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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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| 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 …
More: BeInCrypto, Bitcoin Insider, CryptoNinjas, Cointelegraph, and The Crypto Times
| 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| 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, WOUB Public Media, NYSenate.gov, Spectrum News 1 Central NY, Democrat And Chronicle, The Hill, Politico, MLive.com, and Bisnow
X: @deanwball, @pat_hedger, @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
| 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 …
More: Tom's Hardware, Blockchain.News, Crypto Briefing, Gulf News, CoinGape, Bitcoinist.com, Bloomberg, Oman Observer, Yonhap News Agency, Tech in Asia, CoinDesk, The Chosun Daily, The Asia Business Daily, Blockonomi, Protos, Gizmodo, The Korea Times, The Defiant, Decrypt, Bitcoin Magazine, BeInCrypto, The Block, crypto.news, and Coinpedia Fintech News. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| 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, Bloomberg, Futurism, 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.
| 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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| 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 … | 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 …
More: South China Morning Post and Reuters
| 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
| 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
More: Forbes, Cointelegraph, The Information, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Reuters
X: @uscomptroller, @palmerluckey, @palmerluckey, @stevenkelly49, @jmj, @a16zcrypto, @thenewsham, @xethalis, @lux_capital, and @mrgoldbro
LinkedIn: Wendy Goldberg and Weston Moyer
| 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.
More: Moneycontrol, Mashable, CNET, and PCMag
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