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Google and Amazon join Microsoft in saying they will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

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Marvell stock jumps 20%+ after the chip company reported Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $2.2B and issued strong guidance citing growing AI demand (Lola Murti/CNBC)

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How prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket are aggressively targeting college students through fraternity partnerships and student influencers (Wall Street Journal)

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Pentagon names ex-DOGE employee Gavin Kliger as Chief Data Officer to lead its AI efforts; Kliger previously reposted white supremacist Nick Fuentes' content (Alexandra Alper/Reuters)

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Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people (Joe Tidy/BBC)

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OpenAI says it is delaying the launch of ChatGPT Adult Mode, originally planned for Q1, to focus on higher priorities, like gains in intelligence (Alex Heath/Sources)

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Robinhood debuts its $658.4M venture fund on the NYSE, pricing the IPO at $25 per share, offering retail investors access to private companies like Databricks (Manya Saini/Reuters)

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Hayden AI, which raised $180M for its traffic management system, sues its ex-CEO Chris Carson Jr. for allegedly using its data to start a competitor and more (William Hicks/San Francisco Business ...)

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Mozilla says Claude Opus 4.6 found 100+ bugs in Firefox in two weeks in January, 14 of them high-severity, more than the bugs typically reported in two months (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

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Sources: SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of up to $40B, its largest-ever borrowing denominated solely in dollars, to help finance its investment in OpenAI (Bloomberg)

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Indonesia says it will ban "high-risk" platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, and Roblox, for children under 16 from March 28 (Associated Press)

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US regulators say banks don't need to hold extra capital against losses when dealing with blockchain-based securities, calling their rules "technology neutral" (Reuters)

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Microsoft says it will keep Anthropic's AI tools embedded in its client products, after its lawyers concluded the DOD's designation is only for defense projects (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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A look at SpaceX's potential IPO, which reportedly aims to raise up to $50B at a $1.75T valuation, more than 7x higher than its ~$200B valuation in October 2024 (Financial Times)

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Rozana, which offers rural e-commerce and logistics services to 21,000 villages across India, raised a $31.6M Series B led by Bertelsmann India Investments (Gyan Vardhan/Entrackr)

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Sources: the UK plans to delay making copyright rule changes for AI training after responses to its two-month consultation did not favor any of its proposals (Financial Times)

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An interview with Tim Sweeney on the Google-Epic settlement, how the Play Store changes impact developers, why Epic's case against Apple is different, and more (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)

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Cursor launches Automations, a tool that lets developers automatically launch agents, triggered through an addition to a codebase, a Slack message, or a timer (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

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Filing: the US SEC settles with Tron founder Justin Sun over a 2023 case that alleged securities fraud; Tron-affiliated company Rainberry will pay the $10M fine (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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Heavy Seedance 2.0 demand is straining ByteDance's compute capacity, creating a bottleneck that is causing the AI model to take hours to generate a single video (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

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