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OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex, which it says runs 25% faster, enabling longer-running tasks, and "is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself" (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

Anthropic introduces "agent teams" in Claude Code as a research preview to launch multiple agents that work in parallel, and a Claude in PowerPoint plugin (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)

Anthropic says Opus 4.6 supports a 1M context window in beta, scored 90.2% on BigLaw Bench, the highest for any Claude model, and boosts agentic capabilities (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6, which it says can analyze company data, regulatory filings, and market information; Anthropic now has 300K+ business users (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Q&A with Elon Musk on plans for 1TW of space GPUs, Grok and human consciousness, Optimus, xAI's business plan, China's manufacturing win, DOGE, and more (Cheeky Pint)

Meta confirms it is testing a standalone app for Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI videos, after "strong early traction", without sharing specific numbers (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

The US FCC grants Starlink competitor Logos clearance to deploy up to 4,178 low Earth orbit broadband satellites by 2035; Logos raised a $50M Series A in 2025 (Jason Rainbow/SpaceNews)

DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein helped his Russian-born publicist Masha Bucher become a prominent VC who now boasts of early checks to 22 unicorns like xAI (Iain Martin/Forbes)

US tech stocks fall sharply in intraday trading: the Nasdaq drops 1.8%+, S&P 500 1.5%+, GOOG 3%+, QCOM 7%+, and AMZN 3%+, amid a selloff in software stocks (Financial Times)

DOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction (New York Times)

Gemini exits the UK, EU and Australia and cuts 25% of staff, as the crypto exchange refocuses on the US due to foreign markets proving "hard to win" (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

Duna, a European fintech making AI-powered identity and compliance tools for banks, raised a €30M Series A led by CapitalG, bringing its total funding to €40M+ (Tim Barnwell/Silicon Republic)

Fundamental, which has developed an LTM to analyze structured data, comes out of stealth with $255M in funding, including a $225M Series A, at a $1.2B valuation (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Ukraine says Starlink terminals used by Russia on the battlefield have been deactivated via a verification process developed alongside SpaceX (Anna Pruchnicka/Reuters)

OpenAI launches Frontier, an AI agent management platform that provides shared context, onboarding, and permission boundaries, for "a limited set of customers" (Robert Hart/The Verge)

Sources: Nvidia delays the release of its incremental gaming GPU upgrade, codenamed Kicker, marking the first year in three decades without a new GPU for gaming (The Information)

AI interpretability startup Goodfire raised a $150M Series B at a $1.25B valuation, taking its total funding to $209M, and is working on retraining AI models (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg)

Substack notifies users about a "limited" data breach in October 2025 via a now-patched flaw found on February 3; a threat actor leaked a ~697K-record database (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

London-based Lawhive, whose lawyers and AI tools help individuals and SMBs automate legal tasks, raised a $60M Series B, after a $40M Series A in December 2024 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

AI accounting startup Accrual, incubated by General Catalyst, emerges from stealth and raised $75M; Accrual is part of General Catalyst's $1.5B Creation fund (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)

Palo Alto Networks: an Asian cyber-espionage group broke into systems belonging to 70 critical infrastructure organizations and governments in 37+ countries (Bloomberg)

Bitcoin falls below $70K, its lowest level since President Trump's election win in November 2024 and down 44%+ from its October 2025 peak as global markets fall (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)

Spotify partners with Bookshop.org to let Premium US and UK subscribers buy hardcover and paperback books via its app starting in spring; Spotify will get a cut (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street ...)

Arm CEO Rene Haas says investor fears about AI hurting software companies are a "micro-hysteria" that exceeds the reality of how businesses are using AI tools (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Analog chipmaker SiTime agrees to acquire Tokyo-based Renesas' timing unit for $1.5B in cash and 4.13M shares in a ~$2.9B deal, set to close by the end of 2026 (Bloomberg)

The UK says Microsoft, the UK government, academics, and experts plan to build a system to spot deepfakes online as part of an detection evaluation framework (Muvija M/Reuters)

Wall Street's idea that a software pure play will "vanish" into an LLM is "nonsense": we need more software, and AI-enabled software moves up the product stack (Steven Sinofsky/@stevesi)

Germany's Federal Cartel Office rules Amazon must stop enforcing price controls for retailers on its German marketplace and seizes €59M; Amazon can appeal (Karin Matussek/Bloomberg)

A look at India's push to become a major provider of AI services, as US tech companies pledge tens of billions in Indian data center investments (Wall Street Journal)

RapidFort, which develops tools for securing software supply chains, raised a $42M Series A led by Blue Cloud and ForgePoint, taking its total funding to ~$51M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

A look at the informal economy of rogue streaming box resellers, who sell hardware that offers free access to sports games, cable TV, and streaming services (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)

Investor fears that software companies face an AI-driven extinction event are exaggerated, but the belief that they might be facing one is damaging their stocks (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)

A look at Axiom, which is building AxiomProver, an "AI mathematician" it claims has solved at least four previously unsolved math problems (Will Knight/Wired)

Sources: HP, Dell, Acer, and Asus are considering sourcing memory chips from Chinese chipmakers; HP and Dell are currently qualifying DRAM products from CXMT (Nikkei Asia)

Cybersecurity company Varonis agrees to acquire AllTrue, which develops specialized tools for AI trust, risk, and security management, for $125M in cash (James Rundle/Wall Street Journal)

TSMC plans to produce 3nm chips at its second plant in Kumamoto, Japan; sources say that is an upgrade from an original plan to produce 7nm chips by late 2027 (Bloomberg)

Sony reports Q3 gaming and network services revenue down 4% YoY to $10.5B, profit up 19% YoY to ~$889M, and PlayStation 5 sales down 16% YoY to 8M units (Sam Nussey/Reuters)

Sony reports Q3 revenue up 1% YoY to ~$23.7B, vs. ~$23.5B est., operating profit up 22% to ~$3.3B, vs. ~$3B est., and raises FY operating profit outlook by 8% (Dylan Butts/CNBC)

Researchers say TikTok's server outage in late January disrupted all post categories, not just political content as users claimed, based on limited public data (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

Snowboarder Maddie Mastro and other athletes are using a new AI tool powered by Google DeepMind's computer-vision models to prepare for the 2026 Winter Olympics (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

Filing: Baidu announces a stock buyback program of as much as $5B through the end of 2028, and plans to issue its first dividend in 2026 (Bloomberg)

Adaption Labs, which aims to create AI systems that learn continuously and cost less to run, raised a $50M seed round led by Emergence Capital Partners (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

Google says the Gemini app has 750M+ MAUs, up from 650M last quarter, and its first-party models process 10B+ tokens per minute via direct API use by customers (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Andy Jassy taps Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon VP of worldwide selling partner services, as technical advisor, a "shadow" role often leading to greater responsibilities (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Amazon MGM Studio plans to develop new AI tools via its "AI Studio" to speed TV and film production and cut costs, in collaboration with AWS and LLM providers (Reuters)

Multicoin co-founder and Managing Partner Kyle Samani says he is stepping back from the VC firm and has transitioned to an advisory role (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

Filing: Workday is cutting ~400 employees, or ~2% of its workforce, primarily in customer-facing roles, saying the move will help it invest in priority areas (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Qualcomm reports Q1 revenue up 5% YoY to $12.25B, vs. $12.21B est., and projects Q2 revenue below est. due to memory supply shortage; QCOM drops 9%+ after hours (Reuters)

Arm reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.24B, vs. $1.22B est., and license and other revenue up 25% to $505M, vs. $519.9M est.; ARM drops 7%+ after hours (Reuters)

Snap reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $1.72B vs. $1.7B est., DAUs up 5% to 474M vs. 478M est., forecasts Q1 revenue below est., announces a $500M share buyback (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)