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CRM software company Freshworks said it plans to cut 11% of its workforce, or ~500 jobs, as it deals with AI's impact; FRSH has dropped ~26% in 2026 (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

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Daredevil Born Again season 3 plot, cast, release date window and everything else we know

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Daredevil: Born Again season 2 ending explained: Is the Marvel show about January 6?

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US labor experts and economists warn US unemployment benefits are unlikely to protect against AI job losses, and the GOP-led Congress is doing little to prepare (New York Times)

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Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens

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Samsung reaches a $1T valuation, making it only the second Asian company after TSMC to hit the mark, after its stock rose 4x+ over the past year on the AI boom (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)

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Apple Settles Class Action Lawsuit Over AI Features That Were Advertised but Didn’t Ship for $250 Million

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Sources: the WH is mulling EOs to address security risks from advanced AI, including barring companies from "interfering" with the government's use of models (Politico)

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Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the Gemini app, internally named Remy, that can integrate with Google services to take actions on a user's behalf (Hugh Langley/Business Insider)

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Astrocade, which lets users create video games using natural language prompts, raised $56M, including a Series A and a Series B, and says it has ~5M MAUs (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)

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Sources: Meta is building an OpenClaw-inspired agent internally called Hatch, to be powered by its Muse Spark model, and an agentic shopping tool in Instagram (Jyoti Mann/The Information)

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Catch up on this terrific manga mystery before the official anime version

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Sources: Alphabet sold its biggest-ever euro-denominated bonds, raising €9B, and its first Canadian dollar notes, raising CA$8.5B, months after raising $20B (Bloomberg)

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Diablo 4 interactive map

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Kaspersky says Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

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The Pentagon Pegs the Cost of the Iran War, So Far, at $25 Billion

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Google Home’s Gemini AI can handle more complicated requests

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EA reports Q4 net bookings up 3.6% YoY to $1.86B, vs. $2B est., weighed down by a post-launch drop-off in engagement for Battlefield 6 (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

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What Trump’s ballroom could cost you

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James Cameron wants to redo Aliens as a 3D movie

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