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Matt Shumer:
GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 can meaningfully contribute to the improvement of AI models, a sign of what's coming for most knowledge work within five years  —  Think back to February 2020.  —  If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas.
Alex Heath / Sources:
Q&A with Fidji Simo on ChatGPT ads, OpenAI's efforts to ship a new model soon to end Sam Altman's Code Red, Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Sora, Codex, and more  —  How ads in ChatGPT will work, what will end the Code Red, those Anthropic attack ads, working with Sam Altman, and much more...
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
OpenAI updates ChatGPT's deep research tool with GPT-5.2, a full-screen report view, an option to focus research on specific websites, and search interruption
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI fired VP Ryan Beiermeister in January for alleged sexual discrimination; she had earlier raised concerns about the upcoming launch of adult mode  —  The executive, who was accused of sexual discrimination against a male employee, had raised concerns about upcoming launch of erotic content
Financial Times:
xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba says he is leaving, the sixth co-founder to depart; sources and social media posts show at least six 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 …
New York Times:
xAI all-hands meeting: Elon Musk told employees that xAI needs a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space  —  In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.
Isomorphic Labs:
Isomorphic Labs, a Google DeepMind spinoff, unveils IsoDDE, a system that it says surpasses AlphaFold 3 in biomolecular structure prediction and drug discovery  —  Today, we are excited to share an update on our progress towards a new frontier of drug design.
Zoë Hitzig / New York Times:
An OpenAI researcher who helped shape how models were built and priced says she quit after two years due to “deep reservations” about ads and OpenAI's strategy  —  This week, OpenAI started testing ads on ChatGPT.  I also resigned from the company after spending two years …
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Docs: London-based AI chip startup Olix, founded by James Dacombe, CEO of brain monitoring startup CoMind, raised $220M led by Hummingbird at a $1B+ valuation  —  London-based Olix targets development of AI chips that are faster and cheaper than Nvidia's  —  A 25-year-old British entrepreneur …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Cloudflare reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $614.5M, above $591.3M est., a $12.1M net loss, and forecasts full-year and Q1 revenue above est.; NET jumps 10%+  —  Shares of the cloud content delivery network CloudFlare Inc. jumped more than 14% in extended trading on the back of a solid top …
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: to catch leakers, OpenAI security staff use a custom ChatGPT with access to Slack, email, and docs by cross-referencing news articles with access logs  —  Here at The Information, we're always trying to break through the hype to understand how folks are actually using AI in the real world.
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Austin-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised $520M led by Google and others at a $5.5B valuation, up 3x from when it raised $350M in February 2025  —  Apptronik, a fast-growing startup that makes artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots, has secured about $520 million …
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:
Meridian, which uses AI to make financial modeling and spreadsheets more “predictable and auditable”, exits stealth and raised a $17M seed at a $100M valuation  —  The fight to tame spreadsheets with AI isn't over yet.  A new company called Meridian has emerged from stealth …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
TikTok launches an opt-in Local Feed in the app's US version, including content related to travel, news, events, shopping, and dining near the user's location  —  TikTok on Wednesday announced the launch of a new “Local Feed” in the U.S. version of the app, which displays content related to travel …
Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg:
KPMG citing PitchBook data: UK fintech investment totaled almost $11B in 2025 across 418 deals, down from ~$13.4B in 2024 across 527 deals; Revolut raised $4B  —  Investment in the UK financial technology world plummeted by more than 20% last year to the lowest levels since the start …
Bloomberg:
Alphabet raised almost $32B in debt in less than 24 hours, selling sterling- and Swiss franc-denominated offerings, following February 9'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 …
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 …
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.

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Betsy Morais / Columbia Journalism Review:
How the media's evolving coverage of sexual assault allegations against Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner shows the need for sensitive, patient reporting

Peter White / Deadline:
HBO Max received 122 Emmy nominations, Netflix landed 111, Disney received 111 overall, Apple scored 87, its most-ever, and Amazon landed 39 for Prime and MGM+

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
CAA calls out Meta over Muse Image and Muse Video's opt-out policy, which lets users generate new content from public Instagram profiles that don't opt out

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Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
A study of 596 Indian high-tech startups suggests that homegrown entrepreneurs fare better over the long run than returning diaspora with overseas experience

Earlier Picks

Amy Feldman / Forbes:
NYC-based Garner Health, which uses data analytics to help 2.5M+ workers find physicians, raised a $118M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $1.35B valuation
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
RT Watson / The Block:
LayerZero Labs launches Zero, a Layer 1 blockchain backed by Citadel Securities and Ark Invest, and partners with DTCC and Google Cloud to drive adoption
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
A US judge sentences former SafeMoon CEO Braden John Karony to 100 months in prison for defrauding investors and orders him to forfeit ~$7.5M and two properties
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
Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal:
Robinhood reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $1.28B, below est., crypto revenue down 38% YoY to $221M, below est., and net income down 34% YoY; HOOD drops 10%+
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