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Jon Hicks / GamesIndustry.biz: 20 mins ago
Epic reports third-party game revenue on the Epic Games Store up 57% YoY in 2025 to $400M, total spend up 6% to $1.16B, and total player hours down 14% to 6.65B
Meir Orbach / CTech: 40 mins ago
Orion, which has developed an AI platform to replace data loss prevention tools, raised a $32M Series A led by Norwest, bringing its total funding to $38M
Rohan Goswami / Semafor: 70 mins ago
Sources: HP CEO Enrique Lores leaving to become PayPal CEO blindsided HP, whose board rushed to launch a CEO search process; Lores had worked for HP since 1989
Financial Times: 2 hours ago
The UK ICO launches a new investigation into X and xAI over “serious concerns” about Grok's data use and “its potential to produce harmful sexualized” content
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Liv McMahon / BBC:
The Paris prosecutor's office says it raided X's French offices with Europol and summons Elon Musk and former CEO Linda Yaccarino to appear at hearings in April
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Financial Times:
The UK ICO launches a new investigation into X and xAI over “serious concerns” about Grok's data use and “its potential to produce harmful sexualized” content
Bloomberg:
SpaceX acquires xAI; sources say the all-stock deal values the combined company at $1.25T, with SpaceX valued at $1T and xAI at $250B; xAI burns ~$1B per month
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q3 revenue of ~$5.2B, below $5.45B est., a ~$1.03B net profit, vs. $950M est., and maintains its 19M Switch 2 sales forecast for fiscal 2026
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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Nintendo says the Switch 1 sold 155.37M units from its March 2017 launch through December 2026, topping the DS' 154.02M units, becoming its best-selling console
Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
PayPal names HP CEO Enrique Lores as CEO, replacing interim CEO Alex Chriss on March 1, and reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $8.68B, below est.; PYPL drops 15%+
Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI is unsatisfied with some of Nvidia's latest AI chips for inference and has sought alternatives since 2025, such as from AMD, Cerebras, and Groq
Brian Barrett / Wired:
The US DOJ releasing emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kicks off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage
Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts ...:
A look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta can read users' private data
Variety:
Disney names Josh D'Amaro, head of its theme parks and consumer products division, as CEO, replacing Bob Iger, effective March 18; D'Amaro joined Disney in 1998
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
Waymo raised $16B led by Sequoia, DST, and Dragoneer at a $126B valuation, plans an expansion across the US and into the UK in 2026, and makes 400K+ rides/week
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI is prioritizing ChatGPT over long-term research, prompting senior staff departures; Sora and DALL-E teams felt neglected and under resourced
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI launches a Codex app for macOS, designed to serve as a command center for managing AI agents, and says Codex usage has nearly doubled since mid-December
Ina Fried / Axios:
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil Luffu, a self-funded startup developing an AI-powered “family care system”, currently in private testing
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen on Docusign's workforce growing to 7,000 staffers, its Intelligent Agreement Management system, AI hallucinations, and more
Jon Hicks / GamesIndustry.biz:
Epic reports third-party game revenue on the Epic Games Store up 57% YoY in 2025 to $400M, total spend up 6% to $1.16B, and total player hours down 14% to 6.65B
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