| 11:15 PM • | James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review: Microsoft's AI safety team proposed technical standards for detecting AI-generated content, but its CSO declined to commit to using them across its platforms |
| 10:40 PM • | Andrew R. Chow / Time: How some political candidates and activists across ideologies and professions are pushing back on the spread of data centers and AI in the US |
| 10:10 PM • | Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: Uber's market cap fell to ~$150B, down ~25% in six months, as investors weigh robotaxi disruption and see the market as a two-horse race between Waymo and Tesla |
| 9:20 PM • | Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: A US grand jury indicted two former Google engineers and one of their husbands for allegedly stealing trade secrets relating to the Tensor chip for Pixel phones |
| 9:00 PM • | Evan Halper / Washington Post: Tech companies are increasingly building private power plants to fuel off-grid data centers, a move some warn has reliability challenges and hurts climate goals |
| 8:25 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Perplexity's retreat from ads signals a strategic shift as it recognizes its product is not for a mass audience and expects growth to come from enterprise sales |
| 7:25 PM • | Financial Times: Sources: Nvidia is close to finalizing an up to $30B investment into OpenAI, replacing 2025's long-term $100B commitment; the deal could be closed this weekend |
| 7:05 PM • | Jonathan Lloyd / NBC Los Angeles: Los Angeles County sues Roblox, alleging it engaged in deceptive business practices that exposed children to sexual content, exploitation, and online predators |
| 6:11 PM • | Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: Sources: Meta cuts its annual distribution of stock options by ~5% for most of its staff, equating to tens of thousands of employees, after a ~10% cut in 2025 |
| 5:45 PM • | Alan Neuhauser / Axios: Sources: Emerald AI, which develops software to curb data center energy demand, is raising a $25M seed extension at a ~$250M post-money valuation |
| 4:56 PM • | Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Sony shuts down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation subsidiary behind remakes of older games like Demon's Souls and Uncharted; ~70 employees will lose their jobs |
| 4:26 PM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta says it is “explicitly separating” Quest VR from its Worlds platform, making Worlds “almost exclusively mobile” to better compete with Roblox and Fortnite |
| 4:15 PM • | Makena Kelly / Wired: Docs: the US DHS has signed a five-year, $1B blanket purchase agreement with Palantir, letting agencies like CBP and ICE skip the competitive bidding process |
| 4:05 PM • | Wall Street Journal: CZ returned to the US for the first time since his 2024 prison release to attend a World Liberty Financial event at Mar-a-Lago with Brian Armstrong and others |
| 3:15 PM • | Reece Rogers / Wired: Block employees describe a deteriorating culture, as morale plunges amid rolling layoffs and Jack Dorsey pushes generative AI tools to maximize productivity |
| 2:40 PM • | Max A. Cherney / Reuters: Toronto-based chip startup Taalas, which hardwires AI models into custom silicon to achieve faster inference, raised $169M, bringing its total funding to $219M |
| 2:20 PM • | The Information: Sources: AMD agrees to backstop a $300M loan from Goldman Sachs for Crusoe to buy AMD's AI chips, the first known example of AMD chips used as debt collateral |
| 1:50 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Reddit is testing an AI search feature that takes community recommendations and shows matching products from some of its advertising partners in the results |
| 1:00 PM • | Chris Metinko / Axios: Cleveland-based Eagle Wireless, which makes cellular modules for IoT devices, raised a $30M Series B as the US seeks to lower some industries' reliance on China |
| 12:10 PM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: New York pulls a proposal that would have allowed robotaxi services outside NYC, a blow to Waymo, which aims to reach 1M paid weekly US rides by the end of 2026 |
| 11:55 AM • | Zoë Bernard / Wired: Inside the “gay tech mafia” that mixes social and professional lives, as 51 investors, entrepreneurs, and executives detail gay influence in Silicon Valley |
| 11:21 AM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro, which it says is “a step forward in core reasoning”, for all users in the Gemini app; the .1 increment is a first for Google |
| 10:55 AM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Austin-based Ownwell, which helps homeowners appeal property taxes, raised a $50M Series B, including $30M in equity, bringing its total equity funding to $54M |
| 10:45 AM • | Katie Roof / The Information: ZaiNar, a developer of a GPS alternative that uses Wi-Fi and 5G to provide location data, raised $10M at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $100M |
| 10:35 AM • | Kalley Huang / New York Times: West Virginia's AG sues Apple for allegedly violating consumer protection law by not implementing tools like PhotoDNA to detect CSAM stored and shared on iCloud |
| 10:20 AM • | Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch: FreeForm, which is building an AI native 3D printing system that uses 18 lasers to fuse metal powders into precision components, raised a $67M Series B |
| 8:55 AM • | Ryan Lawler / Axios: Amsterdam-based Stacks, which builds AI software to automate accounting workflows, raised a $23M Series A led by Lightspeed, after a €10M seed in 2025 |
| 8:25 AM • | Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: ByteDance is currently hiring for nearly 100 US-based roles within its Seed AI team across San Jose, LA, and Seattle to develop LLMs, drug discovery, and more |
| 8:15 AM • | Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter: Mobile gaming company Scopely buys a majority stake in Istanbul-based studio Loom, maker of puzzle game Pixel Flow!; a source says the deal values Loom at $1B+ |
| 8:05 AM • | Laith Al-Khalaf / Financial Times: Klarna reports Q4 revenue up 38% YoY to $1.08B and a $26M net loss, down from a $40M net profit in Q4 2024; KLAR is down 66%+ since its September 2025 NYSE IPO |
| 7:30 AM • | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon dethrones Walmart as the world's largest company by revenue, reporting $717B in 2025 sales, compared to Walmart's $713.2B for the 12 months to January 31 |
| 7:20 AM • | Aisha Down / The Guardian: Sources and docs: the US “effectively gutted” the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M+ since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls |
| 7:10 AM • | Jordyn Holman / New York Times: Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is on an apology tour to quell an outcry over privacy concerns after Ring's Super Bowl Search Party ad, calling it a “perfect storm” |
| 6:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Atlassian's founders lost ~$7.2B in wealth in 2026, behind AppLovin's three founders, amid a SaaS rout; TEAM is down 45%+ YTD, the Nasdaq 100's worst performer |
| 6:35 AM • | Emily Steel / New York Times: Sources: Uber is moving to bar drivers with convictions for violent felonies, sexual offenses, and child or elder abuse, after an NYT report in December 2025 |
| 6:20 AM • | Michael Lynton / Wall Street Journal: Book extract: ex-Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton recounts his role in sparking North Korea's 2014 hack, one of the worst cyberattacks in corporate history |
| 5:50 AM • | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: India's AI Summit: Modi orchestrated a photo op with tech and business leaders holding hands in a line, but Sam Altman and Dario Amodei refused to clasp hands |
| 5:40 AM • | Cherylann Mollan / BBC: The Gates Foundation says Bill Gates will not deliver his keynote at India's AI Summit after “careful consideration”, amid controversy over his Epstein ties |
| 5:05 AM • | Bloomberg: Russian forces in Ukraine are facing communications issues as SpaceX restricts Starlink access and Telegram faces a crackdown, per pro-Russian military channels |
| 4:55 AM • | New York Times: Inside India's AI Impact Summit: 300+ exhibitors, 500 sessions, 250K visitors, billions in investment, and entrepreneurs touting solutions to real-world issues |
| 4:40 AM • | Bloomberg: Indian conglomerate Reliance plans to invest up to ~$110B to build AI-related infrastructure over the next seven years, and JioHotstar plans a ChatGPT-based bot |
| 2:35 AM • | Jeremy White / Wired: How Lego's Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors, and proprietary communication system to seamlessly integrate with existing sets |
| 2:25 AM • | Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Apple Podcasts' fresh leap into video podcasts accelerates the podcast industry's shift from an audio-centric medium to a decidedly video-focused one |
| 2:20 AM • | CEPR: A study of 12K+ EU companies finds AI adoption increases labor productivity by 4% on average in the EU, with no evidence of reduced employment in the short run |
| 2:00 AM • | Hazel Gandhi / Rest of World: Nonprofit What To Fix says Facebook's content monetization program grew from under 3M to over 12M participants in just over a year; 8M+ accounts are in English |
| 1:50 AM • | Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Apple's 40-day correlation to the Nasdaq 100 Index fell to 0.21 last week, the lowest since 2006, making it an appealing alternative to the AI-fueled volatility |
| 1:45 AM • | Joe Miller / Financial Times: US OPM Director Scott Kupor says tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Sam Altman will give talks to the US Tech Force, which is hiring ~1,000 software engineers |
| 1:35 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Indian digital payments company Pine Labs plans to embed OpenAI APIs into its infrastructure to enable AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation, and invoicing |
| 1:10 AM • | Financial Times: Sources: Accenture told executives that promotions would require “regular adoption” of AI and it is starting to track some senior staff's weekly AI tool logins |
| 1:00 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: India-based Tata Group signs OpenAI as its first data center client, starting with 100MW of capacity, and plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise, starting with TCS |
| 12:35 AM • | Gayoung Lee / Gizmodo: Microsoft's Project Silica team details its laser-modified glass storage tech, saying tests suggest that it can preserve large amounts of data for 10,000+ years |
| 11:10 PM • | Kurt Schussler / Bloomberg: Samsung shares surged 5.4% to a record high after a report said the company plans to price HBM4 chips at ~$700 per unit, 30% higher than the previous generation |
| 11:00 PM • | Karoline Leonard / Austin American-Statesman: Austin-based Circuit, which is building an AI platform for manufacturing and service enterprises, raised $30M from a group of angel investors |
| 10:35 PM • | Ece Yildirim / Gizmodo: Study: X's feed algorithm favors conservative content, and switching to For You for seven weeks shifted users' views toward more conservative political opinions |
| 9:50 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of its record $100B+ round; its overall valuation, including the eventual funding, could exceed $850B |
| 9:35 PM • | The Information: Sources: Dylan Patel's SemiAnalysis is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions for a VC fund; Patel raised a $50M SPV toward Fluidstack's $700M fundraising |
| 9:00 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Bluesky integrates Germ DM, an E2E encrypted messaging app built on the AT Protocol, making it the first private messenger natively available in the Bluesky app |
| 8:30 PM • | Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg: A US judge rules former Palantir employees likely violated confidentiality and non-solicitation agreements in founding Percepta, but declines to halt their work |
| 7:30 PM • | The Guardian: The UK proposes requiring tech companies to remove nonconsensual abusive content within 48 hours, or risk being blocked and fined up to 10% of global revenue |
| 7:05 PM • | Bloomberg: Crypto lending firm Ledn sold $188M in securitized bonds backed by 5,400+ bitcoin loans, making it the first deal of its kind in the asset-backed debt market |
| 6:40 PM • | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Cadence shares closed up 7.6% on February 18, after the chip design company reported Q4 revenue up ~6% YoY to $1.44B and adjusted EPS of $1.99, both above est. |
| 6:10 PM • | Reuters: Sources: the US State Department is building an online portal at freedom.gov that will let users in Europe and elsewhere see content banned by their governments |
| 5:55 PM • | Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Selector, which offers an AI platform that promises to simplify network monitoring, raised a $32M Series B led by AVP at a $375M valuation |
| 5:25 PM • | Meir Orbach / CTech: Venice, which develops identity security software, emerges from stealth after raising a $25M Series A led by IVP, following an $8M seed round |
| 5:05 PM • | Bloomberg: Remitly co-founder Matt Oppenheimer steps down as CEO of the payments network and will be succeeded by Banco Santander executive Sebastian Gunningham |
| 4:55 PM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: DoorDash reports Q4 revenue up 38% YoY to $3.96B, vs. $3.99B est., total orders up 32% to 903M, and forecasts Q1 adjusted EBITDA below estimates |
| 4:50 PM • | Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: eBay reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $3B, above $2.87B est., GMV up 10% YoY to $21.2B, net income down 23% YoY to $525M, and forecasts Q1 profit above est. |
| 4:30 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Figma reports Q4 revenue up 40% YoY to $303.8M, above $293.15M est., a $226.6M net loss, vs. a $33.1M net income in Q4 2024, and forecasts Q1 revenue above est. |
| 4:25 PM • | Niko Gallogly / New York Times: eBay agrees to acquire secondhand clothing app Depop from Etsy for ~$1.2B in cash; Etsy bought Depop, popular with Gen Z, in 2021 for $1.6B; ETSY jumps 5%+ |
| 4:10 PM • | Jyoti Mann / The Information: Sources: Meta has revived a previously shelved smartwatch project, now code-named Malibu 2, and plans to release it in 2026 with health features and Meta AI |
| 4:00 PM • | CNBC: Social media addiction trial: Mark Zuckerberg says increasing engagement on Instagram is not a company goal and that Meta removes underage users it identifies |
| 3:01 PM • | OpenAI: OpenAI and Paradigm announce EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how well AI agents can detect, exploit, and patch high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities |
| 2:45 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple adds support for third-party voice-based conversational apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, letting CarPlay users access apps like AI chatbots |
| 2:30 PM • | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips with a “spatial dataflow” architecture to minimize energy consumption, raised a $60M Series A |
| 2:05 PM • | The Record: Texas AG Ken Paxton sues TP-Link, alleging it deceptively markets its products as secure while allowing the CCP to hack into consumers' devices |
| 1:55 PM • | Julia Black / Vanity Fair: OpenAI hires Instagram's VP of global partnerships, Charles Porch, as its first VP of global creative partnerships, seeking to win over a skeptical Hollywood |
| 12:35 PM • | Leo Schwartz / Fortune: Sports-focused prediction market Novig raised a $75M Series B led by Pantera Capital at a $500M valuation; Novig is commission-free for retail traders |
| 12:30 PM • | New York Times: Meta plans to spend $65M in 2026 to boost AI-friendly state politicians; filings show Meta started two super PACs, one backing the GOP and another for Democrats |
| 12:05 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Audible launches an “immersion reading” feature that lets readers switch between ebook and audiobook versions of a title in their Audible and Kindle libraries |
| 11:50 AM • | Alicia Tang / Bloomberg: Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from Autodesk, a16z, Nvidia, AMD, Sea, and others to build its world models for robotics, scientific discovery, and more |
| 11:30 AM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Snap says its direct revenue business has hit a $1B annualized revenue run rate, driven primarily by Snapchat+ surpassing 25M subscribers since its 2022 launch |
| 11:12 AM • | The Keyword: Google rolls out Lyria 3, a generative music model to make 30-second tracks with Nano Banana-generated cover art, in beta in the Gemini app in eight languages |
| 11:00 AM • | Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Cogent Security, which aims to use AI agents to decide which software bugs to remediate, raised a $42M Series A led by Bain, taking its total funding to $53M |
| 10:50 AM • | Sophie McEvoy / GamesIndustry.biz: Matthew Ball's State of Video Gaming 2026 report: global video game content sales grew 5.3% YoY to $195.6B in 2025 while job losses fell 40% YoY to 9,200 people |
| 10:40 AM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google expands Quick Share support with AirDrop to the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, 9 Pro XL, and 9 Pro Fold, after introducing it on the Pixel 10 in November 2025 |
| 10:30 AM • | Ram Iyer / TechCrunch: Kana, which builds AI marketing agents to perform data analysis, audience targeting, campaign management, and more, emerges from stealth and raised a $15M seed |
| 10:20 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: OpenAI partners with six Indian education institutions, including IIT Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad, and AIIMS New Delhi, to provide ChatGPT Edu access to 100K+ students |
| 10:10 AM • | Todd Haselton / The Verge: Google unveils the $499 Pixel 10a, with a Tensor G4 and 8GB of RAM like the Pixel 9a, Satellite SOS, an 11% brighter screen, but no Pixelsnap, shipping March 4 |
| 10:05 AM • | Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft confirms a bug that let Microsoft 365 Copilot summarize confidential emails from Sent Items and Drafts folders, and deployed a fix in early February |
| 9:55 AM • | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Digital savings startup Vestwell raised a $385M Series E co-led by Blue Owl and Sixth Street, after a $125M Series D in 2023, taking its total funding to $660M |
| 9:30 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Canva COO Cliff Obrecht says the company hit $4B in ARR at the end of 2025, had 265M+ MAUs and 31M+ paid users, and expects to IPO in the next “couple of years” |
| 9:20 AM • | Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Autodesk invested $200M in Fei-Fei Li's World Labs as part of a $1B round; Autodesk will serve as an adviser and collaborate at the “research and model level” |
| 8:40 AM • | Bloomberg: Robinhood launches an IPO for Robinhood Ventures Fund I, a $1B closed-end fund to provide retail investors access to private markets, offering 40M shares at $25 |
| 8:20 AM • | Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: DG Matrix, which builds solid-state transformers to handle up to 2.4 MW and boost data center power efficiency, raised a $60M Series A led by Engine Ventures |
| 8:05 AM • | Eugene Kim / Business Insider: Sources: Amazon shut down Blue Jay, a multi-armed robotic system launched in October 2025 for same-day delivery warehouses, to focus on small modular warehouses |
| 7:51 AM • | Bloomberg: Saudi-backed AI startup Humain invested $3B in xAI, becoming a “significant minority shareholder” in a deal that completed just before SpaceX's xAI acquisition |
| 7:35 AM • | Alex Heath / Sources: Sources: while Meta offered OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger more money than OpenAI, he ultimately aligned more closely with OpenAI's overall vibe and vision |
| 7:25 AM • | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber plans to spend $100M+ to build fast-charging, autonomous vehicle charging stations in the US, starting in the San Francisco Bay Area, LA, and Dallas |
| 7:15 AM • | Joe Miller / Financial Times: How US citizens, clergy, and elected officials in conservative communities like Missouri are leading a grassroots rebellion against the Trump-backed AI boom |
| 7:00 AM • | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: At India's AI Summit, Google announces the America-India Connect Initiative, which will build new fiber optic lines between India, the US, and other countries |
| 6:45 AM • | Krystal Hur / Wall Street Journal: A Las Vegas federal appeals court rejects Kalshi's emergency bid for an administrative stay on Nevada's push to block the platform, a major setback for Kalshi |
| 6:30 AM • | Alexandre Rajbhandari / Bloomberg: Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway cut its Amazon stake by 75%+ to ~2.3M shares in Q4 2025; Berkshire bought 5.1M NYT shares, worth ~$352M in December |
| 6:10 AM • | Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: Q&A with Synthesia co-founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli on growing the London-based enterprise AI video platform, hitting a $4B valuation, regulation, and more |
| 5:55 AM • | Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: SEC filing: Peter Thiel and Founders Fund have fully exited ETHZilla, after disclosing a 7.5% stake in August 2025; ether is down 60% from its August 2025 peak |
| 4:55 AM • | Gene Maddaus / Variety: WBD joins Disney and Paramount in claiming infringement on ByteDance's AI video tool Seedance and demands ByteDance cease training AI on Warner Bros. characters |
| 4:15 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: A US federal judge orders OpenAI to stop using “Cameo” in its Sora products and features, in a trademark lawsuit filed by celebrity video message app Cameo |
| 3:50 AM • | Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: A look at China's push to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, as Shanghai-based startup NeuroXess moves to human trials with Beijing's backing |
| 3:25 AM • | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Bengaluru-based startup Sarvam AI unveils two models at the AI Impact Summit that it says are more tailored to Indian languages and cultures than other models |
| 3:20 AM • | Abu Sultan / Reuters: Microsoft says it is on pace to invest $50B by 2030 to help expand AI across the Global South, after unveiling $17.5B worth of AI investments in India in 2025 |
| 3:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Battery Ventures raised $3.25B for its XV fund, roughly matching its 2022 raise, to back software and industrial tech startups amid AI-led disruption concerns |
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