Tech

Payment infrastructure provider Rezolve Ai agrees to acquire UK-based cashback rewards company Reward for $230M (www.pymnts.com)
2026-2-12 AI

Source: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team and transferred its staffers; Joshua Achiam, who led the team, will take on a new title of “chief futurist” (www.platformer.news)
2026-2-12

Google told advertisers that it is integrating direct shopping into Search's AI Mode and Gemini; users can now buy items from Etsy and Wayfair within Gemini (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-12 Google AI

HP Now Rents Gaming Laptops (slashdot.org)
2026-2-12

The Rosetta Stone language learning app is over 60% off in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-12

Source: to catch leakers, OpenAI security staff use a custom ChatGPT with access to Slack, email, and docs by cross-referencing news articles with access logs (www.theinformation.com)
2026-2-12 Slack

Sony Will Ship Its Final Blu-ray Recorders This Month (slashdot.org)
2026-2-12 Sony

A Dutch court orders an investigation into alleged mismanagement at Chinese-owned chip company Nexperia and upholds the suspension of CEO Zhang Xuezheng (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-12 China Netherlands

TikTok launches an opt-in Local Feed in the app's US version, including content related to travel, news, events, shopping, and dining near the user's location (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-12

An OpenAI researcher who helped shape how models were built and priced says she quit after two years due to “deep reservations” about ads and OpenAI's strategy (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-12

T-Mobile Will Live Translate Regular Phone Calls Without an App (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-12 Mobile

Meridian, which uses AI to make financial modeling and spreadsheets more “predictable and auditable”, exits stealth and raised a $17M seed at a $100M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-12 AI

Austin-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised $520M led by Google and others at a $5.5B valuation, up 3x from when it raised $350M in February 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-12 Google Startup Robot

GitGuardian, which integrates with GitHub to offer nonhuman identity and AI agent security, raised a $50M Series C, taking its total funding to ~$106M (siliconangle.com)
2026-2-12 AI GitHub

Filing: San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, set to run for California governor to succeed Newsom, gets donations from Sergey Brin, Roblox CEO David Baszucki, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-12 California

xAI all-hands meeting: Elon Musk tells staff that xAI needs a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-12 AI Elon Musk

T-Mobile announces a network-level, AI-based Live Translation feature supporting 50+ languages, coming “this spring” in beta and available on 5G and 4G LTE (www.theverge.com)
2026-2-12 Mobile AI 5G

Anthropic CCO Paul Smith says the company is focused on “growing revenue” rather than making “flashy headlines”, calls the market selloff “hyperbole”, and more (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-12

Mistral plans to spend €1.2B to build AI infrastructure in Sweden in partnership with EcoDataCenter, set to open in 2027 and its first investment outside France (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-11 France AI Sweden

Shopify reports Q4 revenue up 31% YoY to $3.7B, vs. $3.59B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue growth at a low-thirties percentage rate, vs. 25% est.; SHOP jumps 10% (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-11 4Q Shopify

Moderna Says FDA Refuses To Review Its Application for Experimental Flu Shot (science.slashdot.org)
2026-2-11

Investigation: as Ford pushes its BlueCruise driving system, some drivers found it confusing to use, misunderstood its limitations, and didn't heed its warnings (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-11 Ford

Researchers find Kalshi and Polymarket bettors can more accurately predict economic data, earnings, and political events than analysts, likely due to incentives (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-11

A profile of South Korea's SK Hynix, a once unloved memory chipmaker that now enjoys 58% operating margins and a $438B market cap amid the global HBM shortage (www.ft.com)
2026-2-11 Korea

SMIC CEO Zhao Haijun says the industry is “a bit panicked” about memory shortages, and new supply may arrive in nine months; memory prices are up 80%+ in 2026 (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-11

Chinese video game giant NetEase reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$4B and net profit down 29% to ~$903M, below ~$1.2B est., as it pushes self-developed games (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-11 China 4Q

JPMorgan exec Naveen Mallela, global co-head of blockchain division Kinexys, steps down after 11 years at the bank; Kinexys handled $5B transactions per day (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-11 Blockchain JPMorgan

Sources: Amazon, Google, and others plan to skirt Trump's $100K H-1B fee by finding workers in categories that don't include the fee, like existing H-1B holders (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-11 Trump Google Amazon H1B

KPMG citing PitchBook data: UK fintech investment totaled almost $11B in 2025 across 418 deals, down from ~$13.4B in 2024 across 527 deals; Revolut raised $4B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-11 Fintech KPMG

Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says the startup's annualized revenue run rate was “north of $400M”, up from $20M a year ago, and it is set to hit $1B ARR by 2026-end (t.co)
2026-2-11 Startup

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