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New York Times: Memo: Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses in 2026, saying the political tumult in the US would distract critics from the feature's release -
Danny Park / The Block: A US court sentences Praetorian Group CEO Ramil Ventura Palafox to 20 years in prison for operating a $200M bitcoin Ponzi scheme that defrauded 90K+ investors -
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Anthropic adds Chris Liddell, a former Microsoft and GM exec who helped GM IPO and worked in Trump's first administration, to its board ahead of a potential IPO -
Anthropic: Anthropic raised a $30B Series G led by GIC and Coatue and co-led by D. E. Shaw, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, Iconiq, and MGX at a $380B post-money valuation -
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Anthropic says its run-rate revenue hit $14B, growing over 10x annually in each of the past three years, and Claude Code's run-rate revenue has grown to $2.5B+ -
George Hammond / Financial Times: Anthropic's latest funding round includes part of the $15B commitment from Microsoft and Nvidia in 2025; sources say the remainder was several times subscribed -
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety, which would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, after backlash -
Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Apple's stock fell 5% on February 12, its worst day since April 2025, following FTC scrutiny of Apple News and reports of delays to Siri's anticipated AI update -
Reuters: Sources: ByteDance is in advanced talks to sell game studio Moonton, the developer of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, to Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games for $6B to $7B -
Barbara Moens / Financial Times: Google warns that the EU risks undermining its own competitiveness drive with the “tech sovereignty package” the bloc is set to present in the spring -
Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US jury finds Apple did not infringe Optis' 4G wireless technology patents, after two earlier trial verdicts Optis had won were overturned -
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Companies like Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are letting workers cash out before their IPOs, a move once seen as taboo and lacking long-term commitment -
Reuters: Russia confirms it has blocked WhatsApp, citing Meta's “unwillingness to comply with Russian law”, and proposes that Russians switch to the state-owned Max app -
New! Fortune: Sources: Binance has fired its employees in late 2025 who uncovered evidence that Iran received $1B+ through Binance between March 2024 and August 2025 -
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: February investor memo: Cohere hit ~$240M in ARR in 2025, above its $200M target, with QoQ growth of 50%+ and gross margins averaging around 70% throughout 2025 -
Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: Baidu plans to let its search app's 700M MAUs opt-in to message OpenClaw and integrate OpenClaw's capabilities into its e-commerce business and other services -
Gene Maddaus / Variety: The MPA urges ByteDance to curb its AI video model Seedance 2.0, saying the model “has engaged in unauthorized use of US copyrighted works on a massive scale” -
Bloomberg: In a memo to US lawmakers, OpenAI accused DeepSeek of using distillation techniques to train the next generation of R1 and “free-ride” on leading US AI models -
Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Applied Materials reports Q1 revenue down 2% YoY to $7.01B, vs. $6.86B est., net income up 71% YoY to $2B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above est.; AMAT jumps 10%+ -
Alaina Demopoulos / The Guardian: As OpenAI retires GPT-4o, some users say they are angry and grieving to lose the flirty, quirky companion — Its human partners said the flirty … -
André Beganski / Decrypt: Coinbase reports Q4 revenue down 22% YoY to $1.78B, vs. $1.84B est., transaction revenue down 37% YoY to $983M, and a $667M loss, vs. a $1.3B profit in Q4 2024 -
David Gewirtz / ZDNET: OpenAI debuts a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller version of GPT-5.3-Codex that it claims generates code 15 times faster, for ChatGPT Pro users -
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is its first AI model that runs on Cerebras chips, after they signed a $10B+ deal in January; Codex has 1M+ weekly active users