Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
General Catalyst plans to invest $5B in India over five years, an increase from the $500M to $1B previously announced, after merging with a local VC in 2024  —  General Catalyst, a Silicon Valley-based venture firm with more than $43 billion in assets under management, has announced it plans …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google rejected 1.75M policy-violating Android apps and blocked 80K+ developer accounts from Google Play in 2025, down from 2.36M apps and 158K accounts in 2024  —  Fewer bad actors are targeting Google Play with malicious apps, the company says, a shift that the tech giant credits …

Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment  —  Tech giant blames ‘user error, not AI error’ for incident in December involving its Kiro tool  —  Amazon's cloud unit has suffered …

James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review:
Microsoft's AI safety team proposed technical standards for detecting AI-generated content, but its CSO declined to commit to using them across its platforms  —  AI-enabled deception now permeates our online lives.  There are the high-profile cases you may easily spot …

Andrew R. Chow / Time:
How some political candidates and activists across ideologies and professions are pushing back on the spread of data centers and AI in the US  —  One icy morning in February, nearly 200 people gathered in a church in downtown Richmond, Va. Most had awakened before dawn and driven in from across the state.