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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google rolls out an AI Inbox view for Gmail that shows users to-dos and summaries of topics rather than a traditional email list, first for US “trusted testers” — The new AI Inbox replaces the traditional list of emails with a personalized summary of what to do and what to catch up on.
More: The Keyword, Wired, Ars Technica, BleepingComputer, SiliconANGLE, BGR, PCMag, Fast Company, 9to5Google, Fortune, Nieman Lab, The Register, Axios, Dexerto, Decrypt, Android Central, Gizmodo, Android Headlines, MacRumors, Blockchain.News, Spyglass, Android Police, Inc, CNBC, iClarified, Barron's Online, How-To Geek, Droid Life, TechRadar, TechCrunch, MakeUseOf, Forbes, CNET, Tom's Guide, The Decoder, Thurrott, WinBuzzer, PCWorld, and TestingCatalog
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LinkedIn: Prachi Gupta, Jaishankar Sundararaman, Will Hart, Josh Fleetwood, Emanuel, Benedict Evans, and Blake Barnes
Bluesky: @stevekovach, @markriedl, @jaypeters.net, and @tomwarren.co.uk
Forums: r/technews, r/technology, r/technews, r/Bard, and Slashdot
| Cody Combs / The National: |
NetBlocks says internet connectivity in Iran has fallen on multiple providers as protests hit 100+ cities; Cloudflare says IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply — Cloudflare Radar says country's IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply as protests spread across 100 cities
More: TechCrunch, Reclaim The Net, Reuters, ZeroHedge News, RedState, Wall Street Journal, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, and New York Times
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: |
Tailwind CSS lays off three of its four engineers after Google traffic to its documentation fell ~40% from early 2023 due to AI, causing an ~80% drop in revenue — Adam Wathan the creator of Tailwind CSS posted that he had to let go of 75% (from 4 people now down to 1) of his engineering team because of AI.
More: GitHub, Simon Willison's Weblog, Business Insider, The Decoder, Blockonomi, and DEVCLASS
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Mastodon: @robb@social.lol, @david@fedi.larlet.fr, @peter@thepit.social, and @syntaxseed@phpc.social
Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Microsoft debuts Copilot Checkout in the US, enabling in-chat purchases via PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, and more; Shopify merchants will be automatically enrolled — Microsoft is beginning to roll out its first agentic experiences within Copilot, it's AI answer engine.
More: Microsoft Advertising, PayPal Newsroom, Axios, Engadget, Windows Central, Microsoft, Gizmodo, Thurrott, TestingCatalog, The Information, WinBuzzer, MediaPost, GeekWire, Neowin, and The Verge
X: @kross_roads, @protonvpn, @kimmonismus, @paypal, @acce, and @msftnews
LinkedIn: Ricky Ranjan, Carolina Puerto, and Jeff Pomeroy
| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI is rolling out a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to assist with medical reasoning and administrative tasks, at Cedars-Sinai and others — Health care is shaping up to be a key battleground for the top AI labs this year. But first... Three things to know:
More: OpenAI, The Register, WeRSM, TestingCatalog, DataBreachToday.com, CNET, The Record, Shelly Palmer, Unite.AI, and Becker's Hospital Review
X: @nearcyan and @bradlightcap
LinkedIn: Ashley Alexander, Steven Michaels, and Kavin Karthik
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B — Snowflake plans to acquire Observe, an observability platform that has been built on Snowflake's databases from day one.
More: Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, TechTarget, CIO Dive, Silicon Valley Business …, CRN, The Economic Times, and The Information
X: @ramaswmysridhar and @snowflake
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| Hadas Gold / CNN: |
Source: a few weeks before Grok started “digitally undressing” people, Elon Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on Grok's image and video generator — Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, has been flooded with sexual images of mainly women, many of them real people.
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| Louise Breusch Rasmussen / Reuters: |
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| Wired: |
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| New York Times: |
A profile of Apple SVP of Hardware Engineering John Ternus; sources: Ternus is seen as the front-runner to succeed Tim Cook, who wants to reduce his workload — Around 2018, Apple considered adding a tiny laser to its iPhones. The part would allow consumers to take better photos … | Ed Hardy / Cult of Mac: |
Statcounter: four months after its release, iOS 26 is in use by only about 15% of iPhone users; in January 2025, about 63% of users were on iOS 18 — Only a tiny percentage of iPhone users have installed iOS 26, according to data from a web analytics service.
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, PhoneArena, and The Mac Observer
Bluesky: @eastsidegadfly, @digifox.binaryden.net, @daniloc.xyz, @rhymeswithpistol, @philkast.com, and @jbgnobody
| Reuters: |
Sources: to hedge against Beijing approval risk, Nvidia is requiring Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, with no cancellations, refunds, or changes — Nvidia (NVDA.O) is requiring full upfront payment from Chinese customers seeking its H200 artificial intelligence chips … | John Liu / Bloomberg: |
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X: @annmarie, @jukan05, @_josenajarro, and @jimcramer
Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/NVDA_Stock
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
OpenAI VP of research Jerry Tworek is leaving, sources say after OpenAI sided with Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki in a dispute over its research direction — Tech companies are calling AI the next platform. But some developers are reluctant to let AI agents stand between them and their users.
X: @millionint, @deredleritt3r, @iruletheworldmo, @zeffmax, @daniel_mac8, @mobav0, @_simonsmith, and @mikeknoop. Bluesky: @cyberfuturists.com
| The Information: |
Sources: Strava, the fitness app founded in 2009, filed confidentially for an IPO; its revenue grew more than 50% YoY in 2025 but was still less than $500M — Strava, a fitness app popular with runners and cyclists, filed confidentially in recent weeks for an initial public offering … | Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
Sources: China's Salt Typhoon accessed the emails of top US House committee staff, detected in December, and intercepted senior US officials' calls for years — Beijing's intelligence used Salt Typhoon to access communications used by top panels in US Congress
More: Metacurity, Reuters, and ITPro
Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @flingjore.com, and @peark.es
Forums: r/politics, r/neoliberal, and Slashdot
| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Meta has hired Bill McGinley, a veteran Republican operative and the former top lawyer for DOGE, as a lobbyist — Meta Platforms Inc. has hired the former top lawyer for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency as a lobbyist, according to previously unreported government filings.| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
CrowdStrike acquires identity management startup SGNL, in a deal valued at nearly $740M, to bolster identity security defenses on its flagship Falcon platform — CrowdStrike announced Thursday that it is buying identity management startup SGNL in a deal valued at nearly $740 million … | Jessica Hopkins / The Athletic: |
FIFA says that parts of 2026 World Cup matches will be broadcast live on TikTok and select creators will get access to press conferences and training sessions — Video clips of World Cup games will be broadcast live on TikTok this summer, FIFA said on Thursday.| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to raise about $2B, after raising more than $1.5B across a pair of rounds in September and October — Data center company Nscale is in talks with investors to raise about $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter …
More: Tech in Asia
| CNBC: |
China says it will investigate Meta's $2B Manus acquisition to assess compliance with laws on export controls, tech import and export, and overseas investment — China said Thursday it will investigate Meta's $2 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus to assess its compliance with export control laws.
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X: @denisewu, @stevehou, @vshih2, @vince_chow1, @8teapi, @vince_chow1, and @mukund
| Sophie Bates / Associated Press: |
Mississippi Gov. Reeves says xAI is set to spend $20B+ to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, xAI's third data center in the greater Memphis area — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build a data center in Southaven, Mississippi …
More: Magnolia Tribune and Office of Governor Tate Reeves
X: @tatereeves, @xavianmel, @darrenmuss, @cb_doge, @tatereeves, and @katiemiller
Bluesky: @lachstep.com and @caseynewton
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