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TechCreate's shares surged ~1,995% in the past week; the payment software company says it is not aware of any info that would account for the trading activity (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)

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Sandisk and Kioxia announce a five-year extension of their JV manufacturing contract from 2029 to 2034; the new deal involves SanDisk paying Kioxia $1.165B (Ryo Mukano/Nikkei Asia)

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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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Senate passes budget with two more weeks of Homeland Security funding

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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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Jeffrey Epstein was permanently banned from Xbox Live

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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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Peloton lays off 11 percent of its staff just a few months after launching its AI hardware

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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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Zootopia 2, Anaconda, Greenland 2, and everything new to stream this weekend

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Video game company stock prices dip after Google introduces an AI world-generation tool

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Where to find brittle quartzite for brittle whetstone in Grounded 2

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Apple Acquires Q.ai

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