ByteDance launches Doubao 2.0, an "agent era" upgrade of China's most widely used AI app capable of executing multi-step tasks, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)

ByteDance launches Doubao 2.0, an "agent era" upgrade of China's most widely used AI app capable of executing mult…

Highguard game developer lays off staff just two weeks after release

Highguard game developer lays off staff just two weeks after release https://bit.ly/4rnXZy7 Its trailer got a prime Game Awards …

Dealroom and NATO Innovation Fund: European defense, security, and resilience startup funding rose 55% YoY to a record $8.7B in 2025, with AI accounting for 44% (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)

Dealroom and NATO Innovation Fund: European defense, security, and resilience startup funding rose 55% YoY to a record $8.7B in …

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 (New York Times)

Sources: Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as 2026, and considers letting the glasses identify p…

Companies like Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are letting workers cash out before their IPOs, a move once seen as taboo and lacking long-term commitment (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

Companies like Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are letting workers cash out before their IPOs, a move once seen as taboo a…

Meta's auditor Ernst & Young raised a red flag over the financial engineering Meta used to keep its $27B Hyperion data center project off its balance sheet (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)

Meta's auditor Ernst & Young raised a red flag over the financial engineering Meta used to keep its $27B Hyperion data c…

ChatGPT boss ridiculed for online 'tantrum' over rival's Super Bowl ad

ChatGPT boss ridiculed for online 'tantrum' over rival's Super Bowl ad https://bit.ly/3O0CDrO Commenters said Altman…

UK's £8bn research fund faces 'hard decisions' as it pauses new grants

UK's £8bn research fund faces 'hard decisions' as it pauses new grants https://bit.ly/4tjxCe6 UKRI boss Ian Chapman …

Q&A with Fidji Simo on ChatGPT ads, OpenAI's efforts to ship a new model soon to end Sam Altman's Code Red, Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Sora, Jony Ive, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)

Q&A with Fidji Simo on ChatGPT ads, OpenAI's efforts to ship a new model soon to end Sam Altman's Code Red, Anthropi…

Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Tencent are releasing new models and spending millions on "red envelope" freebies to woo users ahead of the Lunar New Year (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)

Chinese AI companies like Alibaba and Tencent are releasing new models and spending millions on "red envelope" freebie…

Netflix and Warner Bros struggle to defend merger

Netflix and Warner Bros struggle to defend merger https://bit.ly/4bFTJ8l Concerns were raised by a subcommittee including potent…