Tech

A look at the state of AI agents, the evolution of thinking models, the staggering need for inference compute in the coming years, automated research, and more (evjang.com)
2026-2-7 AI

Hollywood's AI Bet Isn't Paying Off (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-2-7 AI

New York lawmakers propose a bill to impose a three-year moratorium on data center development, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce such legislation (www.wired.com)
2026-2-7 New York

US tech stocks and bitcoin rally after three days of selling; Nasdaq Composite closed up 2.18%, Broadcom 7.22%, Strategy 26.11%, and bitcoin rebounded to ~$70K (www.ft.com)
2026-2-7 Bitcoin

Amazon's Tax Bill Plunges 87% After Tax Cuts (slashdot.org)
2026-2-7 Amazon Tax

Trump Mobile execs showcase the T1 Phone's new design and specs, and say the phones go through “final assembly” in Miami and full assembly in the US is a “goal” (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-7 Trump Mobile

Palmer Luckey's Erebor becomes the first newly created bank to receive a national charter under the second Trump administration, launching with $635M in capital (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-7 Trump

Memory Prices Have Nearly Doubled Since Last Quarter (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-7

Spotify rolls out About the Song, swipeable stories in English, summarized from third-party sources to highlight song details, in beta for Premium users (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-7 Spotify

Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is raising a $350M+ Series E led by Vista Equity Partners; Intel plans to invest $100M to $150M (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-7 Intel Startup AI Equity

Nvidia stock closes up 7.87% after Jensen Huang said the tech industry's surging capex for AI infrastructure is justified, appropriate, and sustainable (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-7 AI Nvidia

Galaxy Digital stock jumps 17%+ after the company approved a share buyback program of up to $200M over the next 12 months (www.coindesk.com)
2026-2-7

Sources: London-based 9fin, a data provider for debt markets, is in talks to raise as much as $150M at a pre-money valuation of $1B, about 20x its ARR of ~$50M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-7 London

Croatian-founded Daytona, which aims to build infrastructure for large-scale agent workloads, raised a $24M Series A led by FirstMark (tech.eu)
2026-2-7

A civil subpoena shows the US DOJ is investigating Netflix for potential anticompetitive tactics as DOJ probes the company's proposed acquisition of WBD (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-7 Netflix

Germany warns of Signal account hijacking targeting senior figures (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-7 Germany

Heroku says it is transitioning to a “sustaining engineering model”, as it focuses on “helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI” (www.heroku.com)
2026-2-7 AI

Sources: Apple plans to allow third-party voice-controlled AI chatbots in CarPlay within the coming months; it won't let users replace CarPlay's Siri button (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-7 AI Apple chatbot

Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-7 China

Salesforce Shelves Heroku (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-7 Salesforce

Amazon's annual tax bill fell 87% YoY to $1.2B in 2025, as profits grew 45% to ~$90B, mostly due to GOP's depreciation breaks in the One Big Beautiful Bill (www.politico.com)
2026-2-7 Amazon Tax Republican

London-based Bound, an automated FX risk management platform, raised a $24.5M Series A led by AlbionVC as it seeks to expand across Europe (tech.eu)
2026-2-7 Europe London

AI.com Sells for $70 Million, the Highest Price Ever Disclosed for a Domain Name (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-7 AI

DKnife Linux toolkit hijacks router traffic to spy, deliver malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-7 Linux

Crypto.com co-founder Kris Marszalek buys the domain AI.com for $70M, the highest disclosed price for a domain name, as he plans a site offering an AI agent (t.co)
2026-2-7 AI

Big Tech's $1.1 Trillion Cloud Computing Backlog (slashdot.org)
2026-2-7

CISA warns of SmarterMail RCE flaw used in ransomware attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-7

Sources: OpenAI is working with G42 to build a ChatGPT version tuned for the UAE to accommodate local language, political outlook, and speech restrictions (www.semafor.com)
2026-2-7

10 Stopgap Technologies That Became Industry Standards (listverse.com)
2026-2-7

Waymo says it is using DeepMind's Genie 3 to create realistic digital worlds for its autonomous driving technology to train on edge-case scenarios (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-7

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