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Fake AI Chrome extensions with 300K users steal credentials, emails (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-13 AI Chrome

Nvidia launches a native GeForce Now app on select Amazon Fire TV sticks, offering up to 1080p and 60 fps gaming; Fire TV users previously had to sideload it (www.engadget.com)
2026-2-13 Amazon Nvidia

Simile, which uses AI to help companies predict human behavior, including guessing items customers might buy, raised $100M led by Index and emerges from stealth (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-13 AI

Social media addiction trial in LA: Adam Mosseri says social media is not “clinically addictive” and that Meta is careful to test features used by young people (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-13

Q&A with Stratechery's Ben Thompson on aggregation theory, AI, TikTok, ByteDance, AI agentic commerce, SaaS stocks, running Stratechery, TSMC, Stripe, and more (cheekypint.substack.com)
2026-2-13 SaaS AI

Crypto transaction volume linked to suspected human trafficking, largely based in Southeast Asia, hit hundreds of millions of dollars in 2025, up 85% YoY (www.chainalysis.com)
2026-2-13 Asia Southeast Asia

A profile of Applied Intuition, which makes self-driving simulation software and reported $800M in 2025 revenue and 80% gross margins, as it expands beyond cars (www.forbes.com)
2026-2-13

Meta Auditor EY Raised Red Flag on Data-Center Accounting (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-13

Google's TIG says Gemini has been inundated by “commercially motivated” actors who are trying to clone it, including one campaign that prompted it 100K+ times (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-2-12 Google

Anthropic donates $20M to Public First, a super PAC pushing for AI guardrails and transparency in opposition to OpenAI-backed PACs, ahead of the US midterms (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-12 AI

This $30 AI training bundle shows you how to automate your tasks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-12 AI

Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana expects the company to hit 1M+ paid weekly robotaxi rides in the US by the end of 2026, up from ~400K per week in six cities now (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-12

Alibaba says Qwen generated 120M+ in orders from Chinese users over the past six days, ahead of the Lunar New Year; Alibaba is giving a ~$3.60 shopping voucher (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-12 China Alibaba

Internal messages: Amazon pushes in-house AI coding assistant Kiro for production code, prompting criticism and causing ~1,500 staff to push for Claude Code (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-2-12 Amazon AI

AI tools like Opus 4.6 actually do make engineers 10x more productive and are addictive, but the “AI Vampire” effect is causing widespread developer burnout (steve-yegge.medium.com)
2026-2-12 AI

xAI all-hands: Nikita Bier says X hit $1B in ARR from selling $3 to $40 per month subscriptions, but offered no details on ad revenue or other xAI financials (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-12

Dutch payments company Adyen reports H2 2025 net revenue up 17% YoY to €1.27B and forecasts 2026 net revenue growth at 20%-22%, vs 22.8% est.; ADYEN falls 15%+ (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-12 Netherlands

Samsung says it sent the first commercial HBM4 shipments to customers, as it seeks to supply Nvidia and compete with memory rivals like SK Hynix and Micron (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-12 Samsung Nvidia

Meta's auditor Ernst & Young raised a red flag over the financial engineering Meta used to keep its $27B Hyperion data center project off its balance sheet (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-12

US Hacking Tool Boss Stole and Sold Exploits To Russian Broker That Could Target Millions of Devices, DOJ Says (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-12 Russia

SoftBank Group reports Q3 net profit of $1.6B after its Vision Fund posted a $2.4B gain, as a jump in the value of its OpenAI investment helped offset losses (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-12

Private equity and private credit groups' big bets on SaaS companies, the biggest area of PE activity in the past decade, risk being derailed by the rise of AI (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-2-12 SaaS AI Equity

Sources: some OpenAI execs were surprised by WSJ's report that the company was targeting a Q4 2026 IPO; OpenAI hopes to triple its ~$13B 2025 revenue in 2026 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-12 IPO 4Q

Some of the biggest VC firms are backing both OpenAI and Anthropic, breaking a taboo by investing in competing startups, as the AI race reshapes venture capital (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-12 Startup AI

Google says hackers are abusing Gemini AI for all attacks stages (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-12 Google AI

Google unveils WAXAL, a new open speech dataset for 21 African languages to ease speech technology development; African institutions own the dataset (restofworld.org)
2026-2-12 Google Africa

Grab agrees to acquire US fintech company Stash Financial in a deal initially valued at $425M and forecasts FY 2026 revenue of $4.04B-$4.1B, below $4.13B est. (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-12 Fintech

Multiple responses from DeepSeek's namesake chatbot confirm that the startup has expanded the context window of its flagship AI model from 128K tokens to 1M+ (www.scmp.com)
2026-2-12 Startup AI chatbot

Siri's AI Overhaul Delayed Again (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-2-12 AI

Hong Kong-listed Zhipu AI surged 30% after releasing its GLM-5, an open-source LLM with enhanced coding capabilities and long-running agent tasks (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-12 Hong Kong AI

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