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Financial Times:
xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba is leaving xAI, the sixth co-founder to depart; sources and social media posts: more than half a dozen researchers left in recent weeks  —  Jimmy Ba will be the sixth member of the founding team to depart  —  A sixth co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI is leaving …
Juro Osawa / The Information:
xAI co-founder Tony Wu says he has 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.  Wu's exit follows the departure last year of another xAI cofounder, Igor Babuschkin.
New York Times:
In opening statements in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, YouTube argues it is an entertainment service like Netflix rather than a social network  —  The app said in opening statements that it was more of an entertainment platform.  The lawsuit claims social media companies design products that cause personal injury.
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 …
Bloomberg:
Alphabet raised almost $32B in debt in less than 24 hours; it sold sterling- and Swiss franc-denominated offerings following Monday's $20B dollar debt sale  —  Alphabet Inc. raised almost $32 billion in debt in less than 24 hours, showing the enormous funding needs of tech giants competing …
Brianna Wessling / The Robot Report:
Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter steps down after more than 30 years with the company and plans to retire; CFO Amanda McMaster will take over as interim CEO  —  Robert Playter, CEO of Boston Dynamics, has stepped down from the company.  Playter took over as CEO in 2019 and led the company through its acquisition by Hyundai in 2020.
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.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus / New Yorker:
A profile of Anthropic and its key executives like Chris Olah, and a look at Project Vend, an internal “Claudius” experiment to run the office vending machine  —  Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system's mind—examining its neurons …
Max Buondonno / The Shortcut:
Samsung announces a Galaxy Unpacked event on February 25 at 10am PT in San Francisco, where it is expected to introduce the Galaxy S26 series  —  - 📆 February 25 is when Samsung will announce its Galaxy S26 phones  — 🎪 Media circus: the next Galaxy Unpacked event will occur in San Francisco
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Cloudflare reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $614.5M, vs. $591.3M est., and forecasts full-year and Q1 revenue above estimates; NET jumps 14%+ after hours  —  Shares of the cloud content delivery network CloudFlare Inc. jumped more than 14% in extended trading on the back of a solid top …
Akash Sriram / Reuters:
Lyft reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.59B vs. $1.76B est., forecasts Q1 adjusted EBITDA below est., announces a $1B share buyback; LYFT drops 13%+ after hours  —  Lyft (LYFT.O) forecast first-quarter adjusted core profit below expectations on Tuesday as severe U.S. winter storms weigh on demand …
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to €4.5B, MAUs up 11% to 751M, above estimates, and Premium users up 10% to 290M; SPOT closes up 14.75%  —  Shares of Spotify Technology SA jumped the most in nearly eight years after the Swedish music streaming giant added a record number of users last quarter …
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
OpenAI updates ChatGPT's deep research tool with GPT-5.2, a full-screen report view, and an option to focus research on specific websites  —  The feature now runs on the new GPT-5.2 model, as OpenAI announced on X. A key addition is that users can connect apps to ChatGPT and—potentially very useful—search specific websites.
Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
Sam Bankman-Fried, who is serving 25 years for fraud, files a long-shot request for a new trial, says new witness testimony could refute the prosecution's case  —  FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried filed a long-shot request for a new trial on the charges for which he's currently serving …
The Verge:
Discord says that the “vast majority of people can continue using Discord exactly as they do today” without needing to use a face scan or ID to verify their age  —  Either because they aren't accessing age-restricted experiences, or if its AI predicts they're old enough.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Microsoft is automatically replacing Secure Boot certificates for older PCs before they start to expire later in 2026; Secure Boot was first introduced in 2011  —  Devices that don't receive new Secure Boot certificates may miss out on future security updates.
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.
Ashley Stewart / Business Insider:
Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel  —  - Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff made jokes about ICE during an employee event, internal messages show.  — Some employees took to Slack to express anger and disappointment.
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Siemens CEO Roland Busch on the company's 170+ year history, automation, managing 320K staff, US manufacturing investments, augmenting LLMs, and more  —  Today, I'm talking with Roland Busch, who is the CEO of Siemens. … At a very basic, reductive level …
RT Watson / The Block:
LayerZero Labs unveils a new Layer 1 blockchain called Zero, in collaboration with Citadel Securities, DTCC, Google Cloud, and Intercontinental Exchange  —  Quick Take  — LayerZero is launching its own Layer 1 blockchain called Zero.  — Citadel Securities and Ark Invest have bought LayerZero's native ZRO token.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to buy a Miami mansion, likely for up to $200M, joining other tech billionaires in Florida as California proposes a 5% wealth tax  —  Local real-estate agents say the newly completed mansion on Miami's Indian Creek will likely fetch between $150 million and $200 million
Bloomberg:
Kalshi says it registered over $1B in trades related to the Super Bowl; Piper Sandler analysts say Kalshi and Polymarket saw ~$1.2B in total trading on Sunday  —  Kalshi Inc. said it registered over $1 billion in trades related to the Super Bowl, a record surge that underscored the threat …
Ashley Gold / Axios:
Sen. Warren plans bipartisan legislation with Sen. Banks that bans the sale of certain AI chips to China after Dario Amodei met with Warren and other lawmakers  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) plans to introduce bipartisan legislation with Sen. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) banning the sale …
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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.
Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal:
Robinhood reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $1.28B, below est., crypto revenue down 38% to $221M, below est., and net income down 34%; HOOD drops 5%+ after hours  —  The brokerage finished 2025 on a strong note, though its stock is down roughly 24% this year

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From Mediagazer

Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
WaPo has launched its creator network, where half a dozen creators will launch new series every few weeks in different verticals and retain IP ownership

Jessica Hill / Associated Press:
The Las Vegas Review-Journal stops printing the Las Vegas Sun, ending the last joint operating deal stemming from a 1970 law; the Sun vows to fight in court

Kasey Moore / What's on Netflix:
Netflix quietly unlocked Sony Pictures legacy titles and recent Pay-1 films for ad-tier subscribers for the first time and much earlier than expected

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Stephen Foley / Financial Times:
Sources: KPMG negotiated a 14% lower fee for its 2025 audit by threatening to find a new accountant if Grant Thornton didn't pass on its cost savings from AI

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Bloomberg:
A look at a16z's rising influence over Trump-era AI policy, in part due to Marc Andreessen's ties to Trump; an ex-WH official says a16z arguably has veto power
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”
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
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