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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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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” … | Juro Osawa / The Information: |
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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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. — Spotify Technology SA, the Swedish music streaming giant, added a record number of users last quarter, far surpassing Wall Street analyst expectations.| Sophie McEvoy / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Tencent-owned Finnish video game maker Supercell reports 2025 revenue down 4% YoY to €2.65B, EBITA up 6% YoY to €932M, and 290M monthly active players — Headcount grew 30% reaching 890 employees globally, developer contributed €220 million to Finnish economy
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| Harvard Business Review: |
An eight-month study at a US tech company finds AI tools didn't reduce work but intensified it, as employees worked faster and took on a broader range of tasks — Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
A court filing in the iyO-OpenAI trademark case reveals OpenAI won't use the name “io” for its AI device, which isn't expected to ship before 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.
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| Leila Abboud / Financial Times: |
French President Emmanuel Macron says the US could retaliate against EU countries, including France and Spain, over plans to ban children from social media — French president calls on bloc to take the necessary steps to become a true global economic power| 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.| Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Sources: Stripe is in talks to launch a tender offer that could value it at $140B+, up from $107B in fall 2025 when it bought back shares from investors — Stripe is in talks to launch a tender offer that could value the payments company at more than $140 billion, Axios Pro has learned from multiple sources.| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Cadence rolls out ChipStack, an AI agent to help chipmakers like Nvidia speed up the complex chip design process by up to 10x by building a “mental model” — Cadence Design Systems on Tuesday rolled out a virtual artificial intelligence “agent” to help firms like Nvidia speed …
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| 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 …
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| Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: |
SMIC reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to $2.49B, above est., net profit up 61% YoY to $172.85M, above $139.5M est., and 2025 revenue of $9.33B, above 2024's $8.03B — For the first quarter of 2026, the chip maker expects revenue to be flat sequentially — Semiconductor Manufacturing … | Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
Health care navigation startup Solace, which matches patients with 2K+ advocates, raised $130M led by IVP at a $1B valuation, taking its total funding to $211M — The demand for help navigating the famously complex US health care system has propelled a startup called Solace Health … | 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.
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| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: despite AI ads outnumbering traditional Super Bowl ad categories like beer, nostalgia-driven ads from Budweiser and Dunkin' dominated social media — Budweiser and Dunkin' got the most attention on social media, but big tech's AI product demos may still have the last laugh, experts say| Bloomberg: |
How a16z became the dominant influence on Trump-era AI policy, including via Marc Andreessen building key relationships; an ex-official says it has “veto power” — Silicon Valley's richest venture capital firm emerges as a “lobbying juggernaut” for minimal AI regulation.| 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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
YouTube rolls out an AI-powered playlist generator that lets Premium and Music Premium users 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.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Satellite executives, investors, and researchers say Elon Musk's aim to launch space data centers by around 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
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Bretton AI, formerly Greenlite, which uses GenAI to investigate suspicious transactions and verify internal risk policy compliance, raised a $75M Series B — Early in his career, Will Lawrence worked on the product team at Facebook focused on anti-money laundering.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: a VC firm backed by Fidelity billionaire Johnson's family shelves plans to sell its stake in ~40 Chinese tech companies as geopolitical factors ease — Eight Roads, a venture capital firm backed by Fidelity Investments' billionaire Johnson family, has shelved plans to sell its holdings … | 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.
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