Techmeme
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How AI is impacting the romance novel industry, with authors failing to disclose AI use and using pen names more, bogging down the publishing ecosystem (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
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T-glass, a type of ultrathin glass sheet used in advanced chips, is in short supply and largely comes from Nittobo, which is not adding capacity for months (Yang Jie/Wall Street Journal)
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A software engineer explains AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using labs' latest tools, thinking atrophy, and more, alongside boosted productivity (Siddhant Khare)
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OpenClaw partners with VirusTotal and says that all skills published to ClawHub are now scanned using VirusTotal's threat intelligence (The Hacker News)
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Sources: Block is notifying hundreds of staff their jobs may be eliminated during annual performance reviews; up to 10% of the workforce is at risk of being cut (Bloomberg)
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Q&A with mathematicians behind the "First Proof" experiment, which tests AI's mathematical competence on questions drawn from the authors' unpublished research (Siobhan Roberts/New York Times)
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Sources: iPhone 17e with MagSafe is coming soon; iOS 26.4 beta with updated Siri slated for the week of Feb. 23, M5 MacBook Pros as early as the week of Mar. 2 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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How Anthropic's bet on enterprise users is paying off; sources: Anthropic's guidance to investors claims annualized revenue will exceed $30B by the end of 2026 (George Hammond/Financial Times)
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Analysis: World Liberty Financial has earned the Trump family at least $1.2B in cash since its launch, while the Witkoff family has earned at least $200M (Wall Street Journal)
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European countries are moving toward social media bans for children, even as doubts persist over implementation and the risk of a new battle with US tech groups (Financial Times)
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This year's projected capex ramp-up will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google, and Meta, potentially forcing stock buyback cuts or more borrowing (Martin Peers/The Information)
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Analysts say a design refresh for the iPhone 17 lineup has reinforced Apple's status-symbol appeal in China, with the "cosmic orange" Pro model going viral (Financial Times)
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A profile of Ali Ansari, the 25-year-old co-founder of micro1, which recruits human experts to train AI systems; micro1 was last valued at $500M in Sept. 2025 (Nilesh Christopher/Los Angeles Times)
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Anthropic rolls out a fast mode for Claude Opus 4.6 in research preview, saying it offers the same model quality 2.5 times faster but costs six times more (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
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India's updated startup framework doubles deep-tech startup eligibility to 20 years and triples the revenue cap for tax, grant, and regulatory benefits to ~$33M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)