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Anthropic Pledges To Keep Claude Ad-free, Calls AI Conversations a 'Space To Think' (slashdot.org)
2026-2-5 AI

Uber says it plans to expand its robotaxi services to Hong Kong, Madrid, Houston, and Zurich in 2026; Hong Kong will be Uber's first autonomous market in Asia (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-5 Hong Kong Uber Asia

Mistral debuts Voxtral Transcribe 2, a family of speech-to-text models with speaker diarization and ultra-low latency, under the Apache 2.0 open-weight license (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-2-5

Pinterest Sacks Workers For Creating Tool To Track Layoffs (slashdot.org)
2026-2-5 Layoffs

Adobe ramped up its ads in 2025, spending $1.4B amid AI competition and Wall Street skepticism, representing a significantly higher share of sales than rivals (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-5 AI Wall Street Adobe

Sources: Amazon and OpenAI are discussing a deal that could require OpenAI to dedicate researchers and engineers to developing customized models for Amazon (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-5 Amazon

AI voice startup ElevenLabs raised a $500M Series D led by Sequoia at an $11B valuation, taking its total funding to nearly $800M, and reports $330M in 2025 ARR (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-5 Startup AI

Amazon rolls out Alexa+ to all Prime members in the US via any Alexa-enabled device, Alexa.com, and the Alexa app, and launches a free tier for non-Prime users (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-5 Amazon

Why Google's Android for PC Launch May Be Messy and Controversial (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-5 Android Google

Adobe Actually Won't Discontinue Animate (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-5 Adobe

Bedrock, which aims to automate heavy construction equipment like excavators, raised $270M led by CapitalG and the Valor Atreides AI Fund at a $1.75B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-5 AI

Anthropic says Claude “will remain ad-free”, users “won't see ‘sponsored' links adjacent to” conversations, and responses won't be influenced by advertisers (www.anthropic.com)
2026-2-5

Resolve AI, which offers autonomous AI agents to monitor source code and infrastructure to resolve outages, raised $125M led by Lightspeed at a $1B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-5 AI

10 Beautiful Travel Destinations (That Will Kill You) (listverse.com)
2026-2-5

Egypt plans to ban Roblox in a bid to curb kids' exposure to potentially harmful online material; the Middle East's most populous nation joins Qatar and Turkey (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-5 Ban Egypt Qatar

TRM Labs, which helps law enforcement and companies track crypto and blockchains, raised a $70M Series C led by Blockchain Capital at a $1B valuation (fortune.com)
2026-2-4 Blockchain

US Senators introduce the bipartisan SCAM Act, a bill requiring social media platforms to verify advertiser identities via government-issued ID or legal docs (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-4

An interview with Epic Games Store VP Steven Allison, who says “we have a lot of things” to fix and “the launcher sucks”, on 2026 updates like social features (www.eurogamer.net)
2026-2-4 Interview

Texas Instruments plans to buy US chip company Silicon Labs in a $7.5B deal, paying $231/share in cash, closing in H1 2027; Silicon Labs has a $4.5B market cap (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-4 Texas

Anthropic plans a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl parodying the prospect of intrusive ads in AI conversations, and will also air a 60-second pre-game ad (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-4 AI

Uber plans to expand its robotaxi services to Hong Kong, Madrid, Houston, and Zurich in 2026; Hong Kong will be Uber's first autonomous market in Asia (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-4 Hong Kong Uber Asia

Uber reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $14.4B, Gross Bookings up 22% YoY to $54.1B, trips up 22% YoY to 3.8B, and a $296M profit, below est.; UBER falls 8%+ (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-4 Uber 4Q

Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba Cloud add OpenClaw support, giving users access to the AI agent service; many OpenClaw users run it on a Mac mini (www.theregister.com)
2026-2-4 Alibaba AI Tencent

AMD Hints the Next-Gen Xbox Console Could Launch Next Year (games.slashdot.org)
2026-2-4 Xbox AMD

Sources: Reno-based chip startup Positron raised a $230M Series B from the QIA and others to build high-speed memory chips, taking its total raised to $300M+ (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-4 Startup

Prosus agrees to a multiyear AWS cloud and AI deal that runs into “hundreds of millions of dollars”, as it seeks to expand in Europe, India, and Latin America (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-4 Europe U.S. India AI Latin America

Q&A with Stardew Valley developer Eric Barone, aka ConcernedApe, on the game turning 10, evolving as a developer, working solo, cozy game growth, and more (www.ign.com)
2026-2-4

German chipmaker Infineon reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY €3.66B, above €3.62B est., expects to raise investments to €2.7B in 2026, and forecasts growing AI demand (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-4 Germany AI

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says initial plans to raise $15B to $20B were a “misconception”; sources say Tether's advisers have floated raising as little as $5B (www.ft.com)
2026-2-4

Pinterest fires two employees who it says “wrote custom scripts” that accessed confidential info to track which workers lost their jobs during recent layoffs (www.bbc.com)
2026-2-4 Layoffs

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