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Inside India's AI Impact Summit: 300+ exhibitors, 500 sessions, 250K visitors, billions in investment, and entrepreneurs touting solutions to real-world issues (www.nytimes.com)
17 days ago India AI Entrepreneur

eBay agrees to acquire secondhand clothing app Depop from Etsy for ~$1.2B in cash; Etsy bought Depop in 2021 for $1.6B; ETSY jumps 17%+ after hours (www.nytimes.com)
18 days ago eBay

Meta plans to spend $65M in 2025 to boost state politicians friendly to AI; filings: Meta started two super PACs, one backing the GOP and another for Democrats (www.nytimes.com)
18 days ago AI Democrat Republican

Meta plans to spend $65M this year backing state politicians friendly to AI; filings: it is starting two super PACs, one backing GOP and another for Democrats (www.nytimes.com)
18 days ago AI Democrat Republican

Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters (www.nytimes.com)
21 days ago Iran

Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic experimental computer networks helped define the evolution of the early internet, died on February 7 at age 91 (www.nytimes.com)
21 days ago

Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, China is expected to produce 2% of global AI chips in 2026 and 70x less memory storage than foreign chipmakers (www.nytimes.com)
22 days ago China AI

Sources: recently the DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas, which do not need a judge's approval, to tech firms to identify people critical of ICE (www.nytimes.com)
23 days ago

Memo: Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses in 2026, saying the political tumult in the US would distract critics from the feature's release (www.nytimes.com)
23 days ago Facial Recognition

Sources: Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as 2026, and considers letting the glasses identify people with public Meta accounts (www.nytimes.com)
23 days ago Facial Recognition

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)
24 days ago

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)
24 days ago AI

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)
25 days ago IPO 4Q

Social media addiction trial: Adam Mosseri says social media is not “clinically addictive” and that Meta was careful to test features used by young people (www.nytimes.com)
25 days ago

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)
25 days ago

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)
25 days ago AI Elon Musk

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)
25 days ago

In opening statements in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, YouTube argues it is an entertainment service like Netflix rather than a social network (www.nytimes.com)
26 days ago YouTube Netflix

How AI is impacting the romance novel industry, with authors failing to disclose AI use and using pen names more, bogging down the publishing ecosystem (www.nytimes.com)
28 days ago AI

Q&A with mathematicians behind the “First Proof” experiment, which tests AI's mathematical competence on questions drawn from the authors' unpublished research (www.nytimes.com)
28 days ago AI

Trump-linked World Liberty Financial's stablecoin, USD1, hit $5B in total circulation in January with 85% held in Binance accounts; Trump pardoned CZ in October (www.nytimes.com)
29 days ago Trump

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)
30 days ago Algorithm

A federal jury in Phoenix ordered Uber to pay $8.5M to a passenger who said a driver sexually assaulted her in 2023, the first case where Uber was found liable (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-6 Uber

DOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-6 Startup Coinbase

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

The SpaceX-xAI merger further intermingles Musk's companies, creates the most valuable private company in the world, and provides a financial lifeline to xAI (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-3 SpaceX

How food delivery is reshaping US mealtimes, as some users spend thousands; NRA data shows nearly 75% of 2024 restaurant orders were not eaten in a restaurant (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-2

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

Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X “outlining concrete steps” to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-2 Ban Indonesia

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-31 California

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