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South Korea's Science Ministry blames Coupang's massive 2025 data leak on management failures and accuses it of defying a government order to preserve data logs (Reuters)

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Docs: London-based AI chip startup Olix, founded by James Dacombe, CEO of brain monitoring startup CoMind, raised $220M led by Hummingbird at a $1B+ valuation (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

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Sources: ByteDance plans to produce at least 100,000 units of its in-house AI inference chip in 2026, and is in talks with Samsung to manufacture it (Reuters)

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NYC-based Garner Health, a platform using data analytics to help workers find healthcare providers, raised a $118M Series D at a $1.35B valuation (Amy Feldman/Forbes)

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Tel Aviv-based Backslash Security, which safeguards enterprise software development from vibe coding risks, raised a $19M Series A, taking total funding to $27M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

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Isomorphic Labs, a Google DeepMind spinoff, unveils IsoDDE, a drug design system it says surpasses AlphaFold 3 in predicting biomolecular structures (Isomorphic Labs)

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Q&A with Siemens CEO Roland Busch on the company's 170+ year history, automation, managing 320K staff, US manufacturing investments, augmenting LLMs, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

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The FCC approves Amazon's request to launch a second-generation satellite constellation for its Leo system by deploying an additional 4,504 satellites (Michael Kan/PCMag)

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xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba says he is leaving, the sixth xAI co-founder to depart; sources and social media posts show 6+ researchers left in recent weeks (Financial Times)

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Cloudflare reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $614.5M, above $591.3M est., and forecasts full-year and Q1 revenue above estimates; NET jumps 14%+ pre-market (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

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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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