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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
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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LinkedIn: Emil Protalinski and John Thompson
Bluesky: @elucidating … and @quinnypig.com
Threads: @karissabe, @kathrynyu, and @firerock31
Forums: r/PSVR, r/virtualreality, r/Games, r/Slycooper, r/augmentedreality, and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
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 …
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| 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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Threads: @film_girl and @parkerortolani
Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …, @ernie@writing.exchange, @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social, and @geerlingguy@mastodon.social
Forums: r/technology, r/mac, r/apple, r/LogicPro, and r/pixelmator
| 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.
More: IDC, XDA Developers, PCWorld, iClarified, The Register, The Mac Observer, Thurrott, MacRumors, and PCMag
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz and @tomwarren.co.uk
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A look at Confer, an open-source AI assistant project from Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike that is designed to provide end-to-end encryption for AI chats — Moxie Marlinspike—the pseudonym of an engineer who set a new standard for private messaging with the creation of the Signal Messenger …
X: @moxie. Bluesky: @smcgrath.phd. Mastodon: @tommorris@mastodon.social, @dangoodin@infosec.exchange, @mattburgess@infosec.exchange, and @tomgag@infosec.exchange
Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, r/technology, Lobsters, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
The US FCC waives a rule that forced Verizon to unlock phones 60 days after they are activated, which could make it harder for people to switch from Verizon — The Federal Communications Commission is letting Verizon lock phones to its network for longer periods, eliminating a requirement …
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Forums: r/politics, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.
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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 …
| 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
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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 …
More: Washington Examiner, Inc.com, Pirate Wires, Fox Business, and New York Times. Forums: r/TrueAnon
| Philip Stafford / Financial Times: |
Warhammer maker Games Workshop says it banned its staff from using AI in its content or designs and “will be maintaining a strong commitment to protect” its IP — Group behind Warhammer taking ‘very cautious’ approach and says it will ‘respect our human creators’
More: IGN, Gizmodo, TheGamer, Telegraph, City A.M., The Independent, thisismoney.co.uk, GameSpot, and The Times
| Bloomberg: |
The US Senate passes the Defiance Act that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images, amid furor over Grok images — The US Senate unanimously passed legislation Tuesday that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images …
More: The Economic Times, CBS News, Global News, Fast Company, Windows Central, and Insurance Journal
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Mercedes pauses the rollout of Drive Pilot, a Level 3 “eyes off” driving feature available in Europe and the US, citing low demand and high production costs — The automaker is instead forging ahead with its new point-to-point Level 2 system that rivals Tesla's Full Self-Driving.
Forums: Slashdot
| Li Liu / Bloomberg: |
Taiwan issues an arrest warrant for OnePlus CEO Pete Lau for allegedly illegally hiring 70+ Taiwanese engineers, as it tries to stop China from raiding workers — Prosecutors in Taiwan issued an arrest warrant for the chief executive officer of the Chinese smartphone company OnePlus …
More: Engadget
| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: China has told some tech companies that it would only approve Nvidia H200 chip purchases 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 …
Forums: r/NVDA_Stock
| 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, The Decoder, and The Deep View
| 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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| 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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X: @newsfromgoogle and @neilcybart
Bluesky: @eighthdayarts and @uzionmain
Forums: r/google, r/technology, r/Applelntelligence, and MacRumors Forums
| Colin Demarest / Axios: |
Onebrief, which makes AI-powered military workflow software, raised a $200M Series D, nearly doubling its valuation from $1.1B to $2.1B in about half of a year — Defense software company Onebrief raised $200 million and snapped up Battle Road Digital, giving its military-planning suite a simulation and wargaming boost.| Sam Knight / New Yorker: |
A look at WhatsApp's massive global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became a core technology relied on by governments and extended families alike — The platform has become a core technology around the world, relied on by governments and extended families alike. What are we all doing there?| 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.| 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 some clients pay $8M+ for 30 seconds — AI companies are engaged in an expensive arms race to attract users and alleviate public anxiety about the technology| 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.| 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.
More: Unite.AI
| 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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