A livestream of Samsung Galaxy Unpacked February 2026 (Samsung on YouTube)
Samsung on YouTube : A livestream of Samsung Galaxy Unpacked February 2026 — #Ga…
'If organizations focus only on short-term efficiency... they risk hollowing out the next generation of technical leaders': Microsoft execs say senior workers must mentor juniors to fix AI mistakes
AI promises huge productivity gains, but we still need future generations of human wor…
Beverly Hills-based Subject, whose streaming-style, on-demand platform provides digital curriculum and learning insights for grades 6-12, raised $28M (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
Natalie Breymeyer / Axios : Beverly Hills-based Subject, whose streaming-style, on-…
Panasonic’s 2026 TV line-up is here, and I saw it in action — but it was one of its demos of future tech that impressed me most
Panasonic launches new OLED, mini-LED, and QLED TVs, plus an impressive RGB TV from …
If you’re looking for a portable power station to handle storm outages and camping trips, I recommend the Bluetti AC200L — it’s better than half price at under $750
Make sure you're ready for the next big storm — Bluetti AC200L portable power stat…
Internal memo: Lightricks, creator of photo editing app Facetune, is splitting its consumer app unit from its GenAI unit LTX to better capture the growth in AI (Echo Wang/Reuters)
Echo Wang / Reuters : Internal memo: Lightricks, creator of photo editing app Facetu…
A profile of Neil Shen of HSG, formerly Sequoia China, which raised $9B from US investors before US restrictions and has funded Manus and other Chinese startups (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : A profile of Neil Shen of HSG, formerly Sequoia China, which …
My Moleskine wasn’t enough to save my mental health but this app was
Homescreen Heroes: Life Note is a journaling app that puts history’s greatest minds in…
OpenAI's first ChatGPT gadget could turn out to be a smart speaker with a camera attached
We have a few more leaked details on the ChatGPT gadget that is apparently in the Open…
Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage are "unfair", as it takes "20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time" to train a human (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : Sam Altman says discussions about AI's energy usage a…
'No one deploys AI at Meta’s scale': Meta signs up Nvidia to power its next big AI projects — so what exactly do Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang have planned?
Meta partners with Nvidia to deploy millions of GPUs and CPUs, building scalable, priv…
English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K+ links to be removed (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after ed…
'What we really wanted was Mike': How Mike Markkula was Apple's first true master marketer before Steve Jobs and wrote the business plan that made Apple a Fortune 500 company
How Mike Markkula transformed Apple from garage experiment into the business that resh…
Interviews with Cluely's Roy Lee, Donald Boat, and other highly "agentic" young men, as agency becomes more valuable than technical skills in Silicon Valley (Sam Kriss/Harper's)
Sam Kriss / Harper's : Interviews with Cluely's Roy Lee, Donald Boat, and o…
Sources: Google may invest $100M in Fluidstack at a $7.5B valuation and has backstopped crypto miners that are building datacenters, seeking to expand TPU use (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal : Sources: Google may invest $100M in Fluidstack at a $7.5B val…
Peak XV, which split from Sequoia in 2023, raised $1.3B across new India- and Asia-focused funds, bringing its total assets under management to over $10B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : Peak XV, which split from Sequoia in 2023, raised $1.3…
Massive global data breach sees over a billion records exposed - here's what we know so far
IDMerit database exposed one billion personal records across 26 countries. from Late…
Cleveland-based Eagle Wireless, which makes cellular modules used in IoT devices, raised a $30M Series B as the US seeks to reduce its reliance on China (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Chris Metinko / Axios : Cleveland-based Eagle Wireless, which makes cellular module…
Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from Autodesk, a16z, Nvidia, AMD, Sea, and others to build its world models for robotics, scientific discovery, and more (Alicia Tang/Bloomberg)
Alicia Tang / Bloomberg : Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $1B from Autodesk, a16…
Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app deployment at scale and manages AI infrastructure, in its first acquisition; Koyeb raised $8.6M to date (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
Anna Heim / TechCrunch : Mistral buys Paris-based Koyeb, which simplifies AI app de…
Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards - Claude maker expresses concerns over 'hard limits around fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance'
The Pentagon is threating to cut a $200 million contract with Anthropic over a rift in…
4 great soundbars in the Presidents' Day sales that will instantly boost your TVs audio game — but will keep your wallet healthy
Put more boom in your room with these cut-price soundbar deals, including Dolby Atmos …
This Anker battery pack solved my battery anxiety — and it’s on sale this Presidents' Day
This Anker portable charger, which is small enough for everyday carry, has become my g…
Apple says it will bring "advanced video capabilities" to Apple Podcasts this spring, including allowing users to switch between watching and listening to shows (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Todd Spangler / Variety : Apple says it will bring “advanced video capabilities” to…
Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Remake’s directors say the game’s take on Japanese horror is ‘both beautiful and terrifying’
‘By minimizing jump scares and graphic depictions,’ Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly R…
Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
Will Oremus / Washington Post : Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allege…
Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, China is expected to produce 2% of global AI chips in 2026 and 70x less memory storage than foreign chipmakers (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
Meaghan Tobin / New York Times : Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, C…
Who remembers IRC? Clearly some hackers, as a new Linux botnet uses some incredibly old-school methods to cut costs
SSHStalker botnet uses old IRC communication, automated SSH brute-forcing, cron persis…
Holographic tape inches closer to mass market ahead of silica, ceramic media - 200TB WORM tech set to debut in 2027 after successful dry run in an LTO tape library
A live LTO library trial showed holographic tape can integrate into existing infrastru…
A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups (Jessica Brice/Bloomberg)
Jessica Brice / Bloomberg : A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem po…
Sources: the US FTC accelerated a probe into whether Microsoft illegally monopolized the enterprise computing market with its cloud software and AI offerings (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: the US FTC accelerated a probe into whether Microsoft illegall…
YouTube launches an app for the Apple Vision Pro, with standard videos, 180° and 360° videos, and YouTube Shorts; devices with the M5 chip can play 8K videos (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : YouTube launches an app for the Apple Vision Pro, with …
Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
Tim De Chant / TechCrunch : Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to bui…
Sources: KPMG negotiated a 14% lower fee for its 2025 audit by threatening to find a new accountant if Grant Thornton didn't pass on its cost savings from AI (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)
Stephen Foley / Financial Times : Sources: KPMG negotiated a 14% lower fee for its …
I tested the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s 2-in-1 Gen 1 - a fresh spin on my favorite portable business laptop
The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s 2-in-1 Gen 1 brings convertibility to the T-Series ThinkPad f…
Autodesk sues Google for allegedly infringing its Flow trademark as the name of Google's AI filmmaking tool (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters : Autodesk sues Google for allegedly infringing its Flow…
A software engineer explains AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using labs' latest tools, thinking atrophy, and more, alongside boosted productivity (Siddhant Khare)
Siddhant Khare : A software engineer explains AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO trea…
Move Over, BigOven: MealBoard is my new kitchen essential
Homescreen Heroes: MealBoard has taken all the stress out of meal planning and grocery…
Sources: Block is notifying hundreds of staff their jobs may be eliminated during annual performance reviews; up to 10% of the workforce is at risk of being cut (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: Block is notifying hundreds of staff their jobs may be elimina…
Trump-linked World Liberty Financial's stablecoin, USD1, hit $5B in total circulation in January with 85% held in Binance accounts; Trump pardoned CZ in October (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times : Trump-linked World Liberty Financial's s…
I tested 3 affordable OLED TVs from LG, Samsung and Philips side-by-side — here’s which one I’d buy
Affordable but excellent OLED doesn't have to be a rarity, so I tested three top m…
Tether froze $544M in alleged illicit income at Turkey's request, part of its push to aid governments in crackdowns against crypto use in alleged crimes (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Tether froze $544M in alleged illicit income at Turkey's request, p…
How to watch Melania — can I stream the First Lady's Amazon documentary online?
Right now, you can watch Melania in theaters. Once it lands on streaming platforms, yo…
Sources: OpenAI is working with G42 to build a ChatGPT version tuned for the UAE that accommodates local language, political outlook, and speech restrictions (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
Reed Albergotti / Semafor : Sources: OpenAI is working with G42 to build a ChatGPT …
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