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OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into a desktop “superapp” to simplify the user experience and focus on engineering and business customers — The AI company will combine ChatGPT, Codex app and browser in an effort to focus and streamline its resources
More: Silicon Republic, Times of India, Business Standard, XDA Developers, CNBC, The Decoder, Reuters, Business Today, Digital Trends, DigiTimes, Livemint, Moneycontrol, The Information, Digit, Engadget, The Verge, Neowin, and Phandroid
X: @fidjissimo, @karrisaarinen, @jasonhiner, @berber_jin1, @mweinbach, @omooretweets, and @berber_jin1. Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
More: OpenAI, Astral, Ars Technica, MacStories, InfoWorld, Verdict, The Register, iPhone in Canada, and Simon Willison's Weblog
X: @gdb, @charliermarsh, @rohanpaul_ai, @openainewsroom, @sherwinwu, @fujikanaeda, @trekedge, @banteg, @hanchunglee, @chrisalbon, @julien_c, @svpino, @hsvsphere, @jsuarez, @alxfazio, @himanshustwts, @charliermarsh, @boristane, @reach_vb, @jxnlco, @theahmadosman, and @ivanfioravanti
LinkedIn: Jason Lantz, Charlie Marsh, and Nick Sologoub
Bluesky: @wildebees, @tiny.baby, @seldo.com, @timonsku.zip, @ramon-astudillo, @reillywood.com, and @cameron.stream. Mastodon: @webology@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/rust, and r/BetterOffline
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100B for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chipmaking and defense and revamp them with AI — Amazon.com founder has traveled to Middle East, Singapore in fundraising effort linked to Project Prometheus AI startup
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/Economics, and r/technology
| New York Times: |
Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech — The new fund would operate alongside the Amazon founder's A.I. start-up, Project Prometheus. — Jeff Bezos is in early discussions …
More: The Straits Times, Forbes, and Transport Topics
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
US prosecutors charge three people affiliated with Super Micro, including a co-founder, with smuggling Nvidia chips to China; SMCI drops 11.85% after hours — The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has charged associates of an unidentified U.S. server maker …
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Bluesky: @jordannovet.cnbc.com and @edzitron.com
Forums: r/SMCIDiscussion, r/AMD_Stock, r/hardware, r/Taiwanese, and r/technology
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M+ devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in December 2025 — The Aisuru, Kimwolf, JackSkid, and Mossad botnets had used clever techniques to worm into home networks, infecting … | Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: |
Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked #3 on the text-to-image Arena leaderboard behind models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground — Microsoft has been quietly building its own image generator. Announced Thursday by the company's AI Superintelligence team …
More: Microsoft AI, Windows Central, The Next Web, The Decoder, The Deep View, Thurrott, and Neowin
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
MiniMax releases M2.7, a proprietary “self-evolving” LLM that the company used to build, monitor, and optimize the model's own reinforcement learning harnesses — In the last few years, Chinese AI startup MiniMax has become one of the most exciting in the crowded global AI marketplace …
More: MiniMax. X: @artificialanlys, @minimax_ai, @kimmonismus, @ollama, @minimax_ai, @erikvoorhees, @arena, @openrouter, @kimmonismus, and @arena
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Filing: the Pentagon says Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, poses security risks and that its case is “different” from other companies' — The Pentagon is highlighting new national security concerns about Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, according to a court filing.
More: Federal News Network, BankInfoSecurity.com, Bloomberg, Android Headlines, and New York Times
X: @thezvi and @hamandcheese
| Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K satellites as part of its proposed orbital AI data center system “Project Sunrise” — Blue Origin joins SpaceX and Starcloud in filing FCC applications for AI satellites — Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is seeking permission … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users — Social network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today's news that the company raised $100 million in Series B funding.
More: Bluesky, The Block, crypto.news, The Next Web, Telecompaper, and Knight Foundation
Bluesky: @oldsquida, @parismarx.com, @katjadiehl, @coocho, @zig.computer, @tante.cc, @whateverhewants, @artifex, and @bsky.app
Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social, @timbray@cosocial.ca, and @jalefkowit@vmst.io. Forums: r/BlueskySocial
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google has started consumer beta testing of a dedicated Gemini AI app for the Mac, as it seeks to compete with Mac apps for ChatGPT and Claude — Google is ramping up development of a dedicated Gemini AI app for Apple Inc.'s Mac computer lineup, looking to step up competition with OpenAI and Anthropic PBC.| Bloomberg: |
Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, a source says for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for $4B in 2021 — ByteDance Ltd. has agreed to sell games unit Moonton to Savvy Games Group for $6 billion, unloading a gaming studio it acquired … | Wired: |
Signal's Moxie Marlinspike says his privacy-focused AI platform Confer will integrate its encryption tech into Meta AI to provide E2EE for chatbot interactions — Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI.
More: Confer Blog and Gizmodo
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Bluesky: @agreenberg, @lhn, and @couts
| The Information: |
Amazon acquires Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup Rivr, formerly Swiss-Mile; PitchBook: the startup was valued at $110M in an August 2024 funding round — Amazon has acquired autonomous robotics startup Rivr, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed, a deal that could help the commerce …
More: TechCrunch, CNBC, Neowin, The Independent, The Robot Report, Engadget, and PYMNTS.com
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google announces a new “advanced flow” for Android sideloading that requires a mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period to install apps from unverified developers — The one-time ‘advanced flow’ includes 24 hours of cooling off time. … Google has revealed the “advanced flow” …
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Bluesky: @infrequently.org, @dompreston.com, and @tcarmody
Mastodon: @slightlyoff@toot.cafe and @Aryan@dragonscave.space
Forums: r/Android, r/AfterVanced, r/EmulationOnAndroid, r/androidroot, r/brasil, r/technology, r/degoogle, r/androiddev, and r/fossdroid
| Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: |
A man accused of using thousands of bot accounts to stream AI songs, making millions in royalties, pleads guilty in US district court to wire fraud conspiracy — The man at the center of what's been described as the first-ever criminal prosecution for AI-assisted streaming fraud in the United States has pleaded guilty.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Pro, its new 1T-parameter foundation model, codenamed Hunter Alpha, which the company says benchmarks close to GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.6 — Led by Fuli Luo, a veteran of the disruptive DeepSeek R1 project, the release represents what Luo characterizes as a “quiet ambush” on the global frontier.| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba and Tencent lost a combined $66B in market value over about 24 hours as investors reacted to unclear monetization plans for their AI investments — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. lost $66 billion of market value in roughly 24 hours, after the market punished … | Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Kalshi is raising ~$1B led by Coatue at a $22B valuation, up from the $11B valuation announced in December, and has a revenue run rate of ~$1.5B — Coatue Management is leading the new financing that would total about $1 billion for the prediction-market platform, according to sources
More: The Information, Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires, and Crypto Briefing
| The Block: |
Filing: the SEC approved a Nasdaq rule change allowing some securities to trade in tokenized form; the new approach will be tested in an upcoming pilot program — Quick Take — Eligible participants will be able to settle trades in tokenized form during a pilot program operated by the Depository Trust Company.
More: CoinGape, Bitcoin Insider, Wall Street Journal, Blockonomi, and Cointelegraph
| New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over, after renaming Facebook to Meta and spending ~$80B on the endeavor, as his focus shifts to AI — Five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that the future of Facebook would be the metaverse.
More: 404 Media, TechCrunch, The Verge, Mashable, Sweden Herald, DigiTimes, Politico, Implicator.ai, Sandra Rose, and Lowpass
X: @matvelloso, @jdunrrp, @jordankutzer, @boztank, @arian_ghashghai, @jerseyh0mo, @girldrawsghosts, @kevinroose, @xuwu, @vasuman, @jmdagdelen, @matthew_d_green, @matthew_d_green, @wallstmemes, @joeperticone, @paultassi, @kyliebytes, @anisha_moonka, @wdavidmarx, @willsolfiac, @abhijitwt, @malonebarry, and @canteverdie
Bluesky: @ethanz, @tommysalty, @tabletopminions, @deanwampler.com, @maeve, @shadowmanos, @edzitron.com, @daniloc.xyz, and @kashhill. Threads: @boztank
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Indian AI data center operator Yotta is aiming to secure ~$500M to $600M at a ~$4B valuation, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks — Yotta Data Services Pvt., the data center operator that runs India's largest cluster of Nvidia Corp. AI processors … | Kyle Chayka / New Yorker: |
How AI startups and founders use “taste” as the latest buzzword for describing and distinguishing their products, in an attempt to evoke an aura of artisanality — In the age of A.I., the term has become as much of a Silicon Valley cliché as “disruption” was in the twenty-tens.
LinkedIn: Stephanie Clifford. Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com, @hunterwalk.com, @rauchway, @rmccarthyjames, @chaykak, and @tante.cc. Mastodon: @cdarwin@c.im. Forums: r/UXDesign
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Cursor says Composer 2 is “frontier-level at coding” and is priced at $0.50/1M input tokens and $2.50/1M output tokens, with a faster variant costing 3x more — 38.0 — 40.0 — 56.9 — These quality improvements come from our first continued pretraining run … | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
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