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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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| 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 …
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Anthropic rolls out a fast mode for Claude Opus 4.6 in research preview, saying it offers the same model quality 2.5 times faster but costs six times more — Opus is usually $5/million input and $25/million output. The new fast mode is $30/million input and $150/million output!
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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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| 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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| Financial Times: |
Analysts say a design refresh for the iPhone 17 lineup has reinforced Apple's status-symbol appeal in China, with the “cosmic orange” Pro model going viral — Vivid redesign and social media buzz lure Chinese buyers back after a prolonged slump| Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Chinese regulators reiterate the mainland crypto ban and expand enforcement to cover real-world asset tokenization and offshore yuan-pegged stablecoin issuance — Quick Take — Beijing authorities have explicitly widened the net to target real-world asset tokenization …
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| Rohit Singh / MediaNama: |
X unveils a new pay-per-use pricing model for its API, replacing the earlier pricing model that required developers to pay fixed monthly fees of $200 or $5,000 — X has launched a new pay-per-use pricing model for its developer application programming interface (API), replacing … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's updated startup framework doubles deep-tech startup eligibility to 20 years and triples the revenue cap for tax, grant, and regulatory benefits to ~$33M — Deep tech startups in sectors such as space, semiconductors, and biotech take far longer to mature than conventional ventures.
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| Nilesh Christopher / Los Angeles Times: |
A profile of Ali Ansari, the 25-year-old co-founder of micro1, which recruits human experts to train AI systems; micro1 was last valued at $500M in Sept. 2025 — - 8 min Click here to listen to this article — The man set to become one of the world's youngest artificial intelligence billionaires started … | 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.
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| 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
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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| 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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