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Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $11.2B, vs. $11.18B est., forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, and announces a $50B share repurchase program (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

Leaked Thrive deck: $26.8B in AUM as of June 30, 2025, deal value peaked in Q4 2021, positive DPI for four early funds, including 2.4x for 2016's Thrive V, more (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)

Source: Google plans to test search changes in Europe, displaying results from competing vertical search services next to its own, seeking to avoid EU fines (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Anthropic acquires Vercept, whose Vy desktop agent lets users control a Mac or PC with natural language, to "advance Claude's computer use capabilities" (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: some police officers testify that Meta's AI is sending a flood of "junk" CSAM reports that are draining resources and slowing cases (Katie McQue/The Guardian)

Sources: Thrive invested $1B in OpenAI in 2025 at a $285B valuation in a transaction akin to a call option; OpenAI was separately raising at a $830B valuation (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)

Perplexity launches Perplexity Computer, "a general-purpose digital worker" that can route work across 19 AI models, available initially for Max subscribers (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)

Google launches task automation for Gemini on Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S26, enabling Gemini to autonomously perform tasks using apps like Uber and DoorDash (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Hands-on with Galaxy S26 Ultra's Privacy Display: the two sets of pixels that lets users toggle the viewing angle to prevent screen peeking is very impressive (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Source: Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle, and OpenAI will sign White House's initiative to build their own electricity supply for AI data centers (Emma Colton/Fox News)

Samsung announces the Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus, featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 for Galaxy chipset, starting at $899 and $1099, respectively, a $100 hike (Patrick Holland/CNET)

Samsung unveils the $1,299+ Galaxy S26 Ultra with a Privacy Display feature that limits screen legibility, a new agentic AI, an improved night mode, and more (Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET)

Samsung launches the $179 Galaxy Buds 4 and $249 Buds 4 Pro, keeping the AirPods-esque design, with better battery life and noise canceling, available March 11 (John Higgins/The Verge)

A live blog of Samsung Galaxy Unpacked February 2026, where the company announced the Galaxy S26 series (The Verge)

A recording of Samsung Galaxy Unpacked February 2026 (Samsung on YouTube)

Kalshi says it has suspended an editor for MrBeast and a former GOP California gubernatorial candidate for insider trading, its first public enforcement action (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

Court records: the FBI subpoenaed X for details about Grok prompts a man allegedly used to create 200+ sexual deepfakes of a woman he knew in real life (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Israel-based Gambit Security, which offers an AI-native cyber resilience platform that autonomously maps infrastructure, raised $61M across seed and Series A (Globes)

Sensor Tower: EA led all publishers in 2025 with 200M+ PC and console downloads, ahead of its $55B deal to go private; Fortnite had the top console player base (Payton Turkeltaub/Variety)

Gambit Security: an unknown hacker used Claude to steal 150GB of Mexican government data, including 195M taxpayer records, in December 2025 and January 2026 (Bloomberg)

Insurance brokerage Harper, which uses AI to automate submission routing and follow-up, raised $46.8M in combined Series A and seed led by Emergence Capital (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Alibaba Cloud releases a cheap AI coding tool built on open-source models like Alibaba's Qwen 3.5, as well as Zhipu, Moonshot, and MiniMax models (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Adobe updates Firefly to add Quick Cut, a new AI tool to edit footage and B-roll to create a first draft of the final video based on user prompts (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

London-based enterprise coding startup SolveAI raised a $45M Series A led by GV in November 2025 and a $5M pre-seed led by Accel in August 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

A study finds GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash deployed tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war game scenarios, and never surrendered (Chris Stokel-Walker/New Scientist)

Google disrupts Chinese-linked group UNC2814, which breached 53+ organizations across 42 countries and utilized Google Sheets to manage targeting and data theft (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)

Stablecoin operator Circle reports Q4 revenue up 77% YoY to $770M, vs. $747M est., and $133.4M net income; USDC ended 2025 with ~$75B in circulation, up 72% YoY (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Deutsche Bank partners with Google Cloud to build agentic AI to monitor 1TB of daily communications and 40+ channels for market abuse and data loss prevention (William Shaw/Bloomberg)

Diplomatic cable: US officials order diplomats to lobby against attempts to regulate how US tech companies handle foreigners' data, citing risks to AI services (Reuters)

A top US export control official says Nvidia has yet to sell any H200 chips to China, two months after President Trump's decision to allow AI chip shipments (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Sources: General Atlantic is selling a stake in ByteDance in a deal that values it at $550B, up 66% since September 2025, the first divestment since its US sale (Reuters)

Sources: SAP investors and partners raise doubts about the company's AI products; VW tested SAP's flagship AI assitant Joule and did not find it mature enough (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

DoorDash says it plans to exit Qatar, Singapore, Japan and Uzbekistan, winding down both Deliveroo and Wolt, and make limited operational changes elsewhere (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)

Malaysia blocks access to Grindr's and Blued's websites and says it may engage with Google and Apple to curb the LGBTQ dating apps in the Muslim-majority nation (Anuradha Raghu/Bloomberg)

Sources: Japan's FTC raids Microsoft's Japan offices as part of a probe into whether Azure customers were improperly hindered from using other cloud services (Nikkei Asia)

Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri says Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI use Workday tools and "no amount of vibe coding" could replace them; WDAY is down about 40% YTD (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Workday reports Q4 revenue up 14.5% YoY to $2.53B, vs. $2.52B est., and forecasts FY 2027 subscription revenue below estimates; WDAY drops 9%+ pre-market (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

A look at TAT-8, the first transoceanic fiber-optic cable, which went into service in 1988, was retired in 2002, and is now being pulled up for recycling (Jane Ruffino/Wired)

A look at Motif Technologies and Upstage, South Korean AI startups competing with SK Group and LG in the race for a national AI foundation model (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

Zetrix, a publicly traded Malaysian digital infrastructure provider, raised ~$40M from the World Bank's IFC and plans to list its AI unit on Nasdaq by end-2026 (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Sources: China's top chipmakers, with strong government backing, aim to increase advanced chip production capacity fivefold to 100K wafers within two years (Nikkei Asia)

HP says memory now accounts for 35% of its PC bill of materials, up from 15% to 18% in Q4 2025, and expects RAM's share to rise through 2026 (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

Analysis: overseas investors bought a net $2.77B of Taiwan equities on February 24, the most since December 2005, signaling confidence in an AI driven chip boom (Bloomberg)

Sensor Tower: India was the largest market for GenAI app downloads in 2025, surging 207% YoY; India accounts for 20% of global installs but 1% of in-app revenue (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Australian freight software maker WiseTech plans to cut ~2,000 jobs, or ~30% of its workforce, this fiscal year and next, amid CEO Zubin Appoo's embrace of AI (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)

Koah, which embeds sponsored ads directly into AI chatbots and aims to build an AdSense for AI, raised a $20.5M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

SOTU: Trump says he told tech companies to build their own plants to power data centers; sources say the White House expects to formalize the effort in March (Richard Valdmanis/Reuters)

A survey of US teens: 57% use AI chatbots to search for info, 54% use them to do schoolwork, 47% for fun or entertainment, 12% for emotional support, and more (Pew Research Center)

OpenAI hires Arvind KC as chief people officer, replacing Julia Villagra who left in August 2025; KC has held senior roles at Roblox, Google, Palantir, and Meta (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)

A look at how both small and large companies are tracking and enforcing employees' AI usage and considering it during performance reviews (Wall Street Journal)