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Sources: Hugging Face declined Nvidia's $500M investment offer at a $7B valuation in late 2025; Hugging Face says it does not want a single dominant investor (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

The AI Whistleblower Initiative says OpenAI recently updated its whistleblower policy, addressing eight of 13 recommendations and going further than Anthropic (Rocket Drew/The Information)

Sources: Elon Musk proposes timing SpaceX's IPO with a rare planetary alignment and his June birthday; SpaceX seeks to raise up to $50B at a ~$1.5T valuation (Financial Times)

Sources: Nvidia has allocated ~70% of its 2026 HBM4 demand to SK Hynix; Counterpoint estimates SK Hynix will account for 54% of the global HBM4 market in 2026 (Kang Yoon-seung/Yonhap News Agency)

Sources: C3.ai is in talks to merge with Automation Anywhere, which would go public in the deal; C3.ai's market cap is now ~$1.7B, a tenth of its 2020 valuation (The Information)

Sources: China approved its first batch of Nvidia H200 chips for import, covering several hundred thousand units, during Jensen Huang's visit to China this week (Reuters)

Amazon partners with Harris Farm to offer fresh food delivery in Australia for the first time, starting in inner Sydney, free for Prime members on AU$100 orders (Carrie LaFrenz/Australian Financial Review)

Sources: Anthropic raises its revenue forecasts to $18B in 2026, $55B in 2027, and $148B in 2029, delaying its cash flow positive expectations by a year to 2028 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)

Memo: Tim Cook told Apple staff that he is "heartbroken by the events in Minneapolis", calls for a "deescalation", and says he discussed it with President Trump (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Amazon appears to mistakenly alert some AWS employees about planned layoffs in an email invite to a Wednesday "Project Dawn" meeting about company efficiency (Business Insider)

Internal documents from 2025: Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28B liters by 2030, up from 7.9B liters in 2020 and 10.4B liters in 2024 (New York Times)

Paolo Ardoino says Tether now holds ~140 tons of gold, worth ~$23B, has been buying one to two tons a week, and plans to keep doing so for the next few months (Jack Ryan/Bloomberg)

Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $30B more in OpenAI; SoftBank is already one of OpenAI's largest shareholders after investing $22.5B in December (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

AdImpact: Meta spent $6.4M in November and December 2025 to run TV ads in eight US state capitals and DC, aiming to change negative opinions about data centers (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Seagate reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $2.83B, vs. $2.73B est., forecasts Q3 results above estimates on strong data storage demand; STX jumps 8%+ after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

TikTok says the new US entity has not updated its algorithm since the joint venture was announced, after users accused it of suppressing posts related to ICE (David McCabe/New York Times)

Texas Instruments reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.42B, vs. $4.44B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates; TXN jumps 9%+ after hours (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)

Sources: the interim director of CISA, Madhu Gottumukkala, triggered automated security warnings last summer by uploading sensitive documents to ChatGPT (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

Privacy-focused MVNO Cape, which has raised $61M from a16z and others, launches across the US following a March 2025 beta, offering a $99 monthly plan (Steven Melendez/Fast Company)

Meta blocks users from sharing links to ICE List, which compiles names of DHS staffers; Meta cites a policy against "asking for personally identifiable" info (David Gilbert/Wired)

Revolut launches full banking operations in Mexico in its first expansion outside Europe, with capital of $100M+, more than double the regulatory minimum (Yamini Kalia/Reuters)

Apple releases iOS 12.5.8 for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 6, extending software support for these devices to 13 and 12 years after their respective launches (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

Court filings: Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)

Tether launches USAT, a US-regulated stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, marking the company's direct return to the US market that it left in 2018 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Sources: Anthropic is set to raise about $20B led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue, double the amount it had targeted, at a $350B valuation (Financial Times)

Cloudflare stock surged 9.2% on Monday and ~9% on Tuesday as users of Moltbot, previously Clawdbot, adopt the Cloudflare Tunnel tool to secure their connections (Nate Wolf/Barron's Online)

An interview with Mozilla president Mark Surman about plans to deploy its ~$1.4B in reserves to fund an AI "rebel alliance" to challenge companies like OpenAI (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

OpenAI launches Prism, a free cloud-based LaTeX editor that embeds GPT-5.2 to assist in scientific paper drafting and citation management (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

Google expands its AI Plus subscription to 35 new countries and territories, including the US at $7.99/month, with "enhanced access" to Gemini 3 Pro and more (Abner Li/9to5Google)

DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgraded optical character recognition model that replaces OpenAI-developed CLIP framework with Alibaba's Qwen2-0.5b (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

France plans to replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with French-made and Outscale-hosted Visio by 2027, as part of a push to drop US software vendors in government (Pascale Davies/Euronews)

Google expands Android's anti-theft suite, including a dedicated toggle for its Failed Authentication Lock feature on devices running Android 16 or later (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Google adds Gemini 3 to AI Overviews as the default model globally and now lets users ask follow-up questions "seamlessly" via AI Mode (Robert Hart/The Verge)

TikTok settles a California lawsuit ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial; Snap recently settled the suit, while Meta and YouTube remain defendants (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

The UK government says it recruited a team of AI specialists to build AI tools to improve transport, public safety and defense, backed by Meta's funding (Sam Tabahriti/Reuters)

Clawdbot creator Peter Steinberger says he is changing the name of the viral AI agent to Moltbot after he "was forced to rename the account by Anthropic" (Henry Chandonnet/Business Insider)

Ai2 launches Open Coding Agents, starting with SERA, an open-source family that includes 32B and 8B parameter models designed to adapt to private codebases (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

Sonos announces the Amp Multi, a large digital amplifier and its first new device in over a year, ending a pause in hardware releases as it focused on software (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)

Flora, whose node-based design tool uses AI to create media assets for clients like Lionsgate, raised a $42M Series A, bringing its total funding to $52M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Crypto payments network Mesh raised a $75M Series C led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $200M (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Summize, which uses AI to let in-house legal teams manage contract workflows within apps like Slack, raised $50M, bringing its total funding to $65M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

WhatsApp launches Strict Account Settings, a high-security mode to protect high-risk users like journalists and public figures from sophisticated cyberattacks (Raphael Satter/Reuters)

Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace (Kerry Flynn/Axios)

Amazon plans to close all 57 Fresh and 15 Go locations in the US, as it pivots its physical retail strategy to focus exclusively on Whole Foods (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Israeli startup Memcyco, which offers real-time phishing and account takeover protection, raised a $37M Series A led by NAventures and others (Meir Orbach/CTech)

UPS plans to eliminate 30,000 jobs this year as part of winding down its partnership with Amazon; it expects $3B in savings related to the Amazon unwind (Laya Neelakandan/CNBC)

Pornhub parent Aylo says it will restrict UK users from February 2, after six months of complying with the UK's OSA; users who verified their ages can login (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

Amazon agrees to pay a $309M settlement and return $600M to users in a US class action lawsuit over allegedly incorrectly denied refunds since September 2017 (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

Abu Dhabi's top tech university MBZUAI launches K2 Think, a new model it says is capable of advanced reasoning, as part of the UAE's push into "sovereign" AI (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

Montreal-based Vention raised a $110M Series D to scale its physical AI platform into manufacturing plants worldwide, taking its total raised to ~$216M (Madison McLauchlan/BetaKit)