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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6, which it says can analyze company data, regulatory filings, and market information; 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.
More: Claude, Simon Willison's Weblog, Wall Street Journal, Thurrott, The New Stack, Fast Company, Implicator.ai, WinBuzzer, The Decoder, The Mac Observer, Sherwood News, XDA Developers, and Forbes
Bluesky: @steveklabnik.com and @cameron.stream
Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/singularity, r/google_antigravity, and Slashdot
| 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, The Deep View, and The Mac Observer
| 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.| 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, Fortune, Thurrott, The New Stack, VentureBeat, Neowin, Constellation Research, The Mac Observer, Sherwood News, and MarkTechPost
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| 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: NBC News, Blockchain.News, The Decoder, and 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.
More: NBC News, San Francisco Examiner, and Forbes
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| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
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Bluesky: @joeuchill, @rmac, @samblum, @alexrkonrad, and @jennycohn
| 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
More: Business Insider, Business Insider, Reuters, and Wall Street Journal
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| Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi: |
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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.
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X: @openai, @openai, @firstadopter, and @openai
| 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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| 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
| 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: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Information, and The Mac Observer
X: @markgurman and @markgurman
Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz, @seanokane, @durumcrustulum.com, and @tgnyc
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
More: PCMag, The Verge, Tom's Hardware, XDA Developers, VideoCardz.com, Dexerto, Kotaku, Benzinga, ZeroHedge News, Financial Post, Tom's Guide, Tech4Gamers, and DigiTimes
| Amazon: |
Amazon reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $213.4B, net income up 6% to $21.19B, and EPS of $1.95, vs. $1.97 est.; AMZN drops 10%+ after hours — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2025. Fourth Quarter 2025
More: CNBC and Capital Brief
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
| Cheeky Pint: |
Q&A with Elon Musk on plans for 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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| 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.| 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 to its list of accepted countries of incorporation.| 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, Reuters, DL News, New York Post, CoinDesk, Yahoo Finance, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, Coinspeaker, Cryptonews, and Crypto Briefing
| 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, Via Satellite, and SatNews
| 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.| 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.
More: Gematsu, Game World Observer, Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg
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