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After talking with ~40 people at Anthropic, a look at its "Yes, and..." culture where every idea is welcomed and judged based on vibes, like a hive mind (Steve Yegge)
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DOJ-released emails: Jeffrey Epstein helped Ian Osborne, founder of London-based fund Hedosophia, after Osborne's outreach to help Epstein fix his image in 2011 (Financial Times)
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Trump-linked World Liberty Financial's stablecoin, USD1, hit $5B in total circulation in January with 85% held in Binance accounts; Trump pardoned CZ in October (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)
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Tether froze $544M in alleged illicit income at Turkey's request, part of its push to aid governments in crackdowns against crypto use in alleged crimes (Bloomberg)
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Apple, whose capital expenditure is just a fraction of its peers, is the only Big Tech company that saw capex decline YoY in Q4, decreasing 19% to $2.37B (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
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An interview with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about the "wisdom of the crowd", political polarization, having Trump Jr. as an adviser, casino comparisons, and more (Oliver Roeder/Financial Times)
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New US rules banning Chinese software in internet-connected vehicles from March 17 add urgency to industrywide efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese components (Stephen Wilmot/Wall Street Journal)
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Kalshi and Polymarket have facilitated over $800M in Super Bowl contracts, as pro gamblers shift to prediction markets and adopt Wall Street-style strategies (Bloomberg)
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Chinese regulators fined Kuaishou $17.2M for failing to curb illegal content; pornographic content appeared on Kuaishou during its December 2025 cyberattacks (Bloomberg)
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US data center demand has driven stock surges of contractors and equipment makers like Corning, Sterling Infrastructure, Comfort Systems USA, and Carrier Global (Wall Street Journal)
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Source: Benchmark raised $225M in special funds to invest in Cerebras' ~$1B Series H, led by Tiger Global; Benchmark led Cerebras' $27M Series A in 2016 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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RADICL, which offers threat detection and response services to SMBs supporting US defense industrial base and critical infrastructure, raised a $31M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
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South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb says it accidentally sent $44B worth of bitcoin to customers as promotional rewards and has recovered 99.7% of it (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
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A look at the state of AI agents, the evolution of thinking models, the staggering need for inference compute in the coming years, automated research, and more (Eric Jang/Evjang.com)
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New York lawmakers propose a bill to impose a three-year moratorium on data center development, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce such legislation (Molly Taft/Wired)