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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to €4.5B, Premium users up 10% YoY to 290M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 751M, and a €701M operating income, above €639.1M est. — Shares of Spotify Technology SA jumped the most in nearly eight years after the Swedish music streaming giant added … | Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA says Apple and Google committed to making app store changes to ensure fairness to developers and consumers, and asks market players for their views — Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google committed to making app stores changes to ensure fairness to developers and consumers …
More: GOV.UK, Engadget, The Register, Reuters, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Financial Times, Mashable, AppleInsider, iThinkDifferent, Brussels Signal, The Mac Observer, UKTN, Android Headlines, and MacTech.com. X: @cmagovuk
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
xAI co-founder Tony Wu says he “resigned”, following co-founder Igor Babuschkin's exit in August 2025; Wu was in charge of reasoning and reported to Elon Musk — Tony Wu, one of xAI's cofounders, said he has resigned from Elon Musk's AI company.
More: CNBC, Bloomberg, WinBuzzer, and Business Insider
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT in the US for logged-in adult users on its Free and Go tiers, and says that the ads “do not influence” ChatGPT's answers — Ads that support free access and don't change ChatGPT answers. — Today, we're beginning to test ads in ChatGPT …
More: The Verge, Tech Advisor, PCWorld, Retail TouchPoints, International Business Times, CNET, Gizmodo, PCMag, The Deep View, a16z, Thurrott, Business Standard, PhoneArena, Phandroid, Ad Age, Cult of Mac, Gizchina, The Economic Times, Benzinga, The Rundown AI, Digital Trends, Business Today, TestingCatalog, Neowin, Digit, BMI, The Decoder, SiliconANGLE, Search Engine Roundtable, OpenAI on YouTube, Pixel Envy, Mashable, How-To Geek, Coverager, TechCrunch, Search Engine Journal, Engadget, WinBuzzer, CBS News, Decrypt, iPhone in Canada, Sherwood News, NBC News, Search Engine Land, The Information, Appleosophy, Crypto Briefing, The Adobe Blog, MacRumors, Business Insider, 9to5Google, NewsMax.com, ZDNET, Axios, Droid Life, and CNBC
X: @openai, @pkafka, @justin_abrams1, @dhadfieldmenell, @a16z, @andrewlolk, @haven_emme, @benbajarin, @compliantvc, @bilaltwovec, @zats, @kentcdodds, @btibor91, @kirbyman01, @0xa5ad, @freddiev4, @aakashgupta, @benhylak, @omni1896837, @techikansh, and @jamesborow. LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski
Bluesky: @jacob.gold and @edzitron.com
Forums: Hacker News, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia: |
Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Tencent are releasing new models and spending millions on “red envelope” freebies to woo users ahead of the Lunar New Year — HONG KONG — China's biggest AI companies are releasing new models and handing out “red envelope” …
More: 36氪_让 …, Implicator.ai, Caixin Global, Bloomberg, and Reuters
X: @sidelined_cap, @linxule, and @yicaichina
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
More: South China Morning Post. X: @openrouterai, @htihle, @scaling01, @eliebakouch, @joshraddev, @i_jaihundal, @htihle, @aibattle_, @local0ptimist, and @aryass767
Forums: r/SillyTavernAI, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/ZaiGLM
| Morgan Lee / Associated Press: |
Opening statements in New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: state prosecutors argue that Meta misrepresented the safety of its platforms, while Meta's attorney pushes back — Meta has failed to disclose what it knows about the harmful effect of its platforms on children in violation …
More: New York Times, Platformer, The Verge, Wired, Android Headlines, Associated Press, Bloomberg Law, Courthouse News Service, CNBC, Source New Mexico, CBS News, Al Jazeera, Santa Fe New Mexican, Albuquerque Journal, CNBC, Associated Press, and NewsNation
X: @andymstone, @jason_kint, @andymstone, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @kob4, @naominixwrites, @matthewstoller, and @squawkcnbc. Forums: r/NewMexico
| Sophie McEvoy / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Tencent-owned Finnish video game maker Supercell reports 2025 revenue down 4% YoY to €2.65B, EBITDA up 6% YoY to €932M, and 290M monthly active players — Headcount grew 30% reaching 890 employees globally, developer contributed €220 million to Finnish economy| Deana Kjuka / Bloomberg: |
Russian media: Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor plans to limit access to Telegram from Tuesday, as the government promotes its Max “super app” — Russia's communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, plans to limit access to Telegram from Tuesday, the RBC news service reported …
More: The Economic Times, Reuters, and The Kyiv Independent
X: @noelreports, @noelreports, @jayinkyiv, @mike_eckel, @cyberknow20, @mylovanov, @chriso_wiki, @rajdianos, @delfoo, @ozkaterji, and @jurgen_nauditt. Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz
| Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: |
NYC-based AI video startup Runway raised a $315M Series E led by General Atlantic, a source says at a $5.3B valuation, and says it will pre-train world models — The AI industry just got another indicator that the future lies beyond words alone. — On Tuesday, video AI firm Runway announced a $315 million Series E funding round.
More: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, Runway, Implicator.ai, Unite.AI, and ZDNET. X: @runwayml
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
YouTube rolls out an AI-powered playlist-generation tool that lets Premium and Music Premium subscribers on iOS and Android use text prompts to create playlists — YouTube is rolling out a new AI-powered playlist-generation feature that allows Premium users on iOS and Android to use text prompts to create playlists.| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
A court filing in the iyO-OpenAI trademark case reveals that OpenAI won't use the name “io” for its AI device, which won't ship before the end of February 2027 — A court filing in a trademark lawsuit reveals OpenAI won't use the name “io” for its AI hardware device, which isn't expected to ship until 2027.
More: PCMag, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, The Decoder, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, and The Verge
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Satellite executives, investors, and researchers say Elon Musk's plan to launch data centers into space by 2029 is highly ambitious, but the idea is plausible — Tech billionaire's desire to put computer infrastructure into orbit is central to $1.25tn plan to merge SpaceX with xAI| Kyle Baird / The Block: |
Farcaster co-founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan, along with the team at Merkle, join stablecoin startup Tempo, weeks after Merkle sold Farcaster to Neynar — Quick Take — Romero and Srinivasan's move follows Farcaster's sale to Neynar and the founders' exit from day-to-day leadership of the protocol.
More: Unchained, NewsBTC, Tempo, CoinDesk, DL News, Crypto Briefing, and Daily Dark Web
X: @varunsrin, @dwr, @jchaskin, @0xtanishk, @hhorsley, @tempo, @liamihorne, @azflin, @evgenygaevoy, @timhaldorsson, @jpegmogul, @mert, @mert, @gakonst, and @matthuang. Bluesky: @caseynewton
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Cisco launches the Silicon One G300 switch chip, made using TSMC's 3nm technology to compete with Broadcom and Nvidia in the AI infrastructure market — Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) on Tuesday launched a new chip and router designed to speed information through massive data centers that will compete … | Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
As OpenAI prepares to retire GPT-4o on February 13, sources say it was scrapped partly because OpenAI struggled to contain 4o's potential for harmful outcomes — ChatGPT's 4o model was beloved by many users, but controversial for its sycophancy and real-world harms linked to some conversations| Alicia Park / Forbes: |
Polymarket partners with Singapore-based Kaito AI to launch “attention markets”, letting users bet on “mindshare” and “sentiment” metrics from social media — The prediction market is partnering with an AI engine that tracks social media data to create markets about cultural relevance.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to buy a Miami mansion, likely to cost up to $200M, joining other tech billionaires as California proposes a 5% billionaire tax — Local real-estate agents say the newly completed mansion on Miami's Indian Creek will likely fetch between $150 million and $200 million
More: Mercury News, International Liberty, NewsMax.com, Bloomberg, and The Real Deal
| Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: |
UK's FCA adds Blockchain.com to its registry of licensed crypto companies; the company withdrew its initial application in 2022 to pivot operations to Lithuania — The London-based company elected to withdraw its application for FCA licensing in March 2022 having not won approval ahead of an impending deadline.
More: Blockchain.com, The Block, and Crypto Briefing
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Entire, founded by ex-GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, raised a $60M seed at a $300M valuation to build open-source developer tools to better manage AI-written code — Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has raised the largest-ever seed round for a dev tool startup, according to its lead backer, Felicis.| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Reco, which makes AI agents that monitor SaaS environments for threats, raised a $30M Series B led by Zeev Ventures, bringing its total funding to $85M — The funding aims to expand platform reach amid rising Shadow AI usage and regulatory scrutiny. — Cybersecurity company Reco …
More: Business Insider, PaymentSecurity.io, and SiliconANGLE
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Sources: crypto exchange Kraken has fired its CFO Stephanie Lemmerman ahead of its long-awaited IPO; Lemmerman joined Kraken from Dapper Labs in November 2024 — Kraken has moved chief financial officer Stephanie Lemmerman to a strategic advisory role, according to a person familiar with the matter.| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Vega, which uses AI to detect security threats directly within cloud services, raised a $120M Series B at a $700M valuation, bringing its total raised to $185M — Modern enterprises generate enormous amounts of security data, but legacy tools like Splunk still require companies to store …
More: CTech
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Google gains unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $32B acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google gained unconditional EU antitrust approval on Tuesday for its $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity company Wiz, its biggest ever deal …
More: The Economic Times, CTech, and Sharecast
| Chester Dawson / Bloomberg: |
Chinese robotaxi operator Pony AI and Toyota begin commercial production of an autonomous Toyota bZ4X; Pony AI aims to have 3,000+ robotaxis by the end of 2026 — Chinese robotaxi operator Pony AI Inc. has started commercial production of a driverless vehicle in partnership with Toyota Motor Corp., one of its backers.| Andy Bounds / Financial Times: |
Doc: the EU is proposing a ban on crypto transactions with Russia to prevent the circumvention of sanctions through platforms like A7 and stablecoins like A7A5 — Brussels also wants to prohibit some trade with Kyrgyzstan, in first use of new powers against sanctions circumvention
More: The Block, Crypto Briefing, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, and Reuters
| Leila Abboud / Financial Times: |
President Macron calls for reduced reliance on the US and China, warning that the US could use tariffs in retaliation for the DSA and proposed social media bans — French president calls on bloc to take the necessary steps to become a true global economic power
More: Al Jazeera, Reuters, Silicon UK, The Economist, Politico, France 24, Bloomberg, naked capitalism, Gamereactor UK, and El País
| Harvard Business Review: |
An eight-month 2025 study at a US tech company: AI tools didn't reduce work but intensified it; employees worked faster, longer, and did a bigger scope of tasks — Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing …
More: TechCrunch, Simon Willison's Weblog, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Digit, ITPro, Decrypt, FlowingData, and Sherwood News
Bluesky: @prietschka, @ethanmarcotte.com, @anildash.com, @ericmbudd.com, and @grimalkina. Mastodon: @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/BetterOffline, and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Cloud computing provider Nebius agrees to buy Tavily, which helps AI agents search for up-to-date information for tasks like coding, a source says for $275M — Cloud computing provider Nebius Group NV agreed to acquire Tavily, a maker of software that helps artificial intelligence agents search …
More: CTech
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba's DAMO Academy releases RynnBrain, an open-source foundation model to help robots perform real-world tasks like navigating rooms, trained on Qwen3-VL — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. debuted an AI model that can help robots and other devices perform real-world tasks …
More: CNBC, Benzinga, Moneycontrol, Blockonomi, Semafor, Tech in Asia, Pandaily, and Mobile World Live. X: @sino_market
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