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An interview with Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, who General Catalyst promoted to president in January, on investing in European tech and defense startups, and more (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

As Section 230 turns 30, a look at how upcoming court cases involving Meta, Alphabet, and others in the US could reshape the bounds of Section 230's protections (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

Moltbook was peak AI theater, offering less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

How AI is impacting the romance novel industry, with authors failing to disclose AI use and using pen names more, bogging down the publishing ecosystem (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)

T-glass, a type of ultrathin glass sheet used in advanced chips, is in short supply and largely comes from Nittobo, which is not adding capacity for months (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)

A software engineer explains "AI fatigue", compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using AI labs' latest tools and "thinking atrophy", alongside boosted productivity (Siddhant Khare)

OpenClaw partners with VirusTotal and says that all skills published to ClawHub are now scanned using VirusTotal's threat intelligence (The Hacker News)

Sources: Block is notifying hundreds of staff their jobs may be eliminated during annual performance reviews; up to 10% of the workforce is at risk of being cut (Bloomberg)

Q&A with mathematicians behind the "First Proof" experiment, which tests AI's mathematical competence on questions drawn from the authors' unpublished research (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)

Sources: iPhone 17e with MagSafe is coming soon; iOS 26.4 beta with updated Siri slated for the week of Feb. 23, M5 MacBook Pros as early as the week of Mar. 2 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

How Anthropic's bet on enterprise users is paying off; sources: Anthropic's guidance to investors claims annualized revenue will exceed $30B by the end of 2026 (George Hammond/Financial Times)

Analysis: World Liberty Financial has earned the Trump family at least $1.2B in cash since its launch, while the Witkoff family has earned at least $200M (Wall Street Journal)

European countries are moving toward social media bans for children, even as doubts persist over implementation and the risk of a new battle with US tech groups (Financial Times)

This year's projected capex ramp-up will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google, and Meta, potentially forcing stock buyback cuts or more borrowing (Martin Peers/The Information)

Analysts say a design refresh for the iPhone 17 lineup has reinforced Apple's status-symbol appeal in China, with the "cosmic orange" Pro model going viral (Financial Times)

A profile of Ali Ansari, the 25-year-old co-founder of micro1, which recruits human experts to train AI systems; micro1 was last valued at $500M in Sept. 2025 (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)

Anthropic rolls out a fast mode for Claude Opus 4.6 in research preview, saying it offers the same model quality 2.5 times faster but costs six times more (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

India's updated startup framework doubles deep-tech startup eligibility to 20 years and triples the revenue cap for tax, grant, and regulatory benefits to ~$33M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Chinese regulators reiterate the mainland crypto ban and expand enforcement to cover real-world asset tokenization and offshore yuan-pegged stablecoin issuance (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

X unveils a new pay-per-use pricing model for its API, replacing the earlier pricing model that required developers to pay fixed monthly fees of $200 or $5,000 (Rohit Singh/MediaNama)

Sources: Mercor rival micro1 has told investors it is now generating $200M in recurring revenue; Mercor is offering micro1 employees signing bonuses up to $2M (Anna Tong/Forbes)

A look at Corning's booming fiber-optic business, boosted by data center demand and a $6B Meta deal, as Nvidia explores Corning's co-packaged optics for servers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

After talking with ~40 people at Anthropic, a look at its "Yes, and..." culture where every idea is welcomed and judged based on vibes, like a hive mind (Steve Yegge)

DOJ-released emails: Jeffrey Epstein helped Ian Osborne, founder of London-based fund Hedosophia, after Osborne's outreach to help Epstein fix his image in 2011 (Financial Times)

Trump-linked World Liberty Financial's stablecoin, USD1, hit $5B in total circulation in January with 85% held in Binance accounts; Trump pardoned CZ in October (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)

Tether froze $544M in alleged illicit income at Turkey's request, part of its push to aid governments in crackdowns against crypto use in alleged crimes (Bloomberg)

Apple, whose capital expenditure is just a fraction of its peers, is the only Big Tech company that saw capex decline YoY in Q4, decreasing 19% to $2.37B (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)

An interview with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about the "wisdom of the crowd", political polarization, having Trump Jr. as an adviser, casino comparisons, and more (Oliver Roeder/Financial Times)

New US rules banning Chinese software in internet-connected vehicles from March 17 add urgency to industrywide efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese components (Stephen Wilmot/Wall Street Journal)

Kalshi and Polymarket have facilitated over $800M in Super Bowl contracts, as pro gamblers shift to prediction markets and adopt Wall Street-style strategies (Bloomberg)

Chinese regulators fined Kuaishou $17.2M for failing to curb illegal content; pornographic content appeared on Kuaishou during its December 2025 cyberattacks (Bloomberg)

US data center demand has driven stock surges of contractors and equipment makers like Corning, Sterling Infrastructure, Comfort Systems USA, and Carrier Global (Wall Street Journal)

Source: Benchmark raised $225M in special funds to invest in Cerebras' ~$1B Series H, led by Tiger Global; Benchmark led Cerebras' $27M Series A in 2016 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

RADICL, which offers threat detection and response services to SMBs supporting US defense industrial base and critical infrastructure, raised a $31M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb says it accidentally sent $44B worth of bitcoin to customers as promotional rewards and has recovered 99.7% of it (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)

A look at the state of AI agents, the evolution of thinking models, the staggering need for inference compute in the coming years, automated research, and more (Eric Jang/Evjang.com)

New York lawmakers propose a bill to impose a three-year moratorium on data center development, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce such legislation (Molly Taft/Wired)

US tech stocks and bitcoin rally after three days of selling; Nasdaq Composite closed up 2.18%, Broadcom 7.22%, Strategy 26.11%, and bitcoin rebounded to ~$70K (Emily Herbert/Financial Times)

Trump Mobile execs showcase the T1 Phone's new design and specs, and say the phones go through "final assembly" in Miami and full assembly in the US is a "goal" (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Palmer Luckey's Erebor becomes the first newly created bank to receive a national charter under the second Trump administration, launching with $635M in capital (Wall Street Journal)

Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in English, summarized from third-party sources to highlight song details, in beta for Premium users (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is raising a $350M+ Series E led by Vista Equity Partners; Intel plans to invest $100M to $150M (Reuters)

Nvidia stock closes up 7.92% after Jensen Huang said the tech industry's surging capex for AI infrastructure is justified, appropriate, and sustainable (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Sources: London-based 9fin, a data provider for debt markets, is in talks to raise as much as $150M at a pre-money valuation of $1B, about 20x its ARR of ~$50M (Bloomberg)

Galaxy Digital stock jumps 17%+ after the company approved a share buyback program of up to $200M over the next 12 months (CoinDesk)

Croatian-founded Daytona, which aims to build infrastructure for large-scale agent workloads, raised a $24M Series A led by FirstMark (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

A civil subpoena shows the US DOJ is investigating Netflix for potential anticompetitive tactics as DOJ probes the company's proposed acquisition of WBD (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Apple plans to allow third-party voice-controlled AI chatbots in CarPlay within the coming months; it won't let users replace CarPlay's Siri button (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Heroku says it is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model", as it focuses on "helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI" (Nitin T Bhat/Heroku)

Amazon's annual tax bill fell 87% YoY to $1.2B in 2025, as profits grew 45% to ~$90B, mostly due to GOP's depreciation breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill (Brian Faler/Politico)