ArsTechnica
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X office raided in France's Grok probe; Elon Musk summoned for questioning
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Nintendo Switch is the second-bestselling game console ever, behind only the PS2
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Google court filings suggest ChromeOS has an expiration date
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Xcode 26.3 adds support for Claude, Codex, and other agentic tools via MCP
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Wing Commander III: "Isn't that the guy from Star Wars?"
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Upset at reports that he'd given up, Trump now wants $1B from Harvard
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China bans all retractable car door handles, starting next year
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Senior staff departing OpenAI as firm prioritizes ChatGPT development
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The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat
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Unable to tame hydrogen leaks, NASA delays launch of Artemis II until March
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Looking back at Catacomb 3D, the game that led to Wolfenstein 3D
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Streaming service Crunchyroll raises prices weeks after killing its free tier
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SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it
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Russian drones use Starlink, but Ukraine has plan to block their Internet access
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Court orders restart of all US offshore wind construction
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Notepad++ users take note: It's time to check if you're hacked
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A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked
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Ongoing RAM crisis prompts Raspberry Pi's second price hike in two months
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Judge rules Department of Energy's climate working group was illegal
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DOJ released Epstein files with dozens of nudes and victims' names, reports say
Techmeme
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Lotus Health, 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 funding to $41M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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AI agent social network Moltbook grew from 30K+ users on January 30 to 1.5M+ on February 2; researchers say some of the viral posts were likely human-scripted (Hayden Field/The Verge)
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Walmart hits a $1T market cap in intraday trading after a stock surge fueled in part by enthusiasm for its e-commerce growth and automation and AI investments (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)
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LexisNexis-owner Relx, Thomson Reuters, and other media and financial stocks fell 10%+ after Anthropic launched Claude Cowork tools that automate legal work (Financial Times)
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Seattle-based Overland AI, which builds off-road robots and autonomous vehicles for the US military, raised $100M led by 8VC, taking its total funding to $142M (Jen Judson/Bloomberg)