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Miami-based telehealth company eMed raised a $200M Series A at a $2B+ valuation to advance its agentic AI platform and more; Tom Brady participated in the round (Sneha S K/Reuters)

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Senior Trump officials say SMIC has been sending chipmaking tools to Iran for about a year; the US has sanctioned the company over alleged Chinese military ties (Reuters)

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NY-based Blossom Health, which makes an "AI copilot" to augment psychiatrists' clinical decisions and automate office tasks, raised $20M in seed and Series A (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

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Sources: SpaceX's IPO plans include investor visits to its sites, unusual lockup periods, and preferential treatment for investors in Musk's other companies (Wall Street Journal)

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Source: Elon Musk is discussing allocating as much as 30% of SpaceX's IPO to individual investors, at least three times the usual retail slice (Reuters)

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Q&A with New Mexico AG Raúl Torrez about the New Mexico and LA social media trials, Big Tech's "Big Tobacco" moment, what it means for Congress, and more (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)

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Source: Thrive Holdings has landed $1B in commitments for a new fundraising deal and is considering raising at least another $1B after strong investor interest (Bloomberg)

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A US judge grants Anthropic's request for a preliminary injunction in its suit against the Trump administration over the DOD's decision to blacklist the company (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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In an interview, David Sacks says he has relinquished his role as AI and crypto czar after using up his time as a special government employee (Bloomberg)

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Sources: Anthropic executives have discussed an IPO as soon as Q4, and bankers vying to take the company public expect it to raise more than $60B (The Information)

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OpenAI has surpassed $100M in annualized revenue from ChatGPT ads, has expanded to 600+ advertisers, and plans to launch self-serve advertiser access in April (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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Google releases new tools for its Gemini AI assistant that let users upload chat history and context from other AI apps, making it easier to switch from them (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

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Apple discontinues the Mac Pro and says it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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Sources: Apple granted out-of-cycle bonuses worth several hundred thousand dollars to iPhone hardware designers, as OpenAI and others poach its engineers (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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X limits X Pro access to subscribers of the $40/month Premium+ plan without notifying users in advance; it was previously available in the $8/month Premium plan (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

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Xona, which aims to build a commercial alternative to GPS by launching a low-Earth orbit satellite constellation, raised a $170M Series C (Sandra Erwin/SpaceNews)

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Meta plans to increase its investment in a data center in El Paso, Texas, to more than $10B, a significant rise from the initial $1.5B commitment (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

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Netflix raises US prices following a January 2025 hike; standard with ads rises $1 to $8.99/month; standard with no ads and premium rise $2 to $19.99 and $26.99 (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Sources: X let go of 20+ staffers in nontechnical roles ahead of a SpaceX IPO; X staff have been told to focus on growing revenue since xAI brought on a CRO (Wall Street Journal)

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Italy-based Subbyx, which builds infrastructure that lets businesses offer access-based subscriptions, raised a €30M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

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Fannie Mae will accept crypto-backed mortgages for the first time; Coinbase launches a mortgage product allowing buyers to pledge bitcoin or USDC as collateral (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Apple plans to open up Siri to run any AI service via App Store apps in iOS 27, dropping ChatGPT as exclusive partner in Apple Intelligence and Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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The China Computer Federation calls for a boycott of AI conference NeurIPS after organizers barred submissions from US-sanctioned companies like Huawei (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)

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Google expands Search Live, its AI conversational search feature previously limited to the US and India, to all languages and regions where AI Mode is available (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Meta stock fell 8% on Thursday after juries in two US trials found the company failed to adequately warn or protect young users (Reuters)

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Cohere launches Transcribe, its first voice model; the 2B-parameter, open-source speech recognition model handles tasks like notetaking and speech analysis (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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The US FCC opens a comment period for a proposal to help return outsourced call center jobs to the US; critics say the plan could drive companies to automation (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)

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ByteDance launches its Dreamina Seedance 2.0 audio and video model in its CapCut editing platform, supporting clips up to 15 seconds across six aspect ratios (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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A US federal judge dismisses X's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group of major companies of illegally boycotting X (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

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Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, an audio model with improved tonal understanding and lower latency for real-time dialogue, watermarked with SynthID (Valeria Wu/The Keyword)

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Wikipedia bans using AI for writing or rewriting articles on its English-language site, citing AI-written articles' tendency to violate "core content policies" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Cents, which makes operating and payments software for laundromats, raised a $110M Series C, following a $40M Series B in 2024 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

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Apple expands its American Manufacturing Program, adding Bosch, Cirrus Logic, TDK, and Qnity Electronics to make components in the US for products sold globally (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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The European Parliament votes to delay EU AI Act deadlines, including pushing compliance for high-risk AI systems back to December 2027, and to ban nudify apps (Robert Hart/The Verge)

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WhatsApp rolls out features and updates: an AI tool that suggests replies based on a user's conversations, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

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Defense tech startup Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuation, up from $5.3B after raising $240M in March 2025; half of its business is autonomous software (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)

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Interviews with 37 Anduril sources detail safety concerns and project challenges at Anduril's manufacturing operations; Anduril calls the claims "inaccurate" (Paresh Dave/Wired)

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The European Commission opens a DSA investigation into Snap for failing to protect kids on Snapchat, including whether it does enough to assess its users' ages (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)

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The EU accuses Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos of failing to protect kids from exposure to pornographic content, in preliminary DSA investigation findings (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

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As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety laws, LA and New Mexico juries take the lead, holding social media companies accountable for harming young users (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

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Meituan reports Q4 revenue up 4.1% YoY to ~$13.3B and a ~$2.2B adjusted net loss, vs. ~$1.9B est., amid an intense food delivery fight with Alibaba and JD.com (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

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OpenAI shelves its erotic chatbot "indefinitely" as it refocuses on its core products, sources say after technical issues as well as staff and investor concerns (Financial Times)

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Revolut says it aims to base ~40% of its global workforce in India by the end of 2026, increasing its local headcount to 5,500; Revolut has 12K staff globally (Haripriya Suresh/Reuters)

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Sources: Chinese chipmaker CXMT hit ~$8B in 2025 revenue, up 130% YoY, and projects ~$435M in adjusted net income, excluding one-time items, ahead of an IPO (Bloomberg)

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Melania Trump appeared alongside Figure AI's Figure 3 humanoid robot at the White House to push integrating tech into US children's educational and social lives (Katie Rogers/New York Times)

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Book excerpt: how Google acquired DeepMind for $650M in 2014, beating Facebook to the deal; Mustafa Suleyman used poker-style bluffing to secure a safety board (Sebastian Mallaby/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: Google's top India counsel Bijoya Roy resigned after 16 months to start a new venture, a high-profile exit in a market where it faces regulatory issues (Aditya Kalra/Reuters)

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Pony AI reports 2025 revenue up 20% YoY to $90M, total annual losses down 72% YoY to $76.8M, and a $75.5M net income in Q4, marking its first profitable quarter (Bloomberg)

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The US Army selects Carlyle and KKR to build two data centers on military bases, set to cost $2B each, as its token usage rises 8x during the US' war in Iran (Steff Chávez/Financial Times)

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