Apple resumes advertising on X for the first time since November 2023, when it halted ads due to Elon Musk's comments; @Apple is running a Safari privacy promo
Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in more than a year. The company had stopped advertising …
Sony reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $28.6B, operating income up 1% YoY to $3.05B, and gaming revenue up 16% YoY to $10.92B, driven by strong PS5 sales
Sony Group Corporation turned in a strong third quarter for 2024, riding high on gaming and music while its film unit faced headwinds.
Tim Cook teases an announcement of “the newest member of the family” on February 19; Mark Gurman reported Apple would update the iPhone SE
Apple will reveal its next device on February 19th. — Apple will reveal its next device on February 19th.
Sam Altman says GPT-5 will include o3, which is no longer set to ship as a standalone model, GPT-4.5 will be OpenAI's last non-chain-of-thought model, and more
OpenAI has effectively canceled the release of o3, which was slated to be the company's next major AI model …
PlayStation's State of Play event showed that Microsoft might publish more PS5 games in 2025 than Sony does, even as Xbox hardware sales continue to decline
Sony had its semi-regular State of Play showcase yesterday, and PlayStation gamers hoping for a roadmap received a lot of third-party multiplatform titles instead.
Sony reports PlayStation 5 sales in Q3 were 9.5M, the best quarter since its launch, and hits 75M total PS5 sales; MAUs across its platform rose 43% YoY to 129M
PS5 SHIPMENTS ARE NOW NECK-AND-NECK WITH PS4 — PlayStation 5 enjoyed its best-ever holiday period in 2024 …
Alibaba Chair Joe Tsai says Apple will use the Chinese tech giant's AI tech on iPhones sold in China, speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai
“Apple has been very selective, they talked to a number of companies in China, and in the end they choose to do business with us …
Apple releases an Apple TV app for Android phones and tablets, limited to TV+, MLS Season Pass, and MLB Friday Night Baseball; the app doesn't support casting
The Apple TV app is finally making its way to Android users. The app is now available in the Google Play Store for Android phones and tablets.
OpenAI expands its Model Spec for how its AI models should behave, from 10 to 63 pages, emphasizing “customizability, transparency, and intellectual freedom”
a document which defines how we want our models to behave. The update reinforces our commitments to customizability, transparency, and intellectual freedom to explore, debate, and create with AI. http...
Filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's $97.4B bid contradicts his attacks in his lawsuit against OpenAI that its assets can't be “transferred away” for “private gain”
The public showdown between Elon Musk and OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman over Musk's $97.4 billion bid …
Google plans to begin testing an ML-based model in the US in 2025 that estimates whether a user is under 18 to help provide more “age-appropriate experiences”
Google says the technology will help it provide ‘age-appropriate experiences.’ — Google says the technology …
Recorded Future: Salt Typhoon breached five more telcos and ISPs, including two US telcos, and 12+ universities in December-January by exploiting Cisco routers
Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn't stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.
Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Andy Biggs write to National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard asking her to demand the UK retract its back door request to Apple
Letter urges new intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard to take resolute action to stymie a top ally's controversial and confidential order.
OpenAI plans to give free ChatGPT users unlimited GPT-5 access at “the standard intelligence setting”; Plus and Pro users will get to run GPT-5 at higher levels
Here's Why Tsveta Ermenkova / PhoneArena : OpenAI's CEO admits ChatGPT got messy and wants to fix it John-Anthony Disotto / TechRadar : OpenAI is finally going to make ChatGPT a lot less confusing - a...
Sources: X agrees to pay ~$10M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Twitter and then-CEO Jack Dorsey over the ban on his accounts after the January 6 riot
Musk's platform becomes second social-media company to settle with Trump after Jan. 6, 2021 riot triggered bans
Court filing: Elon Musk will withdraw his $97.4B bid if OpenAI's board of directors “preserve the charity's mission” and halt its conversion to a for-profit
since the negotiations at the moment are for stock percentage, not defined-value cash.
Sources: Apple continues to work with Baidu to develop AI search and Siri features for iPhone users in China even after onboarding new partner Alibaba
Qianer Liu / The Information :
Elon Musk and right-wing influencers redefine “doxxing” to include reporting on government employees; free speech advocates say they aim to intimidate the press
Right-wing influencers are criticizing journalists who have published public information about government employees.
Investigation: Match Group, which runs 12+ dating apps, has known for years about abusive and violent users, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark
The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms …
Germany's Bundeskartellamt charges Apple with abusing its market power via App Tracking Transparency, giving itself preferential treatment, and requires changes
The German antitrust authority has charged Apple (AAPL.O) with abusing its market power through its app tracking tool …
The Atlantic, Politico, Vox and others sue Cohere, alleging it used copyrighted works to train its LLM and shared versions of entire articles without permission
Lawsuit accuses Canadian company of sharing versions of entire articles without permission — The Atlantic, Politico …
After Meta laid off 3,600 of its “lowest performers” on February 10, some say they had good performance reviews, and experts say the label is highly subjective
- <strong>Meta said it was cutting low performers in its most recent round of cuts. However, some staffers and experts have questioned the company's methods.
YouTube updates Shorts to integrate Google DeepMind's latest video model Veo 2, letting creators generate AI video clips to add to any of their Shorts
YouTube Shorts is integrating with Google DeepMind's latest video model, Veo 2, allowing creators to generate AI video clips for their posts.
Robinhood reports Q4 revenue up 115% YoY to $1.01B, vs. $940.8M est., crypto transaction revenue up 700%+ to $358M, above est.; HOOD jumps 15%+
almost 40% from crypto Coinbase due up tomorrow. Look for more of the same https://fortune.com/... Patrick McKenzie / @patio11 : The company whose literal name references their greatest contribution, ...
Sources: Bain Capital, Advent International, and EQT AB are among the private equity firms competing to acquire Trend Micro, which has an ~$8.54B market value
Bain Capital, Advent International and EQT AB are among the private equity firms competing to acquire Japanese cybersecurity firm Trend Micro …
Identity security company CyberArk acquires identity governance and administration platform Zilla Security for $165M in cash and an additional $10M “earn-out”
Identity security company CyberArk has acquired identity governance and administration (IGA) platform Zilla Security in a deal worth up to $175 million.
Reddit reports Q4 revenue up 71% YoY to $428M, vs. $405M est., and daily active uniques up 39% YoY to 101.7M, vs. 103.1M est.; RDDT drops 5%+
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC :
EnCharge AI, which claims its AI accelerators use 20x less energy to run workloads compared with other chips, raised a $100M+ Series B led by Tiger Global
EnCharge AI, a semiconductor startup developing analog memory chips for AI applications, has raised more than $100 million …
Source: Anthropic has developed a hybrid AI model that combines traditional LLM capabilities with reasoning features and plans to release it in the coming weeks
After OpenAI released its reasoning models last fall, Google, Alibaba, High-Flyer Capital Management and others followed with their own.
Meta says it will let classified ad firms in Europe pay to place their listings on Facebook Marketplace, after a pilot with eBay, following the EU's €798M fine
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg :
AppLovin reports Q4 revenue up 44% YoY to $1.37B, vs. $1.26B est., net income up 248%, ad revenue up 73%, and Q1 guidance above est.; APP jumps 27%+
but what does the company actually do? Forbes : Can AppLovin Stock Keep Soaring? 850% Growth And Beyond Timothy Smith / Yahoo Finance : AppLovin Stock Surged Nearly 30% After Earnings—Watch These Key ...
Dominion Energy says data center power demand in Virginia, home to Data Center Alley, almost doubled in H2 2024, rising to 40.2 gigawatts in December 2024
Josh Saul / Bloomberg :
Texas-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised a $350M Series A co-led by B Capital and Capital Factory and plans a series of pilot programs in 2025
Dan Primack / Axios :
Experts say Southeast Asian students in Taiwan's work-study programs often end up as low-paid labor in the chip industry under the guise of “practical training”
If so, this immigration is not good, but GREAT for Taiwan. [embedded post] Alex Lanstein / @lanstein : This is one of the top reasons why “bring chip manufacturing to the US” is not realistic. The l...
Drata, which uses automation to help companies adhere to compliance frameworks, agrees to buy SafeBase, which automates security reviews, sources say for $250M
Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek :
Baidu says it will make its AI chatbot Ernie free starting April 1 to all users on both desktop and mobile platforms, citing improved tech and reduced costs
SoftBank-backed P2P vehicle sharing service Getaround is shutting down US operations, including HyreCar, to focus on Europe, where it operates in six countries
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
DeepSeek signals India's last chance to back foundational tech via state-funded research, as its private sector remains too risk-averse to lead AI innovation
Andy Mukherjee / Bloomberg :
London- and SF-based Latent Labs, which is building AI foundation models to “make biology programmable”, emerges from stealth with $50M across seed and Series A
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
Sources: Thoma Bravo-backed enterprise security software company SailPoint raised $1.38B in an upsized IPO at $23 per share, giving it a $12.8B market cap
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg :
Candid Health, which helps simplify medical billing by automating claims processing and eliminating manual work for billing teams, raised a $52.5M Series C
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch :
Malaysia plans to roll out Google AI tools to 445,000 civil servants to help modernize public services and improve efficiency across government agencies
Norman Goh / Nikkei Asia :
Sources: US PE firms have invested in data centers serving ByteDance as a tenant, some without knowing if ByteDance is using the sites to access Nvidia's chips
Financial Times :
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