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Apple says it will spend $500B in the US over the next four years, hire 20,000 new US workers, and produce AI servers in Texas, after Tim Cook met with Trump — - Company to begin producing Apple Intelligence servers in Texas — $500 billion planned to be invested in US over next four years
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TD Cowen: Microsoft cancels leases for a substantial amount of US data centers, potentially due to over-investment fears; Microsoft plans to spend $80B in 2025 — - The company has pledged $80 billion toward computing capacity — Wall Street is questioning AI demand over the longer-term| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
xAI confirms Grok briefly had “Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation” as a public-facing instruction for its responses — The system prompt for Musk's chatbot was changed by an employee to block the results.
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Google says it plans to use QR codes for Gmail account authentication, ditching SMS to “reduce the impact of rampant, global SMS abuse” — It is certainly no secret that using SMS text messages for security codes used to authenticate your identity is far from ideal.| Elliptic: |
An analysis of the $1.46B Bybit hack, by far the largest crypto heist of all time, ahead of Poly Network's $611M in 2021, and possibly the biggest theft ever — On February 21st 2025, approximately $1.46 billion in cryptoassets were stolen from Bybit, a Dubai-based exchange.| Bloomberg: |
Alibaba pledges to invest more than $53B on AI infrastructure, including new data centers, over the next three years — - The e-commerce firm is angling to become an AI company — Firm to invest in AI infrastructure such as data centers … The internet company co-founded by Jack Ma plans … | James Hunt / The Block: |
Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, bought 20,356 bitcoin for $1.99B between February 18 and 23, taking its holdings to 499,096, worth $47B, or 2.3% of BTC supply — - Strategy has purchased another 20,356 BTC for approximately $2 billion at an average price of $97,514 per bitcoin.| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Robinhood says it received a letter from the SEC stating the agency is dropping its investigation into Robinhood Crypto, a sign of regulatory change under Trump — The Securities and Exchange Commission is dropping its investigation into Robinhood's crypto arm, the company revealed Monday.
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As the Trump administration neuters the PCLOB and reviews the EO behind the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, the EU should stop moving to US clouds — We used to think that grieving went through five stages: denial, protest, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
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Prosus plans to buy Just Eat Takeaway for €20.30 per share, a 22% premium over its three-month high, in an all-cash deal valuing the delivery company at €4B+ — Deal marks end to tumultuous few years for European food delivery group — Just Eat Takeaway is set to be acquired … | Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: |
Some hair stylists, bridal shops, and hardware stores say AI generated “inspo”, taken from platforms like Pinterest, is warping customers' sense of reality — From bridal shops to med-spas to hardware stores, AI-generated photos are warping our sense of reality and hurting small businesses along the way.
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Salesforce signs a $2.5B, seven-year deal with Google Cloud to let customers run its software, Agentforce AI assistants, and Data Cloud on Google Cloud — The contract, worth $2.5 billion, is emblematic of how big tech companies are forging alliances to offer a broader menu of AI products.
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