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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...

Mistral releases Mistral Saba, a 24B-parameter custom-trained model focused on Arabic language and culture, via its API; Saba outperforms Mistral Small 3 (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Mistral releases Mistral Saba, a 24B-parameter custom-t...

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Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Mistral releases Mistral Saba, a 24B-parameter cus...

Sources: Tesla is bracing for a delay in Chinese approval for FSD, despite an earlier sign it would come in Q2; China is weighing using it in US negotiations (Financial Times)

Sources: Tesla is bracing for a delay in Chinese approv...

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Financial Times: Sources: Tesla is bracing for a delay in Chinese approval for...

X appears to be blocking Signal's "Signal.me" links in ...

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Matt Binder / disruptionist: X appears to be blocking Signal's “Signal.me” lin...

An analysis of credit and debit card data shows TikTok Shop passed 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 shows TikTok ...

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Bloomberg: An analysis of credit and debit card data shows TikTok Shop passed ...

Sources: Wall Street banks led by Morgan Stanley have offloaded almost all of Elon Musk's $12.5B in loans 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...

New junior developers are reliant on Copilot, Claude, and other AI tools, meaning foundational coding knowledge is now missing, creating problems down the road (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...

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

Chinese President Xi meets with Alibaba co-founder Jack...

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Bloomberg: Chinese President Xi meets with Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, Huawei ...

Match Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth says Match is using AI in its apps, like Tinder, to detect men's "off-color" messages and drive "behavioral change" (Financial Times)

Match Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth says Match is ...

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Financial Times: Match Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth says Match is using ...

Tencent is testing using DeepSeek for search in its messaging app Weixin, while Baidu plans to fully connect its search engine to DeepSeek and its Ernie LLM (Reuters)

Tencent is testing using DeepSeek for search in its mes...

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Reuters: Tencent is testing using DeepSeek for search in its messaging app Wei...

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

Documents: the NYT greenlights using select internal and external AI tools for editorial and product staff, including from OpenAI, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft (Max Tani/Semafor)

Documents: the NYT greenlights using select internal an...

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Max Tani / Semafor: Documents: the NYT greenlights using select internal and e...

A look at "sim racing", Formula One world champion Max Verstappen's passion for the competitive esport, and his efforts to get sim drivers into physical racing (Madeline Coleman/New York Times)

A look at "sim racing", Formula One world champion Max ...

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Madeline Coleman / New York Times: A look at “sim racing”, Formula One world c...

A look at the OpenEuroLLM project, a partnership among 20 EU organizations to develop open-source LLMs that support all EU languages, with a budget of €37.4M (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

A look at the OpenEuroLLM project, a partnership among ...

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Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: A look at the OpenEuroLLM project, a partnership amo...

A look at changes in the UK's CMA after its chair was forced to resign and the agency tries to reconcile its enhanced powers with government's pro-growth focus (Financial Times)

A look at changes in the UK's CMA after its chair was f...

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Financial Times: A look at changes in the UK's CMA after its chair was forced ...

A look at the changes in UK's CMA after its chair was forced to resign and the agency tries to reconcile its enhanced powers with government's pro-growth focus (Financial Times)

A look at the changes in UK's CMA after its chair was f...

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Financial Times: A look at the changes in UK's CMA after its chair was forced ...

South Korea's data protection authority says DeepSeek app downloads have been suspended in the country after DeepSeek failed to follow its personal data rules (Reuters)

South Korea's data protection authority says DeepSeek a...

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Reuters: South Korea's data protection authority says DeepSeek app downloads h...

Some Bolivians, frustrated with spotty internet from a China-built satellite, are smuggling in Starlink kits despite Bolivia banning the service in August 2024 (William Wroblewski/Rest of World)

Some Bolivians, frustrated with spotty internet from a ...

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William Wroblewski / Rest of World: Some Bolivians, frustrated with spotty int...

A new autopsy report finds former OpenAI employee Suchir Balaji's death was a suicide, countering his family's suspicions, which had fueled speculation online (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

A new autopsy report finds former OpenAI employee Suchi...

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Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: A new autopsy report finds former OpenAI employee ...

Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi about lessons from Expedia, moats, getting out of the self-driving market, Uber becoming an aggregator, Uber Eats, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi about lessons from ...

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Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi about lessons f...

Tencent is testing using DeepSeek for search in its messaging app Weixin, while Baidu plans to fully connect its search engine to DeepSeek and its LLM, Ernie (Reuters)

Tencent is testing using DeepSeek for search in its mes...

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Reuters: Tencent is testing using DeepSeek for search in its messaging app Wei...

South Korea's data protection authority says new app downloads of DeepSeek have been suspended in the country after DeepSeek failed to follow its privacy rules (Reuters)

South Korea's data protection authority says new app do...

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Reuters: South Korea's data protection authority says new app downloads of Dee...

A look at Apple's and Meta's robotics efforts; sources say Apple is working on a 27" Studio Display successor to launch by 2026 and considering monetizing Maps (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

A look at Apple's and Meta's robotics efforts; sources ...

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at Apple's and Meta's robotics efforts; source...

Meta's Joel Kaplan says Meta "won't shy away" from taking up its case with President Trump if the EU uses its rules to unfairly target Meta's digital products (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

Meta's Joel Kaplan says Meta "won't shy away" from taki...

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Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: Meta's Joel Kaplan says Meta “won't shy away” fro...

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