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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

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reported a collective $1.1T backlog of cloud computing revenue in their latest quarterly earnings, including Microsoft's $625B (sherwood.news)
2026-2-7 Google Amazon Microsoft

KPMG Pressed Its Auditor To Pass on AI Cost Savings (slashdot.org)
2026-2-7 AI KPMG

Analysis: Claude Code currently authors 4% of all public GitHub commits and is on track to cross 20% of all daily commits by the end of 2026 (newsletter.semianalysis.com)
2026-2-7 GitHub

Spotify changes Developer Mode to require a Premium subscription and reduces the number of test users per app from 25 to 5, to curb AI-aided or automated usage (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-7 AI Spotify

The Bizarre Enhancement Claims Rocking Ski Jumping (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-7

EDR, Email, and SASE Miss This Entire Class of Browser Attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-7 Browser

Europe Accuses TikTok of 'Addictive Design' and Pushes for Change (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-7 Europe

SIA: chip sales hit $791.7B in 2025, up 25.6% YoY, with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel accounting for $301.9B, up 40%; SIA expects sales to reach $1T in 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-7 Intel Nvidia AMD

EU says TikTok faces large fine over "addictive design" (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-7

How an appeal changed the way the USPTO assesses AI patents under the US Patent Act, signaling a shift towards more favorable treatment of AI and ML inventions (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-2-7 AI

Canada Unveils Auto Industry Plan in Latest Pivot Away From US (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-7 Canada

You can mod this $80 RGB mechanical keyboard (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6

Man pleads guilty to hacking nearly 600 women's Snapchat accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6 Snapchat

The EU says that TikTok's “addictive design” is illegal under the DSA, citing the app's infinite scroll and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-6 Algorithm

Goldman Sachs says it has been working with Anthropic on AI agents to automate a growing number of roles at the bank, including client vetting and onboarding (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-6 AI Goldman

AT&T launches amiGO Jr., a mid-tier Samsung-made smartphone for kids with parental controls on contacts, app access, screen time, and more, for $2.99 per month (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-6 Samsung AT&T

Women in rural India report experiencing trauma from data annotation work, which requires them to review violent content and porn for global tech companies (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-6 India

Why This Is the Worst Crypto Winter Ever (slashdot.org)
2026-2-6

Flickr discloses potential data breach exposing users' names, emails (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6

CISA orders federal agencies to replace end-of-life edge devices (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-6

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft forecast capital expenditures that reach a combined ~$650B in 2026, a 60% YoY increase driven by data center construction (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-6 Amazon Microsoft Alphabet

CIA Has Killed Off The World Factbook After Six Decades (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-6

Sources: Intel and AMD have notified Chinese customers of supply shortages for server CPUs, with Intel warning of delivery lead times of up to six months (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-6 China Intel AMD

Arm CEO Rene Haas says investor fears about AI hurting software companies are a “micro-hysteria” that exceeds the reality of how businesses are using AI tools (www.ft.com)
2026-2-6 AI

Meituan agrees to buy Dingdong, a Chinese fresh grocery e-commerce company, for $717M in cash; Dingdong had 7M+ monthly transacting users as of September 2025 (www.scmp.com)
2026-2-6 China

Google Confirms AirDrop Sharing is Coming To Android Phones Beyond Pixels (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-6 Android Google

Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after a WSJ story about Instagram and teen mental health, noting Apple faces less scrutiny (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-6 Apple Instagram Zuckerberg

How the SpaceX-xAI $1.25T merger deal was fast-tracked after SpaceX had a technical breakthrough in orbital data centers last fall (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-6 SpaceX

Sapiom, which is developing a financial layer for enterprises to let AI agents automatically buy the services they need, raised a $15M seed led by Accel (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-6 AI

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