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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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| 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.”
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| 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.
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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 — Erebor founder Palmer Luckey was one of the tech industry's early Trump supporters and is known for his penchant for Hawaiian shirts
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| Emily Herbert / Financial Times: |
US tech stocks and bitcoin rally after three days of selling; Nasdaq Composite closed up 2.18%, Broadcom 7.22%, Strategy 26.11%, and bitcoin rebounded to ~$70K — Nasdaq climbs after sell-off fuelled by worries over vast AI spending — US technology stocks and bitcoin rallied strongly … | Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Trump Mobile execs showcase the T1 Phone's new design and specs, and say the phones go through “final assembly” in Miami and full assembly in the US is a “goal” — I spoke to two Trump Mobile executives for an exclusive first look at what they say is the T1 Phone.| 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.
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| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Source: Benchmark raised $225M in special funds to invest in Cerebras' ~$1B Series H, led by Tiger Global; Benchmark led Cerebras' $27M Series A in 2016 — This week, AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems announced that it raised $1 billion in fresh capital at a valuation of $23 billion …
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| 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.
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
RADICL, which offers threat detection and response services to SMBs supporting US defense industrial base and critical infrastructure, raised a $31M Series A — Cybersecurity-as-a-service startup Radicl Defense Inc. announced today that it has raised $31 million in early-stage funding … | 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 …
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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 … | 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.
| Bloomberg: |
Chinese regulators fined Kuaishou $17.2M for failing to curb illegal content; pornographic content appeared on Kuaishou during its December 2025 cyberattacks — Chinese regulators fined Kuaishou Technology 119.1 million yuan ($17.2 million) over pornographic content that swamped its platform last December …
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| 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.
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| 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
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