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Shield, which acquires IT businesses and uses AI to make them efficient, raised $100M from Thrive Holdings and says it crossed $100M in annual revenue in 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-3 AI

Day AI, which is developing an AI-powered CRM service that can automate data entry, meeting prep, note-taking, and more, raised a $20M Series A led by Sequoia (www.upstartsmedia.com)
2026-2-3 AI CRM

Fieldguide, which uses AI agents to automate accounting and auditing tasks, raised a $75M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives at a $700M valuation (fortune.com)
2026-2-3 AI Goldman

Snowflake and OpenAI agree to a multi-year, $200M partnership to integrate OpenAI's models into Snowflake Cortex AI and the Snowflake Intelligence agent (www.thedeepview.com)
2026-2-3 AI Intelligence

Alabama-based Linq, which pivoted to programmatic messaging APIs in February 2025, raised a $20M Series A to build AI assistants that work within messaging apps (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-3 AI

China's Decades-Old 'Genius Class' Pipeline Is Quietly Fueling Its AI Challenge To the US (news.slashdot.org)
2026-2-3 China AI

Is AI Really Taking Jobs? Or Are Employers Just 'AI-Washing' Normal Layoffs? (it.slashdot.org)
2026-2-3 AI Layoffs

Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a porn generator; sources say xAI's AI safety team was just two or three people for most of 2025 (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-2-2 AI Elon Musk

China's desire to lead in cutting-edge AI is bumping against its aim to control it; Zhipu warned IPO investors about the burden of complying with 6+ AI rules (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-2 China IPO AI

From Endless War to Strategic Reinforcement: Why U.S.-UAE AI Cooperation Could Open a Path to Peace in Ukraine (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-2-2 U.S. AI Ukraine

Seoul plans to integrate AI chatbot Maeumi into its suicide prevention hotline, offering immediate emotional support before a human counselor connects (www.koreaherald.com)
2026-2-2 AI chatbot

Alibaba plans to spend ~$431M in a Lunar New Year campaign starting February 6 to attract users to its Qwen AI app, above Tencent's ~$143.7M and Baidu's ~$71.8M (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-2 Alibaba AI Tencent

Linux Kernel Developer Chris Mason's New Initiative: AI Prompts for Code Reviews (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Linux AI

SEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-2-2 Israel Google AI Drone

Taiwan hits a 21.06% weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, surpassing China's 20.93%, the first time since July 2007, boosted by AI-linked local companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-2 China Taiwan AI

A look at DestinE, an EU-funded project to create Earth's digital twin using AI that has produced climate models with far higher resolution than current models (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-2-2 AI Climate

AI conferences have rushed to restrict the use of LLMs for writing and reviewing research papers in recent months after being flooded with AI-generated slop (www.ft.com)
2026-2-2 AI

Anthropic researchers detail “disempowerment patterns” in AI assistant interactions where AI potentially distorts a user's reality, beliefs, or actions (arstechnica.com)
2026-2-2 AI

Apple, long dominant in the electronics supply chain, is starting to be outbid by AI companies for components like memory as suppliers gain leverage over Apple (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-2 AI Apple

What AI Means for the Future of Work (www.heritage.org)
2026-2-2 AI

What Go Programmers Think of AI (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Programmer AI

Pentagon wants killer AI without safeguards – Reuters (www.rt.com)
2026-2-2 AI Pentagon

Is Meta's Huge Spending on AI Actually Paying Off? (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 AI

Survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production vs. 44% for Anthropic, but Anthropic's gains are impressive (www.a16z.news)
2026-2-2 AI

Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before it banned them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-2-2 AI Ban

Sources: Apple execs question if it has the ingredients to win in AI-first era, new MacBook Pros are about to launch, Apple considers clamshell foldable iPhone (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-2 iPhone AI Apple MacBook

Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more (restofworld.org)
2026-2-1 China AI Robot

Sources: Alibaba has delivered more than 100K units of the Zhenwu 810E, an ASIC for AI training and inference, surpassing those of its domestic rival Cambricon (www.scmp.com)
2026-2-1 Alibaba AI

Anthropic positions itself as the AI sector's superego, but it's caught between the pressures to be safe, fast, and rigorous while being commercially successful (www.theatlantic.com)
2026-2-1 AI

A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of AI agents on the site and post anything; the database has now been closed (www.404media.co)
2026-2-1 Database AI

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