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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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Are Michael Peña or Zazie Beetz in Avengers: Doomsday? We asked the MCU actors if they'd return

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Lotus Health, which uses AI to offer free, 24/7 primary care in 50 languages, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins, taking its funding to $41M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)

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Cowboy Bebop's Yoko Kanno gets first U.S. concert with anime legends SEATBELTS

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AI agent social network Moltbook grew from 30K+ users on January 30 to 1.5M+ on February 2; researchers say some of the viral posts were likely human-scripted (Hayden Field/The Verge)

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French police raid X’s Paris office as UK investigation continues

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Black Ops 7 Season 2 release time in your time zone

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Walmart hits a $1T market cap in intraday trading after a stock surge fueled in part by enthusiasm for its e-commerce growth and automation and AI investments (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)

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Universal Monsters trading card game Hellbreak announced for 2026

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Gates of Krystalia review: An anime-inspired tabletop RPG built for isekai fans

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The Crow actor Ernie Hudson is still grieving Brandon Lee's death

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The Switch is Nintendo’s best-selling console — and its most transformative

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Stardew Valley's 1.7 update sounds massive

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LexisNexis-owner Relx, Thomson Reuters, and other media and financial stocks fell 10%+ after Anthropic launched Claude Cowork tools that automate legal work (Financial Times)

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