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Sources: Alphabet plans a new complex in Bengaluru, India, which can accommodate up to 20K extra staff, amid US visa restrictions and proposed H-1B fee hikes (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: Alphabet plans a new complex in Bengaluru, India, which can ac…
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AI agent social network Moltbook grew from 30K+ users on January 30 to 1.5M+ on February 2; researchers say some of the viral posts were likely human-scripted (Hayden Field/The Verge)
Hayden Field / The Verge : AI agent social network Moltbook grew from 30K+ users on…
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Meta gives $65M to two super PACs to elect California state candidates, regardless of party, whom it views as supportive of the AI and tech industry (Christine Mui/Politico)
Christine Mui / Politico : Meta gives $65M to two super PACs to elect California st…
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OpenText is selling its analytics business Vertica to Rocket Software for $150M to reduce its outstanding debt, its second business unit sale within five months (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)
Alex Riehl / BetaKit : OpenText is selling its analytics business Vertica to Rocket…
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Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before it banned them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review : Researchers detail how AI tools for g…
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India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers …
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Sources: Apple execs question if it has the ingredients to win in AI-first era, new MacBook Pros are about to launch, Apple considers clamshell foldable iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple execs question if it has the ingredients t…
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Sources: Waymo nears a $16B round, valuing it at $110B; Alphabet will contribute $12B+, with a16z, Dragoneer, Mubadala, Sequoia, and DST Global participating (Financial Times)
Financial Times : Sources: Waymo nears a $16B round, valuing it at $110B; Alphabet …
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Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past week, and down ~37% since its ATH in Oct. 2025; Ethereum dropped ~18% in the past week (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past…
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How the music industry is split over AI; some labels signed licensing deals for AI that mirror revenue splits they use with YouTube for user-generated content (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times : How the music industry is split over AI; some lab…
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Filing: SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers (Reuters)
Reuters : Filing: SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space…
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Gurman: internal development at Apple "runs on Anthropic at this point", Apple wanted to rebuild Siri around Claude, but Anthropic's terms were too steep (@tbpn)
@tbpn : Gurman: internal development at Apple “runs on Anthropic at this point”, App…
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Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users rose 60% in 2025 to 41.2M, including AT Protocol accounts; moderation reports from users grew 54% to 9.97M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users ro…
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Appfigures: Sora's app downloads dropped 32% month-over-month in December and 45% in January to 1.2M; consumer spending on the app fell 32% MoM as of January (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Appfigures: Sora's app downloads dropped 32% month-o…
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Apple acquires Q.ai, whose tech can analyze facial expressions and could enable non-verbal discussions with AI assistants; sources: the deal values Q.ai at ~$2B (Financial Times)
Financial Times : Apple acquires Q.ai, whose tech can analyze facial expressions an…
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