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Crypto’s market crash has prompted much soul-searching within the industry, I learned at this week’s annual crypto Consensus conference in Hong Kong. The answer: To stay relevant, the industry must tie its fate with the AI boom.
I find the crypto industry’s hopes for an AI rescue somewhat ironic, given that AI has siphoned capital and talent away from crypto in the last two years. Nevertheless, “AI agent” was the buzz phrase at almost every panel and conversation I attended at Consensus. The theory is that
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At the end of last month, Ubisoft workers in the publisher’s native France threatened to strike in the wake of sweeping layoffs and cost-cutting measures. This week, they made good on those threats. According to GamesIndustry.biz, union members confirmed that at least 1,200 staff participated in the three-day strike, which was due to run from February 10 to February 12. While the strike action primarily took place in France, GamesIndustry.biz... Read more ›
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Apple’s Vision Pro is a curious product — it initially wowed me two years ago, but it was hard to ignore that the visionOS platform felt incomplete without dedicated apps for YouTube and Netflix. Well, it seems that Google has finally decided to take the Vision Pro seriously, as it’s launching a YouTube app on the platform today. Previously, you could only view YouTube videos via Safari, or through third-party... Read more ›
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A security source told Business Insider that the drones struck a refinery in Russia's Komi Republic on Thursday. Read more ›
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Following beta tests that commenced a few weeks ago, Nvidia is now bringing the GeForce Now game streaming service to a select few Amazon Fire TV stick models. Read more ›
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New quotes from the Marvel Studios directors are even more confusing than the last ones. Read more ›
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Amazon engineers have been pushing back against internal policies that steer them toward Kiro, the company's in-house AI coding assistant, and away from Anthropic's Claude Code for production work, according to a Business Insider report based on internal messages. About 1,500 employees endorsed the formal adoption of Claude Code in one internal forum thread, and some pointed out the awkwardness of being asked to sell the tool through AWS's Bedrock... Read more ›
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Last year Apple secured the exclusive rights to broadcast Formula 1 racing in the United States from 2026 to 2030. Apple TV subscribers can now watch every practice and qualifying session as well as every sprint and Grand Prix of a race weekend on the F1TV app by linking their Apple account. Right now, those with an existing F1TV subscription will still see an active status in their "my subscription"... Read more ›
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Zhipu, one of China’s prominent AI developers, has anonymously released its new large language model under a different name on OpenRouter, a popular AI model marketplace for developers. Pony Alpha, a new open-source LLM launched on OpenRouter a few days ago, is Zhipu’s new model, known as GLM-5, ... Read more ›
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Simmering anxieties about AI’s threat to subscription software have turned into a raging nervous breakdown on Wall Street in the past week, thanks in part to Anthropic’s recent AI launches (and despite Anthropic's own love for SaaS apps). Even Palantir, which has lately posted blockbuster growth, has been caught up in the selloff.Enter Jensen Huang. Speaking at an event hosted by Cisco this week, Nvidia’s CEO had a simple message:... Read more ›
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A year ago, Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, told analysts that transitioning from an earlier generation of AI server chips to a newer one, known as Blackwell, was “challenging” for the company’s customers because of the chips’ greater complexity. “The chassis, the architecture of the system, the hardware, the power delivery, all of that had to change” to improve chip performance, he said. Indeed, for some marquee Nvidia customers, getting... Read more ›
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Amazon said on Thursday it expects capital expenditures to rise to $200 billion this year as it pours more money into artificial intelligence efforts. The company’s shares fell more than 7% in after hours trading. That would mark a jump from Amazon’s 2025 spending of $131.8 billion. It’s also ... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Parties, PR and Epstein—inside investor Masha Bucher’s charmed ascendance• Artificial Intelligence: OpenClaw, agents and a mania within a mania • Power and Influence: How the architect behind California’s billionaires tax became tech’s villain• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Two Guys, Five Rings” and “The Rest Is History: Modern Olympics,” “Exiles” and “Rental Family”The Justice Department’s recent release of 3.5 million documents Read more ›
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Beast Industries, the entertainment conglomerate founded by Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, has agreed to buy Step Mobile, a teen-focused banking app, the companies plan to announce Monday. The acquisition will expand the YouTube star’s reach beyond media, restaurants and packaged food into financial services. Founded in 2018, Step Mobile runs an app that offers a federally insured bank account without fees and a secured Visa card that helps individuals establish credit... Read more ›
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Big tech’s dramatic ramp-up in projected capital expenditures this year will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google and Meta Platforms. That will force some of those companies to make some difficult choices, such as whether to end stock buybacks or borrow more money. The good news is that the big tech companies have the capacity to each borrow hundreds of billions more money than they currently... Read more ›
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Around the time he filed the billionaire tax proposal that has shaken up the tech world and ignited a debate about wealth taxes nationwide, Dave Regan, president of the California-based union behind the effort, convened a group of fellow labor leaders to solicit their thoughts. In a videoconference, he told the group he had a 30-day period to finalize the measure, which would assess a one-time, 5% tax on the... Read more ›
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For years, investors and founders have told me that AI which talks and listens the way humans do is on the cusp of a breakout moment. We’re still not there.Audio models are still lagging behind their text-based brethren in terms of intelligence. If you ask an audio model like the ChatGPT voice assistant a tough math question, for instance, it’s much more likely to get it wrong than a text-based... Read more ›
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Microsoft’s top sales executive told staff on Friday that the company was uniquely positioned to compete against a new OpenAI product aimed at helping businesses automate office tasks across different software applications—including Microsoft’s own apps. In an email, Microsoft Chief Commercial Officer Judson Althoff provided talking points salespeople could use in selling Microsoft’s tools for managing so-called AI agents, including highlighting their potential advantages over OpenAI’s new product, known a Read more ›
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