripted  —  Ordinary social networks face a constant onslaught of chatbots pretending to be human.  A new social platform for AI agents …
Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg:
Crypto.com launches prediction market platform OG ahead of the Super Bowl, following 40-fold WoW growth in its event contracts business over the past six months  —  Crypto.com is launching a dedicated platform, OG, for prediction markets just days before the Super Bowl, the company said Tuesday.

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Deadline:
Sky strikes a £2.1B output deal with ITV Studios, ITV's production arm, until 2032; ITV Studios is not part of Sky's deal to acquire ITV's TV network

Tim Donnelly / The New York Groove:
Why some staffers at Schneps Media want a union: low pay leads to high turnover and a loss of institutional knowledge at the chain of local newspapers in NYC

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: Netflix is studying its data to see why viewers quit its shows after S1, with some shows seeing a 30%-70% S2 drop, as it faces a quarter without hits

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Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal:
Walmart hits a $1T market cap in intraday trading after a stock surge fueled in part by enthusiasm for its e-commerce growth and automation and AI investments

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Nikkei Asia:
Sources: China's top memory chipmakers, CXMT and YMTC, plan their biggest expansions yet, as a global supply crunch lets them close the gap with market leaders
Isaac Rouse / Polygon.com:
Crunchyroll raises its US prices by $2/month; the cheapest, $10/month tier gets its first price bump since 2019 and now offers offline downloads on one device
Bloomberg:
Trump plans to launch Project Vault, a $12B critical minerals stockpile to minimize China reliance; 12+ companies, including Google, have agreed to participate
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
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X: @adam3us, @birdyword, @powerbottomdad1, @s_lutz95, @gilduran76, @deljohnsonvc, @mttgrmm, @sachalouise, @jasonbassler1, @elonmusk, @matthewstoller, @meidastouch, @elonmusk, @tomwarren, @brendaneich, @nicucrypto, @anthon7yandrews, @scottgshore, @creatine_cycle, @burkehenryt, @l0lal33tz, @__amoxicillin_, @kanekoathegreat, @_jeremyflores, @samson143vr, @romy_holland, @prem_thakker, @elonmusk, @odddiligence, @zacbowden, @bob_burrough, @jezcorden, @peterjukes, @amittaylor, @medus4_cdc, @amritwt, @rmac18, @jdcocchiarella, @palmerluckey, @sf_mills, @alojoh, @benmullin, @dschlopesisback, @scobleizer, @maddenifico, @dschlopesisback, @vladtheinflator, @gilduran76, @prem_thakker, @litcapital, @swannmarcus89, @reidhoffman, @kanekoathegreat, @jason, @boringbiz_, @fredlambert, @morganbarrettx, @chrisjbakke, @h_adventurer, @miyaspokeofthis, @afpost, @coryswan, @evan_ss6, @bryce, @devahaz, @actingliketommy, @gregbagwell, @mattyglesias, @autismcapital, @reidhoffman, @palmerluckey, and @generic_void
Bluesky: @fraufrohmann, @nytpitchbot, @timdickinson, @nytpitchbot, @milesklee, @nycsouthpaw, @rmac, @rmac, @timdickinson, and @esqueer.net
Threads: @jongeardev, @attorneyryan, @yilingtheytriarch, @stevenfoxbury, @barrettpall, @vivllainous, @guru_merc, @localdeathwatchbeetle, and @brooksrocco
Forums: r/LateStageCapitalism, r/technology, r/MarchAgainstNazis, r/Political_Revolution, r/politics, r/musked, r/Fauxmoi, r/millenials, r/Fauxmoi, r/4chan, r/siliconvalley, and r/politics
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
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