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- Adobe reversed its plans to discontinue Animate after creators expressed frustration, stating it won't get new features but will remain available "indefinitely" (Jay Peters/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Filing: OpenAI accuses xAI of systematically destroying evidence in its antitrust case by directing employees to use auto-deleting "ephemeral messaging tools" (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Software and data stocks plunge over fears that new developments in AI will supplant software; ADBE closed down 7.31%, CRM 6.85%, and Thomson Reuters 15.83% (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Alaffia Health, which provides AI tools for health plan claims operations, raised a $55M Series B led by Transformation Capital (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- KKR and Singtel agree to acquire the remaining 82% stake in data center operator STT GDC for ~$5.1B, giving the company an enterprise value of ~$10.86B (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Source: Anthropic plans an employee tender offer at a valuation of at least $350B, the same valuation discussed in the company's ongoing $20B fundraising (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Sources: US-based Arcee AI is pitching investors on a $200M+ funding round valuing it at over $1B, as it plans to train an open-weight model with 1T+ parameters (Anna Tong/Forbes) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Salesforce's Tableau chief, Ryan Aytay, leaves after 19 years at the company, just two months after Slack CEO Denise Dresser left for OpenAI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- On an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su says Microsoft's next-gen Xbox "is progressing well to support a launch in 2027" and will feature an AMD semi-custom SoC (Tom Warren/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Sources: Nvidia is nearing a deal to invest $20B in OpenAI as part of OpenAI's $100B funding round (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- OpenAI names Dylan Scandinaro, who worked on AGI safety at Anthropic, as the company's head of preparedness (Alicia Tang/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- US v. Google: the DOJ and a group of states will appeal the September 2025 ruling in the Search antitrust case in which Google dodged a forced sale of Chrome (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Super Micro reports Q2 net sales up 123% to $12.7B, vs. $10.43B est., and expects Q3 net sales above estimates; SMCI jumps 5%+ after hours (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- EA reports Q3 net bookings up 38% YoY to $3.05B, vs. $2.86B est., driven by strong sales of Battlefield 6, and net income of $88M, down from $293M a year ago (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Take-Two reports Q3 net bookings up 28% YoY to $1.76B, vs. $1.58B, net revenue up 25% to $1.7B, and raises its annual bookings forecast; TTWO up 5%+ after hours (Max Knoblauch/Sherwood News) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Match reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to $878M, vs. $871M est., net income up 32% YoY to $210M, paying users down 5% to 13.8M; MTCH jumps 7%+ after hours (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- AMD reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $10.3B, Data Center revenue up 39% to $5.4B, forecasts Q1 revenue below the highest projections; AMD drops 5%+ after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Sources: Texas Instruments is in advanced talks to buy chip designer Silicon Laboratories for ~$7B, a premium to Silicon Labs' market cap of $4.4B as of Tuesday (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Microsoft launches the Publisher Content Marketplace in partnership with Condé Nast, Hearst, AP, and others, to let publishers license content to AI companies (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Bitcoin dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest price since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes amid mounting geopolitical concerns (Liz Napolitano/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Skyryse, which plans to integrate its flight automation OS, SkyOS, in Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft, raised a $300M+ Series C at a $1.15B valuation (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- At the Cisco AI Summit, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company plans to build GPUs and has already hired a chief GPU architect (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Ares Interactive, which makes cross-platform, free-to-play games with plans for a new baseball game in 2026, raised a $70M Series A led by General Catalyst (Craig Chapple/PocketGamer.biz) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Apple brings agentic coding to Xcode 26.3, allowing developers to use Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, and integrates support for MCP (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Tomorrow.io raised $175M at a $1B+ valuation to deploy an AI-driven LEO satellite network for weather forecasting, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (Meir Orbach/CTech) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- 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) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Apptopia: ChatGPT's US market share fell from 69.1% to 45.3% between Jan. 2025 and Jan. 2026; Gemini rose from 14.7% to 25.1%, Grok rose from 1.6% to 15.2% (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Lotus, which uses AI to offer free, 24/7 primary care in 50 languages, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins, taking its total funding to $41M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- AI agent social network Moltbook grew from 30,000 users on January 30 to 1.5M+ on February 2; researchers say many viral posts were likely scripted by humans (Hayden Field/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Walmart hits a $1T market cap in intraday trading after a stock surge fueled in part by investor enthusiasm for its e-commerce growth and AI investments (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- LexisNexis-owner Relx, Reuters-owner Thomson Reuters, and other stocks fell 10%+ after Anthropic launched Claude Cowork tools that automate legal work (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Overland AI, which develops off-road robots and autonomous vehicles for military purposes, raised $100M led by 8VC, bringing its total funding to $142M (Jen Judson/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Grindr is testing a subscription tier called Edge with AI-powered personalized matches and more, with prices ranging from $80 to $200 a week (Henry Chandonnet/Business Insider) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Crypto.com launches prediction market platform OG ahead of the Super Bowl, following 40-fold WoW growth in its event contracts business over the last six months (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Y Combinator says founders can opt to receive their customary allotment, typically about $500K, in the Circle-issued USDC, starting with the Spring 2026 cohort (Ben Weiss/Fortune) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Gruve, which taps unused power and space from US data center providers for AI inference, raised a $50M Series A extension, bringing total funding to $87.5M (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- A profile of Sam Altman, who says "we basically have built AGI, or very close to it" before dialing it back later and calling it "a spiritual statement" (Richard Nieva/Forbes) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Epic reports third-party game revenue on the Epic Games Store up 57% YoY in 2025 to $400M, total spend up 6% to $1.16B, and total player hours down 14% to 6.65B (Jon Hicks/GamesIndustry.biz) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Orion, which has developed an AI platform to replace data loss prevention tools, raised a $32M Series A led by Norwest, bringing its total funding to $38M (Meir Orbach/CTech) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Sources: after HP CEO Enrique Lores left to become PayPal CEO, HP was blindsided and rushed to launch a CEO search process; Lores had been at HP since 1989 (Rohan Goswami/Semafor) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- The UK ICO launches a new investigation into X and xAI over "serious concerns" about Grok's data use and "its potential to produce harmful sexualized" content (Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Disney names Josh D'Amaro, head of its theme parks and consumer products division, as CEO, replacing Bob Iger; D'Amaro joined Disney in 1998 (Variety) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil Luffu, a self-funded startup developing an AI-powered "family care system", currently in private testing (Ina Fried/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- PayPal names HP CEO Enrique Lores as CEO, replacing Alex Chriss on March 1, and reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $8.7B, missing est.; PYPL falls 15% pre-market (Paige Smith/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- A profile of Brazilian neobank Nubank, which aims to enter the US market within 18 months, growing its 120M+ users; analysts expect $2.9B in 2025 net income (Michael Pooler/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Uber rolls out its service in the Chinese gambling hub of Macau, its first new entry to an Asian market for years; Uber sold its China business to Didi in 2016 (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Sources: OpenAI is prioritizing ChatGPT over long-term research, prompting senior staff departures; Sora and DALL-E teams felt neglected and under resourced (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Paris prosecutors say they raided X's French offices with assistance from Europol; Elon Musk and ex-CEO Linda Yaccarino have been summoned to April hearings (BBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Q&A with Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen on Docusign's workforce growing to 7,000 staffers, its Intelligent Agreement Management system, AI hallucinations, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
- Nintendo says the Switch 1 sold 155.37M units as of December 31, 2025 since its 2017 launch, topping the DS at 154.02M, becoming its best-selling console ever (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink