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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with improvements in coding, computer use, instruction following, and more; it features a 1M token context window in beta — Claude Sonnet 4.6 is our most capable Sonnet model yet. It's a full upgrade of the model's skills across coding, computer use …
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LinkedIn: Claude, Cal Rueb, Thomas Li, and Artificial Analysis
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, and r/singularity
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple ramps up work on AI wearables with cameras and Siri, including smart glasses, AirPods, and a pendant that can be worn as a necklace or pinned — Apple Inc. is accelerating development of three new wearable devices as part of a shift toward artificial intelligence-powered hardware …
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Forums: r/apple, r/MVIS, and MacRumors Forums
| Financial Times: |
Meta commits to buy millions of Nvidia Blackwell and Rubin GPUs in a multiyear deal; source: Meta's in-house AI chip strategy has suffered technical challenges — Social media group will purchase millions of chips even as it tries to develop its own AI hardware
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| Nathan Bomey / Axios: |
CFTC Chair Mike Selig says the commission will file friend-of-the-court briefs to defend its exclusive jurisdiction over prediction markets amid state lawsuits — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is launching a legal campaign to defend its regulatory turf on prediction markets …
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| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
Palo Alto Networks reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $2.6B, vs. $2.58B est., and projects Q3 adjusted EPS below estimates; PANW drops 7%+ after hours — The company's jump in quarterly profit was driven by continued demand for cybersecurity services — Palo Alto Networks lifted …
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| Assaf Gilead / Globes: |
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat launches creator subscriptions in alpha, available to some creators in the US starting February 23; creators set custom monthly pricing — Social network Snapchat announced today it's launching creator subscriptions in alpha with select people in the U.S. starting on February 23.| Bloomberg: |
Palantir moves its HQ from Denver to Miami, as the city's leadership aims to turn it into the next Silicon Valley, with backing of billionaires like Ken Griffin — Palantir Technologies Inc. said it's moved its headquarters to Miami from Denver at a time when tech firms are headed … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google schedules I/O 2026 for May 19 to 20 in Mountain View, teasing the “latest AI breakthroughs and updates” in Gemini, Android, and more — Following the puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2026 is taking place May 19-20. — I/O 2026 will feature … | Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: |
Figma and Anthropic partner to launch Code to Canvas, letting users import code generated in Claude Code directly into Figma as editable designs — Figma is partnering with Anthropic and launching a feature called “Code to Canvas” that converts code generated in artificial intelligence tools …
More: Figma and The Economic Times
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| The Information: |
Benchmark hires Jack Altman, the founder of Alt Capital and Lattice, as its fifth general partner; three Alt Capital team members will join him at Benchmark — Benchmark on Tuesday said it had hired Jack Altman, the founder of early-stage firm Alt Capital and HR software company Lattice, as its fifth general partner.
| Danilo Masoni / Reuters: |
Raspberry Pi stock rose as much as 42% on Tuesday in a record two-day rally, amid demand for single-board computers to run low-cost AI agents like OpenClaw — Shares in Raspberry Pi (RPI.L) rose as much as 42% on Tuesday in a record two-day rally after CEO Eben Upton bought stock in the beaten … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic adds an AI assistant to WordPress.com, enabling users to perform site-wide layout and style modifications via natural language commands — WordPress.com, the website hosting platform from Automattic, will now include a built-in WordPress AI assistant, the company announced on Tuesday.| Macarena Munoz Montijano / Bloomberg: |
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez says he asked the country's prosecutor office to investigate X, TikTok, and Meta over the alleged “creation and dissemination” of CSAM — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he is using special public-interest powers to ask the country's prosecutor office …
More: The Guardian, Reuters, Macau Business, Time, New York Times, UPI, DeviceSecurity.io, Wall Street Journal, Newser, Blockonomi, Reuters, Euractiv, and Politico. X: @sanchezcastejon
| Anthony Hughes / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Western Digital plans to raise $3.09B by selling a Sandisk stake at $535-$555/share, a 9.4% discount to Tuesday's close; the offering is oversubscribed — Western Digital Corp. is seeking to raise $3.09 billion from the sale of a stake in Sandisk Corp., after the digital storage company spun off …
More: ZeroHedge News and Sherwood News
| Forbes: |
Sources: AI legal software startup Legora is in talks to raise $400M at a $5B+ valuation, after raising $150M in October 2025 at a $1.8B valuation — As investors double down on the promise of automating legal work, the company is in talks to raise $400 million following two rounds in late 2025.| Reshmi Basu / Bloomberg: |
Some private software companies including McAfee released earnings early to reassure investors worried about an AI-linked selloff, dubbed the “SaaSpocalypse” — A handful of software firms including McAfee have released their earnings ahead of schedule in a bid to convince lenders … | Megan Morrone / Axios: |
Over 100 researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, and more call for guardrails on some infectious disease datasets that could enable AI to design deadly viruses — - The White House's Genesis Mission — announced in late 2025 — aims to build AI systems trained on massive scientific datasets to speed research breakthroughs.
More: Implicator.ai and NewsMax.com
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins conditional approval from the US OCC to form a national trust bank, which would allow it to issue and manage stablecoins — What to know: … Bridge, a stablecoin infrastructure firm owned by Stripe, said Tuesday it has received conditional approval …
More: Bridge, Decrypt, The Block, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, Cointelegraph, and Reuters. LinkedIn: Zach Abrams
| Mackenzie Tatananni / Barron's Online: |
Quantum computing company Infleqtion closed at $15.59 in its trading debut, up ~9% from its opening price of $14.25, after merging with a Michael Klein-led SPAC — Choose Barron's as a preferred source of financial news — Key Points — A new contender among quantum computing stocks has entered the ring.
More: Denver Business Journal, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, and Sherwood News
| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Crypto VC firm Dragonfly closes a $650M fund, its fourth, as the crypto VCs go through a “mass extinction event”; Dragonfly backed Polymarket's Series B — When Rob Hadick signed the paperwork to join Dragonfly Capital in April 2022, he rented a house in the Hamptons.
More: CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Blockonomi, The Block, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Ventureburn
LinkedIn: Leo Schwartz and Annica Benning
| Caroline Hyde / Bloomberg: |
Josh Kushner's Thrive raised $10B+ for its tenth and largest fund, lifting its AUM to ~$50B; sources: it distributed 64% of capital raised during the 2021 peak — The backer of OpenAI, Stripe, SpaceX and Skims says it's taking “ride-or-die” approach to investing.
More: Thrive, TechCrunch, PitchBook, Benzinga, and The Information
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LinkedIn: Erin, Jed Feldman, Kelly Sims, Matthew de Jonge, Nworah Ayogu, Kareem Zaki, Ashwin Budhiraja, and Phylicia Wilkov
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Mesh, founded by ex-SpaceX staff to mass produce optical transceivers that convert optical signals to electrical signals, raised a $50M Series A led by Thrive — Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup working on hardware used to move data at high speeds within data centers …
More: Yahoo Finance, Blockonomi, and Bloomberg Technology on YouTube
| Nicolas Bustamante / @nicbstme: |
How LLMs are dismantling the moats that made vertical SaaS defensible, and why the market selloff is structurally justified but temporally exaggerated — In the past few weeks, nearly $1 trillion was wiped from software and services stocks. FactSet dropped from a $20B peak to under $8B.
More: Financial Times, Chris Roth, and Bloomberg
X: @john_a_held, @bwarburg, @andyhelbig, @madaboutmarkets, @varun_mathur, @tedmerz, @getpy, @chrisdrit, @mattturck, @buccocapital, @bucknsf, @morganlinton, @patrick_oshag, @ankrgyl, @nicbstme, and @alokanyc. Forums: Hacker News
| Lauren Rosenthal / Bloomberg: |
Google signs a power purchase agreement with Ormat to supply up to 150 MW of geothermal energy to its Nevada data centers through NV Energy starting in 2028 — Alphabet Inc.'s Google plans to draw on geothermal power from renewable energy company Ormat Technologies to help fuel its fleet of data centers in Nevada.| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The European Commission opens a full DSA investigation into Shein over sales of child-like sex dolls that “could constitute child sexual abuse material” — Shein risks hefty European Union penalties after regulators opened a full-scale probe into sales of child-like sex dolls on the Chinese e-commerce platform.| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages AI infrastructure, in its first acquisition; Koyeb raised $8.6M to date — Mistral AI, the French company last valued at $13.8 billion, has made its first acquisition. The OpenAI competitor has agreed … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B-parameter open-weight models supporting 70+ languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs — Enterprise AI company Cohere launched a new family of multilingual models on the sidelines of the ongoing India AI Summit.| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Night Media, a talent agency that represents influencers like Twitch streamer Kai Cenat, raised $70M led by StepStone to expand into gaming, sports, and music — Night Media Inc., the talent management firm that represents social media celebrities such as popular Twitch streamer Kai Cenat … Sponsor Posts
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