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The US' February jobs report shows the tech sector's post-2022 job losses are now outpacing past downturns in 2008 and 2020 — - Tech industries are losing their strength. — One economist said tech job losses outpaced the past two recessions. — Still, there is weakness in other areas of the job market.
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Google and Amazon join Microsoft in saying they will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk — Google said it will continue offering Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology for clients, excluding for defense work …
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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US believes Chinese state-affiliated hackers breached an FBI computer network that holds information related to some domestic surveillance orders — The FBI said it has addressed ‘suspicious activities’ on its networks — U.S. investigators believe hackers affiliated … | Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
A look at the rivalry between Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour and Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan, who have competing visions for how prediction markets should grow — There's one word Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour is loath to say: Polymarket. — Like a politician swiping his never-to-be-spoken …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Kalshi and Polymarket are each eyeing valuations of ~$20B in fundraising talks; Kalshi was valued at $11B in December and Polymarket at $9B in October — Prediction market rivals are speaking to investors about roughly doubling their previous valuations
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| Tim Starks / CyberScoop: |
The Trump administration debuts its cyber strategy, outlining priorities including promoting offense operations, securing AI tech, and streamlining regulations — The administration also released an executive order on cybercrime and fraud. — Learn more.
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| Catherine Lucey / Bloomberg: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Oracle and OpenAI abandoned plans to expand a Stargate Texas data center amid financing disputes; Meta considers leasing the planned expansion site — Oracle Corp. and OpenAI have scrapped plans to expand a flagship artificial intelligence data center in Texas after negotiations dragged …
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| Forbes: |
How Cursor is evolving through its Composer coding models built on Chinese open models, as coding agents like Claude Code threaten to make code editors obsolete — After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality: developers may no longer need a code editor at all.
More: The Decoder, Inc.com, Towards Data Science, and The Deep View
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| Jessica Lyons / The Register: |
Google's TIG documented 90 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in 2025, up from 78 in 2024; commercial spyware vendors and China-linked groups led the abuse — Of the 90 zero-days GTIG tracked in 2025, 43 hit enterprise tech — Zero-day exploitation targeting enterprise tech products reached … | Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education — Roblox creators are raking in hundreds of thousands a month from simple games like ‘Fisch,’ even as major studios cut jobs and cancel blockbusters.| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Anthropic launches Claude Marketplace, letting companies buy third-party software using some of their committed annual spending on Anthropic's services — Anthropic PBC is launching a new platform for its corporate customers to purchase third-party software, broadening the AI developer's offerings …
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LinkedIn: Harsh Mehta and Timur Cuceloglu Yarnall
Forums: r/ClaudeAI and r/Anthropic
| Nikkei Asia: |
China's smartphone market is seeing one of its widest price hikes as memory chip crunch deepens; Meizu announces it will suspend developing new mobile hardware — TOKYO — China's smartphone market is seeing one of its biggest and widest price hikes ever, affecting almost all brands and product categories …
More: Light Reading, 36Kr, Yicai Global, Gizmochina, Gizmochina, PhoneArena, and Android Headlines
| The Information: |
Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a $10B+ valuation, up from $4.5B in July; its annualized revenue run rate has hit ~$2B — Online retailer Quince is in talks with investors to raise a funding round that would value the company at above $10 billion after the investment … | Financial Times: |
US investors are pushing Asian fund managers to create special vehicles so they can invest in Asia while avoiding US investment restrictions on Chinese tech — Institutional clients increasingly want so-called parallel funds that exclude certain assets — US investors are increasingly … Sponsor Posts
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