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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 …
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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| 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.
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| 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 … | 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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| 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: |
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| 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
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil Luffu, a self-funded startup developing an AI-powered “family care system”, currently in private testing — Two years after exiting Google, the co-founders of Fitbit are launching their next act: an AI-powered service for monitoring the health of one's entire family.
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| 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 …
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Lotus Health, which uses AI to offer free, 24/7 primary care in 50 languages, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins, taking its funding to $41M — A growing number of people are asking OpenAI's ChatGPT and other LLMs about their health, often discovering that the chatbots provide remarkably useful medical insights.| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
A profile of Sam Altman, who says “we basically have built AGI, or very close to it” before dialing back his claim to “a spiritual statement, not a literal one” — As CEO of OpenAI, the 40-year-old billionaire unleashed ChatGPT, mainstreaming artificial intelligence and creating a $500 billion behemoth.| 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 … | Henry Chandonnet / Business Insider: |
Grindr is testing Edge, a subscription tier with AI-powered personalized matches and insights, no ads, and more, with prices ranging from $80 to $220 per week — - Grindr is testing a new AI subscription tier called “Edge.” The pilot prices are steep, ranging from $80 to $200 a week.
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Apptopia: ChatGPT's US market share fell from 69.1% to 45.3% between Jan. 2025 and Jan. 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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| 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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| Craig Chapple / PocketGamer.biz: |
Ares Interactive, which makes cross-platform, free-to-play games with plans for a new baseball game in 2026, raised a $70M Series A led by General Catalyst — Company president Mike DeLaet discusses how the ambitious company aims to scale, potential acquisitions and the opportunities for Baseball Hits 26
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Tomorrow.io raised $175M at a $1B+ valuation to deploy an AI-driven LEO satellite network for weather forecasting, bringing its total funding to ~$500M — DeepSky constellation aims to replace aging government infrastructure and close global forecasting gaps.
More: Globes, Tomorrow.io, and SiliconANGLE
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Sources: Alphabet plans a new complex in Bengaluru, India, which can accommodate up to 20K extra staff, amid US visa restrictions and proposed H-1B fee hikes — Alphabet Inc. is plotting to dramatically expand its presence in India, with the possibility of taking millions of square feet … | Geoff Weiss / Business Insider: |
Gruve, which taps unused power and space from US data center providers for AI inference, raised a $50M Series A extension, taking its total funding to $87.5M — - Gruve raised $50 million to power AI inference as demand shifts from training. — The startup stitches together unused data center power across major US cities.| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI is unsatisfied with some of Nvidia's latest AI chips for inference and has sought alternatives since 2025, such as from AMD, Cerebras, and Groq — OpenAI is unsatisfied with some of Nvidia's latest artificial intelligence chips, and it has sought alternatives since last year …
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