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Sources: AI legal software startup Harvey seeks to raise $200M led by Sequoia and GIC at an $11B valuation, up from $8B after raising $160M in December 2025 (www.forbes.com)
2026-2-9 Startup AI

How the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DOJ 295, Interior 234, and DHS 205 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-2-9 Energy AI NASA

A profile of Amanda Askell, Anthropic's resident philosopher, who is learning Claude's reasoning patterns in a bid to endow it with a sense of morality (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-9

ByteDance releases Seedance 2.0, an update to its AI video generation model that can make multi-shot scenes, available to select Jimeng and Jianying users (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-9 AI

Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicro agrees to supply AWS with various chips, including for high-bandwidth connectivity and power management; STM jumps 5%+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-9 Italy

Microsoft: Exchange Online flags legitimate emails as phishing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-9 Microsoft

European Commission discloses breach that exposed staff data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-9 Europe

YouTube launches a Premium paywall for song lyrics on YouTube Music, after testing it in recent months; users get five free lyrics before they have to subscribe (9to5google.com)
2026-2-9 YouTube

Chinese chip designer Montage raised $902M in its Hong Kong IPO, jumping 64% in its market debut, the biggest rise since Kuaishou's $6.2B Hong Kong IPO in 2021 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-9 China Hong Kong IPO

The European Commission sends a statement of objections to Meta over WhatsApp blocking rival AI chatbots, warning it will take measures to avoid “serious” harm (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-9 Europe AI chatbot WhatsApp

PE firm Advent, FedEx, A&R, and PPF agree to acquire Polish automated parcel delivery company InPost for €7.8B; the company has 61K automated parcel lockers (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-9 Poland

Q&A with YouTube VP of Subscription Products Christian Oestlien on YouTube TV's future, the NFL and Oscars deals, its friendly rivalry with Netflix, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-9 YouTube Netflix

Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek launches ai.com during the Super Bowl and opens up username handle registration to let users get a private, personalized AI agent (cointelegraph.com)
2026-2-9 AI

A look at Tether's global expansion, after it recently hit ~300 staff; sources describe Tether's internal focus on corporate structure and “profit and loss” (www.ft.com)
2026-2-9

A look at the 2026 Super Bowl ads from Anthropic, Amazon, OpenAI, and others, as AI continued to take center stage in ad creations and AI product promotion (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-9 Amazon AI

SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-9 SpaceX

China says its trade surplus from digital services rose 100%+ to a record $33B in 2025, boosted by overseas revenue of AI, livestreaming, and e-commerce (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-9 China AI

How Runna, an AI-powered virtual coaching app acquired by Strava in 2025, toned down its aggressive training plans following reports of injuries from some users (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-9 AI

National Football League Launches Challenge to Improve Facemasks and Reduce Concussions (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-9

Blackstone and Coatue grant a $10B loan to Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus for data center expansion, among Australia's largest private credit deals (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-9 Australia Startup AI

How China boosts its humanoid robot industry, giving companies land, favorable bank loan terms, and sometimes subsidizing the robots' purchase price by ~10% (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-9 China Robot

Carmakers Rush To Remove Chinese Code Under New US Rules (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-9 China

An interview with Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, who was promoted to president of General Catalyst in January, about investing in European tech and defense startups (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-9 Europe Interview Startup

Amazon Delivery Drone Crashes into Texas Apartment Building (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-9 Amazon Drone Texas

As Section 230 turns 30, a look at how upcoming court cases involving Meta, Alphabet, and others in the US could reshape the bounds of Section 230's protections (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-9 Alphabet

Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-2-9 AI

Do Super Bowl Ads For AI Signal a Bubble About to Burst? (slashdot.org)
2026-2-9 AI

How AI is impacting the romance novel industry, with authors failing to disclose AI use and using pen names more, bogging down the publishing ecosystem (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-9 AI

Dave Farber Dies at Age 91 (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-9

New tool blocks imposter attacks disguised as safe commands (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-9

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