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| Liv McMahon / BBC: |
Paris prosecutors raid X's French offices and summon Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino to appear at April hearings, in a probe into sexual deepfakes and more — 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, @globalaffairs, @durov, @rnaudbertrand, @elonmusk, @tatethetalisman, @sbarrettbar, @levelsio, @stokel, @tomtugendhat, @anatolium, @lindayax, @elonmusk, @adamscochran, @anammostarac, @prestonjbyrne, @kadmitriev, @nicksortor, @frenchresponse, @kadmitriev, @vxunderground, @curtis_yarvin, @reclaimthenethq, @ariehkovler, @frenchresponse, @frenchresponse, @franceintheus, @repdanielsingh, @gerardaraud, and @burnhamdc
Bluesky: @bradheath, @daphnek, @phileil, @nazihfares.com, @mrsbettybowers, @whodat35, @daphnek, and @malwarejake. Mastodon: @[email protected]
Forums: Hacker News, r/BetterOffline, r/europe, r/Fauxmoi, r/somethingiswrong2024, r/news, r/worldnews, r/NewsSource, r/BoycottUnitedStates, r/Full_news, r/TheMajorityReport, r/TrueAnon, r/artificial, r/UnderReportedNews, r/inthenews, r/anime_titties, r/Destiny, r/2westerneurope4u, r/worldnews, r/EnoughMuskSpam, and Beehaw
| 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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Forums: r/news, r/unitedkingdom, and r/technews
| 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 …
More: Apple, Anthropic, MacStories, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, CNBC, ZDNET, The Mac Observer, Engadget, Digital Trends, Neowin, The Verge, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada, 9to5Mac, Thurrott, and iClarified
X: @openaidevs, @parkerortolani, @dimillian, @mweinbach, @mweinbach, @rudrank, @dimillian, @rudrank, @krzyzanowskim, @danshipper, @christianselig, @camsoft2000, @dimillian, @mikeyk, @v_pradeilles, and @dimillian
Forums: r/apple, r/iOSProgramming, and r/iOSProgramming
| 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 estimates; PYPL closes 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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| 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 … | 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.
More: GamesBeat, XDA Developers, PCMag, Tom's Hardware, Kotaku, Tech4Gamers, Video Games Chronicle, and Pure Xbox. Forums: r/gaming
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
AMD reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $10.3B, Data Center revenue up 39% to $5.4B, forecasts Q1 revenue below the highest projections; AMD drops 5%+ after hours — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. shares tumbled in late trading after the chipmaker's sales forecast underwhelmed investors … | Wall Street Journal: |
Software and data stocks plunge over fears that new developments in AI will supplant software; ADBE closed down 7.31%, CRM 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| 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.
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X: @stealth40k, @tomwarren, @stealth40k, @stealth40k, @nintyprime, and @serebiinet. Forums: r/fucknintendo
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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X: @wario64, @stealth40k, @bobwulff, @stealth40k, @stealth40k, @joemerrick, @genki_jpn, @stealth40k, @genki_jpn, and @getonthestiix. LinkedIn: Austin Darigo
Forums: r/gaming, r/NintendoSwitch, r/NintendoSwitch, r/nintendo, r/Games, and Slashdot
| 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.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nvidia is nearing a deal to invest $20B in OpenAI as part of OpenAI's $100B funding round — Nvidia Corp. is nearing a deal to invest $20 billion in OpenAI as part of its latest funding round, according to people familiar with the matter, marking the chipmaker's single biggest investment in the ChatGPT developer.
More: Reuters, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, TechRadar, ZeroHedge News, and Barchart.com
| Max Knoblauch / Sherwood News: |
Take-Two reports Q3 net bookings up 28% YoY to $1.76B, vs. $1.58B, net revenue up 25% to $1.7B, and raises its annual bookings forecast; TTWO up 5%+ after hours — “Grand Theft Auto” and “NBA 2K” maker Take-TwoTTWO $223.50 (-4.23%) reported results for its fiscal third quarter on Tuesday.| 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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LinkedIn: Seth Brady and Brett Klisch
Forums: r/boxoffice, r/popculturechat, and r/movies
| 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.| 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.
| 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: @swyx, @markchen90, @pawlega, @thedataroom, @thedataroom, and @polynoamial. Mastodon: @[email protected]
Forums: r/ChatGPT, r/OpenAI, and Ars OpenForum
| Bloomberg: |
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 …
More: Reuters and The Real Deal
| 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: The Block, TechCrunch, Blockchain.News, Bitcoin Insider, and This Week in Fintech
X: @ramxbt, @ycombinator, @izqui9, @avicimoney, @simkinstepan, @sternhenri, @shanaggarwal, @solanafndn, @brian_armstrong, and @nemild. Bluesky: @jayhawkjeff. Forums: Hacker News
| 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.
More: Luffu, The Verge, TechCrunch, Fitt Insider, 9to5Mac, Android Headlines, Engadget, Wareable, and Android Authority
| 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.| 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 …
More: 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Verge, The Information, Reuters, and Channel NewsAsia
X: @justiceatr and @leehepner
| 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.
Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app and @emilymoin.com
| 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 … | 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 … | Liz Napolitano / CNBC: |
Bitcoin dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest price since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes amid mounting geopolitical concerns — Bitcoin performance over the past year.
More: Bloomberg, crypto.news, CoinGape, CoinDesk, Crypto Briefing, and NewsBTC
| Anu Adegbola / Search Engine Land: |
Microsoft launches the Publisher Content Marketplace in partnership with Condé Nast, Hearst, AP, and others, to let publishers license content to AI companies — Table of Contents — New marketplace lets publishers set terms, track usage, and get paid when AI systems ground answers in premium, licensed content.
More: Microsoft Advertising, Windows Central, The Verge, and MediaPost
| 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.
LinkedIn: Ryan Aytay
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