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The UK ICO launches a new investigation into X and xAI over “serious concerns” about Grok's data use and “its potential to produce harmful sexualized” content (www.ft.com)
12 days ago ICO

Disney names Josh D'Amaro, head of its theme parks and consumer products division, as CEO, replacing Bob Iger, effective March 18; D'Amaro joined Disney in 1998 (variety.com)
12 days ago

The Switch is Now Nintendo's Best-Selling Console of All Time (games.slashdot.org)
12 days ago Nintendo

Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil Luffu, a self-funded startup developing an AI-powered “family care system”, currently in private testing (www.axios.com)
12 days ago Startup AI

PayPal names HP CEO Enrique Lores as CEO, replacing Alex Chriss on March 1, and reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $8.7B, missing est.; PYPL falls 15% pre-market (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago 4Q

A profile of Brazilian neobank Nubank, which aims to enter the US market within 18 months, growing its 120M+ users; analysts expect $2.9B in 2025 net income (www.ft.com)
12 days ago Brazil

Uber rolls out its service in the Chinese gambling hub of Macau, its first new entry to an Asian market for years; Uber sold its China business to Didi in 2016 (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago China Uber

Sources: OpenAI is prioritizing ChatGPT over long-term research, prompting senior staff departures; Sora and DALL-E teams felt neglected and under resourced (t.co)
12 days ago

Paris prosecutors say they raided X's French offices with assistance from Europol; Elon Musk and ex-CEO Linda Yaccarino have been summoned to April hearings (www.bbc.com)
12 days ago France Elon Musk Paris

The US DOJ releasing emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kicks off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage (www.wired.com)
12 days ago

Q&A with Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen on Docusign's workforce growing to 7,000 staffers, its Intelligent Agreement Management system, AI hallucinations, and more (www.theverge.com)
12 days ago AI

Ten Forgotten American Wars (listverse.com)
12 days ago U.S.

Hidden Car Door Handles Are Officially Being Banned In China (tech.slashdot.org)
12 days ago China

Nintendo says the Switch 1 sold 155.37M units as of December 31, 2025 since its 2017 launch, topping the DS at 154.02M, becoming its best-selling console ever (www.theverge.com)
12 days ago Nintendo

Nintendo reports Q3 revenue of $5.2B vs. $5.45B est., a net profit of $1.03B vs. $950M est., and maintains its 19M Switch 2 sales forecast for fiscal 2026 (www.cnbc.com)
12 days ago Nintendo

Sources: China's top memory chipmakers, CXMT and YMTC, plan their biggest expansions yet as a global supply crunch lets them close the gap with market leaders (asia.nikkei.com)
12 days ago China

Sources: Telefónica and Liberty Global, co-owners of Virgin Media O2, are set to lead a ~£2B acquisition of UK's fourth-largest broadband network, Netomnia (t.co)
12 days ago

A Century of Hair Samples Proves Leaded Gas Ban Worked (science.slashdot.org)
12 days ago Ban

SpaceX Acquires xAI in $1.25 Trillion All-Stock Deal (slashdot.org)
12 days ago SpaceX

A look at WhatsApp's E2E encryption and whether it protects from metadata and chat backup leaks, after a lawsuit alleges Meta can read users' private data (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
12 days ago WhatsApp

If assumptions hold, SpaceX-xAI could own a full stack of capabilities, from launch to orbital bandwidth to frontier AI models, and offer AI on demand anywhere (arstechnica.com)
12 days ago AI SpaceX

Leaked email: as part of the xAI-SpaceX deal, xAI shares will be converted into 0.1433 shares of SpaceX stock, and employees will have the option to cash out (www.wsj.com)
12 days ago SpaceX

In a memo to employees, xAI said both companies will maintain their separate branding and the joint venture is continuing to prepare for a possible IPO in 2026 (www.businessinsider.com)
12 days ago IPO

Crunchyroll is raising its US prices by $2 per month; the cheapest tier gets its first price increase since 2019 and now offers offline downloads on one device (www.polygon.com)
12 days ago

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)
12 days ago SpaceX

Leica Camera's Owners Weigh $1.2 Billion Sale of Controlling Stake (slashdot.org)
12 days ago

Trump unveils a $12B critical minerals stockpile, called Project Vault, to minimize reliance on China, with participation from 12+ companies, including Google (www.bloomberg.com)
12 days ago Trump China Google

Adobe plans to discontinue its 2D animation software Animate on March 1; enterprise customers can receive support until March 2029, and others until March 2027 (techcrunch.com)
12 days ago Adobe

Oracle says the Nvidia-OpenAI deal has “zero impact” on its financial relationship with OpenAI and it is “highly confident in OpenAI's ability to raise funds” (x.com)
12 days ago Oracle Nvidia

Source: SpaceX acquired xAI for $250B; the announcement about the acquisition focuses on SpaceX's plans to launch data centers into space (www.theinformation.com)
12 days ago SpaceX

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