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Liv McMahon / BBC:
Paris prosecutors raid X's French offices and summon Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino to appear at April hearings, in a probe into sexual deepfakes and more  —  The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation …
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Financial Times:
The UK ICO launches a new investigation into X and xAI over “serious concerns” about Grok's data use and “its potential to produce harmful sexualized” content  —  Tech billionaire and platform's former chief Linda Yaccarino summoned for ‘voluntary interviews’ in April
Paige Smith / Bloomberg:
PayPal names HP CEO Enrique Lores as CEO, replacing interim CEO Alex Chriss on March 1, and reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $8.68B, below est.; PYPL drops 15%+  —  PayPal Holdings Inc. said HP Inc. Chief Executive Officer Enrique Lores will take the top job from Alex Chriss …
Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
Sources: HP CEO Enrique Lores leaving to become PayPal CEO blindsided HP, whose board rushed to launch a CEO search process; Lores had worked for HP since 1989  —  PayPal on Tuesday said it was booting its CEO and replacing him with its board chair Enrique Lores, sparing no ambiguity as to why …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple brings agentic coding to Xcode 26.3, allowing developers to use Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, and integrates support for MCP  —  Apple is bringing agentic coding to Xcode.  On Tuesday, the company announced the release of Xcode 26.3, which will allow developers to use agentic tools …
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Nintendo reports Q3 revenue of ~$5.2B, below $5.45B est., a ~$1.03B net profit, vs. $950M est., and maintains its 19M Switch 2 sales forecast for fiscal 2026  —  Nintendo maintained its full-year Switch 2 sales forecast on Tuesday allaying some fears that the flagship console was losing momentum.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Nintendo says the Switch 1 sold 155.37M units from its March 2017 launch through December 2025, topping the DS' 154.02M units, becoming its best-selling console
Eric Berger / Ars Technica:
If assumptions hold, SpaceX-xAI could own a full stack of capabilities, from launch to orbital bandwidth to frontier AI models, and offer AI on demand anywhere  —  SpaceX has formally acquired another one of Elon Musk's companies, xAi, the space company announced on Monday afternoon.
New York Times:
Elon Musk's SpaceX-xAI merger further intermingles his companies, creates the world's most valuable private company, and provides a financial lifeline to xAI
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI is prioritizing ChatGPT over long-term research, prompting senior staff departures; Sora and DALL-E teams felt neglected and under resourced  —  Resources at $500bn company are being redirected from long-term research towards improving the flagship chatbot
Variety:
Disney names Josh D'Amaro, head of its theme parks and consumer products division, as CEO, replacing Bob Iger, effective March 18; D'Amaro joined Disney in 1998  —  Dana Walden named president and chief creative officer of the company  —  The Walt Disney Co., after a more than two-year saga …
Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …:
How WhatsApp's client-side E2EE, user-held backup keys, and past reverse engineering undercut claims in a class action lawsuit that Meta can read user chats  —  It's not every day that we see mainstream media get excited about encryption apps!  For that reason, the past several days have been fascinating …
Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg:
Crypto.com launches prediction market platform OG ahead of the Super Bowl, following 40-fold WoW growth in its event contracts business over the past six months  —  Crypto.com is launching a dedicated platform, OG, for prediction markets just days before the Super Bowl, the company said Tuesday.

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Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
Sources: the EU is set to approve Paramount's $111B WBD takeover provided the company accepts certain remedies, the details of which are still being worked out

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Jon Hicks / GamesIndustry.biz:
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Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding
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