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| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
Investor fears that software companies are facing an AI-driven extinction event are exaggerated, but the persistent belief has damaged their stocks for months — Fears that software companies are facing an extinction event are exaggerated, but other dangers are real
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| Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: |
Wall Street's idea that a software pure play will “vanish” into an LLM is “nonsense”: we need more software, and AI-enabled software moves up the product stack — Too much of what is going on is a race to get to a theoretical end state of a whole new world of business and technology.
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| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $113.83B, above $111.43B est., Cloud revenue up 48% to $17.66B, vs. $16.18B est., and net income up 30% to $34.46B — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - February 4, 2026 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2025.
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| Stephen Morris / Financial Times: |
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches Frontier, an AI agent management platform that provides shared context, onboarding, and permission boundaries, for “a limited set of customers” — Think HR, but for AI. … Managing humans is hard. Managing AI agents is... also hard.| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify partners with Bookshop.org to let Premium US and UK subscribers buy hardcover and paperback books via its app starting in spring; Spotify will get a cut — Streaming service is joining with Bookshop.org to appeal to readers who read in multiple formats — Spotify Technology is getting into the physical book business.| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Sony reports Q3 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$23.7B, vs. ~$23.5B est., operating profit up 22% to ~$3.3B, vs. ~$3B est., and raises FY operating profit outlook by 8% — Sony on Thursday reported a rise in operating profit that beat expectations, supported by favorable foreign exchange rates despite surging memory chip costs.| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
Sony reports Q3 gaming and network services revenue down 4% YoY to ~$10.5B, profit up 19% YoY to ~$889M, and PlayStation 5 sales down 16% YoY to 8M units — Japan's Sony (6758.T) on Thursday reported a 22% rise in third-quarter operating profit that trounced forecasts and lifted its full-year outlook …
More: Video Games Chronicle, Push Square, TheGamer, and Insider Gaming
| The Information: |
Sources: Nvidia delays the release of its incremental gaming GPU upgrade, codenamed Kicker, marking the first year in three decades without a new GPU for gaming — Nvidia won't release a new graphics chip for gamers this year due to a deepening global shortage of memory chips …
More: The Verge, Tom's Guide, Sherwood News, eWeek, and DigiTimes
| Bloomberg: |
TSMC plans to produce 3nm chips at its second plant in Kumamoto, Japan; sources say that is an upgrade from an original plan to produce 7nm chips by late 2027 — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to make advanced 3-nanometer chips in Japan, stepping up its semiconductor manufacturing roadmap … | Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Arm CEO Rene Haas says investor fears about AI hurting software companies are a “micro-hysteria” that exceeds the reality of how businesses are using AI tools — SoftBank-owned chip group forecasts strong growth in data centre business but shares slide amid wider tech rout
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| Sam Altman / @sama: |
Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl ads are funny but “dishonest”, and Anthropic serves a “product to rich people” while OpenAI is “committed to free access” — First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won't do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Substack notifies users about a “limited” data breach in October 2025 via a now-patched flaw found on February 3; a threat actor leaked a ~697K-record database — Newsletter platform Substack is notifying users of a data breach after attackers stole their email addresses and phone numbers in October 2025.| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin falls below $70K, its lowest level since President Trump's election win in November 2024 and down 44%+ from its October 2025 peak as global markets fall — Bitcoin slumped below $70,000, a level last seen 15 months ago, as a broad risk-off sentiment engulfed global markets.
More: Inc.com, CNBC, and CoinJournal
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at India's push to become a major provider of AI services; in the past few months, US companies pledged to invest tens of billions in Indian data centers — Lured by big, tech-savvy population, Google and other giants sinking tens of billions into Indian market
More: Tech in Asia and Constellation Research
| Reuters: |
Amazon MGM Studio plans to develop new AI tools via its “AI Studio” to speed TV and film production and cut costs, in collaboration with AWS and LLM providers — Amazon (AMZN.O) plans to use artificial intelligence to speed up the process for making movies and TV shows …
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X: @jerrycap. LinkedIn: Albert Cheng. Bluesky: @jameshamiltonwriter.com. Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| New York Times: |
DOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction — The disgraced financier regularly courted tech industry figures not just for their prestige but also for access to promising companies.
More: Forbes, San Francisco Examiner, and NBC News
X: @cowboycrypto313, @nafeezahmed, @aaronrday, and @cryptadamist
| Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Gemini exits the UK, EU and Australia and cuts 25% of staff, as the crypto exchange refocuses on the US due to foreign markets proving “hard to win” — Quick Take — Gemini links its latest layoffs to a push for a leaner, more automated operating model, saying increased use of AI lets it run faster with fewer staff.
More: DL News, Reuters, Coinspeaker, Crypto Briefing, and Bloomberg
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Andy Jassy taps Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon VP of worldwide selling partner services, as his technical advisor, a “shadow” role leading to greater roles, from March — Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has tapped one of the company's top marketplace executives to be his new “shadow” advisor, the company announced Wednesday.
More: About Amazon, Seattle Business Journal, and GeekWire
LinkedIn: Amit Agarwal and Dharmesh Mehta
| Tim Barnwell / Silicon Republic: |
Duna, a European fintech making AI-powered identity and compliance tools for banks, raised a €30M Series A led by CapitalG, bringing its total funding to €40M+ — Duna's co-founders Duco van Lanschot and David Schreiber both had senior roles at Stripe in the past.
More: EU-Startups, Financial Post, and Tech in Asia
| Karin Matussek / Bloomberg: |
Germany's Federal Cartel Office rules Amazon must stop enforcing price controls for retailers on its German marketplace and seizes €59M; Amazon can appeal — Amazon.com Inc. must stop enforcing price controls for retailers on its German marketplace, according to the nation's antitrust watchdog … | Will Knight / Wired: |
A look at Axiom, which is building AxiomProver, an AI model able to verify proofs that it claims has found solutions to at least four longstanding math problems — Axiom says its AI found solutions to several long-standing math problems, a sign of the technology's steadily advancing reasoning capabilities.| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Researchers say TikTok's server outage in late January disrupted all post categories, not just political content as users claimed, based on limited public data — As a consortium of investors led by Oracle's Larry Ellison took control of TikTok's U.S. business, users accused the app … | Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
London-based Lawhive, whose lawyers and AI tools help individuals and SMBs automate legal tasks, raised a $60M Series B, after a $40M Series A in December 2024 — Lawhive, a British startup that wants to use AI to transform the business model of law firms that perform routine legal work …
More: Tech.eu, FinSMEs, BusinessCloud, Tech Funding News, UK Tech Investment News, and EU-Startups
| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Fundamental, which has developed an LTM to analyze structured data, comes out of stealth with $255M in funding, including a $225M Series A, at a $1.2B valuation — An AI lab called Fundamental emerged from stealth on Thursday, offering a new foundation model to solve an old problem …
More: FinSMEs, VentureBeat, Financial Times, Fast Company, and Axios
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