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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)

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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...

An investor group plans to build an AI data center in South Korea that uses up to 3 gigawatts of power, starting with a $10B investment that could grow to $35B (Wall Street Journal)

An investor group plans to build an AI data center in S...

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Wall Street Journal: An investor group plans to build an AI data center in Sou...

Arkham: FTX users with claims below $50K have started to receive funds via Kraken and BitGo, expected to total $1.2B; users with $50K+ claims will be paid in Q2 (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk)

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Meta says LlamaCon, its first developer conference dedicated to generative AI, will take place on April 29, and Meta Connect will be held on September 17 and 18 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Acer CEO Jason Chen says the company will "probably" raise US laptop prices by 10% "by default" from March 2024 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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Tel Aviv- and New York-based Blockaid, which offers crypto security tools, raised a $50M Series B led by Ribbit and says it stopped 71M attacks in 2024 (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Tel Aviv- and New York-based Blockaid, which offers cry...

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Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv- and New York-based Blockaid, which offe...

The EU says WhatsApp now faces the DSA's VLOP rules after Meta said on February 14 that Channels had ~46.8M MAUs in the EU in H2 2024, above the 45M threshold (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

The EU says WhatsApp now faces the DSA's VLOP rules aft...

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Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: The EU says WhatsApp now faces the DSA's VLOP rul...

Hightouch, which makes AI marketing, sales, and customer service tools, raised an $80M Series C led by Sapphire at a $1.2B valuation, up from $615M in July 2023 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Hightouch, which makes AI marketing, sales, and custome...

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Hightouch, which makes AI marketing, sales, and cu...

xAI says Grok-3 outperforms Gemini-2 Pro, DeepSeek-V3, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and GPT-4o in some benchmarks; Musk says xAI's mission is to "understand the universe" (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)

xAI says Grok-3 outperforms Gemini-2 Pro, DeepSeek-V3, ...

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Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: xAI says Grok-3 outperforms Gemini-2 Pro, DeepS...

OnePlus unveils the $330 Watch 3, offering a rotating crown, five-day battery life, Wear OS 5, a new GPS antenna, and new health features, shipping February 25 (Victoria Song/The Verge)

OnePlus unveils the $330 Watch 3, offering a rotating c...

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Victoria Song / The Verge: OnePlus unveils the $330 Watch 3, offering a rotati...

Huawei launches Mate XT, the industry's first tri-foldable, globally for €3,499, after its China launch in September 2024; the Mate XT has a 10.2-inch display (Eileen Ng/Associated Press)

Huawei launches Mate XT, the industry's first tri-folda...

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Eileen Ng / Associated Press: Huawei launches Mate XT, the industry's first tr...

Grok-3 hands-on: 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)

Grok-3 hands-on: its thinking capability feels state of...

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Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: Grok-3 hands-on: its thinking capability feels sta...

xAI launches Grok-3 beta and Grok-3 mini, its latest AI models with reasoning, trained on 200K GPUs, or "10x" more compute than Grok-2, for X Premium+ users (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

xAI launches Grok-3 beta and Grok-3 mini, its latest AI...

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: xAI launches Grok-3 beta and Grok-3 mini, its lates...

X raises its Premium+ subscription to $40 per month, or $395 per year, after raising it to $22 per month in December 2024, following Grok-3's launch (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

X raises its Premium+ subscription to $40 per month, or...

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Grok3 hands-on: 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 hands-on: its thinking capability feels state of ...

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Andrej Karpathy / @karpathy: Grok3 hands-on: its thinking capability feels stat...

A look at Apple's quiet pivot to India, where Foxconn now makes the iPhone 16 Pro; sources say China views Apple's growing business in India with suspicion (Financial Times)

A look at Apple's quiet pivot to India, where Foxconn n...

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Financial Times: A look at Apple's quiet pivot to India, where Foxconn now make...

Cambridge, UK-based Luminance, which uses AI to draft and review legal documents, raised a $75M Series C led by Point72, after a $40M Series B in April 2024 (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

Cambridge, UK-based Luminance, which uses AI to draft a...

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X raises its Premium+ subscription to $40 per month, or $395 per year, after raising it to $22 per month in December 2024, following Grok3's launch (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

X raises its Premium+ subscription to $40 per month, or...

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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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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 ...

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