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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.
More: XDA Developers, Decrypt, Ars Technica, Claude, Gizmodo, Benzinga, Pulse 2.0, WinBuzzer, Simon Willison's Weblog, Rohan's Bytes, MarkTechPost, Fast Company, Implicator.ai, The Decoder, Wall Street Journal, The Mac Observer, and The New Stack
Bluesky: @steveklabnik.com and @cameron.stream
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, r/google_antigravity, and Slashdot
| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6, which it says can analyze company data, regulatory filings, and market information to create detailed financial analyses — Anthropic is releasing a new version of its most powerful AI model that's designed to carry out financial research …
More: Claude, CNBC, The Information, Semafor, Moneycontrol, Financial Times, PYMNTS.com, MarketScreener, AI Insider, Livemint, CNET, Inc, investingLive, Implicator.ai, OfficeChai, 9to5Mac, Barron's Online, The Tech Buzz, SiliconANGLE, ITPro, Research & Development World, CNN, VentureBeat, Yahoo Finance, iPhone in Canada, and Rolling Out
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| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
More: Claude, The Verge, The Deep View, and The Mac Observer
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X: @deryatr_, @esrtweet, @tenobrus, @radiantnous, @krishnanrohit, @mitsuhiko, @headinthebox, and @chatgpt21. Bluesky: @steveklabnik.com. Threads: @jjackyliang
Forums: Hacker News, r/theprimeagen, r/programming, r/programare, r/accelerate, r/singularity, r/ClaudeCode, and Lobsters
| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Amazon projects its 2026 capex to hit $200B, above $146.6B est. and up from $131B in 2025, and reports Q4 AWS revenue up 24% YoY to $35.6B, above $34.9B est. — Amazon shares plunged more than 10% in extended trading Thursday after the company posted mixed fourth-quarter earnings …
More: SiliconANGLE, Telegraph, Bloomberg, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Proactive, Constellation Research, Benzinga, Quartz, and Dow Jones Newswires
X: @ophirgottlieb. LinkedIn: Annie Palmer. Bluesky: @josephpolitano. Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/ValueInvesting
| Amazon: |
Amazon reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $213.39B, vs. $211.33B est., EPS of $1.95, vs. $1.97 est., and net income up 6% to $21.19B; AMZN drops 11%+ after hours — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2025. Fourth Quarter 2025
More: Financial Times, Thurrott, GeekWire, CNBC, Türkiye Today, Modern Retail, and Deadline
X: @quinnypig, @tunguz, @amazonnews, @thestalwart, @geoffrbennett, @munster_gene, @thestalwart, @mikeisaac, and @thetranscript_. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
| 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.
More: WinBuzzer, Blockchain.News, and The Decoder
| 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
More: TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Fortune, Research & Development World, Mashable, The Deep View, NBC News, Thurrott, Neowin, Constellation Research, The Mac Observer, MarkTechPost, VentureBeat, and The New Stack
LinkedIn: Scott Cunningham. Bluesky: @timkellogg.me. Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/accelerate
| Financial Times: |
US tech stocks slide for a third consecutive day amid a sell-off in the software sector; the Nasdaq closed down 1.6%, MSFT 4.95%, QCOM 8.46%, and PLTR 6.83% — Nasdaq drops as recent high-flying companies pull market lower — US tech stocks fell on Thursday, as weak jobs data piled further pressure …
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| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: |
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| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin falls to ~$63K, its lowest level since President Trump's election win in November 2024 and down ~50% 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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| Bloomberg: |
X: @an10nev, @mert, @zavcorin, @thestalwart, @cmilakgun, @covered_call, @thestalwart, @thestalwart, @crypto_mckenna, @bykatherineross, @muyaoshen, @thestalwart, @zherbert, @ljkawa, @blknoiz06, @tomlefevre, @jyarow, and @thestalwart. Bluesky: @marypcbuk
| 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.
More: OpenAI, SmartCompany, The Information, SiliconANGLE, ZDNET, Wall Street Journal, The Mac Observer, The Register, CNBC, The Deep View, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Fortune, Yahoo Finance, Help Net Security, Barron's Online, Techstrong.ai, Neowin, Reuters, Axios, Australian Financial Review, The Decoder, The Economic Times, Blockonomi, PYMNTS.com, Implicator.ai, TechCrunch, Inc, and Constellation Research
X: @openai, @openai, @firstadopter, and @openai
LinkedIn: Gianluca Pettiti, Jay Gurudevan, Ryan Snyder, Denise Holland Dresser, and M Mohan. Forums: r/OpenAI
| 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.| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
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LinkedIn: Katharine Schwab and Teena Touch
Bluesky: @joeuchill, @rmac, @samblum, @alexrkonrad, and @jennycohn
| 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 …
More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, and The Mac Observer
X: @bobbydownes, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman
Bluesky: @durumcrustulum.com, @seanokane, @daniloc.xyz, and @tgnyc
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple wound down plans for an AI-based virtual health coach in recent weeks; Eddy Cue has told colleagues that Apple needs to move faster in health — Apple Inc. is scaling back plans for a virtual health coach, according to people with knowledge of the matter … | 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 … | 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.
More: Spotify, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Spotify, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, Dexerto, Android Authority, Android Police, Inc.com, Publishers Weekly, MakeUseOf, The Mac Observer, Digital Music News, Neowin, Digital Trends, Music Business Worldwide, PCMag, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Verge. Threads: @joshpetersel
| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Strategy reports Q4 net loss grew to $12.4B from $671M a year earlier, as BTC trades below its ~$76K average purchase price; MSTR is down 68% in the past year — Shares of the bitcoin-stockpiling company have fallen sharply since crypto prices touched all-time highs in October
More: Strategy, DL News, The Block, Benzinga, Decrypt, CoinDesk, Reuters, The Coin Republic, Coinspeaker, Bitcoin Magazine, and Crypto Briefing
X: @martypartymusic, @vivek4real_, and @bitcoinmagazine
| 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 stand-alone Vibes app, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday.
More: Platformer, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, Social Media Today, and Social Media Today
| Alex Riehl / BetaKit: |
YC adds Canada back to its accepted countries of incorporation list, saying the initial decision was due to its top Canadian companies reincorporating in the US — Y Combinator has once again revised its standard deal terms, this time to add Canada back to its list of accepted countries of incorporation.| Jason Rainbow / SpaceNews: |
The US FCC grants Starlink rival Logos clearance to deploy up to 4,178 low Earth orbit broadband satellites by 2035; Logos raised a $50M Series A in June 2025 — - Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
More: Engadget and Via Satellite
| Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Gemini exits the UK, the EU, and Australia, and cuts 25% of its staff; the crypto exchange is refocusing on the US as “foreign markets have proven hard to win” — Quick Take — Gemini links its latest layoffs to a push for a leaner, more automated operating model …
More: Gemini, DL News, Reuters, Bloomberg, New York Post, Yahoo Finance, CoinDesk, Coinspeaker, Decrypt, Cryptonews, and Crypto Briefing
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