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Meta confirms it is laying off Reality Labs staff and will “reinvest the savings” in wearables; CTO Andrew Bosworth says 1,000+ staff will be notified Tuesday — Meta Platforms Inc. is beginning to cut more than 1,000 jobs from the company's Reality Labs division …
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Sources: Meta and EssilorLuxottica are discussing potentially doubling Ray-Ban Meta production capacity to 20M+ units by the end of 2026 or even as high as 30M+ — Meta Platforms Inc. and EssilorLuxottica SA are discussing potentially doubling production capacity for AI-powered smart glasses … | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft changes its data center approach, pledging to pay its own power costs, reject tax breaks, and replenish more water than it uses, amid local opposition — President Trump was right about Microsoft — but he only leaked part of the story. — Microsoft is changing its approach … | Business Insider: |
Trump says that Microsoft will “ensure” Americans don't have higher power bills due to data centers and Big Tech must “pay their own way” for their data centers — - President Donald Trump asks tech companies to “pay their own way” for their data centers.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils Apple Creator Studio, a “groundbreaking collection” of creative apps like Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro for $13/month or $129/year — Apple has announced Apple Creator Studio, which it describes as a “groundbreaking collection of powerful creative apps designed …
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Forums: r/LogicPro, r/pixelmator, and r/apple
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
IDC: global PC shipments rose 9.6% YoY to 76.4M units in Q4 2025, helped by Microsoft ending Windows 10 support and OEMs pulling forward inventory amid tariffs — IDC expects the PC market to be volatile this year ahead of anticipated price increases.
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| Politico: |
Governor Gavin Newsom says he has been negotiating for four months to neutralize California's wealth tax ballot proposal; a compromise does not appear imminent — A compromise does not appear imminent. A union official cast doubt on the possibility of a deal, saying the two sides … | Mike Solana / Pirate Wires: |
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| Webb Wright / ZDNET: |
Anthropic debuts Cowork for Claude, built on Claude Code, for automating complex tasks with minimal prompting, as a research preview for Claude Max subscribers — ZDNET's key takeaways — Anthropic is launching Cowork for Claude as a research preview. — It's built upon Claude Code and can automate complex tasks.
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
The US House passes a bipartisan bill that expands export controls to restrict Chinese companies' remote access to US AI chips from data centers outside China — The House of Representatives on Monday passed a bipartisan bill that expands U.S. export controls to restrict Chinese companies' ability …
| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: China has told some tech companies that it will approve Nvidia H200 chip purchases only under special circumstances, such as for university research — The Chinese government this week told some tech companies it would only approve their purchases of Nvidia's H200 AI chips under … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple and Google say Apple Foundation Models based on Gemini will help power not only a more personalized Siri, but also “future Apple Intelligence features” — Google today announced that its AI platform Gemini will help power not only a more personalized version of Siri, but a range of future Apple Intelligence features.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Austin-based webAI, which is building AI models that run locally on devices, raised “high double-digit” millions in a Series A at a $2.5B pre-money valuation — WebAI, an Austin, Texas-based sovereign AI platform, raised “high double-digit” millions of dollars at a $2.5 billion pre-money valuation, it tells Axios.| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
Salesforce makes Slack's new AI-powered Slackbot generally available, helping users answer workflow questions, draft documents, schedule meetings, and more — ZDNET's key takeaways Salesforce made Slackbot generally available.Slackbot is an AI agent for work built in Slack.Business …
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| Will Canny / CoinDesk: |
Sources: CoinGecko, a prominent crypto market data and analytics company, is seeking a potential sale for ~$500M, after starting the sales process in late 2025 — The crypto market data firm has hired investment bank Moelis, as dealmaking across the sector accelerates.
More: Crypto Briefing
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and elsewhere are studying LLMs as if they were living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets — By studying large language models as if they were living things instead of computer programs, scientists are discovering some of their secrets for the first time.
More: iterate think thoughts and The Deep View
| Decrypt: |
The NYC token, launched by former New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$110M, after USDC liquidity manipulation — On-chain data shows unexplained liquidity withdrawals as Eric Adam's NYC token's market cap continues to bleed. — In brief| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A profile of Eric Migicovsky's Core Devices, a five-person company that he says is “not a startup” and aims to be “sustainable”, as it builds new Pebble devices — Pebble's founder, Eric Migicovsky, is doing things differently with his reboot of the Pebble smartwatch brand and an AI ring.| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Flip, which offers an Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $31M — Flip, a startup that claims to offer an Amazon Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
CrowdStrike acquires Israel-based browser security startup Seraphic, a source says for around $400M; Seraphic has raised around $37M in total — Founded in 2020, the Israeli company focuses on embedding security directly into the browser. — CrowdStrike is acquiring Israeli startup Seraphic Security.
More: Forbes, CRN, Globes, CyberScoop, and Business Wire
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google makes improvements to Veo 3.1's Ingredients to Video feature to make videos more expressive, and adds native vertical video generation and 4K upscaling — Videos should now be more consistent with the images they're based on, including those in portrait orientations.| Sam Knight / New Yorker: |
A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide — The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike. What are we all doing there?| Bloomberg: |
Sources: India asked quick commerce companies to drop their 10-minute delivery promise due to concerns about rider safety; Blinkit already removed the assurance — India is asking quick commerce companies to drop their 10-minute delivery promise amid mounting concerns that the ultra-tight deadlines …
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| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI plans a 60-second Super Bowl ad during NBC's broadcast, the second straight year of doing so; ad buyers say clients pay $8M+ for just 30 seconds — AI companies are engaged in an expensive arms race to attract users and alleviate public anxiety about the technologySponsor Posts
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