The Fraction
Three days after three companies committed half a trillion dollars to AI infrastructure, Apple reported its capital expenditure had declined 19% to $2.37 billion. It was the only Big Tech company spending less. Its strategy was already clear: buy intelligence, don't build it.
Anthropic rolls out a fast mode for Claude Opus 4.6 in research preview, saying it offers the same model quality 2.5 times faster but costs six times more
Opus is usually $5/million input and $25/million output. The new fast mode is $30/million input and $150/million output!
After talking with ~40 people at Anthropic, a look at its “Yes, and...” culture where every idea is welcomed and judged based on vibes, like a hive mind
As you've probably noticed, something is happening over at Anthropic. They are a spaceship that is beginning to take off.
A software engineer explains AI fatigue, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using labs' latest tools, thinking atrophy, and more, alongside boosted productivity
You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.
Apple, whose capital expenditure is just a fraction of its peers, is the only Big Tech company that saw capex decline YoY in Q4, decreasing 19% to $2.37B
One of these companies is not like the others. — If you've been following the Big Tech companies' earnings reports …
Sources: iPhone 17e with MagSafe is coming soon; iOS 26.4 beta with updated Siri slated for the week of Feb. 23, M5 MacBook Pros as early as the week of Mar. 2
Apple is going to begin a 2026 product blitz with the iPhone 17e, updated iPads and fresh Macs.
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
The romance industry, always at the vanguard of technological change, is rapidly adapting to A.I. Not everyone is on board.
OpenClaw partners with VirusTotal and says that all skills published to ClawHub are now scanned using VirusTotal's threat intelligence
Artificial Intelligence / Vulnerability — OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot and Clawdbot) has announced that it's partnering with Google-owned VirusTotal …
Sources: Block is notifying hundreds of staff their jobs may be eliminated during annual performance reviews; up to 10% of the workforce is at risk of being cut
Jack Dorsey's Block Inc. has been notifying hundreds of employees that their jobs may be eliminated during annual performance reviews …
Q&A with mathematicians behind the “First Proof” experiment, which tests AI's mathematical competence on questions drawn from the authors' unpublished research
Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to measure just how poorly they perform.
Analysts say a design refresh for the iPhone 17 lineup has reinforced Apple's status-symbol appeal in China, with the “cosmic orange” Pro model going viral
Vivid redesign and social media buzz lure Chinese buyers back after a prolonged slumpForums:r/appleForums:r/apple:‘Hermès orange’ iPhone sparks Apple comeback in China
T-glass, a type of ultrathin glass sheet used in advanced chips, is in short supply and largely comes from Nittobo, which is not adding capacity for months
A type of ultrathin glass sheet, used in advanced chips, is in short supply and prices are up sharply
Analysis: World Liberty Financial has earned the Trump family at least $1.2B in cash since its launch, while the Witkoff family has earned at least $200M
Sons of top Trump administration officials made billions for their families, but their investors didn't always fare so wellForums:r/Enough_Sanders_SpamForums:r/Enough_Sanders_Spam:One Generation Runs ...
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
Ties between the exchange and the president's company, World Liberty Financial, have only strengthened since the president pardoned Binance's founder, Changpeng Zhao.
European countries are moving toward social media bans for children, even as doubts persist over implementation and the risk of a new battle with US tech groups
Move follows Australia's decision to introduce age restrictions over child safety concerns — Leila Abboud in Paris, Barbara Moens in Brussels and Nic Fildes in Sydney
This year's projected capex ramp-up will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google, and Meta, potentially forcing stock buyback cuts or more borrowing
Big tech's dramatic ramp-up in projected capital expenditures this year will all but wipe out free cash flow for Amazon, Google and Meta Platforms.
A profile of Ali Ansari, the 25-year-old co-founder of micro1, which recruits human experts to train AI systems; micro1 was last valued at $500M in Sept. 2025
- 8 min Click here to listen to this article — The man set to become one of the world's youngest artificial intelligence billionaires started …
An interview with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour about the “wisdom of the crowd”, political polarization, having Trump Jr. as an adviser, casino comparisons, and more
The co-founder of America's biggest predictions market on the ‘wisdom of the crowd’, political polarisation — and the company's adviser, Donald Trump Jr
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb says it accidentally sent $44B worth of bitcoin to customers as promotional rewards and has recovered 99.7% of it
South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb said on Saturday it had accidentally given away more than $40 billion worth of bitcoins …
Waymo says it is using DeepMind's Genie 3 to create realistic digital worlds for its autonomous driving technology to train on edge-case scenarios
New US rules banning Chinese software in internet-connected vehicles from March 17 add urgency to industrywide efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese components
New U.S. rules ban Chinese software in vehicles on national-security grounds — How Chinese is your car? Automakers are racing to work it out.
India's updated startup framework doubles deep-tech startup eligibility to 20 years and triples the revenue cap for tax, grant, and regulatory benefits to ~$33M
Deep tech startups in sectors such as space, semiconductors, and biotech take far longer to mature than conventional ventures.
Kalshi and Polymarket have facilitated over $800M in Super Bowl contracts, as pro gamblers shift to prediction markets and adopt Wall Street-style strategies
Chinese regulators reiterate the mainland crypto ban and expand enforcement to cover real-world asset tokenization and offshore yuan-pegged stablecoin issuance
Quick Take — Beijing authorities have explicitly widened the net to target real-world asset tokenization …
Chinese regulators fined Kuaishou $17.2M for failing to curb illegal content; pornographic content appeared on Kuaishou during its December 2025 cyberattacks
X unveils a new pay-per-use pricing model for its API, replacing the earlier pricing model that required developers to pay fixed monthly fees of $200 or $5,000
X has launched a new pay-per-use pricing model for its developer application programming interface (API), replacing …
Source: Benchmark raised $225M in special funds to invest in Cerebras' ~$1B Series H, led by Tiger Global; Benchmark led Cerebras' $27M Series A in 2016
A look at Corning's booming fiber-optic business, boosted by data center demand and a $6B Meta deal, as Nvidia explores Corning's co-packaged optics for servers
Everyone told the company to sell its unprofitable fiber-optic business. Now that division is powering its stock to all-time highs.
RADICL, which offers threat detection and response services to SMBs supporting US defense industrial base and critical infrastructure, raised a $31M Series A
DOJ-released emails: Jeffrey Epstein helped Ian Osborne, founder of London-based fund Hedosophia, after Osborne's outreach to help Epstein fix his image in 2011
Convicted sex offender helped establish tech fund Hedosophia after Osborne offered to help clean up Epstein's image
A look at the state of AI agents, the evolution of thinking models, the staggering need for inference compute in the coming years, automated research, and more
Tether froze $544M in alleged illicit income at Turkey's request, part of its push to aid governments in crackdowns against crypto use in alleged crimes
On Jan. 30, Turkish authorities announced the freezing of more than half a billion dollars in assets owned by Veysel Sahin …
New York lawmakers propose a bill to impose a three-year moratorium on data center development, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce such legislation
Trump Mobile execs showcase the T1 Phone's new design and specs, and say the phones go through “final assembly” in Miami and full assembly in the US is a “goal”
Palmer Luckey's Erebor becomes the first newly created bank to receive a national charter under the second Trump administration, launching with $635M in capital
US data center demand has driven stock surges of contractors and equipment makers like Corning, Sterling Infrastructure, Comfort Systems USA, and Carrier Global
Wall Street Journal:LinkedIn:Robert Elfinger,Zak Kostura,Andrew C. Lindsey,Chris Teddy, andDavid GitlinLinkedIn:Robert Elfinger:Wesco CEO John Engel recently told The Wall Street Journal that staying ...
Sources: Mercor rival micro1 has told investors it is now generating $200M in recurring revenue; Mercor is offering micro1 employees signing bonuses up to $2M
Anna Tong /Forbes:LinkedIn:Jenna EarnshawandAnna TongLinkedIn:Jenna Earnshaw:“The explosive growth of the so-called human data market comes down to a simple constraint: AI models don't get smarter on ...
How Anthropic's bet on enterprise users is paying off; sources: Anthropic's guidance to investors claims annualized revenue will exceed $30B by the end of 2026
Start-up's bet on enterprise users is paying off as coding tools fuel revenue and investor frenzy — Anthropic achieved a breakout moment …