• Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes
• “Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
• PA measles outbreak tops 1,000 cases, largest since disease was eliminated
• TP-Link problems in US grow amid FCC router ban and four state lawsuits
• Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand
• Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns
• Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift
• Jaguar Type 01 debuts; now, no one remembers the electric Ferrari
• Trade group crunches numbers on Trump’s impossible push for 100% US-made tech
• Mistral says "Le Chonk" can challenge the best AI models
• Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally
• AI/ML is becoming a performance factor in motorsport
• Review: Fine, let's talk about Digger
• If you're looking, here's a "good deal" for NASA and the European Space Agency
• Drones sink ships near NATO countries in “unacceptable” attacks, EU says
• OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU
• HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service”
• It looks like the Atlantic storm season may finally produce a hurricane
• Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
• Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth
| • Manus' parent Butterfly Effect says it raised $500M+, led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, in its first funding since Meta was forced to unwind its Manus buyout (Anniek Bao/CNBC)
• A profile of Garmin CEO Cliff Pemble, who helped diversify its GPS product lines and grew annual revenue from $2.6B in 2013 to a record $7.2B last year (Brent Crane/Bloomberg)
• The Association for Human Mathematics says OpenAI's new math documents show power, not scholarship, and urges mathematicians to stop working with the company (AHM)
• A look at Emeryville, CA-based Atomic Machines, which is training AI on materials and designs to revamp how microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are built (Cade Metz/New York Times)
• SemiAnalysis: China has 24 GW of operational compute capacity and another 50 GW planned or under construction, compared to 56 GW operational in the US (Financial Times)
• A theoretical computer scientist, citing sources, says AI labs have quietly started probing whether their models can break important cryptographic protocols (Scott Aaronson/Shtetl-Optimized)
• Vitalik Buterin says "we should take the risks to cryptography from AI-accelerated math seriously", backing a "bunker mode" call for the blockchain industry (Felix Ng/Cointelegraph)
• German search engine Ecosia, used by government services, ditches Mistral for open-source models, including Chinese ones, citing Mistral's disappointing quality (Politico)
• Filing: Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren raises ~$515M in a new share sale; Biren's Hong Kong-listed stock is down 50%+ from a June peak but up ~70% YTD (Bloomberg)
• Elon Musk claims "certain oligarchs" are stalling Starlink's India launch to protect a "monopolistic chokehold"; SpaceX signed MOUs with Jio and Airtel in 2025 (Priyanka Salve/CNBC)
• Sources: Isomorphic Labs, an AI drug discovery startup spun out of Google DeepMind, is in early talks to raise funds at a valuation of at least $40B (Bloomberg)
• Source: Nvidia considered a last-minute OpenRouter bid, telling its leadership it was prepared to make a generous offer, but OpenRouter didn't want to wait (The Information)
• OpenRouter: the share of business spending between OpenAI and Anthropic models was roughly even in September, vs. Anthropic commanding a 75% share in January (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
• Unsealed docs: in its lawsuit, New York alleges TikTok gave thousands of users, including youth, non-functional safety features as part of placebo experiments (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)
• Keyu Tian, a former ByteDance intern, raised ~$30M from 5Y and IDG for his unnamed AI lab that focuses on building world models, at a $200M post-money valuation (Bloomberg)
| • Rivian R2 owners can now put a live pet cam on their phone's lockscreen
• The FCC proposes new mid-band spectrum auction and unlocking 800MHz for drones
• Here's what the $6,000 Surface RTX Spark Dev Box looks like
• Microsoft's Surface RTX Spark Dev Box costs an eye-watering $6,000
• Surface Laptop Ultra hands-on: A beautiful beast powered by NVIDIA's RTX Spark
• Disney+ will stream the Super Bowl, along with some Monday Night Football games
• Microsoft may have finally fixed Windows search by turning it into a chatbot
• Here's everything we know about Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra
• Everything announced at Microsoft's Windows and Surface event
• We now have images of the smart home products that Apple and LG are reportedly cooking up
• Cisco is bringing a new agentic framework to its Webex enterprise platform
• Ring's smart lock has a hand crank so it works even if the power's out
• Google's AI detection website is now available
• OpenAI just posted hundreds more results on major math problems
• The Social Reckoning is a timely reminder that we shouldn't trust Meta
• Xreal's Aura Android XR smartglasses will cost you at least $1,279
• Google's experimental Playground platform uses AI to create games for you
• Microsoft Windows and Surface event 2026: Live updates on the Surface Laptop Ultra and NVIDIA RTX Spark
• Ultrahuman now offers on-demand heart rhythm scans
• How to watch the Microsoft Windows and Surface event
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