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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6, which it says can scrutinize company data, regulatory filings, and market info; Anthropic now has 300K+ business users — Anthropic is releasing a new version of its most powerful AI model that's designed to carry out financial research …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says it found Opus 4.6 “brings more focus to the most challenging parts of a task without being told to” and “thinks more deeply and more carefully” — We're upgrading our smartest model. — The new Claude Opus 4.6 improves on its predecessor's coding skills.
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
Anthropic says Opus 4.6 found 500+ previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting during its testing — - Before its debut, Anthropic's frontier red team tested Opus 4.6 in a sandboxed environment to see how well it could find bugs in open-source code.| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic introduces “agent teams” in Claude Code as a research preview to launch multiple agents that work in parallel, and a Claude in PowerPoint plugin — On Thursday, Anthropic released the latest version of Opus — its most advanced model and a particularly important model for Claude Code.
More: Claude, The Verge, and The Mac Observer
| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex, which it says runs 25% faster, enabling longer-running tasks, and “is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself” — ZDNET's key takeaways — GPT-5.3-Codex helped debug and deploy parts of itself. — Codex can be steered mid-task without losing context.| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex goes beyond an agent that can code “to an agent that can do nearly anything developers and professionals can do on a computer” — Expanding Codex across the full spectrum of professional work on a computer. — Join the Codex app waitlist
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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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| 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.
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| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
| 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.
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| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin falls to ~$66K, 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.
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| 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.
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| 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 … | Alex Riehl / BetaKit: |
Y Combinator adds Canada back to its accepted countries list, and says it had removed the country because its top Canadian companies reincorporated in the US — Y Combinator has once again revised its standard deal terms, this time to add Canada back as one of its permitted sites of investment.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta confirms it is testing a standalone app for Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI videos, after “strong early traction”, without sharing specific numbers — Meta is testing a standalone Vibes app, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday.| 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.
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| Cheeky Pint: |
Q&A with Elon Musk on launching 1TW of space GPUs, Grok and human consciousness, Optimus, xAI's business plan, China's manufacturing win, DOGE, and more — Timecodes — Transcript — Are there really three hours of questions? Are you fucking serious? — Dwarkesh Patel
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| 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.| Jason Rainbow / SpaceNews: |
The US FCC grants Starlink competitor Logos clearance to deploy up to 4,178 low Earth orbit broadband satellites by 2035; Logos raised a $50M Series A in 2025 — - Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook told Apple staff at an all-hands that he's “deeply distraught” with the US' current approach to immigration and he will press the issue with lawmakers — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook told employees that he's “deeply distraught” with the US's current approach … | 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.| 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 … | Janko Roettgers / The Verge: |
A look at the informal economy of rogue streaming box resellers who sell hardware offering free access to live sports events, cable TV, and streaming services — Walk the rows of the farmers market in a small, nondescript Texas town about an hour away from Austin, and you might stumble …
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
AI interpretability startup Goodfire raised a $150M Series B at a $1.25B valuation, taking its total funding to $209M, and is working on retraining AI models — A growing cadre of multibillion-dollar startups are racing to create the best artificial intelligence models …
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