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February 6, 2026, 10:35 AM
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Amazon:
Amazon reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $213.39B, vs. $211.33B est., EPS of $1.95, vs. $1.97 est., and net income up 6% YoY to $21.19B; AMZN drops 8%+  —  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2025.  Fourth Quarter 2025
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon projects its 2026 capex to hit $200B, above $146.6B est. and up from ~$131B in 2025, and reports Q4 AWS revenue up 24% YoY to $35.58B, above $34.93B est.  —  Amazon shares plunged 8% Friday after the company posted mixed fourth-quarter earnings and boosted its 2026 spending forecast to $200 billion.
Bloomberg:
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft forecast a combined ~$650B in 2026 capital expenditures, an estimated 60% YoY increase, driven by data center construction  —  Four of the biggest US technology companies together have forecast capital expenditures that will reach about $650 billion in 2026 …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple wound down plans for an AI-based virtual health coach in recent weeks; Eddy Cue has told colleagues that Apple needs to move faster in health  —  Apple Inc. is scaling back plans for a virtual health coach, according to people with knowledge of the matter …
Adam Satariano / New York Times:
The EU says that TikTok's “addictive design” is illegal under the DSA, citing the app's infinite scroll and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings  —  European Union regulators said the app's infinite scroll and personalized algorithm led to “compulsive” behavior, especially among children.
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Strategy reports Q4 net loss grew to $12.4B from $671M a year earlier, as BTC trades below its ~$76K average purchase price; MSTR is down 68% in the past year  —  Shares of the bitcoin-stockpiling company have fallen sharply since crypto prices touched all-time highs in October
Bloomberg:
Why this is the worst crypto winter ever: AI crowds out crypto for mindshare and power grid access, crypto is mainstream, gold beats BTC as a safe haven, more
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6, which it says can analyze company data, regulatory filings, and market information to create detailed financial analyses  —  Anthropic is releasing a new version of its most powerful AI model that's designed to carry out financial research …
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:
Anthropic introduces “agent teams” in Claude Code as a research preview that launches agents “to coordinate in parallel”, and a Claude in PowerPoint plugin
Anthropic:
Anthropic says it found that Opus 4.6 “brings more focus to the most challenging parts of a task without being told to” and “often thinks more deeply”
Anthropic:
Anthropic details using 16 Claude Opus 4.6 agents in parallel to build a 100K-line Rust-based C compiler, incurring $20K in API costs over nearly 2,000 sessions
Reuters:
Sources: Intel and AMD have notified Chinese customers of supply shortages for server CPUs, with Intel warning of delivery lead times of up to six months  —  Intel (INTC.O) and AMD (AMD.O) have notified Chinese customers of supply shortages for server central processing units (CPUs) …
Victoria Waldersee / Reuters:
Only 35 nations signed a declaration affirming “human responsibility over AI-powered weapons”, with the US and China opting out; the US endorsed prior pledges  —  Around a third of countries attending a military AI summit agreed on Thursday to a a declaration on how to govern deployment …
Wall Street Journal:
How the SpaceX-xAI $1.25T merger deal was fast-tracked after SpaceX had a technical breakthrough in orbital data centers last fall  —  The fast-tracked deal is premised on SpaceX's satellite prowess combining with xAI's technology  —  Elon Musk took a gulp of water on stage at the World Economic Forum …
More: Reuters.  Forums: r/wallstreetbets
OpenAI:
OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex goes beyond an agent that can code “to an agent that can do nearly anything developers and professionals can do on a computer”  —  Expanding Codex across the full spectrum of professional work on a computer.  —  Join the Codex app waitlist
David Gewirtz / ZDNET:
OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex, which it says runs 25% faster, enabling longer-running tasks, and “is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself”
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Roblox reports Q4 bookings up 63% YoY to $2.2B vs. $2.05B est., DAUs up 69% to 144M, and forecasts FY 2026 bookings above estimates  —  Roblox (RBLX.N) forecast fiscal 2026 bookings above Wall Street expectations on Thursday, signaling another year of strong growth in player spending …
Matthew Carey / Bloomberg Law:
How an appeal changed the way the USPTO assesses AI patents under the US Patent Act, signaling a shift towards more favorable treatment of AI and ML inventions  —  Over the past few months, the US Patent and Trademark Office has treated artificial intelligence and machine learning inventions …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Spotify changes Developer Mode to require a Premium subscription and reduces the number of test users per app from 25 to 5, to curb AI-aided or automated usage  —  Spotify is changing how its APIs work in Developer Mode, its layer that lets developers test their third-party applications using the audio platform's APIs.

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CNN:
Source: UFC CEO Dana White has declined Trump's offer to become press secretary

Washington Post:
Sources: Trump ally Laura Loomer was paid, including via wire transfers worth ~$60K, for political social media posts without publicly disclosing the payments

Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
Valnet agrees to a $2M settlement to end a 2023 suit accusing it of misclassifying some workers as contractors rather than full-time employees to deny them pay

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Tim Cook told Apple staff at an all-hands that he's “deeply distraught” with the US' current approach to immigration and he will press the issue with lawmakers
Cheeky Pint:
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Financial Times:
US tech stocks slide for a third consecutive day amid a sell-off in the software sector; the Nasdaq closed down 1.6%, MSFT 4.95%, QCOM 8.46%, and PLTR 6.83%
New York Times:
DOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction
Robert Hart / The Verge:
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