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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 …
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| Steve Yegge: |
After talking with ~40 people at Anthropic, a look at its “Yes, and...” culture where every idea is welcomed and judged based on vibes, like a hive mind — As you've probably noticed, something is happening over at Anthropic. They are a spaceship that is beginning to take off.
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Corning's booming fiber-optic business, boosted by data center demand and a $6B Meta deal, as Nvidia explores Corning's co-packaged optics for servers — Everyone told the company to sell its unprofitable fiber-optic business. Now that division is powering its stock to all-time highs.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
US data center demand has driven stock surges of contractors and equipment makers like Corning, Sterling Infrastructure, Comfort Systems USA, and Carrier Global — Data-center demand has sent shares in contractors, equipment makers and more surging — The intensity of America's data-center build …
LinkedIn: Robert Elfinger, Zak Kostura, Andrew C. Lindsey, Chris Teddy, and David Gitlin
| Bloomberg: |
Tether froze $544M in alleged illicit income at Turkey's request, part of its push to aid governments in crackdowns against crypto use in alleged crimes — On Jan. 30, Turkish authorities announced the freezing of more than half a billion dollars in assets owned by Veysel Sahin …
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| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
Trump-linked World Liberty Financial's stablecoin, USD1, hit $5B in total circulation in January with 85% held in Binance accounts; Trump pardoned CZ in October — Ties between the exchange and the president's company, World Liberty Financial, have only strengthened since the president pardoned Binance's founder, Changpeng Zhao.
More: Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, and CryptoPotato
| 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
More: Protos. X: @itzsuds, @csfraudanalysis, and @jrghaddar
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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X: @davezatz, @drbarnard, @theroberthu, @ranimolla, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
More: TechCrunch, NYSenate.gov, WOUB Public Media, Engadget, Spectrum News 1 Central NY, Democrat And Chronicle, The Hill, Politico, MLive.com, and Bisnow
X: @pat_hedger, @deanwball, @miles_brundage, and @mollytaft
Forums: r/nyc and r/newyorkcity
| 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.
More: Investor's Business Daily, Caixin Global, EV, and Semafor
| Bloomberg: |
Kalshi and Polymarket have facilitated over $800M in Super Bowl contracts, as pro gamblers shift to prediction markets and adopt Wall Street-style strategies — The sudden rise of prediction markets has sophisticated bettors scrambling to adjust their strategies.
More: Business Wire, Futurism, Bloomberg, Barron's Online, and Bloomberg Law
LinkedIn: Guy Harding and Ira Boudway
| 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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