Apple unveils the $599+ iPhone 16e with a 6.1" display, A18, 48MP camera, Apple Intelligence, and Apple-designed 5G cellular modem, the C1, shipping February 28
Apple has officially taken the wraps off of the all-new iPhone 16e. The device features an all-new design paired with the A18 chip inside …
Microsoft unveils the Majorana 1, its first quantum processor that uses the Majorana particle instead of electrons, that can potentially fit a million qubits
Microsoft has spent 17 years researching a new material and architecture for quantum computing.
HP plans to acquire assets from Humane for $116M, wind down Humane's Ai Pin business, and add Humane's team, including its founders, as an AI-focused division
- Humane's Ai pin business to be wound down after rocky launch — New unit at HP will focus on implementation of AI in devices
Apple discontinues the iPhone SE, iPhone 14, and iPhone 14 Plus; the iPhone 16e starts at $599, significantly higher than the iPhone SE's $429 starting price
and have a different name Bluesky: Lauri Donahue / @lauridonahue : I love my little SE/mini! — Not everyone wants a giant slab of a phone. [embedded post]
Signal updates its app with phishing protections after Google warned Russia-linked hackers are using fake QR codes for group invites to trick Ukrainian soldiers
Google warns that hackers tied to Russia are tricking Ukrainian soldiers with fake QR codes for Signal group invites that let spies steal their messages.
Sources: Chinese game publisher NetEase has been directed to divest its overseas holdings, starting with hit game Marvel Rivals, which laid off its Seattle team
Chinese game publisher NetEase raised fears with recent moves that it is unloading as much as all of its overseas holdings …
Microsoft announces Muse AI, a first-of-its-kind generative AI model that can generate a game environment based on visuals, players' controller actions, or both
Microsoft Research and Xbox game studio Ninja Theory have partnered to create a new AI model for gaming.
Humane says Ai Pin's online features will stop working at 12PM PT on February 28, when it will delete all customer data, and it will refund some newer customers
Humane is discontinuing the AI Pin and selling out to HP. — AI hardware startup Humane has given its users just ten (10!) …
Sources: Niantic is in talks to sell its video games unit to Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely for ~$3.5B; the deal would include Pokémon Go and its other mobile games
A deal could be announced in coming weeks. The price being discussed is about $3.5 billion, according to one of the people.
Apple unveils its first-ever in-house cellular modem, the C1, to replace Qualcomm modem chips, saying it is “the most power-efficient modem ever on an iPhone”
After years of development, Apple has unveiled what it calls C1, its first-ever in-house cellular modem.
Source: in text messages, Libra co-creator Hayden Davis bragged he could “control” Argentine President Javier Milei by making payments to Milei's sister, Karina
A key player behind the Libra token bragged about buying access to Argentine President Javier Milei's inner circle months …
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati unveils AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, which she's leading as CEO, with Barret Zoph as CTO and John Schulman as chief scientist
- “Instead of focusing solely on making fully autonomous AI systems, we are excited to build multimodal systems that work …
Apple now only sells iPhone models with big screens, in 6.1-inch, 6.7-inch, and 6.9-inch sizes, after discontinuing the 4.7-inch iPhone SE
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OpenAI researchers build the SWE-Lancer benchmark and find that real-world freelance software engineering work remains challenging for frontier language models
Large language models (LLMs) may have changed software development, but enterprises will need to think twice …
President Trump says tariffs on semiconductors would start at “25% or higher” and that he planned to provide some time for chip makers to set up US factories
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he intends to impose auto tariffs “in the neighborhood of 25%” …
Sources: X is in talks to raise funds at a $44B valuation, matching the price Elon Musk paid for Twitter in 2022, as his proximity to Trump alters X's prospects
- Valuation is the same as Musk's 2022 Twitter acquisition — Billionaire has recently tapped private markets for big sums
TMTG and Rumble sue a Brazilian Supreme Court Justice in Florida for allegedly illegally suppressing the US social media activity of conservative Brazilians
- Suit targets a supreme court justice who has clashed with Musk — Brazilian judge has long attacked ‘fake news,’ disinformation
Microsoft says it has harnessed a new state of matter using particles called Majorana fermions, a significant breakthrough to create workable topological qubits
US tech giant says it has harnessed a new state of matter to create the basic building blocks of a quantum machine
Binance.US resumes USD deposits and withdrawals for the first time since June 2023, when the US SEC sued Binance, Binance.US, and co-founder Changpeng Zhao
- Binance.US customers can deposit and withdraw U.S. dollars on the platform for the first time in nearly two years.
Instagram updates direct messages with translation in 99 languages, scheduling and pinning tools, music-sharing features, and more, on iOS and Android first
Instagram is upgrading its direct messages, also known as DMs, with a handful of new features that make its messaging system …
Google launches a Gemini 2.0-based AI co-scientist tool to help biomedical scientists create novel hypotheses and speed up research, available to select testers
Lab assistant powered by artificial intelligence can help generate scientific hypotheses — Google has built …
Apple tells the UK CMA that some of its mobile browser remedies would slow innovation, and it would “not be appropriate” to mandate free WebKit and iOS access
Apple (AAPL.O) has told Britain's competition regulator that some of the remedy options proposed by the watchdog …
Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti review: a capable GPU for 4K gaming, DLSS 4 multi-frame gen, and runs cool, but prices fluctuate wildly and $750 is expensive for mid-range
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget :
Asus ROG Flow Z13 review: the ~$2,300 convertible tablet's integrated GPU in its AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chip offers performance comparable to a GeForce RTX 4060
Here are some screenshots I was able to grab from a video r/LocalLLaMA : AMD 395: Asus Flow Z13 review r/hardware : Asus ROG Flow Z13 GZ302EA Convertible Review - AMD's Strix Halo GPU is neck-and-neck...
Verkada, which makes smart cameras, alarms, sensors, and more for enterprises, raised a $200M Series E at a $4.5B valuation, up from $3.2B in September 2022
In 2017, Filip Kaliszan pulled an all-nighter at the Beverly Hills Equinox. — A luxury gym isn't the obvious place to work through the night …
Court documents: Nigeria sues Binance to reclaim $79.5B in alleged economic losses it says were caused by its operations in the country and $2B in back taxes
Camillus Eboh / Reuters :
Google Play Books for iOS now lets users complete their e-book or audiobook purchase on the Google Play website, under Apple's “reader apps” exception
I'd love to see an Apple Books app that syncs progress and keeps track of reading streaks in the Google Play Store. Can't think of any reason why not. [embedded post] X: Lance Adams / @thelanceadams...
In a breakthrough, University of Oxford scientists sent the first quantum algorithm wirelessly between two separate quantum processors via particle entanglement
Jorge Garay / Wired :
In 2024, sanctioned jurisdictions and entities received $15.8B in crypto, or ~39% of all illicit crypto transactions; Tornado Cash inflows jumped 108% from 2023
Chainalysis :
Internal documents, emails, and federal data suggest Indian IT giant TCS has used L-1A manager visas in ways that raise concerns about undercutting US workers
Bloomberg :
Some US ByteDance investors argue that they don't need US TikTok for success as ~80% of ByteDance's revenue comes from China, the valuation's real driving force
Some American ByteDance investors say they don't need US TikTok for success — As TikTok fights to keep its popular video app available …
Cambridge, MA-based OpenEvidence, which offers an AI chatbot to help physicians, raised $75M from Sequoia at a $1B valuation, its first outside funding round
AI startup OpenEvidence is raising a fresh round of capital from Sequoia to scale its chatbot for doctors.
French privacy startup Murena unveils the €539 Murena Pixel Tablet, running its open-source, forked /e/OS, after releasing a “deGoogled” smartphone in 2022
Murena, the French privacy firm that's forked Android to deliver so-called deGoogled smartphones, has repeated the trick with a tablet.
Baseten, which helps companies launch open-source or customized AI models, raised $75M led by IVP and Spark Capital at a $825M valuation and claims 100+ clients
Baseten, a startup that runs artificial intelligence models for clients on their cloud infrastructure, has raised $75 million in funding, the company said Wednesday.
Google agrees to pay €326M to settle an Italian tax case from 2015 to 2019, covering sanctions, penalties, and interest; Milan prosecutors plan to drop the case
How PDD's Temu, the world's biggest online dollar store, got sucked into President Trump's trade war; eMarketer expects Temu to have $30B in US sales in 2025
along with a 72-hour workweek regime on the side https://www.bloomberg.com/... Zheping Huang / @pingroma : Together, @spencersoper, @ClaireYChe & I take you to the Chinese factory producing random ite...
Intel's stock closed up 16.1% days after a February 15 report that Broadcom and TSMC are potentially weighing independent deals that could split the chipmaker
Samantha Subin / CNBC :
Crunchbase launches AI tools to predict where startups are heading, including funding, acquisitions, and IPOs, based on its 17 years of startup data
will it change investing? Jager McConnell / Crunchbase : Historical Data is Dead. The Future is Predictive Intelligence. Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : Crunchbase relaunches as an AI-powered platform f...
Taiwan's ASE Technology, the world's largest chip packaging and testing firm, opens a new plant in Penang, Malaysia, as part of its biggest overseas expansion
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia :
Lambda, which offers cloud services and computers to train AI, raised a $480M Series D, sources say at a $2.5B valuation, taking its total funding to $863M
Lambda, a cloud computing firm specializing in providing hardware and services to power artificial intelligence development …
Hexaware Technologies' stock rose as much as 10% on its trading debut, valuing the company at ~$5.44B, after the IT services firm raised $1B in its Indian IPO
Nandan Mandayam / Reuters :
Shift4 agrees a $1.5B deal to buy Swiss tax-free shopping services provider Global Blue Group; Shift4 handles $250B in annual payments from 200K+ companies
Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal :
Analog Devices, one of the largest analog chip makers, increases its stock buyback program by $10B to $11.5B; sales dropped 23% in 2024 as chip demand slows
Ian King / Bloomberg :
Sources: Alibaba and others approached DeepSeek about funding after its rise, but CEO Liang Wenfeng is cautious; High-Flyer is discussing a pivot from research
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