A look at China's push to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, as Shanghai-based startup NeuroXess moves to human trials with Beijing's backing (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

A look at China's push to become a world leader in brain-computer interfaces, as Shanghai-based startup NeuroXess moves to h…

Battery Ventures raised $3.25B for its XV fund, roughly matching its 2022 raise, to back software and industrial tech firms amid AI disruption concerns (Bloomberg)

Battery Ventures raised $3.25B for its XV fund, roughly matching its 2022 raise, to back software and industrial tech firms amid…

Dubai-based fractional property investment startup Stake raised a $31M Series B led by Emirates NBD PJSC; the platform facilitates investments starting at ~$136 (Zainab Fattah/Bloomberg)

Dubai-based fractional property investment startup Stake raised a $31M Series B led by Emirates NBD PJSC; the platform facilitat…

Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B-parameter open-weight models supporting 70+ languages for offline use, trained on a single cluster of 64 H100 GPUs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Cohere releases Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B-parameter open-weight models supporting 70+ languages for offline use, trained on a …

Indian conglomerate Adani Group announces plans to invest $100B to build renewable energy-powered AI-ready data centers across India by 2035 (Urvi Dugar/Reuters)

Indian conglomerate Adani Group announces plans to invest $100B to build renewable energy-powered AI-ready data centers across I…

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 (Omar Abdel-Baqui/Wall Street Journal)

Sensor Tower: dating app downloads in Saudi Arabia have risen annually for five years, hitting 3.5M in 2025, as liberalization e…

Apple and Google agree to change app stores after 'effective duopoly' claim

Apple and Google agree to change app stores after 'effective duopoly' claim https://bit.ly/4ai8XiN The UK's markets …

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 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple tweaked its Maps app for Tesla before the EV maker's planned addition of CarPlay; low-cost MacBook will get a…

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 (Peter Wayner/New York Times)

Professor David J. Farber, whose work on academic experimental computer networks helped define the evolution of the early intern…

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 (Margaret-Anne Storey)

As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to…

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…