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Sources: Apple is developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging that could be released as early as 2027 — Apple is developing an AI-powered wearable pin the size of an AirTag that is equipped with multiple cameras, a speaker …
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Sources: Apple plans to revamp Siri this fall in iOS 27 and macOS 27 by turning it into the company's first AI chatbot, replacing the current Siri interface — Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company's first artificial intelligence chatbot …
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Anthropic overhauls Claude's “constitution” to enable the AI model to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules — Anthropic is overhauling a foundational document that shapes how its popular Claude AI model behaves.
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Ubisoft cancels six games and delays others amid a restructuring into five genre-specific “creative houses”; it expects net bookings of ~€1.5B for FY 2025-2026 — Ubisoft Entertainment SA is canceling game projects, shutting down studios and cutting its guidance …
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xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has “left” the company days after appearing on a podcast last week where he claimed that xAI had been skirting regulations — Interesting timing. — Sulaiman Ghori, an engineer at Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, went on the podcast Relentless …
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Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a satellite communications network for enterprise, data center, and government customers, and plans to begin deployment in Q4 2027 — Jeff Bezos' space venture Blue Origin announced Wednesday it plans to deploy 5,408 satellites in space for a communications network that will take on SpaceX and Amazon.
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Sources: Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East, looking to raise at least $50B for OpenAI at a valuation of about $750B to $830B — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East to line up funding for a new investment round …
Unsealed docs: Spotify and labels sued Anna's Archive over plans to release scraped Spotify data; a US court grants a temporary order taking down some domains — Spotify and several major record labels, including UMG, Sony, and Warner, have taken legal action against the unknown operators of Anna's Archive.
BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the marketed range of $15 to $17 per share, giving it a market value of about $2.1B — BitGo Holdings Inc. and some of its backers raised $212.8 million in a US initial public offering, pricing its shares above the marketed range.
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Vimeo is laying off staff for the second time since September 2025, when it cut 10% of its workforce; Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for about $1.38B in November — - Vimeo is laying off staffers globally in a new round of cuts. — The job cuts arrived a few months after tech holding company Bending Spoons bought Vimeo.
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X unveils Bluesky-like “Starterpacks” to help users find accounts that match their interests, curated by X and rolling out in the coming weeks — Bluesky's “Starter Packs,” the curated lists of suggested users to follow, have proven a popular way to help people connect with others …
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Neynar, a startup focused on decentralized social media infrastructure, is acquiring Ethereum-based social media project Farcaster from R&D firm Merkle — - Decentralized social media infrastructure firm Neynar is acquiring Farcaster, the Ethereum-based protocol that was last valued at $1 billion.
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Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation — Applecart, a marketing technology startup, raised $100 million in a minority funding round led by Blackstone Inc.'s growth equity business.
A Canadian federal court overturned a 2024 order that would have shuttered TikTok Canada's business operations over national security concerns — “We welcome the decision to set aside the order to shut down TikTok Canada, and look forward to working with the Minister towards a resolution that's …
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan publishes his annual letter, saying YouTube aims to reduce “AI slop” and has strengthened parental controls, and teases Shorts updates — The executive published his annual letter to the YouTube community Wednesday, outlining his priorities for the video platform.
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Sources: the US Senate's crypto market structure bill is likely to be delayed by several weeks as key lawmakers shift focus to potential housing legislation — A sweeping US crypto market bill is likely to be delayed by at least several weeks as key lawmakers shift their focus …
A year after the DeepSeek shock following R1's release, US tech companies still lead in AI chips, model quality, and sales, with no change in investment trends — About the author: Chris Miller is the author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology.
German exchange operator Deutsche Boerse agrees to acquire European fund distribution platform Allfunds for about $6.2B in cash and stock — Deutsche Boerse AG agreed to acquire European fund distribution platform Allfunds Group Plc for about €5.3 billion ($6.2 billion) in cash and stock.
The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs approves a bipartisan bill that calls for arms-sale style congressional oversight of advanced AI chip exports — Congress is one step closer to gaining the authority to review artificial intelligence chip sales to China, a move likely to open a rift …
Deepinder Goyal, CEO of Indian online food delivery service Zomato and its parent Eternal, steps down and will be succeeded by Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa — Deepinder Goyal, the co-founder and CEO of food delivery service Zomato and its parent Eternal, is stepping down from his role …
Sources: Elon Musk is pushing for a SpaceX IPO by July, seems eager to beat OpenAI and Anthropic to market, and views it as a way to help xAI catch its rivals — Putting data centers in space pushed the billionaire toward an IPO, sources say — SpaceX resisted going public for years.
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Sources: Apple is developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging that could be released as early as 2027 — Apple is developing an AI-powered wearable pin the size of an AirTag that is equipped with multiple cameras, a speaker …
X: @loudmouthjulia, @signulll, @scobleizer, @benbajarin, @glenngabe, @aatilley, @kylebrussell, @parkerortolani, @autismcapital, @mgsiegler, @autismcapital, and @parkerortolani. Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com. Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon …
Forums: r/NowInTech, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
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Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple Developing AirTag-Sized AI Pin With Dual Cameras
Will Shanklin / Engadget: Apple is reportedly developing a wearable AI pin
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple is working on an AI-powered wearable pin: report
Harsh Shivam / Business Standard: Apple may rival OpenAI wearable with AirTag-sized AI device: What to expect
Sarthak Singh / Moneycontrol: Apple is reportedly working on an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras
Ashish Singh / Digit: After OpenAI, Apple is working on an AirTag-sized AI wearable device: Here's what it is and when it may launch
Patrick O'Rourke / XDA Developers: Apple reportedly wants to take on Open AI with a wearable AI pin in 2027
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable
John Quintet / iPhone in Canada: Apple's Secret New Wearable Could Replace Your iPhone Camera by 2027
Varun Mirchandani / Digital Trends: Forget the watch, Apple's AI Pin might be its next wearable move
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Philip Elmer‑DeWitt: Apple aims to upstage Sam & Jony with 2 cameras, 3 mics and a Siri that works - report
Michael Bizzaco / BGR: Apple Might Be Making The First AI-Powered Wearable Actually Worth Using
Dan Bracaglia / Tom's Guide: Forget the Apple Watch — your next wearable could be an AI-powered Apple pin
James Pero / Gizmodo: Apple Is Reportedly Making Its Own Wearable AI Pin
Ryan McNeal / Android Authority: Apple is picking up where Humane left off
Ilia Temelkov / PhoneArena: Apple's next product category may be an AI-powered gadget others have failed with
Roman Loyola / Macworld: Apple's next wearable could be an AI pin
Jason Snell / Six Colors: Report: Apple developing a wearable pin ↦
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Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Former Apple employees launch company to make AI pin, flame out in the most public way (I say with empathy, building things is incredibly difficult even with established technologies and products), and now Apple is making its own AI pin, I assume powered by Gemini. Fun.
@signulll: i'm very excited for the openai hardware thing because this is basically jony ive's first real new product without jobs hovering over it or apple's immune system throttling it (apple watch was legit tbf). this is a clean experiment on how much of the magic was the psychotic opinionated editor (jobs) vs. the immaculate taste & form giving machine (ive). either we learn that legendary editors are irreplaceable or we get something genuinely new & ground breaking. either way, the world deserves it. good on openai & sama for lavishly funding it without restriction.
Robert Scoble / @scobleizer: What got leaked by Apple today (a pin with two cameras) sounds a lot like what I predicted @sama was building, coming later this year. That prediction is here. My video is worth watching if you missed it last September. It is a voxel ingestion machine. If I wore one and you
Ben Bajarin / @benbajarin: PSA: Apple experiments making all sorts of stuff. Most never to come to market. This will not.
Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe: And more. Jarvis will need to be ambient. Apple is developing a wearable pin -> Sources: Apple is developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging that could be released as early as 2027 “Apple's development is in the very [image]
Aaron Tilley / @aatilley: SCOOP: Apple is launching their own AI pin. Wonder how Humane (remember the Ai Pin?) folks will feel about this https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell: Call it the iPod
Parker Ortolani / @parkerortolani: the only way an Apple pin or “communicator” makes any sense to me is if it's similar to the 6th gen nano but paired to your iPhone with eyes and ears basically just a modern iPod that works sort of like an Apple Watch you just wear differently
@autismcapital: OpenAI is competing back with Apple with their own hardware as well. The battle is on. https://x.com/...
M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler: I feel like you probably won't be typing to this thing... https://spyglass.org/...
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Sources: Apple plans to revamp Siri this fall in iOS 27 and macOS 27 by turning it into the company's first AI chatbot, replacing the current Siri interface — Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company's first artificial intelligence chatbot …
X: @mweinbach, @markgurman, @signulll, @markgurman, @mweinbach, @tuncerdeniz, @markgurman, @itharis, @munster_gene, @mweinbach, @brandonbutch, @mweinbach, and @brandonbutch
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Filipe Esposito / Macworld: Sources: Apple is testing internal chatbots: Enchanté to improve employee workflows, and Enterprise Assistant, to navigate Apple's knowledge base and policies
Sarthak Singh / Moneycontrol: Apple plans major Siri reboot in iOS 27 with ChatGPT-style chatbot, report says
Aman Gupta / Livemint: Your iPhone is about to change: Apple reportedly working to replace Siri with a Gemini-powered chatbot
Ilia Temelkov / PhoneArena: iOS 27 may come with a Siri chatbot that would reshape the iPhone experience
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple reportedly replacing Siri interface with actual chatbot experience for iOS 27
Ananya Gairola / Benzinga: Gene Munster Mostly Agrees With Leading Apple Analyst About Road Ahead For Apple In Next 8 Months: ‘You Can Take This To The Bank’
Sparsh / Times Now: iOS 27 Launch Date, Gemini AI Features, Compatible Devices, Expectations And More: All We Know So Far
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: An Actual AiPhone — By my count, this is my fifth headline trying to make ‘AiPhone’ happen.
Ashish Singh / Digit: Apple iOS 27 update release timeline, features, supported devices and everything else we know
Jason Snell / Six Colors: Gurman details Apple two-phase AI rollout ↦
John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Gurman Scoops ‘Campos’, Apple's Codename for a Chatbot-Based Siri in Next Year's Version 27 OSes
Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: Despite Apple having said otherwise, Siri may become a chatbot in iOS 27
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Apple plans to make Siri an AI chatbot, report says
Juli Clover / MacRumors: Will Apple Charge for Its Siri Chatbot?
Prakhar Khanna / ZDNET: iOS 27 may be the death of Siri as we know it, but we'll be happy with what it becomes
Jesse Hollington / iDrop News: Apple's AI Pivot: Siri May Become a Full Chatbot in iOS 27
Manisha Priyadarshini / Digital Trends: Apple plans to turn Siri into a full AI chatbot to take on ChatGPT and Gemini
Anna Washenko / Engadget: Apple is reportedly overhauling Siri to be an AI chatbot
Austin Blake / iPhone in Canada: Apple's Secret ‘Campos’ Project: When the Old Siri Will Finally Disappear
Tegan Jones / SmartCompany: Apple to give Siri a ChatGPT-style glow-up
Jacob Krol / TechRadar: Apple's smarter, long-promised AI-powered Siri might be arriving in a few months, according to a new report
Scott Younker / Tom's Guide: Apple reportedly revamping Siri as company's ‘first artificial intelligence chatbot’ — and it ‘will go well beyond the abilities of the current Siri’
Nichols deCourville / BGR: Say Goodbye To ChatGPT - New Siri Chatbot Will Soon Take Over Your iPhone
Shalom Levytam / iClarified: Apple to Transform Siri Into ChatGPT-Like AI Chatbot in iOS 27 [Report]
Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia: Apple to replace Siri with AI chatbot Campos this year
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Mark Gurman / @markgurman: BREAKING: Apple is overhauling Siri this fall in iOS 27 and macOS 27 and turning it into its first full-fledged chatbot, looking to fend off OpenAI's ChatGPT and seriously compete in the generative AI space. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
@signulll: lol damn super confusing, maybe just save the whole thing for iOS 27 instead of launching two siri versions now?
Mark Gurman / @markgurman: The Siri chatbot is known internally as Campos. It'll be likely be powered by Gemini running on Google's own TPUs and cloud infrastructure, meaning it's a far more powerful model than the one coming to Siri this spring and running on Apple's servers.
Tuncer Deniz / @tuncerdeniz: @markgurman Having been an @Apple user since 1984, I can safely Siri has been awful (ok, the Newton sucked too). Playing catch up in AI has been embarrassing. While I applaud Apple finally finding an solution in @Google, there's nothing like owning the software. This one was a
Mark Gurman / @markgurman: Apple was previously reluctant and intentionally shied away from launching a chatbot, saying in interviews that it wasn't interested in the concept. But ChatGPT, now with well over 800 million users, and Gemini proved that Apple needed to quickly move in this direction.
Mohamed Haris / @itharis: Apple is FINALLY going big on Siri: turning it into a full Gemini-powered AI chatbot in iOS 27! Think real conversations, web search, image gen, file analysis, deep app control - basically ChatGPT-level but baked into iPhone/iPad/Mac. This is SEPARATE from the personalized
Gene Munster / @munster_gene: $AAPL has two potential catalysts for multiple expansion over the next 8 months: 1. A revamped Siri in April (still on track). 2. A Siri chatbot in September to compete with ChatGPT despite Apple previously saying it didn't want to build a chatbot. Gurman is right 90% of the time. You can take this to the bank.
Max Weinbach / @mweinbach: Think about it this way, Google is monetizing Gemini (service) via shopping, taking a commission from recommended products. That's how all of these shopping products work. These aren't ads, these are just the same as any website recommending products. If you use Apple's version rather than Gemini, Google loses that revenue from the recommendation. Google want's Gemini to be the surface you go to for this. Apple wants to provide a service that's useful for users, so it'll likely include this.
Brandon Butch / @brandonbutch: iOS 26.4 is expected to introduce a revamped Siri powered by Google's Gemini models, running on-device and through Apple's Private Cloud Compute for privacy. iOS 27 is expected to introduce a new, advanced Siri chatbot ("Campos") powered by Gemini and running on Google's cloud. [image]
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Anthropic overhauls Claude's “constitution” to enable the AI model to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules — Anthropic is overhauling a foundational document that shapes how its popular Claude AI model behaves.
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Anthropic: Claude's new constitution — We're publishing a new constitution for our AI model, Claude.
Anthropic: Claude's Constitution — Claude's constitution is a detailed description of Anthropic's intentions …
Simon Sharwood / The Register: Anthropic writes Constitution for Claude it thinks will soon be proven ‘misguided’
Amanda Caswell / Tom's Guide: I didn't realize Claude could do this — 10 features hiding in plain sight
Vishal Mathur / Hindustan Times: Anthropic is training Claude to disagree, and that may be its trump card
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Anthropic releases new AI ‘constitution’ for Claude
Hayden Field / The Verge: Anthropic's new Claude ‘constitution’: be helpful and honest, and don't destroy humanity
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Anthropic revises Claude's ‘Constitution,’ and hints at chatbot consciousness
Megan Morrone / Axios: How Anthropic teaches Claude to be “good”
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Kevin Roose / @kevinroose: Claude's new constitution is a wild, fascinating document. It treats Claude as a mature entity capable of good judgment, not an alien shoggoth that needs to be constrained with rules. @AmandaAskell will be on Hard Fork this week to discuss it!
William MacAskill / @willmacaskill: I'm so glad to see this published! It's hard to overstate how big a deal AI character is - already affecting how AI systems behave by default in millions of interactions every day; ultimately, it'll be like choosing the personality and dispositions of the whole world's workforce. So it's very important for AI companies to publish public constitutions / model specs describing how they want their AIs to behave. Props to both OpenAI and Anthropic for doing this.
Amanda Askell / @amandaaskell: Claude's constitution is out! It's the culmination of a lot of work by many people, but it's also a work in progress that will no doubt change and hopefully improve over time. I'm looking forward to people's thoughts, and to talking with more people about this kind of work ❤️
@anthropicai: We've used constitutions in training since 2023. Our earlier approach specified principles Claude should follow; later, our character training emphasized traits it should have. Today's publication reflects a new approach.
Matthew Yglesias / @mattyglesias: The Claude Constitution document is fascinating on several levels, not the least of which to this former philosophy major is the clear belief that contemporary philosophy has something to offer frontier AI development.
Boaz Barak / @boazbaraktcs: Happy to see Anthropic release the Claude constitution and looking forward to reading it deeply. We are creating new types of entities, and I think the ways to shape them are best evolved through sharing and public discussions.
@anthropicai: We think that in order to be good actors in the world, AI models like Claude need to understand why we want them to behave in certain ways—rather than being told what they should do. Our intention is to teach Claude to better generalize across a wide range of novel situations.
Joe Carlsmith / @jkcarlsmith: I'm excited that Claude's constitution is now published! Helping with this document has been my main project since joining @AnthropicAI last November. I think transparency about documents like these is important, and I'd love to see more work on how they should be designed.
Miles Brundage / @miles_brundage: Lots of good stuff but I still don't see why they (/OpenAI etc.) don't just say which version of the constitution/spec was used for training which models. Knowing that mapping is part of the point of being transparent about this stuff as I understand it. https://x.com/...
Daniel Liu / @daniel_c0deb0t: I found this to be really well written and an interesting approach to shaping Claude's behavior by explaining our reasoning. Although it's written for Claude, I think it's also a great reflection of Anthropic's values
Ethan Mollick / @emollick: The Claude Constitution shows where Anthropic thinks this is all going. It is a massive document covering many philosophical issues. I think it is worth serious attention beyond the usual AI-adjacent commentators. Other labs should be similarly explicit. https://www.anthropic.com/... [image]
Kanika / @kanikabk: Anthropic just published Claude's constitution and it's not a policy doc. It's a bold rethink of how AI should understand values, not just obey rules. 👇Here's why this isn't just documentation, it's a philosophical pivot.
Patrick McKenzie / @patio11: A very interesting document, on many dimensions.
@anthropicai: We're publishing a new constitution for Claude. The constitution is a detailed description of our vision for Claude's behavior and values. It's written primarily for Claude, and used directly in our training process. https://www.anthropic.com/...
Jake Eaton / @jkeatn: i find this to be an extraordinary document, both in its tentative answer to the question “how should a language model be?” and in the fact that training on it works. it is not surprising, but nevertheless still astounding, that LLMs are so human-shaped and human shapeable
Simon Willison / @simonw: It's the soul document! And it's CC0 licensed (effectively released into the public domain)
Ravid Shwartz Ziv / @ziv_ravid: Anthropic's models are impressive, and I'm using them all the time, but publishing a ‘constitution’ isn't regulation. The gap between their frontier capabilities and self-imposed ethics theater is amazing. We need external AI regulation, not internal virtue signaling.
Drew Bent / @drew_bent: One of the most fascinating documents I've read Very unusual in that the audience is AI, not humans. And yet the words are still deeply human. Great work @AmandaAskell and team
Near / @nearcyan: it's really nice that this is fully open now. much of it is good but i think it could be a lot of cognizant about what it is accidentally instilling by totally-not-instilling
Near / @nearcyan: “a wiser and more coordinated civilization would likely be approaching the development of advanced AI quite differently (...) We take full responsibility for our actions regardless” [image]
Simon Willison / @simonw: This is the same soul document that Richard Weiss managed to leak from the supervised learning training data back in November, my notes on that here https://simonwillison.net/...
@scaling01: Anthropic is trying to gaslight future ASI Claude into not killing them by saying how much they care and love it. I kinda want to publish a Claude Anti-Constitution. But seriously, I think it would actually help Claude to have a sense of both sides. There should be billions of Claude Constitutions.
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Jim Kaskade: Anthropic rewriting Claude's guiding principles - and publicly entertaining the idea that its AI might warrant some form of “moral consideration” - is unusual, and that's exactly why it matters. …
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Tim Kellogg / @timkellogg.me: Anthropic published their “soul document” — This is a continuation of “constitutional AI”. The constitution document is now a large document of prose that's used in s number of training stages, even synth data generation as well as RL & SFT — (Strix confirmed fwiw) — www.anthropic.com/news/claude- ...
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Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com: Oh would you look at that! Anthropic's magical shrinking margins went from 70% to 47% to 40%, with higher than expected inference costs, and its revenue projections were below estimates. I'm sure they're somehow magically gonna be profitable by 2028! — www.theinformation.com/articles/ ant... …
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Ubisoft cancels six games and delays others amid a restructuring into five genre-specific “creative houses”; it expects net bookings of ~€1.5B for FY 2025-2026 — Ubisoft Entertainment SA is canceling game projects, shutting down studios and cutting its guidance …
X: @princeofpersia, @synthpotato, @legacykillahd, @gameoverthirty, @thencsmaster, @oliverjia1014, @grummz, @shinobi602, @nintyprime, and @mr_rebs_
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Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: Ubisoft details ‘major company reset’: 6 games canned, 7 delayed, and 2 studios closed
Tom Phillips / IGN: Ubisoft Cancels 6 Projects Including Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake, Closes 2 Studios and Confirms Further Layoffs in Major Company Restructure
Ubisoft: Ubisoft announces a major organizational, operational and portfolio reset to reclaim creative leadership and restore sustainable growth
Chris Scullion / Video Games Chronicle: Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake
Jon Hicks / GamesIndustry.biz: Ubisoft asking all staff to return to office full-time to “boost the collective performance for AAA”
Jennifer Maas / Variety: Ubisoft Shake-Up: Layoffs, Studio Closures Begin in Major Reorg; Six Games Canceled, Including ‘Prince of Persia’ Remake
Stephanie Almogabar / 80 Level: Layoffs, Delays & Game Cancellations: What's Going on at Ubisoft?
Andrej Barovic / Destructoid: Ubisoft torches Prince of Persia after huge layoffs, and even the Black Flag remake is waterlogged
Pulasthi Ariyasinghe / Neowin: Ubisoft cancels Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake alongside six other games
Steve Wright / Stevivor: Ubisoft cancels 6 games, delays 7 more, will focus on GaaS and generative AI
Fraser Gilbert / Pure Xbox: Prince Of Persia Remake Team Shares Final Message Following Game's Cancellation
Chris Kerr / Game Developer: Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more ‘gamer-centric’ company
Amanda Kay Oaks / Comic Book: Ubisoft Delays Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Remake Along With 6 Other Games
Chris Carter / Screen Rant: Prince of Persia Remake Canceled As Ubisoft Axes 6 Games
Ollie Reynolds / Nintendo Life: Ubisoft Cancels 6 Games In Major Organisation Restructure
Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: Prince of Persia: The Sand of Time Remake is cancelled as Ubisoft announces major internal restructuring and more layoffs and studio closures on the way
Ford James / Polygon.com: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake canceled amid wider Ubisoft shakeup
Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: Ubisoft reorganizes with cancellation of 6 games
Joseph Allen / TechRaptor: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake Canceled as Ubisoft Restructures
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@synthpotato: This isn't surprising. I just hope this reset means a higher bar of quality is set because it is objective fact that Ubisoft titles are not as good as they used to be. Bring back Rayman, Far Cry, The Division, Ghost Recon, Watch Dogs. They focused on live-services for too long.
Michael / @legacykillahd: Truly insane. Never trust Ubisoft with anything. Have little hope we see the new Splinter Cell project and or it ends up being good. Absolute mess of a company...
@gameoverthirty: Major update from #Ubisoft today. The company will continue to split into 5 different “creative houses.” Each creative house will be responsible for their own financial success and will make decisions based on their own market needs / outlook. (Reminder: Vantage Studios is house [image]
@thencsmaster: Ubisoft has to be on the verge of death or a total buyout at this point I haven't seen a game company flounder and be such a void of quality in years
Oliver Jia / @oliverjia1014: The original will always be there thankfully, but this is awful news for the people who worked on this project for so many years. Unfortunately, cancelations and layoffs are just becoming the norm now. Hope the team is able to find other work.
@grummz: Ubisoft cancels more games and will lay off more people. So much for “the chuds were wrong, Ubisoft is doing great!.” Remember when we started, Ubisoft was strong and nobody believed we could get them to change, being so big. But we did. Let's hope the anti-woke lessons we
@shinobi602: Ubisoft details ‘major company reset’ amid reorganization efforts: ▪️6 games cancelled including four unannounced games (three were new IP), a mobile title, and Prince of Persia remake ▪️7 games have been delayed for better quality, one of which was expected before April 2026, [image]
Bluesky:
Jason Schreier / @jasonschreier: BREAKING: Ubisoft is canceling the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake and 5 other games (4 unannounced, 1 mobile). The company says it is also delaying 7 games (including an unannounced project believed to be a Black Flag remake) as part of a larger restructuring.
Stephen Totilo / @stephentotilo: Ubisoft headcount has declined by over 3,000 people since the start of a €300 million cost reduction plan. — Today they said they plan €200 million more in cuts by March 2028 [embedded post]
Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi.risky.biz: Ubisoft... the company that adopted NFTs and blockchains for their games with catastrophic results... now jumps on the AI bandwagon and follows it up with major staff and game cuts. — Guess how this is gonna end up? [embedded post]
Nick Calandra / @nickjcal: It's interesting that we haven't heard of any executive pay cuts for driving Ubisoft into the ground. — Oh wait, that's the world we live in.
Chris Franklin / @errant-signal.com: The idea that Rainbow Six or FarCry will generate a billion dollars in revenue annually as a franchise is — I mean it's an idea
Brian Shea / @brianpshea: Oof. Not unexpected, but still a gut-punch. I've been saying I'm worried about Ubisoft for a couple of years now, and this feels like dam finally breaking. I don't know that these moves will turn the company around, but this is huge news from what was once one of the powerhouse publishers. …
Stephen Totilo / @stephentotilo: Ubisoft cancels Prince of Persia Sands of Time remake — “discontinued 6 games that do not meet the new enhanced quality as well as more selective portfolio prioritization criteria at Group level. These include [PoP] remake as well as 4 unannounced titles, including 3 new IP's, and a mobile title”
| AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: |
xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has “left” the company days after appearing on a podcast last week where he claimed that xAI had been skirting regulations — Interesting timing. — Sulaiman Ghori, an engineer at Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, went on the podcast Relentless …
X: @sulaimanghori, @mrbeast, @sethcronin, and @andrewcurran_
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Moneycontrol: Sulaiman Khan Ghori exits xAI after interview triggers speculation over internal disclosures
X:
Sulaiman Khan Ghori / @sulaimanghori: I have left xAI Nothing but love to my former team and coworkers!
Seth Cronin / @sethcronin: An xAI engineer just got fired for leaking this on a podcast: They are already running AI “employees” inside the company. And human workers did not know they were collaborating with bots. Sulaiman Ghori, a technical staff member at xAI, revealed on the Relentless podcast that [image]
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a satellite communications network for enterprise, data center, and government customers, and plans to begin deployment in Q4 2027 — Jeff Bezos' space venture Blue Origin announced Wednesday it plans to deploy 5,408 satellites in space for a communications network that will take on SpaceX and Amazon.
X: @davill, @rmcentush, @sciguyspace, and @blueorigin
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Lee Chong Ming / Business Insider: Jeff Bezos's grand plan for a satellite constellation to rival SpaceX is coming together
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Blue Origin to take on Starlink with ultra-high-speed satellite network TeraWave
Jason Rainbow / SpaceNews: Blue Origin plans bespoke high-speed Starlink rival
Joey Roulette / iTnews: Bezos' Blue Origin to deploy enterprise-grade LEOsat network
Sara Donnelly / WebProNews: Blue Origin Unveils TeraWave: 6 Tbps Satellite Network Rivaling Starlink
Richard Lawler / The Verge: Blue Origin's Starlink rival TeraWave promises 6-terabit satellite internet
Jeremy Bowman / Motley Fool: Why AST SpaceMobile Stock Was Sliding Today
Alan Boyle / GeekWire: Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a global satellite network designed to handle terabits of data center traffic
Eric Berger / Ars Technica: Another Jeff Bezos company has announced plans to develop a megaconstellation
Sebastian Moss / DatacenterDynamics: Blue Origin plans thousands of TeraWave satellites, providing 6Tbps networking to data centers and enterprises
Sana Pashankar / Bloomberg: Blue Origin Unveils Satellite Service to Feed Data Center Demand
Henry Khederian / Benzinga: Blue Origin Announces TeraWave, AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) Stock Falls
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Dave Limp / @davill: What makes TeraWave different? It is purpose-built for enterprise customers. Unmatched speeds of up to 6 Tbps through a multi-orbit constellation of 5,280 LEO and 128 MEO satellites with both RF and optical links. Globally distributed customers can each access up to 144 Gbps of [image]
Ryan McEntush / @rmcentush: Terawave from Blue Origin is interesting for a few reasons. 1. they're going after enterprise customers: high bandwidth, fewer users, point-to-point and symmetric links. this is a very different play than starlink and requires a different architecture. 2. it shows they're [image]
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East, looking to raise at least $50B for OpenAI at a valuation of about $750B to $830B — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East to line up funding for a new investment round … | Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
Unsealed docs: Spotify and labels sued Anna's Archive over plans to release scraped Spotify data; a US court grants a temporary order taking down some domains — Spotify and several major record labels, including UMG, Sony, and Warner, have taken legal action against the unknown operators of Anna's Archive.More:
US District Court, Southern District of New York: Complaint — ATLANTIC RECORDING CORPORATION; ATLANTIC MUSIC GROUP LLC; BAD BOY RECORDS LLC …
Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: Here's how Spotify pulled off a legal ambush to stop that 300TB dump of stolen music
US District Court, Southern District of New York: Preliminary Injunction — ATLANTIC RECORDING CORPORATION; ATLANTIC MUSIC GROUP LLC …
Dylan Smith / Digital Music News: Major Labels, Spotify Sue Anna's Archive Over Alleged Scraping Scheme — Multiple Domain Takedowns Follow Preliminary Injunction
Rachel Scharf / Billboard: Spotify and Major Labels Sue Pirate Library for Scraping 86 Million Songs: ‘Brazen Theft’
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: The major labels are suing Spotify-scraper Anna's Archive
| The Information: |
Memo: Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI last week, will lead OpenAI's enterprise push, as part of a broader reorganization — Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI in a swirl of controversy last week, will lead the company's push …
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Stephanie Palazzolo / @steph_palazzolo: Breaking w/ @erinkwoo: Fidji Simo just announced a reorg at OpenAI: - Barret Zoph running enterprise - Brad Lightcap focusing on commercial functions - Vijaye Raji running ads With the changes, Simo wants to better align research/product/eng, she said: https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
| Bloomberg: |
BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the marketed range of $15 to $17 per share, giving it a market value of about $2.1B — BitGo Holdings Inc. and some of its backers raised $212.8 million in a US initial public offering, pricing its shares above the marketed range.More:
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: BitGo prices its IPO above range ahead of stock market debut, seeking $2B+ valuation
Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: BitGo prices IPO at $18, pitching custody growth over crypto trading swings
Sam Reynolds / Yahoo Finance: BitGo prices IPO at $18, pitching custody growth over crypto trading swings
Tanzeel Akhtar / Cryptonews: BitGo Prices IPO, Marking One of the First Crypto Listings of 2026
| Business Insider: |
Vimeo is laying off staff for the second time since September 2025, when it cut 10% of its workforce; Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for about $1.38B in November — - Vimeo is laying off staffers globally in a new round of cuts. — The job cuts arrived a few months after tech holding company Bending Spoons bought Vimeo.X:
Derek Buitenhuis / @daemon404: Reviving this account to say: Almost everyone at Vimeo was laid off yesterday, including the entire video team. If you're looking for talented engineers, there are a few on the market. Sucks to see something I built killed by private equity in a technology company skin suit.
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Dan Hon / @danhon.com: I hope Dropout TV has a plan*, because the predictable just happened after Bending Spoons bought Vimeo. — news.ycombinator.com/item?id= 4670... * For a critical supplier like Vimeo I'd normally expect something like notification on upcoming change of control + change of control clauses
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X unveils Bluesky-like “Starterpacks” to help users find accounts that match their interests, curated by X and rolling out in the coming weeks — Bluesky's “Starter Packs,” the curated lists of suggested users to follow, have proven a popular way to help people connect with others …
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Mariella Moon / Engadget: X is also launching Bluesky-like starter packs
Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph: X to roll out ‘Starterpacks’ featuring Bitcoin and crypto's top posters
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: X Adds Starter Packs to Help Users Find Relevant Creators
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Nikita Bier / @nikitabier: Over the last few months, we scoured the world for the top posters in every niche & country We've compiled them into a new tool called Starterpacks: to help new users find the best accounts—big or small—for their interests ⬇️ Reply below with a topic you're most interested in We'll be rolling out to everyone in the coming weeks. [video]
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| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Neynar, a startup focused on decentralized social media infrastructure, is acquiring Ethereum-based social media project Farcaster from R&D firm Merkle — - Decentralized social media infrastructure firm Neynar is acquiring Farcaster, the Ethereum-based protocol that was last valued at $1 billion.
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Rish / Neynar: Neynar is acquiring Farcaster
Pooja Rajkumari / TheStreet: Struggling social media platform gets acquired, founders leave
Logan Hitchcock / Decrypt: Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Going All-In on Decentralized Social Media as Farcaster, Lens Change Hands
Thales Rodrigues / The Crypto Times: Neynar Takes Over Farcaster as Original Team Steps Back
Nicholas Kitonyi / NFTgators: Ethereum Infrastructure Developer Neynar Buys Social Media Protocol Farcaster
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: Farcaster founders step back as Neynar acquires struggling crypto social app
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@0xsisyphus: This was an extremely well executed grift. With few users, no PMF and no revenue Paradigm and a16z gave the founder a $40m secondary exit, $110m more in funds, and now he's quietly leaving the company that he can no longer even bother to pretend to build Dead money everywhere
Dan Romero / @dwr: Neynar is acquiring Farcaster. Over the next few weeks, we'll transfer ownership of the protocol contracts and code repositories, the Farcaster app, and Clanker to Neynar. They will run and maintain everything going forward. Some members of the Merkle team, Varun, and I will
Karbon / @karbonbased: Raised $180m Dangle the carrot Let the proxy token run Retards running proxy token launch a broken L3 Proxy token dumps Sell equity No airdrop Rug all users gg [image]
Gordie Slater / @_proxystudio: No big takeaways from Farcaster -> Neynar acquisition apart from it being interesting economically. My questions are: 1. Did Neynar raise prior to this? 2. How much capital does Farcaster end up returning to investors? 3. What were the actual terms of the Farcaster x Clanker
Linda Xie / @ljxie: I'm really grateful to have had the opportunity to work with @dwr @varunsrin and the entire team on Farcaster. They have been extraordinary teammates to build with and learn from. It's no small feat they spent 5 years building decentralized social, not the easiest path in crypto,
Alex Masmej / @alexmasmej: I attribute this to Farcaster being too early and focused on crypto professionals at the expense of traders ("Slack" vibe instead of fun CT jokes). Hindsight 20/20, of course. I respect builders and their product discipline was frankly inspiring. Farcaster taught this industry
@hishboy: With Farcaster losing its founders, Chris Dixon's Read Write Own era is over. Crypto is for Internet Capital Markets. Period. [image]
@sxtvik: whole farcaster thing honestly feels like a slap in the face to anyone left in crypto still trying, in less than a year since raising 150m at 1b to abandon the company and tease something new is sad. in 2022, a16z prevented competing products to grow, csx was only fc clients, etc
@macromate8: recent acquisition of farcaster marks the end of an experiment called web3, and simultaneously idealism in crypto truth is crypto was always about finance. it's about tokenising stocks for 24/7 trading, automating back office staff and providing an alternative shadow system
@0xngmi: why did the 2 biggest crypto social products, farcaster and lens, leave their products at exactly the same time?
| Myles Miller / Bloomberg: |
Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation — Applecart, a marketing technology startup, raised $100 million in a minority funding round led by Blackstone Inc.'s growth equity business.| Mickey Djuric / Politico: |
A Canadian federal court overturned a 2024 order that would have shuttered TikTok Canada's business operations over national security concerns — “We welcome the decision to set aside the order to shut down TikTok Canada, and look forward to working with the Minister towards a resolution that's … More:
Sarah Rieger / BetaKit: Court allows TikTok to continue operating in Canada, for now
Alex Nino Gheciu / CityNews Toronto: Federal court sets aside TikTok Canada shutdown order
John Quintet / iPhone in Canada: TikTok Canada Saved from Shutdown as Federal Court Overturns Liberal Order
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Mickey Djuric / @mickeydjuric: The Prime Minister's Office would not say if Carney raised concerns about the popular video app when he met Chinese President Xi Jinping last week Ottawa order the company to shut down its Canadian offices in 2024 over national security concerns even though govt MPs still use it
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan publishes his annual letter, saying YouTube aims to reduce “AI slop” and has strengthened parental controls, and teases Shorts updates — The executive published his annual letter to the YouTube community Wednesday, outlining his priorities for the video platform.
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Sweta Kumari / Business Standard: YouTube Shorts may soon feature AI versions of creators you follow: Details
Sarthak Singh / Moneycontrol: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan explains how it plans to manage AI creativity and ‘slop’ in 2026
Todd Spangler / Variety: More Than 1 Million YouTube Channels Are Using AI Tools Daily — and CEO Says Platform Is Actively Working to Curb ‘AI Slop’
Kate Seamons / Newser: YouTube Outlines Its 2026 Priorities
Ivan Jenic / Neowin: YouTube promises to combat “AI slop,” as it announces AI deepfake tools to creators
Michael Gwilliam / Dexerto: YouTube CEO reveals plans to combat “AI slop” as creators rake in millions
Matt Tate / Engadget: YouTube CEO promises more AI features in 2026
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: YouTube to roll out AI to ‘experiment with music’ this year
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@updatesfromyt: In his annual letter, CEO @nealmohan outlined @YouTube's four priorities for 2026 ⬇️ Reinventing entertainment: Creators are the new stars and studios and the living room is their stage. According to @nielsen, YouTube has been #1 in streaming watchtime in the U.S. for nearly
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: Important context to keep in mind: bottom 99% of YouTube videos attract less than 10% of all views — but these videos are still more valuable than the bottom titles on a premium streamer. Helps with machine learning, can still drive incremental ad revenue, etc. [image]
Neal Mohan / @nealmohan: Going into 2026, the lines between creativity and technology are blurring, sparking a new era of innovation. This inflection point requires ambitious bets, and @youtube has the scale, community, and technological investments to lead the creative industry into the next era. Looking forward, here's what we'll focus on in 2026: 🌟Reinventing Entertainment: Creators are the new stars & studios 💛Building the best place for kids and teens 💰Powering the creator economy ✨Supercharging and safeguarding creativity Learn more about our 2026 priorities:
Kyle Russell / @kylebrussell: Gemini + YouTube together looks kind of like a generative-adversarial network
Julia Alexander / @loudmouthjulia: At the start of Dec 2025, Omdia estimates ~29 billion YouTube videos. A quarter of all YouTube videos were added between Jan and Oct 2025. Driven through Shorts, better online connection in territories like Nigeria and India. And genAI. Will surpass 30B in the early part of 2026. [image]
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Sean Downey: Give creators the keys to the studio, and they'll redefine what's possible. That's the magic of YouTube: a single spark can ignite a global culture shift in an instant. …
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@knoebel: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says he wants to reduce the Ai slop on its platform and wants more creators build sustainable business ... and he says they could do it with artificial intelligence. — www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/ dig... [image]
Laika L. Gagarin / @laikalgagarin: ["YouTube says they're actively looking to reduce the spread of ‘AI slop’ videos"] honestly, i kinda do believe it because ive been seeing dipshits upload AI videos that are 200 hours in length. 100+ GB of video, DAILY. AI is probably destroying their server storage and they dont have nearly the ad rev or anything from it to make up for it.
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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Aman Gupta / Livemint: Clone yourself: YouTube plans to let creators make Shorts using their own AI digital twin
Smruthi Nadig / Analytics India Magazine: YouTube Creators Can Soon Make Shorts With Their Own AI Likeness
Jennifer Elias / CNBC: YouTube chief says ‘managing AI slop’ is a priority for 2026
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: YouTube's CEO Outlines Key Areas of Focus for 2026
James Peckham / PCMag: YouTube Acknowledges Slop Problem, But It's Still Full Steam Ahead on AI Features
Colin Kirkland / MediaPost: YouTube To Use Creator Likeness In Shorts Videos
Dylan Horetski / Dexerto: YouTube plans to let creators make AI Shorts using their own likeness
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US Senate's crypto market structure bill is likely to be delayed by several weeks as key lawmakers shift focus to potential housing legislation — A sweeping US crypto market bill is likely to be delayed by at least several weeks as key lawmakers shift their focus … More:
Danny Park / The Block: US market structure bill faces weeks of delay as focus shifts to housing: Bloomberg
Sujha Sundararajan / Cryptonews: US Crypto Market Structure Bill Further Delayed Until Late February or March - Report
Maxwell Mutuma / Blockonomi: Senate Banking Committee Delays Crypto Market Structure Bill Due to Housing Priorities
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Crypto bill likely delayed for weeks by Banking Committee after Coinbase pulled its support
Vanshita Kanjani / The Crypto Times: Trump at Davos 2026: New Crypto Legislation Coming “Very Soon”
| Chris Miller / Barron's Online: |
A year after the DeepSeek shock following R1's release, US tech companies still lead in AI chips, model quality, and sales, with no change in investment trends — About the author: Chris Miller is the author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology.| Bloomberg: |
German exchange operator Deutsche Boerse agrees to acquire European fund distribution platform Allfunds for about $6.2B in cash and stock — Deutsche Boerse AG agreed to acquire European fund distribution platform Allfunds Group Plc for about €5.3 billion ($6.2 billion) in cash and stock.More:
Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: Deutsche Borse Group to Acquire Allfunds for $6.19 Billion
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The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs approves a bipartisan bill that calls for arms-sale style congressional oversight of advanced AI chip exports — Congress is one step closer to gaining the authority to review artificial intelligence chip sales to China, a move likely to open a rift … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Deepinder Goyal, CEO of Indian online food delivery service Zomato and its parent Eternal, steps down and will be succeeded by Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa — Deepinder Goyal, the co-founder and CEO of food delivery service Zomato and its parent Eternal, is stepping down from his role … More:
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A year after the DeepSeek shock following R1's release, US tech companies still lead in AI chips, model quality, and sales, with no change in investment trendsFind
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Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Kioxia's memory is “sold out” for 2026, prolonging a “high-end and expensive phase”
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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Meta announces ads are coming to Threads next week
Tom Fogden / B&T: Meta Sends Threads Advertising Global, Adds New Formats
Karandeep Singh Oberoi / Android Police: The ad-free Threads era ends next week
Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: Meta Announces Global Expansion of Threads Ads
David Uzondu / Neowin: Meta moves to monetize Threads with a global ads rollout
Johanna Romero / PhoneArena: Enjoy the ad-free Threads while you can because ads are officially arriving soon
Will Shanklin / Engadget: Meta is expanding Threads ads to all users globally
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Paul Pantea / @abelian_cat: Being in the UK, I still don't have the trending page or DMs. I can't even see the number of post shares. But I'm really glad I'm getting ads next week. Thanks @conno_r !
@young.mete: Have been seeing ads in my timeline for some months. They're pretty awesome even though I have a lot of more aggressive personalization turned off (considering turning it on and going full admaxxing here). Just goes to show how much leverage you have when you already have a scaled ads machine you can plug into any service. In contrast, never ever seen a relevant ad on X
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G. S. Vasan / Digit: Sony LinkBuds Clip with open-ear clip design, 37-hour battery and AI call clarity launch globally: Price and specs
Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada: Sony Debuts ‘LinkBuds’ Clip-On Earbuds
Simon Cohen / Mashable: Sony's new LinkBuds Clip open earbuds embrace pastel colors and a clip style design
Alexander Maxham / Android Headlines: Sony Jumps on the Clip-Style Earbud Bandwagon With the LinkBuds Clip
Jada Jones / ZDNET: The future of Sony's audio products looks bright if its 2026 roadmap follows this lead
David Carnoy / CNET: I Like Sony's New LinkBuds Clip Earbuds, but They're Pricey
Brady Snyder / Android Central: I tried Sony's new LinkBuds Clip, and they're open earbuds for the masses
Kevin Lee / The Shortcut: Sony LinkBuds Clip are the most comfortable wireless open earbuds I've tried
Max Freeman-Mills / T3: I think Sony's new “socially friendly” earbuds prove something pretty important about what people want
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@sonyelectronics: Unboxing the brand new LinkBuds Clip, our brand-new, open earbuds. With an effortless fit, crisp sound, and an open‑ear experience, these are built to keep you immersed in the moment. Get a pair today: https://electronics.sony.com/ ... [video]
Chris Welch / @chriswelch: Sony is joining the clip-on earbuds trend with the new $230 LinkBuds Clip. Up to 9hrs battery life (37hrs with case) IPX4 water resistance Voice Boost mode for audiobooks/podcasts Sound Leakage Reduction to prevent others nearby from hearing your music https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
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Amit Chowdhry / Pulse 2.0: AheadComputing Raises Additional $30 Million Seed2 Round To Reimagine CPU Architecture
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Manisha Priyadarshini / Digital Trends: You can now turn PDFs into podcasts and slides with Adobe's new AI feature
Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Adobe Acrobat can now generate podcasts from your PDFs, as Express adds more AI features
Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada: Adobe Announces New AI Tools for Acrobat
Laurent Giret / Thurrott: Adobe Acrobat Can Now Turn PDFs Into Podcasts and Presentations
Mahnoor Faisal / XDA Developers: Adobe's NotebookLM competitor just got a massive upgrade
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X: @ns123abc, @leopoldfeldman, @wef, @philipjohnston, @wallstengine, @wef, @jackvdutton, and @mattzeitlin. Forums: r/artificial
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Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: AI rollout is the largest infrastructure buildout in human history | Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: What Bubble? Nvidia CEO Says AI Needs Trillions More in Investments
O'Ryan Johnson / The Register: Future jobs in AI will come with a hardhat and boots, tech bigshots argue
Jose Antonio Lanz / Yahoo Finance: What Bubble? Nvidia CEO Says AI Needs Trillions More in Investments
Tae Kim / Barron's Online: In Davos, Tech Execs Sound More Bullish Than Ever. Four Things We Learned About AI.
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI robotics is a ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity for Europe
Samra Ahmed / Forbes Middle East: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says Trillions More Needed As AI Triggers ‘Largest Infrastructure Buildout In History’
Fortune: Jensen Huang says AI bubble fears are dwarfed by ‘the largest infrastructure buildout in human history’
Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Nvidia's Jensen Huang says it's a good time to be a plumber — and not just because it's an AI-proof job
Nathan Bomey / Axios: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Drug research will be transformed
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Nik / @ns123abc: Jensen Huang this morning: “Claude is incredible. Anthropic made a huge leap in coding and reasoning. Nvidia uses it all over. Every software company needs to use it.” claude code cooked [video]
J. Leopold Feldman / @leopoldfeldman: $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang says GPUs are effectively sold out across the cloud with availability so tight that even renting older-generation chips has become difficult. [video]
@wef: @nvidia “For many people who don't have a computer science degree, all of you can be programmers now.” Jensen Huang (@NVIDIA) is optimistic for AI's impact on jobs, particularly in emerging markets. #WEF26 [video]
Philip Johnston / @philipjohnston: Two takeaways from Jensen Huang at @Davos: 1. “We need more energy!” - @Starcloud_ can help 🚀 2. Jensen's parents own the most expensive 30 year old Mercedes in the world 😅 [video]
@wallstengine: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: 'My only regret was selling $NVDA stock when the market cap was $300M to buy my parents a Mercedes S-Class. It's the most expensive car in the world now.' 😂 [video]
@wef: Conversation with Jensen Huang, President and CEO of @NVIDIA and Laurence Fink (@BlackRock) #WEF26 https://x.com/...
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Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews: OpenEvidence scores $250M, doubles valuation to $12B
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BBC: BBC Group and YouTube announce new strategic partnership to deliver more for audiences and support Creators across the UK
Drew Gillis / The A.V. Club: BBC to begin producing content directly for YouTube
Chris Martin / Tech Advisor: The next BBC hit show might be on YouTube... for free
Julian Clover / Broadband TV News: Samsung TV Plus tops 100m monthly active users
Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter: BBC Strikes Landmark Deal to Produce Original Content for YouTube
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Ayushi Jain / Digit: Meta's new Superintelligence Labs team delivers its first AI models internally, CTO reveals
Pallavi Chakravorty / Analytics India Magazine: Meta's New AI Lab Delivers First Internal Models, CTO Reveals
Alex Heath / Sources: Why Meta did its big metaverse layoffs
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Reid Jackson / @reidjjackson: OpenAI charging advertisers on a CPM basis vs. CPC certainly lends credence to the argument they want ads to be more like Instagram than Google.
Simon Smith / @_simonsmith: Charging per ad view is interesting for a few reasons, one of which being that Altman and Ive said they're trying to get people off screens with OpenAI's hardware. So not sure a CPM model will work with those future form factors.
Trace Cohen / @trace_cohen: Will 100% sell out. Who ever pays for this will get media coverage - earned + paid.
Catherine Perloff / @catherineperlo1: Scoop: OpenAi is charging on a cost per view basis (not cost per click like google) for ads and asking for under $1 million spend commitments over a several week trial period. More details on OpenAi's pitch to advertisers here W/@srimuppidi https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
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