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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says “Claude will remain ad-free”, its users “won't see ‘sponsored’ links adjacent to” conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers — There are many good places for advertising. A conversation with Claude is not one of them.
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Bluesky: @emilprotalinski and @peark.es
Forums: r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, and Slashdot
| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic plans a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl that parodies the prospect of intrusive ads in AI conversations, and will also air a 60-second pregame ad — Chatbot wars are heating up, with Anthropic's Claude highlighting the potential frustration of bringing ads into ChatGPT| 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 10%+ — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares tumbled by the most in more than three years on Wednesday after the chipmaker's sales forecast …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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Forums: r/gaming, r/hardware, r/xbox, and r/Games
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber says it plans to expand its robotaxi services to Hong Kong, Madrid, Houston, and Zurich in 2026; Hong Kong will be Uber's first autonomous market in Asia — Uber Technologies Inc. will expand its robotaxi services to include Hong Kong and Madrid as the ride-hailing giant pours hundreds … | Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $14.37B, Gross Bookings up 22% YoY to $54.1B, trips up 22% YoY to 3.8B, and a $296M net income, below est.; UBER falls 5%+ — Ride-hailing company's quarterly profit falls on hefty charge — Uber Technologies fourth-quarter profit fell … | Rebekah Valentine / IGN: |
Q&A with Stardew Valley developer Eric Barone, aka ConcernedApe, on the game turning 10, evolving as a developer, working solo, cozy game growth, and more — We spoke to the game's creator about the journey of the last 10 years, and why he keeps returning to the valley.
More: PC Gamer, Gamereactor UK, and Dexerto
| Wall Street Journal: |
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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| Max Knoblauch / Sherwood News: |
Take-Two reports Q3 net bookings up 28% YoY to $1.76B, vs. $1.58B est., net revenue up 25% YoY to $1.7B, and raises its annual bookings forecast; TTWO drops ~5% — “Grand Theft Auto” and “NBA 2K” maker Take-TwoTTWO $223.50 (-4.23%) reported results for its fiscal third quarter on Tuesday.| Sebastian Herrera / Wall Street Journal: |
Recon Analytics: Copilot's US market share as paid users' first choice fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% in January 2026; 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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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
| 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 …
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon rolls out Alexa+ to all Prime members in the US via any Alexa-enabled device, Alexa.com, and the Alexa app, and launches a free tier for non-Prime users — Amazon's revamped AI-powered assistant is now available to everyone in the US, with new tiers that include a free option for non-Prime users.
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| Chris Tapsell / Eurogamer.net: |
An interview with Epic Games Store VP Steven Allison, who says “we have a lot of things” to fix and “the launcher sucks”, on 2026 updates like social features — Steven Allison acknowledges some people will always say “F— Epic", as focus finally shifts to player experience.| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
A profile of game studio Obsidian, which Microsoft acquired in 2018, as it seeks to shorten development times and cut costs after releasing three titles in 2025 — Microsoft's Obsidian Entertainment is searching for ways to make games more quickly and on smaller budgets.
More: The Guardian, GamesBeat, Polygon.com, Screen Rant, Gamereactor UK, Gameranx, 80 Level, Video Games Chronicle, PlayStation LifeStyle, and PC Gamer
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Forums: r/projecteternity, r/rpg_gamers, r/GroundedGame, r/avowed, r/theouterworlds, r/kindafunny, r/gaming, r/PS5, and r/xbox
| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba Cloud add OpenClaw support, offering users the AI agent platform as a service; many OpenClaw users run it on a Mac mini — As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it out
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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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Bluesky: @jeanedouardsix, @thetrin.blacksky.app, @blueneumann, @viridianth, and @radiodeadair.com
Forums: r/adobeanimate and Slashdot
| 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.| Financial Times: |
Sources: the US Commerce Department finished reviewing Nvidia's H200 China license, but the State Department wants tougher restrictions, delaying final approval — The state department has pushed for close scrutiny before approving export licences — Michael Acton in San Francisco …
More: Benzinga, The Information, and AsiaOne
| 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: Decrypt, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, Cointelegraph, The Crypto Times, Bitcoin Insider, The Block, crypto.news, and Crypto Briefing. Bluesky: @staffordphilip
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
TRM Labs, which helps law enforcement and companies track crypto and blockchains, raised a $70M Series C led by Blockchain Capital at a $1B valuation — When TRM Labs cofounders Esteban Castaño and Rahul Raina moved to San Francisco in 2018 to create a startup, their mentors told …
More: FinSMEs, The Block, TRM Insights, CoinDesk, Coinspeaker, Crypto Briefing, Cointelegraph, Cryptonews, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Bitcoinist.com. X: @can
| Nick Turner / Bloomberg: |
Texas Instruments plans to buy US chip company Silicon Labs in a $7.5B deal, paying $231/share in cash, closing in H1 2027; Silicon Labs has a $4.5B market cap — Texas Instruments Inc. has reached an agreement to buy the US chip firm Silicon Laboratories Inc. for about $7.5 billion … | Jeff Horwitz / Reuters: |
US Senators introduce the bipartisan SCAM Act, a bill requiring social media platforms to verify advertiser identities via government-issued ID or legal docs — U.S. Senators Ruben Gallego and Bernie Moreno have introduced anti-scam legislation requiring social media platforms to vet their advertisers.| 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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X: @justiceatr, @jason_kint, and @leehepner
| Sabrina Ortiz / The Deep View: |
Mistral debuts Voxtral Transcribe 2, a family of speech-to-text models with speaker diarization and ultra-low latency, under the Apache 2.0 open-weight license — AI assistants are going voice-first, and Mistral AI just launched its models to compete. — On Wednesday, the French AI startup … | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Reno-based chip startup Positron raised a $230M Series B from the QIA and others to build high-speed memory chips, taking its total raised to $300M+ — Semiconductor startup Positron has secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
More: FinSMEs, eWeek, Business Wire, Bloomberg, and Ventureburn
| Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: |
German chipmaker Infineon reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY €3.66B, above €3.62B est., expects to raise investments to €2.7B in 2026, and forecasts growing AI demand — Infineon Technologies AG said it will ramp up its investment in technology for artificial intelligence …
More: Reuters, Infineon, Capacity, Dow Jones Newswires, and Tech in Asia
| Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: |
Prosus agrees to a multiyear AWS cloud and AI deal that runs into “hundreds of millions of dollars”, as it seeks to expand in Europe, India, and Latin America — Prosus NV reached a multi-year cloud and artificial-intelligence deal with an Amazon.com Inc. unit that will consolidate contracts …
More: Blockonomi and Tech in Asia
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple brings agentic coding to Xcode, starting with version 26.3, letting developers use Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, and integrates MCP support — Apple is bringing agentic coding to Xcode. On Tuesday, the company announced the release of Xcode 26.3 …
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X: @openaidevs, @danshipper, @rudrank, @mweinbach, @krzyzanowskim, @christianselig, @dimillian, @mikeyk, @v_pradeilles, @rudrank, @dimillian, @camsoft2000, @dimillian, @dimillian, @parkerortolani, and @mweinbach
LinkedIn: Tim Sneath, Jerome Bouvard, and Mike Krieger. Bluesky: @george.black. Mastodon: @paul@tapbots.social
Forums: r/iOSProgramming, r/Anthropic, r/macbookpro, r/iOSProgramming, and r/apple
| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
An interview with Kai-Fu Lee on his startup 01.ai, which builds agentic AI tools for companies, why he thinks China will beat the US in consumer AI, and more — Chinese AI pioneer talks about the competition between the technology's two superpowers and why companies need to be more proactive in adopting itSponsor Posts
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