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Sharon Goldman / Fortune:

Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's DOD contract — Caitlin Kalinowski, who had been leading hardware and robotic engineering teams at OpenAI since November 2024, announced she has left the company.

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X: @kalinowski007, @_ueaj, @daveshapi, @garymarcus, @ns123abc, @teortaxestex, @kalinowski007, and @signulll. LinkedIn: Sharon Goldman

Business Insider:

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.

More: Bureau of Labor Statistics, PYMNTS.com, Crypto Briefing, and New York Times

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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 …

More: Gizmodo, NextDraft, Mediaite, Entrepreneur, Yahoo Finance, The Guardian, and Wall Street Journal

Bluesky: @wildebees, @seanokane, @bobbyallyn, @bobbyallyn, and @bobbyallyn

Forums: r/NPR and r/technology

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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

More: CoinDesk, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, StrictlyVC, Raw Story, The Crypto Times, Crypto Briefing, and Deseret News. LinkedIn: Dave Michaels

Financial Times:

Sources: Palmer Luckey's ModRetro, which wants to sell updated versions of 1990s consoles like the Nintendo 64, is in talks to raise funding at a $1B valuation — From AI weapons to Game Boys, defence tech billionaire is in talks to raise funds for new gaming venture ModRetro

Bluesky: @tcarmody and @stephenkb

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:

A profile of Simile, which offers “agentic twins” modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research for companies like CVS and Gallup — AI startup Simile offers ‘agentic twins’ modeled on real people to provide answers for polling and market research

LinkedIn: Mike Volpi, Sri Narasimhan, Joon Sung Park, and Allegra Pedretti

Bluesky: @artisny, @renrut-mas, and @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Cory Weinberg / The Information:

Financial figures shared with prospective investors: Anduril expects its revenue to grow 100% in 2026 to ~$4.3B, and its operating loss to rise by ~50% to $1.2B — Weapons maker Anduril expects to roughly double revenue this year to about $4.3 billion, while its operating loss would rise …

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:

China's commerce ministry warns of global chip shortages due to “new conflicts” between Dutch chipmaker Nexperia and its Chinese subsidiary — China's commerce ministry on Saturday raised the possibility of another global semiconductor supply chain crisis due to “new conflicts” …

More: Caixin Global and Tech in Asia

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 …

More: Google Cloud Blog, The Record, BleepingComputer, Cyber Security News, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, CyberInsider, TechRadar, Security Affairs, ComputerWeekly.com, CSO, Cybersecurity Dive, Android Headlines, Securelist, ITPro, Infosecurity, Security Boulevard, and Risky Business

LinkedIn: iVerify. Bluesky: @cooperq.com. Mastodon: @evacide@hachyderm.io

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.

X: @cecianasta and @cecianasta

LinkedIn: Bob Holtzman, Cecilia D'Anastasio, and Evan Zirschky. Bluesky: @dannygroner

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.

More: Security Affairs, The White House, Cybersecurity Dive, Bloomberg Law, Politico, Nextgov/FCW, and Defense One

X: @robertskvarla, @ericgeller, @natalimorris, @ericgeller, and @rapidresponse47

LinkedIn: Amanda Naylor and Kim Guedry. Bluesky: @samsabin

Catherine Lucey / Bloomberg:

President Trump signs an EO aimed at fighting cybercrime, directing officials to identify robust tools to combat transnational criminal organizations

More: The White House, New York Times, DataBreachToday.com, and NewsMax.com

X: @whitehouse. LinkedIn: Kate Griffin. Bluesky: @caseynewton and @westernbirding.com

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: 36Kr, Yicai Global, Light Reading, 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 …

X: @anngehan. LinkedIn: Katie Roof

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 …

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Joe Sonka / Louisville Public Media:

McClatchy enacts deep, nationwide layoffs, including at the Lexington Herald-Leader, Miami Herald, Kansas City Star, Charlotte Observer, and Idaho Statesman

Brett LoGiurato / Status:

NYT CEO Kopit Levien confirms The Athletic is no longer pursuing a major partnership with Kalshi, saying “we take the trust of our readers incredibly seriously”

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NetChoice sues Illinois to block taxes on large social media companies and on companies with over $1M in gross receipts from digital ad services

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Stephen Morris / Financial Times:

Alphabet gives Sundar Pichai a new three-year pay deal worth up to $692M, with stock incentives worth as much as $350M linked to the growth of Waymo and Wing

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Bloomberg:

In a Twitter shareholder trial, former CEO Parag Agrawal and CFO Ned Segal disputed Musk's claims that they lied to him about the percentage of spam accounts

More: Gazetteer SF

Financial Times:

A draft guidance from the US GSA tightens rules for civilian AI contracts to require AI companies to allow “any lawful” use by the government of their models

More: Reuters, Tech in Asia, and Pirate Wires. X: @jtillipman

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

More: CSO, Politico, BleepingComputer, Bloomberg, The Asia Business Daily, UPI, ZeroHedge News, The Gateway Pundit, Cyber Security News, Reuters, and CyberInsider

Bluesky: @caseynewton. Mastodon: @fj@mastodon.social. Forums: r/technology

Noah Smith / Noahpinion:

The Pentagon is right in trying to coerce Anthropic as AI may become a superweapon and nation-states must have a monopoly on the use of force

More: Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Associated Press, Inc.com, and Anthropic

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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

More: Runtime, The Decoder, Inc.com, Towards Data Science, and The Deep View

X: @teortaxestex, @wesbos, @rhyssullivan, @edzitron, @itsmechase, @hanchunglee, @adamrackis, @dorialexander, @thdxr, @bearlyai, @_heyglassy, @kylebrussell, @tanayj, @annatonger, @annatonger, @annatonger, @annatonger, @annatonger, and @rashishrivast18. LinkedIn: Iain Martin

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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

Steven Levy / Wired:

Q&A with Block CEO Jack Dorsey on laying off 40% of the company's workers, wanting Block to “feel like a mini AGI”, his take on Elon Musk's X, and more

More: CoinDesk, Gizmodo, and Fortune

X: @stevenlevy. Bluesky: @laurengoode, @stevenlevy, and @katie-drummond

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:

Anthropic launches Claude Marketplace, letting companies buy third-party software using some of their committed annual spending on Anthropic's services

More: Claude, CNBC, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Crypto Briefing, and NextBigWhat

X: @snowflake, @championswimmer, @matt_slotnick, @mstockton, @matt_slotnick, @dorialexander, @coreyganim, @cryptopunk7213, @abhijitwt, @joshkale, @claudeai, and @claudeai

LinkedIn: Harsh Mehta, Timur Cuceloglu Yarnall, and Aiden Blake

Forums: r/Anthropic and r/ClaudeAI

Nicole Carpenter / Aftermath:

Nintendo of America sues the US government, seeking a refund with interest for tariffs that the company says Trump implemented in “unlawful” EOs

Sam Sabin / Axios:

OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved from its research project Aardvark to automate vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Mozilla says Claude Opus 4.6 found 100+ bugs in Firefox in two weeks in January, 14 of them high-severity, more than the bugs typically reported in two months

More: Anthropic, The Hacker News, The Mozilla Blog, The Decoder, Blockonomi, Digit, Politico, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, The Register, TechCrunch, Cyber Security News, and Axios

X: @logangraham, @anthropicai, @noahpinion, @frankieislost, @gallabytes, @hamandcheese, @rez0__, @kimmonismus, @yuchenj_uw, and @hackinglz. LinkedIn: Anthony Enzor-DeMeo

Mastodon: @cigitalgem@sigmoid.social and @budududuroiu@hachyderm.io

Forums: Hacker News and r/firefox