UK National Education Union poll: 66% of secondary school teachers in England say pupils using AI are losing their capacity for core skills like writing (Sally Weale/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/02…

Interesting article, "10 Ukrainians Humbled Two NATO Battalions. When Will NATO Wake Up?"
https://warontherocks.com/2026/03/10-ukrainians-humbled-two-nato-battalions-when-will-nato-wake-up/?__readwiseLocation=…

10 Ukrainians Humbled Two NATO Battalions. When Will NATO Wake Up?
Last May, NATO invited 10 Ukrainians to act as an opposing force during Hedgehog 2025, one of NATO’s largest exercises in the Baltics. The Ukrainians

For hackathon.lu, I was initially unsure what my main project would be, but I ultimately decided to focus on implementing the future GCVE BCP-10.
GCVE-BCP-10: Improved Common Platform Enumeration for GCVE
The idea is combine it with the cpe-guesser and have a registry to facilitate the interaction with the CPE values to handle vendor and product references.
#gcve

GCVE-BCP-10 : Improved Common Platform Enumeration for GCVE
GCVE-BCP-10: Improved Common Platform Enumeration for GCVE Document ID: GCVE-BCP-10 Title: Improved Common Platform Enumeration for GCVE Status: Draft Category: Best Current Practice Updates: CPE-compatible naming and match semantics Author: GCVE.eu Intended use: Platform and product identification, applicability matching, vendor management, and synonym handling in the GCVE ecosystem Abstract This document specifies an improved platform enumeration format for GCVE. The format is intentionally…

How Ukraine appears in the latest Epstein files: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/how-ukraine-appears-in-the.html

Execs mock the NFL Draft's top 10: Jets go boom-bust at 2, Chiefs nab a running back https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7082310/2026/03/03/nfl-mock-draft-execs-raiders-jets-chiefs/

„Der Super Mario Galaxy Film“: Marios Markenuniversum
Der Super Mario Galaxy Film nimmt ein kreatives Meisterwerk und macht daraus solide Familienunterhaltung. Einerseits ist das schade, anderer – da ist ja Yoshi!
https…

10 jahre vintage story, 200 giveaways keys 😁
https://www.vintagestory.at/blog.html/news/celebrating-10-years-of-vintage-story-r432/

SAP is perhaps the antithesis of flexibility, which is why it is often used in complex administrative systems, such as those found in many energy companies. So it's good news that there is now a module available to link Enode's flexibility engine, which works with a wide range of consumer devices.

Enode x SAP: SAP has chosen Enode to enable residential flexibility within SAP Distributed Energy Resources | Enode
Energy retailers are moving from experimentation to long-term decisions about residential flexibility. Today, flexibility needs to operate as part of day-to-day business, not as a side initiative. SAP sees that shift clearly. That’s why SAP has chosen Enode to enable SAP Distributed Energy Resources, a solution supporting residential distributed energy resource (DER) flexibility within SAP environments. The partnership brings Enode’s full product capabilities into the SAP ecosystem, allow…

If you know people on social.cologne who aren’t Zionists/genocide supporters please let them know that they cannot see posts by me and others who oppose Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people as our instances and accounts are blocked by their Zionist/pro-genocide server.
I can only assume Zionist/pro-genocide servers will not be allowed according to mastodon.social’s new server covenant and suggested as safe spaces to newcomers to the fediverse (including Palestinians suff…

Let me know if you see me at #FOSDEM this year!

Dog lovers... prepare yourselves.
▶️ Try Not To Cry: Rescuing Shelter Dogs! (ft. Joey Graceffa)
#react

CNN poll: 59% of Americans disapprove of Iran strikes and most think a long-term conflict is likely (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/03/02/politics/cnn-poll-59-of-americans-disapprove-of-iran-strikes-and-most-think-a-long-term-conflict-is-likely
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p64#a260302p64

I have been maintaining a few top 10 lists for several years now, and I thought I might as well publish them. Here they are:
https://stefanritter.de/blog/top-10/

from my link log —
Removing macOS 26 Tahoe’s unwanted menu icons.
https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/01/10/removing-tahoes-unwanted-menu-icons/
saved 2026-02-02

Removing Tahoe’s Unwanted Menu Icons
We can avoid Apple’s heavy-handed implementation of a questionable idea.

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https://www.pastpuzzle.de

https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/full/vJa5RiZWs

@… @… Thank you Lynn! Appreciate you!

Attention to speech modulates distortion product otoacoustic emissions evoked by speech-derived stimuli in humans https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1756386/full

Frontiers | Attention to speech modulates distortion product otoacoustic emissions evoked by speech-derived stimuli in humans
Humans are remarkably skilled at understanding speech in noisy environments. While segregation of different audio streams is mostly accomplished in the audit...

💭: labubu-themed ubuntu distribution
labububuntu

Todd Blanche, Deputy Attorney General, beschreibt in einer Pressekonferenz, welche Abbildungen nicht in den Epstein-Dateien enthalten sind.
Dabei erwähnt er u.a. Bilder, die Tod, körperliche Misshandlungen oder Verletzungen enthalten. Es ist also noch schlimmer als ohnehin in den aktuellen Daten zu sehen ist.
#Epstein

Global fintech VC funding rose 27% YoY in 2025 to $51.8B; Y Combinator was the most active investor in the space, participating in 151 deals, up 24.8% YoY (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/most-active-fintech-inve…

Y Combinator Was By Far The Most-Active Fintech Investor in 2025, Data Shows
All told, global venture funding to financial technology startups totaled $51.8 billion for 2025 compared to $40.8 billion in 2024, per Crunchbase data. The investors who provided all that capital included a mix of private equity and alternative investors, with venture capital firms and accelerators next in line.

Putin's SHADOW FLEET caught in a STORM, – The Economist #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/putins-shadow-fleet-caught-in.html

Südkorea: Behörde leakt Mnemonic Phrase für Krypto-Wallet – und wird bestohlen
In Südkorea hat die Steuerbehörde nach der Konfiszierung einer Hardware-Wallet für Kryptogeld zu viele Infos preisgegeben. Das wurde gleich zweimal entwendet.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/113441521436240302
Today, I learned that the new Prime Minister of the Brussels Region is the district mayor who ordered the removal of these bicycle parking facilities.

Wow… Google fined a whopping $68 MILLION DOLLARS for eavesdropping on people’s spoken conversations. That’ll teach them! It’s going to take Google a whole hour and a half to make that money back. I guess they won’t be pulling shit like this anymore after feeling that sort of pain. We really showed ‘em this time, eh? https://

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State Lawmakers Are Trying to Limit ICE (Torrie Herrington/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/immigration/state-legislators-immigration-enforcement-bans-sensitive-locations
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p66#a260302p66

@… you called it early on!

Lance Zierlein 2026 NFL mock draft 1.0: Electric RB Jeremiyah Love cracks top 10; 49ers take tight end https://www.nfl.com/news/lance-zierlein-2026-nfl-mock-draft-1-0-electric-rb-jeremiyah-love-cracks-top-10-49ers-take-t…

AMD reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $10.3B, Data Center revenue up 39% to $5.4B, forecasts Q1 revenue below the highest projections; AMD drops 5% after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-0…

Minsk and Moscow PREPARE STRIKE? New drills near NATO borders push world to disaster's edge: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/03/minsk-and-moscow-prepare-strike.html

„So wird möglichst viel Solarstrom direkt vor Ort verbraucht, statt ihn ins Netz einzuspeisen oder bei Bedarf teuer daraus zu beziehen. Die netzdienliche Flexibilität geht einen Schritt weiter: Hier stehen die Stabilität und die Entlastung des gesamten Verteilnetzes im Zentrum.“
https://www.

Flexibilität: Smart Charging & Smartgridready
Energie 360° zeigt in zwei Pilotprojekten: Solarstrom optimal nutzen, die E-Flotte intelligent laden und Flexibilität fürs Verteilnetz zur Verfügung stellen.

Trump presses ahead with Iran war despite warnings of political risk for midterms (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-presses-ahead-with-iran-war-despite-warnings-political-risk-midterms-2026-03-02/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p65#a260302p65

Podemos entrenar esta jauría de gatos salvajes.

:neocat_stretch_down:⁠:neocat:⁠:neocat_devil:⁠:neocat_nom_cat:⁠:neocat_evil:⁠:neocat_floof_owo:⁠
:neocat_stretch_up:

Super Micro reports Q2 net sales up 123% to $12.7B, vs. $10.43B est., and expects Q3 net sales above estimates; SMCI jumps 5% after hours (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/super-micro-computer-q2-2026-earnings-ai-boom-bubble-s…

Super Micro crushes estimates for Q2, offers strong guidance
The AI server company just released its fiscal Q2 results.

@… A fair question and I wish it were possible! Unfortunately our fiscal sponsor on Open Collective would not allow Kickstarter contributions as expenses (as Kickstarter by definition is prepayments), per the documentation:

Lance Zierlein 2026 NFL mock draft 2.0: Two CBs in top five; combine star Sonny Styles cracks top 10 https://www.nfl.com/news/lance-zierlein-2026-nfl-mock-draft-2-0-two-cbs-in-top-five-combine-star-sonny-styles-cracks-top-…

„Als de bewoners alle elektrische auto’s slim laden, blijft het genoeg, ook als straks alle auto’s in Sporenburg elektrisch worden.”
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/02/27/kleurt-de-app-rood-dan-halen-de-sporenburge…

Kleurt de app rood, dan halen de Sporenburgers de stekker uit de elektrische auto
Netcongestie: Om de krapte op het stroomnet te verhelpen, moeten ook huishoudens flexibeler omgaan met hun energieverbruik. In de Sporenburg in Amsterdam loopt een pilot met een app waarmee bewoners beloond worden wanneer ze niet allemaal tegelijkertijd de auto opladen en de was aanzetten.

Top US general: will take time to achieve objectives in Iran (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/top-us-general-will-take-time-achieve-objectives-iran-2026-03-02/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p58#a260302p58

Ouija Board with full Unicode support (including emojis)

KKR and Singtel agree to acquire the remaining 82% stake in data center operator STT GDC for ~$5.1B, giving the company an enterprise value of ~$10.86B (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/kkr-and-singtel-stake-in-stt-gdc-for-over-5-bi…

KKR and Singtel to acquire remaining stake in data center firm STT GDC for over $5 billion
The deal pegs the enterprise value at S$13.8 billion.

@… @… @… Ahhh, 11tybundle is the saddest part of the rename, I’m so sorry.

Everyone's favourite procrastination activity is back: the 'Visdeurbel' [fish doorbell]!
https://visdeurbel.nl/en/

Fish Doorbell – It's almost here! — The Fish Doorbell
Zie je een vis? Druk op de Visdeurbel dan opent onze sluiswachter de sluis en kunnen de vissen doorzwemmen.

Kremlin says talks possible only in Moscow, invites Zelensky again: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/kremlin-says-talks-possible-only.html

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116167644511095804
My first day at BlueSky went well, IMO :3

Een zeer nodige stap om ook met kleine netaansluitingen (zoals huishoudens, MKB, publieke laadpalen etc.) mee te kunnen doen aan congestiemanagement
https://energiedatawijzer.nl/documenten/ts054-ts063-aggregatie/

TS054/TS063 - Aggregatie - Energiedatawijzer

SEN BERNIE SANDERS: We need to cap credit card interest rates at 10%, Trump is right (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-bernie-sanders-need-cap-credit-card-interest-rates-10-trump-right
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p101#a260202p101

@… We love to see it!!

Sources: Supabase is in talks to raise ~$500M at a ~$10B valuation, roughly doubling its October 2025 valuation; GIC is expected to lead the funding round (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/database-startup…

Database Startup Supabase in Talks to Double Valuation to $10 Billion
Singapore’s GIC is in talks to lead an investment in database startup Supabase at a valuation of about $10 billion, double the level it raised at last fall, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. Supabase is aiming to raise about $500 million in the fundraising round, ...

Medvedev threatens nuclear strike, warns Zelensky as New START deadline nears: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/medvedev-threatens-nuclear-strike-warns.html

@… appreciate you Jason!

END OF THE KREMLIN'S "SHADOW FLEET" – EU blocks Russia's tankers, China & India refuse oil!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/end-of-the-kremlins-ampquotshadow.html

Sources: the US State Department ordered embassies to push back against foreign influence campaigns, as officials worry anti-US views are taking root worldwide (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/business/trump-foreign-disinformation-iran.ht…

Trump Officials Try to Fight Foreign Disinformation They Once Dismissed
The war in Iran has exposed the need to mount a defense against foreign influence campaigns, officials and experts say.

@… @… *some* of the Pro features are runtime services, and will require an active subscription to have access to those. For example: collaboration will require an active sub. But the snapshot of your web site will be fully exportable a…

Ukraine stalls Russian push near Hulyaipole amid heavy losses: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/ukraine-stalls-russian-push-near.html

Senator Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, vows to "pull out all the stops" to fight back after the US moved to bar Anthropic (Steven T. Dennis/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@… Really appreciate you Jared! 🙌

EPSTEIN and KGB?! SCANDALOUS TESTIMONY in the RELEASED EPSTEIN FILES: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/epstein-and-kgb-scandalous-testimony.html

OpenClaw launches an official China mirror, with ByteDance providing the servers to host the Chinese-language service, as OpenClaw explodes in the country (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/bytedan…

ByteDance Helps OpenClaw Launch China Version of Software Marketplace
ByteDance is helping OpenClaw operate a Chinese version of its ClawHub marketplace, which distributes OpenClaw’s special files that enable AI agents to perform specific tasks. OpenClaw’s official X account said in a post on Wednesday that it has launched an official China version of its ClawHub, where users can find and install software files known as skills, which help expand OpenClaw

@… yeah, sign me up! cc @…

Ukraine names Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorist organization: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/ukraine-names-irans-islamic-revolutionary.html

Sources: Chinese optics company and Nvidia supplier Innolight confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $3B ; Innolight is listed in Shenzhen (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-…

Sources: banks are marketing at least $56B in investment-grade data center construction loans tied to Oracle's leases, as they seek out new buyers for the loans (Michelle Chan/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/90aa74a5-b39d-4131-a138-367726cb18fb

❗️ PUTIN's surname is mentioned 1,056 times in the EPSTEIN files #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/putins-surname-is-mentioned-times.html

AMD reports $390M in revenue from MI308 AI chip sales in China in Q4; CEO Lisa Su says orders were "from very early in 2025" but shipped in Q4 after US approval (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

AMD rakes in $390m from AI chip sales to China but warns of uncertainty
Company sees $100m more revenue from China as Beijing weighs rules on Nvidia, other foreign chips

Center for Strategic and International Studies: China helped Russia triple Iskander missile production, skirting sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/center-for-strategic-and-international.html

Sources: Tokyo-based chipmaker Renesas agrees to sell its clocks and timing device business to Nasdaq-listed chip design company SiTime for ~$3B (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/business-deals/japan-s-re…

Japan's Renesas to sell timing solution segment to US-based SiTime for $3bn
Chipmaker divesting non-core businesses after seeing a loss in 1st 9 months of 2025

'Moral degenerate' — Ukraine slams FIFA president for supporting Russia's return: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/moral-degenerate-ukraine-slams-fifa.html

Sources: US Commerce Dept. has finished review of Nvidia's license to sell China H200s, but the State Dept. seeks tighter restrictions, delaying final approval (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d963c6c9-3618-4d83-8efe-eccf74cd637f

Russia’s exhaustion could open a strategic window for Ukraine in 2026, analyst says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/02/russias-exhaustion-could-open-a.html

Recon: the US market share of Copilot as paid users' first choice fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% in January 2026, while Gemini's rose from 12.8% to 15.7% (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-piv

'Russians chose a freezing February night' — Damaged buildings, casualties reported as Russia resumes large-scale strikes on Kyiv: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/russians-chose-a-freezing-february.html

Adobe reversed its plans to discontinue Animate after creators expressed frustration, stating it won't get new features but will remain available "indefinitely" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/873621/adobe-animate-maintena…

Adobe actually won’t discontinue Animate
Adobe is no longer planning to discontinue Adobe Animate. Instead, the application will be available in maintenance mode.

Ukraine designates Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/ukraine-designates-irans-islamic-revolutionary.html

Filing: OpenAI accuses xAI of systematically destroying evidence in its antitrust case by directing employees to use auto-deleting "ephemeral messaging tools" (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

SHELLING OF KYIV: Russians carried out a MASSIVE strike #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/shelling-of-kyiv-russians-carried.html

Software and data stocks plunge over fears that new developments in AI will supplant software; ADBE closed down 7.31%, CRM 6.85%, and Thomson Reuters 15.83% (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/soft…

West agrees to respond militarily to Russia's ceasefire violations in Ukraine, FT reports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/west-agrees-to-respond-militarily.html

Alaffia Health, which provides AI tools for health plan claims operations, raised a $55M Series B led by Transformation Capital (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/03/alaffia-health-raises-55m-expand-agen…

Alaffia Health raises $55M to expand agentic AI for health plan claims operations - SiliconANGLE
Alaffia Health raises $55M to expand agentic AI for health plan claims operations - SiliconANGLE

Source: Anthropic plans an employee tender offer at a valuation of at least $350B, the same valuation discussed in the company's ongoing $20B fundraising (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-04/anthr…

Sources: US-based Arcee AI is pitching investors on a $200M funding round valuing it at over $1B, as it plans to train an open-weight model with 1T parameters (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/02…

The Top Open AI Models Are Chinese. Arcee AI Thinks That’s A Problem.
The American startup is pitching investors on a $1 billion+ valuation to train a model over a trillion parameters, aiming to reclaim the open-weight lead from Chinese labs like Moonshot and DeepSeek.

Salesforce's Tableau chief, Ryan Aytay, leaves after 19 years at the company, just two months after Slack CEO Denise Dresser left for OpenAI (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/sales…

Salesforce Tableau Chief to Leave Following Slack Executive Exit
The chief of Salesforce Inc.’s data visualization unit, Tableau, has left the company, raising some concerns on Wall Street about executive churn at the software maker.

On an earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su says Microsoft's next-gen Xbox "is progressing well to support a launch in 2027" and will feature an AMD semi-custom SoC (Tom Warren/The Verge)

AMD hints Microsoft could launch its next-gen Xbox in 2027
AMD says it’s ready to support Microsoft launching its next-gen Xbox in 2027. The pair have partnered to work on a custom chip for the next Xbox.

Sources: Nvidia is nearing a deal to invest $20B in OpenAI as part of OpenAI's $100B funding round (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/nvidia-nears-deal-to-invest-20-billion-in-openai-round

OpenAI names Dylan Scandinaro, who worked on AGI safety at Anthropic, as the company's head of preparedness (Alicia Tang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/openai-fills-safety-job-listed-at-555-00…

US v. Google: the DOJ and a group of states will appeal the September 2025 ruling in the Search antitrust case in which Google dodged a forced sale of Chrome (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/googl…

EA reports Q3 net bookings up 38% YoY to $3.05B, vs. $2.86B est., driven by strong sales of Battlefield 6, and net income of $88M, down from $293M a year ago (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ea-beats-

Take-Two reports Q3 net bookings up 28% YoY to $1.76B, vs. $1.58B, net revenue up 25% to $1.7B, and raises its annual bookings forecast; TTWO up 5% after hours (Max Knoblauch/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/take-two-raises-…

Take-Two raises its net bookings outlook, reaffirms November release for “Grand Theft Auto 6”
Take-Two reported its fiscal third-quarter earnings on Tuesday afternoon.

Match reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to $878M, vs. $871M est., net income up 32% YoY to $210M, paying users down 5% to 13.8M; MTCH jumps 7% after hours (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02…

Sources: Texas Instruments is in advanced talks to buy chip designer Silicon Laboratories for ~$7B, a premium to Silicon Labs' market cap of $4.4B as of Tuesday (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c7b3eaa5-a650-400d-beda-ba71d44cc8e7

Microsoft launches the Publisher Content Marketplace in partnership with Condé Nast, Hearst, AP, and others, to let publishers license content to AI companies (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-launch…

Bitcoin dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest price since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes amid mounting geopolitical concerns (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/03/bitcoin-price-today.html

Bitcoin breaks below $73,000 to lowest since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes
Bitcoin fell below $73,000 on Tuesday as investors sold the asset to hedge against heightened geopolitical and economic uncertainties.

Skyryse, which plans to integrate its flight automation OS, SkyOS, in Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft, raised a $300M Series C at a $1.15B valuation (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/skyryse…

Skyryse lands another $300M to make flying, even helicopters, simple and safe | TechCrunch
Skyrsye, now valued at $1.15 billion, is pushing to get FAA certification for its universal operating system for flight.

At the Cisco AI Summit, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company plans to build GPUs and has already hired a chief GPU architect (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-ceo-says-company-will-make-gpus-has-hired-…

Ares Interactive, which makes cross-platform, free-to-play games with plans for a new baseball game in 2026, raised a $70M Series A led by General Catalyst (Craig Chapple/PocketGamer.biz)
https://www.pocketgamer.biz/ares-interactive-raises-70m/

Ares Interactive raises $70m as it plots expansion plans and new game launch
Glu Mobile founder Niccolo de Masi’s new company Ares Interactive has raised $70 million to expand its operations and launch a new baseball game in 202...

Apple brings agentic coding to Xcode 26.3, allowing developers to use Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, and integrates support for MCP (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/agentic-codi…

Agentic coding comes to Apple's Xcode with agents from Anthropic and OpenAI | TechCrunch
Xcode 26.3 offers agentic coding capabilities with Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex.

Tomorrow.io raised $175M at a $1B valuation to deploy an AI-driven LEO satellite network for weather forecasting, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rj67r5yvze

Tomorrow.io raises $175 million at over $1 billion valuation to build AI-driven weather satellite network
DeepSky constellation aims to replace aging government infrastructure and close global forecasting gaps.

Sources: Alphabet plans a new complex in Bengaluru, India, which can accommodate up to 20K extra staff, amid US visa restrictions and proposed H-1B fee hikes (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/alphabet…

Lockheed Martin to follow US federal ban on Anthropic, as government contracting attorneys say defense contractors are expected to comply with the DOD's order (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc