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Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft forecast a combined ~$650B in 2026 capital expenditures, an estimated 60% YoY increase, driven by data center construction — Four of the biggest US technology companies together have forecast capital expenditures that will reach about $650 billion in 2026 …
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| Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: |
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reported a collective $1.1T backlog of cloud computing revenue in their latest quarterly earnings, including Microsoft's $625B — APPLE OF ANOTHER'S AI — 2H| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
The EU says that TikTok's “addictive design” is illegal under the DSA, citing the app's infinite scroll and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings — European Union regulators said the app's infinite scroll and personalized algorithm led to “compulsive” behavior, especially among children.
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| 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 $35.58B, above $34.93B est. — Amazon shares plunged 8% Friday after the company posted mixed fourth-quarter earnings and boosted its 2026 spending forecast to $200 billion.
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| 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% YoY to $21.19B; AMZN drops 8%+ — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2025. Fourth Quarter 2025
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| 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 … | Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Goldman Sachs says it has been working with Anthropic on AI agents to automate more roles at the bank, like trades, transactions, client vetting, and onboarding — Goldman Sachs has been working with the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic to create AI agents to automate a growing number … | Reuters: |
Sources: Intel and AMD have notified Chinese customers of supply shortages for server CPUs, with Intel warning of delivery lead times of up to six months — Intel (INTC.O) and AMD (AMD.O) have notified Chinese customers of supply shortages for server central processing units (CPUs) …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after a WSJ story about Instagram and teen mental health, noting Apple faces less scrutiny — The Meta CEO said Apple seems to get away with less criticism by lying low. … One day after The Wall Street Journal published … | Reinhardt Krause / Investor's Business Daily: |
Affirm reports Q2 revenue up 30% YoY to $1.12B, vs. $1.06B est., GMV up 36% YoY to $13.8B, net income up 61% YoY to $129.6M, and forecasts Q3 revenue above est. — Consumer financing firm Affirm Holdings (AFRM) reported fiscal second quarter earnings and revenue that topped consensus estimates.
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| CoinDesk: |
Tether acquires a 12% stake, worth $150M, in Gold.com, which enables access to physical and tokenized gold, and plans to integrate XAUT, its gold-backed token — What to know: … Tether, issuer of the world's most popular stablecoin USDT … , has acquired a $150 million minority stake in Gold.com …
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Strategy reports Q4 net loss up 1,749% YoY to $12.4B, as BTC trades below the company's $76,052 average purchase price; MSTR is down ~60% over the past year — Shares of the bitcoin-stockpiling company have fallen sharply since crypto prices touched all-time highs in October| Victoria Waldersee / Reuters: |
Only 35 countries signed a declaration affirming “human responsibility over AI-powered weapons”, with the US and China opting out; the US endorsed prior pledges — Around a third of countries attending a military AI summit agreed on Thursday to a a declaration on how to govern deployment …
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| Matthew Carey / Bloomberg Law: |
How an appeal changed the way the USPTO assesses AI patents under the US Patent Act, signaling a shift towards more favorable treatment of AI and ML inventions — Over the past few months, the US Patent and Trademark Office has treated artificial intelligence and machine learning inventions … | Wall Street Journal: |
How the SpaceX-xAI $1.25T merger deal was fast-tracked after SpaceX had a technical breakthrough in orbital data centers last fall — The fast-tracked deal is premised on SpaceX's satellite prowess combining with xAI's technology — Elon Musk took a gulp of water on stage at the World Economic Forum … | Doug O'Laughlin / SemiAnalysis: |
Analysis: Claude Code currently authors 4% of all public GitHub commits and is on track to cross 20% of all daily commits by the end of 2026 — What It Is, How We Use It, Industry Repercussions, Microsoft's Dilemma, Why Anthropic Is Winning — Doug O'Laughlin, Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros, Jordan Nanos, and 2 others| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic introduces “agent teams” in Claude Code as a research preview that launches agents “to coordinate 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.
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| Sam Sabin / Axios: |
| 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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