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Source: SpaceX is aiming to file its IPO prospectus with regulators later this week or next week, and could try to raise $75B+, up from a previous $50B estimate (The Information)

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Spotify is beta testing Artist Profile Protection, allowing artists to review releases before they go live to prevent AI tracks from being attributed to them (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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SK Hynix submits a confidential filing to the US SEC for a possible listing of American depositary receipts in 2026; SK is reportedly considering raising ~$10B (Reuters)

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Meta announces new shopping and ad features, including affiliate marketing tools for Instagram and Facebook creators and a "buy now" button for Facebook ads (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)

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A US judge dismisses a lawsuit against Meta by Attaullah Baig, former head of cybersecurity at WhatsApp, who alleged Meta ignored critical security flaws (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News Service)

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Instagram and Facebook are about to be filled with affiliate content

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Databricks launches Lakewatch, a security information and event management service, and announces acquisitions of security startups Antimatter and SiftD (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Sources: Anduril, Palantir, and Scale AI are part of the group developing software to run President Trump's planned $185B Golden Dome antimissile shield (Drew FitzGerald/Wall Street Journal)

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says OpenAI is raising an additional $10B from a16z, D.E. Shaw, MGX, TPG, and others, bringing its record fundraise to "north of $120B" (Morgan Chittum/CNBC)

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Arm CEO Rene Haas projects $25B in revenue in 2031, up from $4B in 2025, including $15B from sales of Arm's first in-house chip; ARM jumps 6%+ after hours (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)

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Roots of Truth Abyss puzzle walkthrough in Crimson Desert

Polygon - All

Meta misled users about its products’ safety, jury decides

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NASA wants to put a $20 billion base on the Moon

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Following Google’s Lead With Pixel Phones, Samsung Announces AirDrop Support With Galaxy S26 Phones

Daring Fireball

At a hearing, a US federal judge says the Pentagon's treatment of Anthropic is "troubling" and that "it looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic" (Maria Curi/Axios)

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Fortnite's pricey and controversial Peak skins look even worse now

Polygon - All

What is ICE actually doing at the airport?

The Verge - All Posts

Disney ends its partnership with OpenAI, signed in December 2025, in which it pledged to invest $1B and agreed to license some characters to Sora (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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A New Mexico jury finds that Meta violated state laws by failing to safeguard its platforms from child predators and orders it to pay $375M in damages (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

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Robert Mueller Dead At 81

The Onion