Alaina Demopoulos / The Guardian:
As OpenAI retires GPT-4o, some users say they are angry and grieving to lose the flirty, quirky companion  —  Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion - on the eve of Valentine's Day, it's being turned off for good.  How will users cope?

Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic adds Chris Liddell, a former Microsoft and GM exec who helped GM IPO and worked in Trump's first administration, to its board ahead of a potential IPO  —  The former Microsoft and GM executive Chris Liddell has previously worked for the Trump administration

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
February investor memo: Cohere hit ~$240M in ARR in 2025, above its $200M target, with QoQ growth of 50%+ and gross margins averaging around 70% throughout 2025  —  Artificial intelligence startup Cohere has told investors that it's seeing momentum with enterprise customers, even as rivals like Google …

Reuters:
Sources: ByteDance is in advanced talks to sell game studio Moonton, the developer of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, to Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games for $6B to $7B  —  ByteDance is in advanced talks to sell Shanghai Moonton Technology, the studio behind the popular mobile game Mobile Legends …

Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
Google warns that the EU risks undermining its own competitiveness drive with the “tech sovereignty package” the bloc is set to present in the spring  —  Europe risks undermining its own competitiveness drive through curbs on US groups, tech company says