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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
A look at the 2026 Super Bowl ads from Anthropic, Meta, Amazon, Google, and others, as AI continued to take center stage in ad creation and AI product promotion — Following last year's trend of showcasing AI in multimillion-dollar ad spots, the 2026 Super Bowl advertisements took …
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Forums: r/formula1, r/PokeInvesting, and r/nintendo
| Stevie Bonifield / The Verge: |
Discord says it will roll out age verification globally from March to access some content; all accounts will have a “teen-appropriate experience by default” — Beginning in March, all accounts will have a “teen-appropriate experience by default.”
More: Discord, 9to5Mac, and Engadget
Forums: Hacker News, r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/worldnews, r/discordapp, r/pcgaming, r/privacy, and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
The European Commission sends a statement of objections to Meta over WhatsApp blocking rival AI chatbots, warning it will take measures to avoid “serious” harm — Meta Platforms Inc. was given a European Union warning over policies that block the use of rival Artificial Intelligence assistants …
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X: @maartendik, @veronikacifrova, and @eu_competition
| CNBC: |
Slack message: Sam Altman tells staff that ChatGPT is “back to exceeding 10% monthly growth”, and OpenAI plans to release “an updated Chat model” this week — As OpenAI faces intensifying pressure from rival Anthropic's improved coding tools, CEO Sam Altman …
More: Reuters, The Verge, Moneycontrol, PCMag, Tom's Guide, and Silicon UK
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Forums: r/singularity and r/technology
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
ByteDance debuts Seedance 2.0, a new version of its AI video generation model that can produce multi-shot scenes, available to select Jimeng and Jianying users — ByteDance's new AI video generation model Seedance 2.0, unveiled over the weekend, is generating a lot of buzz on social media, with some calling it a game changer.
More: South China Morning Post, PetaPixel, Bloomberg, The Economic Times, and Tech in Asia
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Alphabet aims to raise ~$15B from a US high-grade dollar bond sale, as it seeks to finance $185B in 2026 capex; Alphabet raised $17.5B in November 2025 — Alphabet Inc. is looking to raise about $15 billion from a US high-grade dollar bond sale, according to people with knowledge of the matter …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Amanda Askell, Anthropic's resident philosopher, who is learning Claude's reasoning patterns in a bid to endow the chatbot with a sense of morality — Anthropic has entrusted Amanda Askell to endow its chatbot, Claude, with a sense of right and wrong.
Bluesky: @robinjames and @hypervisible.blacksky.app
| Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: |
Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek launches ai.com in beta during the Super Bowl and opens username registration to let users get a private, personalized AI agent — Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek's goal with ai.com is to build “a decentralized network of autonomous, self-improving AI agents …
More: Tom's Hardware, ai.com, Business Today, CoinDesk, Coinpedia Fintech News, Livemint, The Block, and Ad Age
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube launches a Premium paywall for song lyrics on YouTube Music, after testing it in recent months; users get five free lyrics before they have to subscribe — After testing in recent months, YouTube Music looks to be widely rolling out a Premium paywall for lyrics.
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Forums: r/youtube and MacRumors Forums
| Washington Post: |
How the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DOJ 295, Interior 234, and DHS 205 — The White House is accelerating AI adoption across government, embedding the technology in policing, health care, defense and science.
Bluesky: @justinhendrix
| Miles Kruppa / The Information: |
Source: Apollo nears a ~$3.4B loan deal to a Valor-led investment vehicle to buy Nvidia chips for leasing to xAI; through fall 2025, xAI was burning $1B+/month — Apollo Global Management, one of Wall Street's biggest private credit firms, is nearing a deal to lend about $3.4 billion …
More: Reuters
| Amanda Chu / Politico: |
How Oura won over DC by growing its lobbying spend to $1M+ per year, as RFK Jr. touts wearables for health and the US DOD makes the rings an employee benefit — It's paying off. The Defense Department, Oura's largest customer, now provides rings to certain soldiers and civil servants as an employee benefit.| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Alibaba's Qwen temporarily stops issuing coupons due to customer overload, hampering Alibaba's Agentic AI ad campaign; Qwen began offering coupons on February 6 — Alibaba's (9988.HK) artificial intelligence chatbot Qwen temporarily stopped issuing coupons due to customer overload …
More: The Indian Express and Tech in Asia
| Bloomberg: |
Uber agrees to buy Getir's delivery operations from Mubadala, without giving the terms; a November 2025 report said it would value Getir's business at up to $1B — Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to buy Turkish company Getir's delivery operations from its controlling shareholder Mubadala Investment Co …
More: Reuters, Sifted, Uber, Reuters, Benzinga, Türkiye Today, Gulf News, and Daily Sabah
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the iPhone 17e with MagSafe is coming soon; iOS 26.4 beta with updated Siri is set for the week of February 23 and M5 MacBook Pros as early as March 2 — Apple is going to begin a 2026 product blitz with the iPhone 17e, updated iPads and fresh Macs.
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X: @vadimyuryev, @mattcassinelli, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Q&A with YouTube VP of Subscription Products Christian Oestlien on YouTube TV's future, the NFL and Oscars deals, its friendly rivalry with Netflix, and more — YouTube is going to start selling cheaper TV bundles for sports fans, news junkies — Happy Super Bowl Sunday … | Pieter Haeck / Politico: |
EU officials and tech executives inaugurate a €2.5B chips research hub in Belgium; ASML and Imec emphasized that the US is dependent on European chip tech — ASML CEO says chip printers are the machines “the entire world would like to get.” — LEUVEN, Belgium — The rest …
More: Reuters, European Commission, and Telecompaper
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Moltbook was peak AI theater, offering less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI — For a few days this week the hottest new hangout on the internet was a vibe-coded Reddit clone called Moltbook, which billed itself as a social network for bots.
More: New York Magazine, The Overspill, Robotics & Automation News, Wired, New York Post, and NPR
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| Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal: |
PE firm Advent, FedEx, A&R, and PPF agree to acquire Polish automated parcel delivery company InPost for €7.8B; the company has 61K automated parcel lockers — The consortium says there is a clear path to significantly grow InPost's network and extend its reach across Europe| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Gather AI, which builds “curious” AI for drones and cameras to autonomously monitor warehouses, raised a $40M Series B, taking its total funding to $74M — Gather AI, a startup that offers an AI platform for warehouse cameras and drones, has raised a $40 million Series B funding round led by Smith Point Capital.Sponsor Posts
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