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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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X: @parquetdeParis, @durov, @kadmitriev, @stokel, @ariehkovler, and @kadmitriev
Bluesky: @daphnek, @daphnek, @phileil, @bradheath, @nazihfares.com, @malwarejake, and @whodat35. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
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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| 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 … | 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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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski, Thomas Grote, Eric Wise, and Mitz Banarjee
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| Eric Berger / Ars Technica: |
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| 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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X: @parkerortolani and @mweinbach
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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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X: @wario64, @stealth40k, and @tomwarren
Forums: r/NintendoSwitch, r/gaming, r/NintendoSwitch, r/nintendo, r/Games, and Slashdot
| 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
X: @thedataroom, @thedataroom, and @pawlega. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/ChatGPT, and Ars OpenForum
| 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 … | 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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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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| 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.| 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.| 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 …
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| 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.
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Bluesky: @fraufrohmann, @nytpitchbot, @timdickinson, @nytpitchbot, @milesklee, @nycsouthpaw, @rmac, @rmac, @timdickinson, and @esqueer.net
| 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.
More: Digit and Digital Trends
| 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.
More: Dexerto
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Y Combinator says it will let founders receive their customary funding allotment, typically ~$500K, in Circle-issued USDC, starting with the Spring 2026 cohort — In the latest sign of digital currencies going mainstream, Silicon Valley's most prominent startup incubator will allow …
More: This Week in Fintech, The Block, and Blockchain.News
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Skyryse, which plans to integrate its flight automation OS, SkyOS, in Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft, raised a $300M+ Series C at a $1.15B valuation — Skyryse, an El Segundo, California-based aviation automation startup, has raised more than $300 million in a Series C investment …
More: Reuters
| 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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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
At the Cisco AI Summit, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company plans to build GPUs and has already hired a chief GPU architect — Intel (INTC.O) CEO Lip-Bu Tan on Tuesday said the company plans to build graphics processing units (GPUs), the category of chip popularized by Nvidia (NVDA.O).
More: Reuters
| 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
| 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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