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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
HP plans to acquire assets from Humane for $116M, wind down Humane's Ai Pin business, and add Humane's team, including its founders, as an AI-focused division — - Humane's Ai pin business to be wound down after rocky launch — New unit at HP will focus on implementation of AI in devices
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| Aaron Souppouris / Engadget: |
Humane says Ai Pin's online features will stop working at 12PM PT on February 28, when it will delete all customer data, and it will refund some newer customers — Humane is discontinuing the AI Pin and selling out to HP. — AI hardware startup Humane has given its users just ten (10!) …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Signal updates its apps to add phishing protections after Google warned Russia-linked hackers are using fake QR codes to target Ukrainian soldiers — Google warns that hackers tied to Russia are tricking Ukrainian soldiers with fake QR codes for Signal group invites that let spies steal their messages.| VentureBeat: |
Sources: Chinese game publisher NetEase has been directed to divest its overseas holdings, starting with hit game Marvel Rivals, which laid off its Seattle team — Chinese game publisher NetEase raised fears with recent moves that it is unloading as much as all of its overseas holdings …
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LinkedIn: Thaddeus Sasser and Jack Burrows
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Niantic is in talks to sell its games unit to Saudi Arabia-controlled Scopely for ~$3.5B; the deal would include Pokémon Go and other mobile games — A deal could be announced in coming weeks. The price being discussed is about $3.5 billion, according to one of the people.
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Source: in text messages, Libra co-creator Hayden Davis bragged he could “control” Argentine President Javier Milei due to payments to Milei's sister — A key player behind the Libra token bragged about buying access to Argentine President Javier Milei's inner circle months …
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
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| Katie Roof / Bloomberg: |
Sources: X is in talks to raise funds at a $44B valuation, matching the price Elon Musk paid for Twitter in 2022, as his proximity to Trump alters X's prospects — - Valuation is the same as Musk's 2022 Twitter acquisition — Billionaire has recently tapped private markets for big sums| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announces Thinking Machines Lab, a new AI startup that she's leading, with Barret Zoph as CTO and John Schulman as chief scientist — - “Instead of focusing solely on making fully autonomous AI systems, we are excited to build multimodal systems that work …
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| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI researchers, using the SWE-Lancer benchmark, find that real-world freelance software engineering work remains challenging for frontier language models — Large language models (LLMs) may have changed software development, but enterprises will need to think twice about entirely replacing …
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Intel shares closed up 16.1% following a February 15 report that both Broadcom and TSMC are potentially weighing deals that could break the chipmaker in two — Intel shares rallied 16.1% on Tuesday following a Wall Street Journal report that both Broadcom and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing … | Bloomberg: |
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
French privacy startup Murena unveils the €539 Murena Pixel Tablet, running its open-source, forked /e/OS, after releasing a “deGoogled” smartphone in 2023 — Murena, the French privacy firm that's forked Android to deliver so-called deGoogled smartphones, has repeated the trick with a tablet.| Bloomberg: |
Some US ByteDance investors argue that they don't need US TikTok for success, as China, which accounts for 80% of ByteDance's revenue, is the real driving force — Some American ByteDance investors say they don't need US TikTok for success — As TikTok fights to keep its popular video app available … | Erik Larson / Bloomberg: |
TMTG and Rumble sue a Brazilian Supreme Court Justice in Florida for allegedly illegally suppressing the US social media activity of conservative Brazilians — - Suit, joined by Rumble, accusing the judge of stifling speech — Brazilian judge has long attacked ‘fake news,’ disinformation
More: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, CNBC, and Axios
| Reuters: |
President Trump says tariffs on semiconductors would start at “25% or higher” and that he planned to provide some time for chip makers to set up US factories — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he intends to impose auto tariffs “in the neighborhood of 25%” …
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| James Hunt / The Block: |
Binance.US resumes USD deposits and withdrawals for the first time since June 2023, when the SEC sued Binance, Binance.US, and co-founder Changpeng Zhao — - Binance.US customers can deposit and withdraw U.S. dollars on the platform for the first time in nearly two years.
More: Binance.US, CoinDesk, Fortune, CoinGape, crypto.news, Watcher Guru, and Coinpedia Fintech News
| Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: |
Asus ROG Flow Z13 review: the ~$2,300 convertible tablet's integrated GPU in its AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip offers performance comparable to a GeForce RTX 4060 — Looking at this thing, you might expect to see it propped up at an airport bar, in front of somebody talking into wireless headphones about Tim in Product.
More: Dave2D on YouTube, Just Josh on YouTube, ASUS, The Verge, G Style Magazine, HotHardware, and PC Gamer
X: @aschilling and @asus_rog
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| Bloomberg: |
Internal documents, emails, and federal data suggest Indian IT giant TCS has used L-1A manager visas in ways that raise concerns about undercutting US workers — New data show how TCS makes heavy use of employment visas reserved for managers. Ex-staffers say it was to get around H-1B rules.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Play Books for iOS now lets users complete their e-book or audiobook purchase on the Google Play website, under Apple's “reader apps” exception — Google has gained permission to sell its e-books and audiobooks directly to customers through its iOS app, Google Play Books.
More: The Keyword, MacRumors, BGR, Neowin, and Gizchina.com
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti review: a capable GPU for 4K gaming, DLSS 4 multi-frame gen, and runs cool, but prices fluctuate wildly and $750 is expensive for mid-range — But good luck finding one at that price. — It's honestly difficult to remember the simpler days of video card shopping …
More: The Verge, Club386, Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, Forbes, PC Gamer, Eurogamer.net, and TweakTown. Bluesky: @devindra
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Analog Devices, one of the largest analog chip makers, increases its stock buyback program by $10B to $11.5B; sales dropped 23% in 2024 as chip demand slows — The buyback plans will bring the total size of the program to $11.5 billion, the company said in a statement Tuesday.
More: Investor's Business Daily and Analog Devices
| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Shift4 agrees a $1.5B deal to buy Swiss tax-free shopping services provider Global Blue Group; Shift4 handles $250B in annual payments from 200K+ companies — Global Blue helps retailers including Nike and Prada with tax-free transactions — Shift4 Payments has struck a deal for Global Blue Group …
More: FinTech Futures, Finextra, and Global Blue
| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Google launches an AI co-scientist, a new Gemini 2.0-based system to help scientists create novel hypotheses and research plans, available to select testers — Lab assistant powered by artificial intelligence can help generate scientific hypotheses — Google has built an artificial …
More: New Scientist, The Independent, Google Research, Imperial News, and The Keyword
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Augury, which uses AI to detect malfunctions in factory machines, raised a $72.5M Series F, potentially rising to ~$100M, led by Lightrock at a $1B+ valuation — As companies like Nvidia and SoftBank focus on industrial robotics as key areas for future R&D, a startup has raised funding today …
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