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MTG Secret Lair Roll for Initiative Superdrop has an awesome $30 reprint

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Elon Musk is merging SpaceX and xAI to build data centers in space — or so he says

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Chappell Roan comes to Fortnite Festival season 13

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Dropout star details just how bangable some Pokémon are

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Microsoft launches the Publisher Content Marketplace in partnership with Condé Nast, Hearst, AP, and others, to let publishers license content to AI companies (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)

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Bitcoin dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest price since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes amid mounting geopolitical concerns (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)

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Microsoft says it’s building an app store for AI content licensing

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Co-op murder coverup game 'We Are So Cooked' hasn't been announced yet and it's already going viral

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Maul: Shadow Lord needs a cameo from Star Wars' most disappointing movie

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Red Dead Redemption 2 modder shows off hilarious Pokemon battle mod

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Skyryse, which plans to integrate its flight automation OS, SkyOS, in Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft, raised a $300M+ Series C at a $1.15B valuation (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

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Apple’s Xcode adds OpenAI and Anthropic’s coding agents

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At the Cisco AI Summit, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company plans to build GPUs and has already hired a chief GPU architect (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)

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Ares Interactive, which makes cross-platform, free-to-play games with plans for a new baseball game in 2026, raised a $70M Series A led by General Catalyst (Craig Chapple/PocketGamer.biz)

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Apple brings agentic coding to Xcode 26.3, allowing developers to use Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, and integrates support for MCP (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Tomorrow.io raised $175M at a $1B+ valuation to deploy an AI-driven LEO satellite network for weather forecasting, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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Bob Iger picks 'Daddy Josh' D'Amaro as his Disney CEO replacement

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Sources: Alphabet plans a new complex in Bengaluru, India, which can accommodate up to 20K extra staff, amid US visa restrictions and proposed H-1B fee hikes (Bloomberg)

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The best deals on MacBooks right now

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Apptopia: ChatGPT's US market share fell from 69.1% to 45.3% between Jan. 2025 and Jan. 2026; Gemini rose from 14.7% to 25.1%, Grok rose from 1.6% to 15.2% (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)

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