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February 10, 2026, 12:55 PM

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Juro Osawa / The Information:
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 …
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 …
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
Singapore blames China-backed hacking group UNC3886 for an 11+ months-long cyber-espionage campaign that targeted its four largest telecommunication companies  —  Singapore's government has blamed a known Chinese cyber-espionage group for targeting four of its top telecommunication companies as part of a months-long attack.
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 …
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:
Stephen Nellis / Reuters:
Cisco unveils its Silicon One G300 switch chip, made using TSMC's 3nm tech, to take on Broadcom and Nvidia in AI infrastructure, set to go on sale in H2 2026  —  Cisco Systems (CSCO.O) on Tuesday launched a new chip and router designed to speed information through massive data centers …
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg plans to buy a new Miami mansion, likely for 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
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Vega, which uses AI to find security threats in cloud services and data storage, raised a $120M Series B at a $700M valuation, taking its total funding to $185M  —  Modern enterprises generate enormous amounts of security data, but legacy tools like Splunk still require companies to store …
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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.
Stephen Foley / Financial Times:
Sources: KPMG negotiated lower fees from auditor Grant Thornton by arguing that AI will make it cheaper to do the work, and threatened to find a new auditor  —  Big Four accounting firm's move to cut fees for its own audit comes amid debate over pricing model
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal:
As OpenAI moves to retire GPT-4o on February 13, sources say it is being scrapped partly because OpenAI struggled to contain its 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
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Gary Shapiro plans to step down as CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, the owner and producer of annual CES events in Las Vegas, after 35+ years  —  President Kinsey Fabrizio to succeed Shapiro as CEO effective May 1  —  Gary Shapiro is exiting as CEO of the Consumer Technology Association …
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.
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.
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
Bloomberg:
Sources: Spain-based Multiverse, which shrinks LLMs to reduce energy and compute costs, is in talks to raise ~€500M at a €1.5B+ valuation and has hit €100M ARR  —  Multiverse Computing SL, a Spanish artificial intelligence software company, is in discussions to raise about €500 million …

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