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Sources: OpenAI fired VP Ryan Beiermeister in January for alleged sexual discrimination; she had earlier raised concerns about the upcoming launch of adult mode (Wall Street Journal)

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Alphabet raised almost $32B in debt in less than 24 hours; it sold sterling- and Swiss franc-denominated offerings following Monday's $20B dollar debt sale (Bloomberg)

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OpenAI updates ChatGPT's deep research tool with GPT-5.2, a full-screen report view, and an option to focus research on specific websites (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)

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A profile of Anthropic and its key executives like Chris Olah, and a look at Project Vend, an internal "Claudius" experiment to run the office vending machine (Gideon Lewis-Kraus/New Yorker)

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Samsung announces a Galaxy Unpacked event on February 25 at 10am PT in San Francisco, where it is expected to introduce the Galaxy S26 series (Max Buondonno/The Shortcut)

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LayerZero Labs unveils a new Layer 1 blockchain called Zero, in collaboration with Citadel Securities, DTCC, Google Cloud, and Intercontinental Exchange (RT Watson/The Block)

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Ex-SafeMoon CEO Braden John Karony is sentenced to 100 months in prison for defrauding investors and is ordered to forfeit ~$7.5M and two residential properties (Sarah Wynn/The Block)

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Kalshi says it registered over $1B in trades related to the Super Bowl; Piper Sandler analysts say Kalshi and Polymarket saw ~$1.2B in total trading on Sunday (Bloomberg)

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Discord says that the "vast majority of people can continue using Discord exactly as they do today" without needing to use a face scan or ID to verify their age (The Verge)

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Robinhood reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $1.28B, below est., crypto revenue down 38% to $221M, below est., and net income down 34%; HOOD drops 5%+ after hours (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)

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Sen. Warren plans bipartisan legislation with Sen. Banks that bans the sale of certain AI chips to China after Dario Amodei met with Warren and other lawmakers (Ashley Gold/Axios)

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Boston Dynamics CEO Robert Playter steps down after more than 30 years with the company and plans to retire; CFO Amanda McMaster will take over as interim CEO (Brianna Wessling/The Robot Report)

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Lyft reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.59B vs. $1.76B est., forecasts Q1 adjusted EBITDA below est., announces a $1B share buyback; LYFT drops 13%+ after hours (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

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In opening statements in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, YouTube argues it is an entertainment service like Netflix rather than a social network (New York Times)

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Five members of xAI's 12-person founding team have now left the company, with four of the departures coming in just the last year (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

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Global installed base of active smartphones grew 2% in 2025; eight OEMs had 200M+ active devices each, and nearly one in four active smartphones is an iPhone (Tarun Pathak/Counterpoint Research)

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Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)

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Tech Oversight Project: ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial, Meta paid for 3,500+ ads on CNN, Fox, and others to promote Instagram's Teen Accounts (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)

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Facebook rolls out the ability for users to animate their profile picture and to restyle Stories or Memories using preset options or a text-based AI prompt (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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Sam Bankman-Fried, who is serving 25 years for fraud, files a long-shot request for a new trial, says new witness testimony could refute the prosecution's case (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)

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