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Software and data stocks plunge over fears that new AI developments will supplant software; ADBE closed down 7.31%, CRM fell 6.85%, and Thomson Reuters 15.83% — From Legalzoom.com and Expedia to Ares and Apollo, shares of companies that sell or invest in software fell sharply on Tuesday
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $10.3B, Data Center revenue up 39% YoY to $5.4B, and forecasts Q1 revenue at $9.8B, below $10B projections; AMD drops 8%+ — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares tumbled in late trading after the chipmaker's sales forecast underwhelmed investors … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
On an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su says Microsoft's next-gen Xbox “is progressing well to support a launch in 2027” and will feature an AMD semi-custom SoC — AMD says it's ready to support Microsoft launching its next Xbox as soon as next year.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
AMD reports $390M in revenue from MI308 AI chip sales in China in Q4; CEO Lisa Su says orders were “from very early in 2025” but shipped in Q4 after US approval — Company sees $100m more revenue from China as Beijing weighs rules on Nvidia, other foreign chips
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Apptopia: ChatGPT's US market share fell from 69.1% to 45.3% from January 2025 to January 2026; Gemini rose from 14.7% to 25.1%, Grok rose from 1.6% to 15.2% — Google, Grok are gaining ground on ChatGPT as the chatbot market expands. — ∙ Paid — OpenAI's rivals are cutting into ChatGPT's lead.
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| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Recon: the US market share of Copilot as paid users' first choice fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% in January 2026, while Gemini's rose from 12.8% to 15.7% — Microsoft's Pivotal AI Product Is Running Into Big Problems After leaning on its partnership with OpenAI, Microsoft is playing catch-up in the chatbot race.
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
A US judge sentences Rui-Siang Lin, who pled guilty to operating the $105M+ dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market, to 30 years in US federal prison — U.S. prosecutors say the Taiwanese operator of the $105 Million Incognito Market used cryptocurrency and anonymity tools … | 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 …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Adobe reverses its plans to discontinue Animate after creators expressed frustration, saying it won't get new features but will remain available “indefinitely” — It won't get new features, but it will still be available. … Adobe is no longer planning to discontinue Adobe Animate on March 1st.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: the US Commerce Department finished reviewing Nvidia's H200 China license, but the State Department seeks tighter restrictions, delaying its approval — The state department has pushed for close scrutiny before approving export licences — Michael Acton in San Francisco …
More: The Information, Benzinga, Finbold, and AsiaOne
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nvidia nears a deal to invest $20B in OpenAI as part of OpenAI's $100B fundraise; the CEOs of both publicly said they are committed to working together — Nvidia Corp. is nearing a deal to invest $20 billion in OpenAI as part of its latest funding round, according to people familiar …
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| Lee Ying Shan / CNBC: |
KKR and Singtel agree to acquire the remaining 82% stake in data center operator STT GDC for ~$5.1B, giving the company an enterprise value of ~$10.86B — Private equity firm KKR and Singapore Telecommunications will acquire the remaining 82% stake in data center operator ST Telemedia Global Data Centres … | Max Knoblauch / Sherwood News: |
Take-Two reports Q3 net bookings up 28% YoY to $1.76B, above $1.58B, net revenue up 25% YoY to $1.7B, and raises its annual bookings forecast; TTWO jumps 5%+ — “Grand Theft Auto” and “NBA 2K” maker Take-TwoTTWO $223.50 (-4.23%) reported results for its fiscal third quarter on Tuesday.
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: Anthropic plans an employee tender offer at a $350B+ pre-money valuation, the same valuation discussed in the company's ongoing $20B fundraising — Anthropic is working on a deal to let some employees sell shares in the company at a valuation of at least $350 billion …
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| BBC: |
Pinterest fires two employees who it says “wrote custom scripts” that accessed confidential info to track which workers lost their jobs during recent layoffs — Pinterest has sacked two engineers for tracking which workers lost their jobs in a recent round of layoffs.
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| Jill R Shah / Financial Times: |
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says initial plans to raise $15B to $20B were a “misconception”; sources say Tether's advisers have floated raising as little as $5B — CEO Paolo Ardoino downplays the scale of $185bn stablecoin group's capital raise — Tether's chief executive …
More: CoinDesk, The Crypto Times, Reuters, crypto.news, and Crypto Briefing. Bluesky: @staffordphilip
| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Obsidian, a game studio Microsoft acquired in 2018, as it seeks to expedite game development and reduce costs after releasing three titles in 2025 — Microsoft's Obsidian Entertainment is searching for ways to make games more quickly and on smaller budgets.
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| David Pan / Bloomberg: |
Galaxy Digital reports a Q4 net loss of $482M, above $282M est., driven primarily by the crypto market crash, and says its trading volumes declined ~40% QoQ — Billionaire Michael Novogratz said he remains optimistic even after Galaxy Digital Inc. posted a wider-than-expected loss … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Salesforce's Tableau chief, Ryan Aytay, leaves after 19 years at the company, just two months after Slack CEO Denise Dresser left for OpenAI — The chief of Salesforce Inc.'s data visualization unit, Tableau, has left the company, raising some concerns on Wall Street about executive churn at the software maker.| Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: |
Filing: OpenAI accuses xAI of systematically destroying evidence in its antitrust case by directing employees to use auto-deleting “ephemeral messaging tools” — OpenAI accused Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company of “systematic and intentional destruction” …
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| Alicia Tang / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI names Dylan Scandinaro, who worked on AGI safety at Anthropic, as the company's head of preparedness — In December, OpenAI made headlines when it posted a job listing for a “head of preparedness” with an eye-watering base pay range of as much as $555,000 a year.
More: The Hans India, The Verge, Business Insider, and Digit
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Global fintech VC funding rose 27% YoY in 2025 to $51.8B; Y Combinator was the most active investor in the space, participating in 151 deals, up 24.8% YoY — Global venture funding to fintech startups increased by 27% in 2025 to its highest level in several quarters, boosted by later-stage deals, Crunchbase data shows.| 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
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Alaffia Health, which provides AI tools for health plan claims operations, raised a $55M Series B led by Transformation Capital — Agentic artificial intelligence for health plan claims operations startup Alaffia Health Inc. announced today that it has raised $55 million in new funding to accelerate growth …
More: MedCity News, Alaffia, MobiHealthNews, HIT Consultant, FinSMEs, and VC News Daily
| 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 $8.68B, below est.; PYPL closed down 20.3% — PayPal Holdings Inc. said HP Inc. Chief Executive Officer Enrique Lores will take the top job from Alex Chriss …
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| Bloomberg: |
US v. Google: the DOJ and a group of states will appeal the September 2025 ruling in the Search antitrust case in which Google dodged a forced sale of Chrome — A group of states led by Colorado will appeal a federal judge's ruling that imposed only modest limits on Alphabet Inc.'s Google contracts related …
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| Michelle Chan / Financial Times: |
Sources: banks are marketing at least $56B in investment-grade data center construction loans tied to Oracle's leases, as they seek out new buyers for the loans — Rare investment-grade rating helps attract insurers and private credit funds to construction debt| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Sources: US-based Arcee AI is pitching investors on a $200M+ funding round valuing it at over $1B, as it plans to train an open-weight model with 1T+ parameters — The American startup is pitching investors on a $1 billion+ valuation to train a model over a trillion parameters …
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