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Taiwan's GDP rose 12.68% in Q4 2025, its fastest quarterly growth since 1987; full-year GDP grew 8.63%, topping the 7.5% forecast on AI demand for tech products (Bloomberg)

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OpenAI details its custom internal-only GPT‑5.2-powered AI data agent that allows its employees to do natural language data analysis across 600+ PB of data (OpenAI)

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Even though Moltbook has security risks and a lot of spam, the scale of nearly 150,000 autonomous AI agents interacting with each other is unprecedented (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)

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A look at South Park Commons, the VC firm behind a startup community focusing on idea exploration over immediate business plans, as it aims to raise $500M (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)

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A US judge says her "tentative view" is to grant OpenAI's motion to dismiss xAI's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets by poaching xAI employees (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

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Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)

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Report: Jensen Huang has privately criticized what he has described as a lack of discipline in OpenAI's business approach (Fabiola Arámburo/Reuters)

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Indian e-commerce platform Meesho reports Q3 net loss of Rs. 4.91B, or $53.4M, up from Rs. 374.3M a year ago, in its first earnings report since its IPO (Komal Salecha/Reuters)

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Sources: Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100B in OpenAI, announced in September 2025, has stalled after some inside Nvidia expressed doubts about the deal (Wall Street Journal)

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Tether says it generated over $10B in net profits in 2025, down from $13B+ in 2024, and says it holds $193B in assets backing the $186B USDT in circulation (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

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A look at the clash between Coinbase and Wall Street over the Clarity Act and whether crypto exchanges can offer stablecoin "rewards" (Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: SpaceX generated about $8B in EBITDA on $15B to $16B of revenue last year; Starlink accounted for about 50% to 80% of the total revenue (Reuters)

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Hands-on with Google's Auto Browse for Chrome: it performs multistep tasks noticeably better than similar tools but struggles with complex tasks (Reece Rogers/Wired)

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Anthropic details an experiment on whether AI coding tools shape developer skills: the biggest performance decline for developers occurred in debugging tasks (Anthropic)

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Sources: OnlyFans is in talks to sell a nearly 60% stake to Architect Capital in a deal that values the company at around $5.5B, including debt (Wall Street Journal)

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Anthropic details how NASA engineers used Claude to plot out the route for Perseverance rover to navigate a ~400 meter path on the Martian surface (Anthropic)

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Sources: Apple lost at least four more AI researchers in recent weeks, two of whom went to Meta and one to DeepMind; a top Siri executive left for DeepMind (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Shares of gaming companies plunge after Google released Project Genie, which lets users create interactive worlds; Unity closed down 24.2% and Take-Two 7.9% (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)

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A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

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Anthropic expands its agentic plugins, which let enterprise users automate department-specific workflows, from Claude Code to its new general-use tool Cowork (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)

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