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February 7, 2026, 11:25 PM
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Rani Molla / Sherwood News:
Apple, whose capital expenditure is just a fraction of its peers, is the only Big Tech company that saw capex decline YoY in Q4, decreasing 19% to $2.37B  —  One of these companies is not like the others.  —  If you've been following the Big Tech companies' earnings reports …
Financial Times:
DOJ-released emails: Jeffrey Epstein helped Ian Osborne, founder of London-based fund Hedosophia, after Osborne's outreach to help Epstein fix his image in 2011  —  Convicted sex offender helped establish tech fund Hedosophia after Osborne offered to help clean up Epstein's image
Hyunjoo Jin / Reuters:
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb says it accidentally sent $44B worth of bitcoin to customers as promotional rewards and has recovered 99.7% of it  —  South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb said on Saturday it had accidentally given away more than $40 billion worth of bitcoins …
Oliver Roeder / Financial Times:
An interview with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about the “wisdom of the crowd”, political polarization, having Trump Jr. as an adviser, casino comparisons, and more  —  The co-founder of America's biggest predictions market on the ‘wisdom of the crowd’, political polarisation — and the company's adviser, Donald Trump Jr
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 …
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.
Stephen Wilmot / Wall Street Journal:
New US rules banning Chinese software in internet-connected vehicles from March 17 add urgency to industrywide efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese components  —  New U.S. rules ban Chinese software in vehicles on national-security grounds  —  How Chinese is your car?  Automakers are racing to work it out.
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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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at ABC News' 24-hour Fourth of July programming marathon for the US' 250th anniversary, which it calls “the longest commercial broadcast in history”

Peter Walker / The Guardian:
UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says she and her department will stop using X because the site favors “abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
A look at the UK's role in the Paramount-WBD merger: Paramount has said it remains confident of avoiding a “ticking fee” that would start at the end of Q3

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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
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
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”
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
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