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| Jared Spataro / Microsoft 365 Blog: |
Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork to its Frontier program for early-stage testing, including a new Researcher Critique tool using Anthropic and OpenAI models — Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI for work. It's built on a multi-model advantage—bringing the best AI innovation from across …
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X: @theprimeagen, @cryptopunk7213, @satyanadella, @boringbiz_, @microsoft365, @itspaulai, @laurentgiret, @jacobandreou, @jerrycap, and @stocksavvyshay
LinkedIn: Satya Nadella, Kapil Chawla, Stephen Zeng, Gaurav Anand, and Jared Spataro
| Wall Street Journal: |
Inside the rise and fall of OpenAI's Sora, which worked apart from OpenAI's research team, as the company shuts down Sora and redirects compute to other tasks — When Sam Altman arrived in Los Angeles to attend Vanity Fair's Oscar afterparty earlier this month, his company was just weeks away …
More: Digital Trends, Benzinga, Breitbart, Yahoo Finance, Hello China Tech, JD Supra, Silicon Canals, PCMag, Tech in Asia, The Decoder, TechCrunch, and 9to5Mac
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LinkedIn: Chuck Bamford PhD and Dylan Jones. Bluesky: @maximillianquinn. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: Hacker News and r/BetterOffline
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mistral plans to spend €4B in total — French company's debut debt financing follows rising demand for alternatives to US groups
More: Reuters, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, The Times, Data Center Knowledge, Yahoo Finance, CNBC, Le Monde, Unite.AI, The Decoder, The Next Web, Quartz, Implicator.ai, Blockonomi, The American Bazaar, Barron's Online, Ventureburn, TelecomTV, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Tech Funding News, Sifted, Silicon Canals, Capacity, Silicon Republic, Benzinga, Tech.eu, Tech in Asia, and The Stack
X: @mikebutcher, @aprokopiev, @auchenberg, @vraserx, @sebjohnsonuk, and @miquelvilam. LinkedIn: Arthur Mensch. Forums: r/neoliberal
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing an Instagram Plus subscription in a few countries, offering features including anonymous Story viewing and extended 48-hour Story durations — Meta has begun testing a premium subscription on Instagram in a few countries, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday.| Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: |
Gurman: Apple pulls Apple Intelligence in China, after accidentally launching it in the country; there is no imminent launch as Apple has no regulatory approval — Apple Intelligence first launched in the US in October 2024, but now after a nearly 18-month wait, Apple's AI features appear to be rolling out in China too.
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, Pocket-lint, Digit, and The Mac Observer
X: @markgurman and @zollotech
| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Quinnipiac poll: 55% of Americans say AI will do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives, and 65% oppose building data centers in their community — Americans are increasingly turning against artificial intelligence, with growing majorities saying they fear the fast-moving technology …
More: Quinnipiac University Poll, The Hill, TechCrunch, Business Insider, and NewsMax.com
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Bluesky: @bestonetx and @reckless
| Qwen: |
Alibaba releases its Qwen3.5-Omni omnimodal LLM with support for 10+ hours of audio input, saying the Plus variant surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio benchmarks — Qwen3.5-Omni is Qwen's latest generation of fully omnimodal LLM, supporting the understanding of text, images, audio, and audio-visual content.
More: Decrypt and Benzinga
X: @ali_tongyilab, @adinayakup, @alibaba_qwen, @kimmonismus, @alibaba_qwen, @alibaba_qwen, @alibabagroup, and @bowang87. Forums: r/singularity
| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it “disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback” — Over 11,000 pull requests have been spotted with the same “tips” injected into descriptions.
More: Zach Manson, Neowin, OSnews, and The Register
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Forums: r/technews and r/microsoft
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Match Group agrees to settle an FTC lawsuit claiming it illegally shared user data from the OkCupid app with facial recognition tech company Clarifai in 2014 — Match Group (MTCH.O) settled a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit accusing it of giving an outside company access to personal data …
More: Federal Trade Commission, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg Law, Inc.com, and MediaPost
| Kara Scannell / CNN: |
Sources: US prosecutors are exploring whether some prediction market bets, including on the capture of Nicolás Maduro, violated insider trading and other laws — Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are exploring whether certain lucrative bets placed on prediction markets … | Derek Thompson: |
Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which blames phones for anxiety, populism, and polarization, despite harms being concentrated in the Anglosphere — Many people believe that the nexus of smartphones, Internet, and social media is to blame for every modern catastrophe.
More: The Argument. X: @dkthomp, @richardhanania, @richarddias_cfa, @louisanslow, @rachaelrad, @tomowenmorgan, @noahpinion, @samuelmxc, and @barneyflames
| Ezra Klein / New York Times: |
Some thoughts about companies and people in San Francisco adapting to AI workflows, AI's sycophancy, “cognitive offloading” and “cognitive surrender”, and more — In his classic book “Understanding Media,” Marshall McLuhan dwells on the Greek myth of Narcissus.
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| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
AI chip startup Rebellions raised $400M in a pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation, bringing its total funding to $850M, with $650M in the past six months — Fresh off a successful Series C funding round in November, the South Korean fabless AI chip startup Rebellions has raised an additional $400 million.
More: CNBC, The Next Web, Reuters, Unite.AI, Pulse 2.0, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Canals, Rebellions, FinSMEs, DatacenterDynamics, The Register, and Data Center Knowledge. LinkedIn: Sunghyun Park
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A look at Pretext, a new JS library that solves the problem of calculating multi-line text height without touching the DOM, enabling highly dynamic layouts — Pretext solves the problem of calculating the height of a paragraph of line-wrapped text without touching the DOM.
X: @_chenglou, @tobi, @baconbrix, @_chenglou, @charliegreenman, @vladartym, @0xmrtn, @riyvir, @kevinleeus, @neogoose_btw, @domenic, @kho, @valcoholics1, @ahmedshahnab, @ukint_vs, @solarise_webdev, @gkurttech, @samjb1234, @davederiso, @_chenglou, @stevibe, @lucas__crespo, @its_bvisness, @steren, @lucas__crespo, @birdabo, and @_chenglou. Forums: Hacker News
| Boaz Barak / Windows On Theory: |
State of AI safety: as capabilities grow and models can monitor other models, issues like adversarial robustness persist and society is still not ready for AI — Here is a quick overview of my intuitions on where we are with AI safety in early 2026: — So far, we continue to see exponential improvements in capabilities.
More: Notes from the Circus. X: @_nathancalvin, @fleetingbits, @so8res, @_nathancalvin, @boazbaraktcs, and @sama
| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Leaked January presentation: Coatue estimated that Anthropic would lose $14B in EBITDA on $18B in revenue in 2026 and reach a $1.995T valuation in 2030 — We talk about it & more on the Cerebral Valley Show — In a presentation to prospective investors in January, Coatue offered a rare look … | Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Sycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath to let enterprises build, deploy, and monitor AI agents, raised a $65M seed led by Coatue and Lightspeed — Sycamore, an agentic AI operating system founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath, raised $65 million in seed funding led by Coatue and Lightspeed.| Financial Times: |
Fermi shares drop 12%+ after the data center real estate company reported a $486M YTD net loss, amid concerns over a lack of a tenant for its Texas data center — Data centre property group faces investor concerns around lack of tenant revenue — Shares in data centre real estate group Fermi plunged …
More: Barron's Online, Dow Jones Newswires, and Proactive
| Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: |
How Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean has been an outspoken voice on politics, a rare tech leader openly criticizing Trump actions and an ICE shooting — AI pioneer Jeff Dean is a rare tech leader publicly criticizing Trump administration actions — At a moment when much of the tech industry … | Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal: |
Levels.fyi: median base-salary offers for US software engineers at VC-backed startups have risen 25% to $200K since 2022; total compensation has risen just 18% — Young tech companies once might have complemented lower salaries with generous equity packages. Now they're upping base pay.
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| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to automate game marketing, raised a $30M Series B led by Greenfield Partners, bringing its total funding to $57M — The Israeli startup targets billions spent on user acquisition with agent-based automation. — Sett, which develops …
More: Sett, PocketGamer.biz, Mobidictum, and FinSMEs
LinkedIn: Dori Joseph, Ori Ran, Arnaud Lorie, Sett, and Akin Babayigit
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Valinor, which aims to use smart contracts to replace manual lending processes in the private credit industry, raised a $25M seed led by Castle Island Ventures — Many corners of finance—stock exchanges, banks, and payments firms—are embracing digital assets, but the private credit industry …
More: PYMNTS.com, Pulse 2.0, Blockchain.News, and Crypto Briefing
LinkedIn: Connor Dougherty, Lily Yarborough, Valinor, and Michael Bucella
| New York Times: |
Some schools in North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Michigan are reevaluating classroom tech usage, including Chromebooks, amid student screen time concerns — No more YouTube or video games on school laptops. Textbooks and pencils are back. Some seventh graders say they prefer learning offline.| Bethan Staton / Financial Times: |
AI has led some employers like L'Oréal to return to in-person assessments during recruiting, as senior HR leaders see a steep rise in AI-generated applications — Employers wading through job applications are returning to in-person and practical assessments| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI's ChatGPT app store has 300+ app integrations six months after launch, but developers say adoption is sluggish and the apps offer limited functionality — Six months in, ChatGPT's third-party apps offer limited functionality and have been frustrating for developers.
X: @glenngabe and @natlungfy
| Sylvia Chang / BBC: |
PwC: 76 mainland Chinese companies listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2025, up from 30 in 2024, despite the city's waning appeal to international investors — In a hotel lobby on Hong Kong Island, a delivery robot pauses outside one of the lifts as the doors open, and a guest steps out.Sponsor Posts
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