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Some US ByteDance investors argue that they don't need US TikTok for success, as China, which accounts for 80% of ByteDance's revenue, is the real driving force (Bloomberg)

Some US ByteDance investors argue that they don't need ...

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Bloomberg: Some US ByteDance investors argue that they don't need US TikTok fo...

Sources: Meta has led the charge against the EU's AI Act this year, as Big Tech, with backing from President Trump, grows bolder in challenging EU regulations (Financial Times)

Sources: Meta has led the charge against the EU's AI Ac...

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Financial Times: Sources: Meta has led the charge against the EU's AI Act this...

Sources: X is in talks to raise funds at a $44B valuation, matching the price Elon Musk paid for Twitter in 2022 (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)

Sources: X is in talks to raise funds at a $44B valuati...

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Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Sources: X is in talks to raise funds at a $44B valuat...

Solana has lost ~25% of its market value, or ~$20B, since February 14 after Argentine President Javier Milei faced scrutiny for promoting Solana memecoin Libra (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Solana has lost ~25% of its market value, or ~$20B, sin...

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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Solana has lost ~25% of its market value, or ~$20B, s...

Taiwan's ASE Technology, the world's largest chip packaging and testing firm, opens a new plant in Penang, Malaysia, as part of its biggest overseas expansion (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Taiwan's ASE Technology, the world's largest chip packa...

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Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: Taiwan's ASE Technology, the world's largest ch...

President Trump said tariffs on semiconductors would start at "25% or higher" and that he planned to provide some time for chip makers to set up US factories (Reuters)

President Trump said tariffs on semiconductors would st...

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Reuters: President Trump said tariffs on semiconductors would start at “25% or...

OpenAI researchers find real-world freelance software engineering work remains challenging for frontier language models in the SWE-Lancer benchmark (Emilia David/VentureBeat)

OpenAI researchers find real-world freelance software e...

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Emilia David / VentureBeat: OpenAI researchers find real-world freelance softw...

Sources: Niantic is in talks to sell its games unit to Saudi Arabia-controlled Scopely for ~$3.5B; the deal would include Pokémon Go and other mobile games (Bloomberg)

Sources: Niantic is in talks to sell its games unit to ...

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Bloomberg: Sources: Niantic is in talks to sell its games unit to Saudi Arabia...

Asus ROG Flow Z13 review: the ~$2,300 convertible tablet's integrated GPU in its AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip offers performance comparable to a GeForce RTX 4060 (Kevin Purdy/Ars Technica)

Asus ROG Flow Z13 review: the ~$2,300 convertible table...

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Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: Asus ROG Flow Z13 review: the ~$2,300 convertible ...

Humane says Ai Pin's online features will stop working on February 28, when all customer data will be deleted, and it will refund some customers (Aaron Souppouris/Engadget)

Humane says Ai Pin's online features will stop working ...

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Aaron Souppouris / Engadget: Humane says Ai Pin's online features will stop wo...

Google Play Books for iOS will now let users complete their e-book or audiobook purchase on the Google Play website, under Apple's "reader apps" exception (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Google Play Books for iOS will now let users complete t...

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Google Play Books for iOS will now let users complet...

Protector, an iOS app that offers on-demand personal security, including armed agents, debuts in NYC and LA; adviser Nikita Bier calls it "Uber with guns" (José Adorno/BGR)

Protector, an iOS app that offers on-demand personal se...

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José Adorno / BGR: Protector, an iOS app that offers on-demand personal securi...

HP will acquire assets from Humane for $116M; Humane's Ai Pin business will be wound down, and Humane's team, including its founders, will join HP (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

HP will acquire assets from Humane for $116M; Humane's ...

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Brody Ford / Bloomberg: HP will acquire assets from Humane for $116M; Humane's...

VFX company DNEG's AI unit Brahma acquires Metaphysic, a maker of AI tools for de-aging and more; Abu Dhabi's UASG and DNEG will invest another $25M into Brahma (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)

VFX company DNEG's AI unit Brahma acquires Metaphysic, ...

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Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter: VFX company DNEG's AI unit Brahma acqu...

HP will acquire assets from Humane for $116M; Humane's Ai pin business will be wound down, and Humane's team, including its founders, will join HP (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

HP will acquire assets from Humane for $116M; Humane's ...

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Brody Ford / Bloomberg: HP will acquire assets from Humane for $116M; Humane's...

Sources: Silver Lake is in exclusive talks to acquire a majority stake in Intel's Altera unit (Bloomberg)

Sources: Silver Lake is in exclusive talks to acquire a...

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Bloomberg: Sources: Silver Lake is in exclusive talks to acquire a majority st...

Intel shares close up 16.1% following a February 15 report that both Broadcom and TSMC are potentially weighing deals that could break the chipmaker in two (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Intel shares close up 16.1% following a February 15 rep...

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Samantha Subin / CNBC: Intel shares close up 16.1% following a February 15 rep...

Fiverr unveils AI tools, including the Personal AI Creation Model, which lets gig workers configure an AI model trained on their work and set prices to use it (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Fiverr unveils AI tools, including the Personal AI Crea...

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Fiverr unveils AI tools, including the Personal AI ...

Bumble reports Q4 revenue down 4.4% YoY to $261.6M, Bumble app paying users up 5% to 2.8M, and forecasts Q1 revenue below estimates; BMBL drops 13%+ after hours (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)

Bumble reports Q4 revenue down 4.4% YoY to $261.6M, Bum...

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Kritika Lamba / Reuters: Bumble reports Q4 revenue down 4.4% YoY to $261.6M, B...

Acer CEO Jason Chen says the company will "probably" raise US laptop prices by 10% "by default" from March 2025 due to Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

Acer CEO Jason Chen says the company will "probably" ra...

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James Titcomb / Telegraph: Acer CEO Jason Chen says the company will “probably”...

Amazon discontinues Inspire, which was launched in December 2022 as a TikTok-style feed in its app for discovering products (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Amazon discontinues Inspire, which was launched in Dece...

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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Amazon discontinues Inspire, which was launched...

Sources describe disputes at Google between Google Labs and Workspace before NotebookLM's launch and between Google Cloud and DeepMind over the pace of launches (Erin Woo/The Information)

Sources describe disputes at Google between Google Labs...

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Erin Woo / The Information: Sources describe disputes at Google between Google...

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announces Thinking Machines Lab, a new AI startup that she's leading, with Barret Zoph as CTO and John Schulman as chief scientist (Ina Fried/Axios)

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announces Thinking Machin...

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Ina Fried / Axios: Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati announces Thinking Machines L...

Starting Feb. 19, Meta will store Facebook Live broadcasts for 30 days instead of storing them indefinitely and will remove videos currently older than 30 days (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Starting Feb. 19, Meta will store Facebook Live broadca...

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Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Starting Feb. 19, Meta will store Facebook Live broa...

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