A Hundred Million
India has 100 million weekly ChatGPT users — the largest market outside the US. Anthropic just opened in Bengaluru. But India's last tech poster child just collapsed. The Summit sells a leader. The numbers show a customer.
Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, creator of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source
Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do ...
A senior official says Pentagon is “close” to designating Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, requiring all US military contractors to sever ties with the company
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “close” to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a …
Apple says it will bring “advanced video capabilities” to Apple Podcasts this spring, including allowing users to switch between watching and listening to shows
Apple Podcasts is finally giving video a full embrace. — The tech giant, which pioneered the podcast audio format …
Alibaba debuts Qwen3.5, a 397B-parameter open-weight multimodal AI model that it says is 60% cheaper to use and 8x better at large workloads than Qwen3
Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP
Disney also sent a legal demand to Chinese internet company — Paramount Skydance accused ByteDance of engaging in …
As India prepares to host its AI Impact Summit in New Delhi this week, the country is set to promote a frugal AI strategy focused on solving local issues
The world's most populous country is looking at how it can become an artificial-intelligence power without breaking the bank
ByteDance says it “respects IP rights and we have heard the concerns regarding Seedance” and it plans to “strengthen” safeguards, after Disney's legal threats
Chinese technology giant ByteDance has pledged to curb a controversial artificial intelligence (AI) …
Sources: Sony is considering pushing back the debut of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029, as the AI boom fuels huge memory chip demand
A growing procession of tech industry leaders including Elon Musk and Tim Cook are warning about a global crisis in the making …
Internal email: the European Parliament has blocked AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns
BRUSSELS — The European Parliament has disabled AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity …
Q&A with Google Chief AI Scientist Jeff Dean about the evolution of Google Search, TPUs, coding agents, balancing model efficiency and performance, and more
From rewriting Google's search stack in the early 2000s to reviving sparse trillion-parameter models and co-designing TPUs …
Apple sends invites for a “special Apple Experience” event on March 4 in New York City; rumors suggest an M5 MacBook Pro, entry-level iPad Air, and iPhone 17e
Apple today announced a “special Apple Experience” in New York, taking place on March 4, 2026 at 9:00am ET.
Keir Starmer says “no platform gets a free pass”, as the UK moves to amend safety laws to include AI chatbots like Grok, which made sexualized deepfakes of kids
Keir Starmer to warn tech companies that ‘no platform gets a free pass’ after deepfake scandal involving Grok
Crypto lender Nexo says it is relaunching in the US in partnership with Bakkt, three years after leaving the US and paying a $45M fine to settle SEC charges
In a podcast, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger describes his phone calls with Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, and says he had been contacted by “every big VC”
Mark Zuckerberg needed ten minutes. He was finishing code. — Peter Steinberger had called him on WhatsApp without scheduling anything.
Anthropic opens a Bengaluru office, its second in Asia, says its India run-rate revenue doubled since October, and curates training data for 10 Indic languages
India is the second-largest market for Claude.ai, home to a developer community doing some of the most technically intense AI work we see anywhere.
Sources: Apple tweaked its Maps app for Tesla before the EV maker's planned addition of CarPlay; low-cost MacBook will get an aluminum chassis in playful colors
Tesla's plan to start supporting CarPlay in its vehicles has been held back by the need for changes in iOS 26's Maps app.
Sam Altman says that India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, the app's second-largest userbase after the US, ahead of the AI Impact Summit
India has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, making the country one of OpenAI's largest markets globally, CEO Sam Altman said ahead of a government-hosted AI summit.
Samsung releases an ad for the Galaxy S26 series that briefly shows a “Zero-peeking privacy” toggle to black out on-screen content for onlookers at an angle
Leaker Ice Universe has shared a video of the tech in action. … Samsung has released a new advertisement …
Sources: SpaceX and xAI are competing in a $100M DoD contest to make voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarms; OpenAI is helping Applied Intuition's submission
A look at the fall of Indian edtech startup Byju's, leading to US court sanctions, as lenders accuse founder Byju Raveendran of siphoning $533M of a $1.2B loan
Data analytics company Fractal, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, raised $313M in its Mumbai IPO; its shares fell 5% amid a weak Indian IPO market
Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards; Anthropic says only mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons are off limits
London lawsuit: Getir co-founders Nazim Salur and Serkan Borançılı sue Abu Dhabi's Mubadala for $700M, alleging a “significant loss” in breaking up Getir assets
Entrepreneurs behind food delivery start-up sue Gulf sovereign wealth fund in London
Analysis: US productivity rose by ~2.7% in 2025, nearly doubling the 1.4% annual average over a decade, as AI-exposed sectors cooled their entry-level hiring
New economic data suggests the US is transitioning to a phase of measurable gains from the technology
OpenAI retired GPT-4o on February 13, angering loyal users, 20K+ of whom signed a petition; 4o showed the unique attachment that people can form with chatbots
GPT-4o showed the unique attachment that people can form with chatbots — OpenAI is forcing thousands of people to break up with its most controversial AI model.
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
A look at the US tech industry's effort to influence Californian politics: fighting the 5% billionaire tax, super PACs, and seeking a new tech-friendly governor
As Gavin Newsom departs, ultra-wealthy flex wealth and influence to fight regulation and keep the boom going
As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt
A look at Anti Fund, a small VC firm cofounded by YouTuber Jake Paul that has gained access to hot rounds in startups like OpenAI, Anduril, Polymarket, and Ramp
Jake Paul crossed paths with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at President Donald Trump's second inauguration ceremony last year …
Analysis: sports bets on Kalshi generate an estimated ~$1.3B in annualized revenue, underscoring the threat prediction markets pose to traditional operators
DraftKings and Flutter shares slide as investors fret about threat posed by apps such as Kalshi — Sports wagers on Kalshi …
Anthropic partners with CodePath to help redesign computer coding curricula at hundreds of US community and state colleges, integrating Claude AI tools
Sensor Tower: dating app downloads in Saudi Arabia have risen annually for five years, hitting 3.5M in 2025, as liberalization enables more casual relationships
Liberalization has opened the door to more casual relationships, but society is still catching up
Credit derivatives trading on specific tech companies continues to rise, amid concerns that they may be borrowing too much to fuel AI development
Debt investors are worried that the biggest tech companies will keep borrowing until it hurts in the battle to develop the most powerful artificial intelligence.
Vitalik Buterin, who backed Polymarket, says he's “starting to worry” that prediction markets “seem to be over-converging to an unhealthy product market fit”
Quick Take — Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned that prediction markets are “over-converging” …
Sources: the White House is pressuring Utah Republican State Rep. Doug Fiefia to abandon HB 286, an AI transparency and kids' safety bill similar to CA's AI law
Sensor Tower: TikTok's US DAUs were ~95% of its usership the week of January 19, with metrics showing little sign of a mass exodus since its January 23 takeover
TikTok's U.S. joint venture seems to have survived a turbulent rollout with minimal change in usership, as early narratives …
Bengaluru-based C2i Semiconductors, building a “grid-to-GPU” power system for datacenters, raised a $15M Series A led by Peak XV, bringing total funding to $19M
Power, rather than compute, is fast becoming the limiting factor in scaling AI data centers.
India-based AI cloud startup Neysa plans to raise up to $600M in equity led by Blackstone, plus $600M in debt, to deploy 20K+ GPUs in India for AI training
A group of investors led by Blackstone Inc. plans to make an equity investment of up to $600 million in India's artificial intelligence cloud startup Neysa.
A look at a new generation of Chinese billionaire AI entrepreneurs who keep a low profile, with fortunes entwined with China's push for tech independence
Four years ago, as Yan Junjie pitched his vision for artificial intelligence startup MiniMax Group Inc. to China's largest internet companies …
Analysis: DRAM and NAND memory prices have jumped 600%+ over the past year for routers and set-top boxes, hitting telcos targeting aggressive broadband rollouts
MS Hwang is a research director at Counterpoint, specializing in memory semiconductor research.
Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters
As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet …
Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor
NPR's David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he's suing over it.
IndiaAI Mission CEO Abhishek Singh says India will seek international agreement on a “global AI commons” at this week's AI Impact Summit in New Delhi
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Western Digital said on its Q2 earnings call it had “pretty much sold out” its 2026 HDD capacity, and that the consumer sector accounted for 5% of total revenue
HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to Western Digital's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out.
Apple debuts iOS 26.4 beta 1 for developers, adding limited support for encrypted RCS messages, enhancements to Apple Music, a Smart List for Reminders, more
iOS 26.4 beta 1 is now available in beta for developers. The update includes a ton of new features and changes for iPhone users.