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Baidu reports Q4 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$4.7B, above $4.6B est., and a ~$717M net income, above ~$540M est., as its search and AI businesses face competition (Bloomberg)

Baidu reports Q4 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$4.7B, above $...

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Bloomberg: Baidu reports Q4 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$4.7B, above $4.6B est., a...

An interview with Shuhei Yoshida, who led PlayStation Studios from 2008-2019 and left Sony on January 15, on his 31 years at PlayStation, early days, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

An interview with Shuhei Yoshida, who led PlayStation S...

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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: An interview with Shuhei Yoshida, who led PlaySt...

Source: Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence is raising $1B+ at a $30B+ valuation led by Greenoaks Capital, which plans to invest $500M (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

Source: Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence...

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Kate Clark / Bloomberg: Source: Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligenc...

Sources: Sam Altman and OpenAI's board weigh governance changes, including special voting rights for its nonprofit board, to deter hostile bids like Musk's (Financial Times)

Sources: Sam Altman and OpenAI's board weigh governance...

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Financial Times: Sources: Sam Altman and OpenAI's board weigh governance change...

Grok3 review: its thinking capability feels state of the art and rivals OpenAI's o1 pro models, DeepSearch offers a blend of search and reasoning, and more (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)

Grok3 review: its thinking capability feels state of th...

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Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: Grok3 review: its thinking capability feels state ...

xAI launches Grok3 beta and Grok3 mini, its latest AI models with reasoning capabilities, trained on "10x" more compute than Grok2, for X Premium+ subscribers (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

xAI launches Grok3 beta and Grok3 mini, its latest AI m...

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: xAI launches Grok3 beta and Grok3 mini, its latest ...

xAI unveils DeepSearch, a reasoning chatbot that explains its thought process for queries and is capable of doing research, brainstorming, and data analysis (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)

xAI unveils DeepSearch, a reasoning chatbot that explai...

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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: xAI unveils DeepSearch, a reasoning chatbot that expl...

An interview with Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia on building the "next Nextdoor", not licensing data to AI firms for now, his relationship with Bill Gurley, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

An interview with Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia on building ...

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Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: An interview with Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia on buil...

How militaries and startups like North.io use AI to analyze data and deploy autonomous underwater vehicles to safeguard deep-sea pipelines and cables (William Boston/Wall Street Journal)

How militaries and startups like North.io use AI to ana...

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William Boston / Wall Street Journal: How militaries and startups like North.i...

Analysis of credit and debit card data: observed sales in the US grew 153% YoY for TikTok Shop during January 2025, compared with 26% for Shein and 28% for Temu (Bloomberg)

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Bloomberg: Analysis of credit and debit card data: observed sales in the US gr...

An analysis of credit and debit card data finds that TikTok Shop beat Shein and Temu in US sales in January 2025, growing 153% to Shein's 26% and Temu's 28% (Bloomberg)

An analysis of credit and debit card data finds that Ti...

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Bloomberg: An analysis of credit and debit card data finds that TikTok Shop be...

Sources: Wall Street banks led by Morgan Stanley have offloaded almost all the $12.5B in loans that Elon Musk used to buy Twitter, and now hold $1B+ in X debt (Financial Times)

Sources: Wall Street banks led by Morgan Stanley have o...

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Financial Times: Sources: Wall Street banks led by Morgan Stanley have offload...

Bain Capital says it will not launch a tender offer for Fuji Soft, after KKR raised its offer earlier in February for the Japanese IT company, valued at $4B+ (Reuters)

Bain Capital says it will not launch a tender offer for...

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Reuters: Bain Capital says it will not launch a tender offer for Fuji Soft, af...

Dream, which offers cybersecurity tools to governments and critical infrastructure firms, raised $100M led by Bain at a $1.1B valuation, up from ~$190M in 2023 (Gillian Tan/Bloomberg)

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Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: Dream, which offers cybersecurity tools to government...

Sources: Tesla is bracing for a delay in China approving its FSD, despite an earlier sign it would come in Q2, as China weighs using it in US trade negotiations (Financial Times)

Sources: Tesla is bracing for a delay in China approvin...

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Financial Times: Sources: Tesla is bracing for a delay in China approving its ...

An interview with Nadia Odunayo on building Goodreads alternative The StoryGraph, remaining bootstrapped, reaching 3.8M active users, not allowing DMs, and more (David Barnett/The Guardian)

An interview with Nadia Odunayo on building Goodreads a...

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David Barnett / The Guardian: An interview with Nadia Odunayo on building Good...

Mistral debuts Mistral Saba, a 24B-parameter custom-trained model for Arabic language and culture, via its API; Saba bests Mistral Small 3 for Arabic content (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Mistral debuts Mistral Saba, a 24B-parameter custom-tra...

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Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Mistral debuts Mistral Saba, a 24B-parameter custo...

New junior developers are reliant on Copilot, Claude, and other AI tools, meaning foundational coding knowledge is missing, potentially creating future problems (Namanyay Goel/N's Blog)

New junior developers are reliant on Copilot, Claude, a...

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Namanyay Goel / N's Blog: New junior developers are reliant on Copilot, Claude...

President Xi meets Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, and others, signaling Beijing's support for the long-marginalized private sector (Bloomberg)

President Xi meets Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, Huawei f...

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Bloomberg: President Xi meets Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, Huawei founder Ren Z...

Source: Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence is raising $1B+ led by Greenoaks Capital Partners, which plans to invest $500M, at a valuation of $30B+ (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

Source: Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence...

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Kate Clark / Bloomberg: Source: Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligenc...

Bain Capital says it will not launch a tender offer for Fuji Soft, after KKR raised its offer earlier this month for the Japanese IT company, valued at over $4B (Reuters)

Bain Capital says it will not launch a tender offer for...

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Reuters: Bain Capital says it will not launch a tender offer for Fuji Soft, af...

X challenges a German court ordering it to share metrics such as likes and shares with researchers before the February 23 election, in a test of the EU's DSA (Politico)

X challenges a German court ordering it to share metric...

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Politico: X challenges a German court ordering it to share metrics such as like...

Chase plans to stop users making Zelle payments deemed "as originating from contact through social media"; the CFPB had claimed Zelle lacked adequate safeguards (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Chase plans to stop users making Zelle payments deemed ...

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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Chase plans to stop users making Zelle payme...

X shows error messages when trying to share Signal's Si...

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Matt Binder / disruptionist: X shows error messages when trying to share Signa...

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