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February 6, 2026, 9:55 PM
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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.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to allow third-party voice-controlled AI chatbots in CarPlay within the coming months; it won't let users replace CarPlay's Siri button  —  Apple Inc. is preparing to allow voice-controlled artificial intelligence apps from other companies in CarPlay …
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Waymo says it is using DeepMind's Genie 3 to create realistic digital worlds for its autonomous driving technology to train on edge-case scenarios  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo said it is using DeepMind's Genie 3 AI model to create realistic, digital worlds for its autonomous driving technology to train on edge-case scenarios.
Wall Street Journal:
Palmer Luckey's Erebor becomes the first newly created bank to receive a national charter under the second Trump administration, launching with $635M in capital  —  Erebor founder Palmer Luckey was one of the tech industry's early Trump supporters and is known for his penchant for Hawaiian shirts
Nitin T Bhat / Heroku:
Heroku says it is transitioning to a “sustaining engineering model”, as it focuses on “helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI”  —  Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support.
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
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Crypto.com co-founder Kris Marszalek buys the domain AI.com for $70M, the highest disclosed price for a domain name, as he plans a site offering an AI agent  —  Kris Marszalek plans to launch new site with a Super Bowl ad this weekend  —  The founder of cryptocurrency trading site Crypto.com …
Molly Taft / Wired:
New York lawmakers propose a bill to impose a three-year moratorium on data center development, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce such legislation  —  Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.
Wall Street Journal:
A civil subpoena shows the US DOJ is investigating Netflix for potential anticompetitive tactics as DOJ probes the company's proposed acquisition of WBD  —  As it probes bids for Warner, the department is asking if the streamer has engaged in conduct that could make it a monopoly
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
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in English, summarized from third-party sources to highlight song details, in beta for Premium users  —  Spotify is rolling out a new “About the Song” feature that lets users explore the stories behind the music they're listening to, the company announced on Friday.
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 …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia stock closes up 7.92% after Jensen Huang said the tech industry's surging capex for AI infrastructure is justified, appropriate, and sustainable  —  The tech industry's surging capital expenditures for AI infrastructure are justified, appropriate and sustainable, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Friday on CNBC's “Halftime Report.”
Eric Jang / Evjang.com:
A look at the state of AI agents, the evolution of thinking models, the staggering need for inference compute in the coming years, automated research, and more  —  — Dr. Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, 1945  —  If we consider life to be a sort of open-ended MMO, the game server has just received a major update.

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
NPR retracts an article saying Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring; he has made no such announcement, and a spokesman called the story “inaccurate”

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Dish DBS and several subsidiaries file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Texas; the company expects to emerge from bankruptcy by the third quarter

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Netflix and Eureka Productions worked with ElevenLabs to use AI to re-create Gene Wilder's voice as Willy Wonka for a new unscripted series

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Brian Faler / Politico:
Amazon's annual tax bill fell 87% YoY to $1.2B in 2025, as profits grew 45% to ~$90B, mostly due to GOP's depreciation breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill

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Annie Bang / Bloomberg:
AT&T launches amiGO Jr., a mid-tier Samsung-made smartphone for kids with parental controls on contacts, app access, screen time, and more, for $2.99 per month
Anuj Behal / The Guardian:
Women in rural India report experiencing trauma from data annotation work, which requires them to review violent content and porn for global tech companies
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
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
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
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”
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