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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Elon Musk announces an xAI reorganization that “required parting ways with some people”, after two xAI co-founders announced they were leaving this week — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday announced the the company's xAI artificial intelligence venture implemented a reorganization that …
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| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
xAI will be organized into four core areas: Grok's chatbot and voice products, Coding, Imagine, and Macrohard, which will build digital agents to run companies — Elon Musk said he restructured xAI, his artificial intelligence startup, following the exit of two of its co-founders earlier this week.
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| New York Times: |
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| New York Times: |
Social media addiction trial: Adam Mosseri says social media is not “clinically addictive” and that Meta was careful to test features used by young people — Instagram's chief executive said on Wednesday that social media was not “clinically addictive,” refuting claims …
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| Z.ai: |
Z.ai launches GLM-5, its flagship open-weight model, saying it has best-in-class performance among open-source models in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks — We are launching GLM-5, targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks. Scaling is still one of the most important ways …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's Siri upgrade has run into snags recently, possibly pushing some personalized Siri and other features from iOS 26.4 to iOS 26.5, due in May — Apple Inc.'s long-planned upgrade to the Siri virtual assistant has run into snags during testing in recent weeks …
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| Financial Times: |
BlockFills, a crypto liquidity provider and lender to ~2K institutional clients, halts deposits and withdrawals, citing “recent market and financial conditions” — Move comes during period of sustained volatility in digital asset markets — Susquehanna-backed crypto lender BlockFills … | Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
Anthropic says it will upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases to minimize the effects of its data centers — Leading AI company Anthropic said it would upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases …
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| 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 …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
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| Reuters: |
Sources: the Pentagon is pushing OpenAI, Anthropic, and others to make their AI tools available on classified networks without the standard user restrictions — The Pentagon is pushing the top AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic to make their artificial-intelligence tools available … | Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
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| CoinDesk: |
Robinhood launches a public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network on Arbitrum supporting 24/7 trading, with a broader rollout later in 2026 — The Robinhood Chain, built on Ethereum-based Arbitrum, aims to become key plumbing for around-the-clock trading and plugging tokenized stocks into DeFi.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta launches an AI feature that lets Threads users temporarily personalize their feed by specifying topics in a public post that begins with “Dear Algo” — Meta on Wednesday debuted an AI feature called “Dear Algo” that lets Threads users personalize their content-recommendation algorithms.
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
US FTC chair urges Tim Cook to review Apple News' terms and curation after a study claimed the app promoted “leftist outlets” and suppressed conservative ones — US regulator issues warning to iPhone maker about its News platform following controversy over Super Bowl half-time show
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| Will Shanklin / Engadget: |
Anthropic says Claude users on the free plan can now create files, connect to external services, use skills, and more — You no longer need a subscription to create files or use Connectors and Skills in Claude. — Anthropic is upgrading Claude's free tier, apparently to capitalize … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Pharmacy plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, adding nearly new 2,000 communities — Amazon Pharmacy, the retail giant's online pharmacy, plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 U.S. cities and towns …
More: About Amazon, Quartz, CNET, Fox Business, PCMag, Yahoo Finance, PYMNTS.com, Fast Company, and Engadget
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Brandlight, which develops tools that help brands monitor how AI models perceive them, raised a $30M Series A led by Pelion Venture Partners — Brandlight, which can monitor how AI models perceive companies, raised a $30 million Series A led by Pelion Venture Partners, CEO Imri Marcus tells Axios Pro exclusively.| Alyssa Ray / The Wrap: |
Disney agrees to pay $2.75M to settle California AG Rob Bonta's 2024 lawsuit alleging Disney violated CCPA by failing to honor consumers' data opt-out requests — “Consumers shouldn't have to go to infinity and beyond to assert their privacy rights,” Rob Bonta says| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
Google told advertisers that it is integrating shopping features into Search's AI Mode and Gemini; users can now buy items from Etsy and Wayfair within Gemini — Google is adding a way for consumers to buy things while seeking artificial intelligence-powered answers on search and in its Gemini chatbot …
More: Google, The Asia Business Daily, MediaPost, PYMNTS.com, Blockchain.News, Search Engine Land, Skift, Retail Brew, and Search Engine Journal. LinkedIn: Jenny Cooper
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
EssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold in 2023 and 2024 combined — EssilorLuxottica's more than tripled its Meta artificial intelligence glasses sales last year, the Ray-Ban maker said on Wednesday in its fourth-quarter results.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
T-Mobile announces a network-level, AI-based Live Translation feature for phone calls on 4G LTE and 5G, supporting 50+ languages, coming “this spring” in beta — Live Translation will be available to beta testers ‘this Spring.’ — T-Mobile is preparing to test … | Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, expected to be operational at the end of 2027 or in early 2028 — Meta Platforms Inc. said it will spend more than $10 billion to build a data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, ranking it among … | Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: |
AppLovin reports Q4 revenue up 66% YoY to $1.66B, vs. $1.61B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue and adjusted EBITDA above estimates; APP drops 6%+ after hours — The ad tech company just released Q4 results. — AppLovin's solid results and outlook aren't sparing the stock from another sell-off.
More: Dow Jones Newswires, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Barron's Online, AppLovin, and Benzinga. Bluesky: @ljkawa
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cisco reports Q2 revenue up 10% YoY to $15.35B, vs. $15.12B est., and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS only in line with estimates; CSCO drops 7%+ after hours — Cisco reported better-than-expected quarterly results on Wednesday, but the stock dropped about 7% in extended trading as earnings guidance … | Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: |
Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A — Inertia Enterprises has raised $450 million to build one of the world's most powerful lasers, which it hopes will serve …
More: SiliconANGLE, Pulse 2.0, Bloomberg, and Axios
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok US launches an opt-in Local Feed for content tied to travel, news, events, shopping, and dining near the user's current location, after changing its ToS — 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 … | Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: |
Mistral says it will spend €1.2B to build AI infrastructure in Sweden with partner EcoDataCenter, set to open in 2027 as its first data center outside France — French startup Mistral AI is investing €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) to build AI infrastructure in Sweden … Sponsor Posts
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