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MWC 2026: a look at Lenovo's concept devices, including a Framework-like modular laptop with swappable parts and a gaming handheld with a folding display (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)

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Lenovo's Motorola partners with GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused, "de-Googled" version of Android, to preinstall GrapheneOS on upcoming Motorola smartphones (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

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Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus signs a multi-billion deal with an unnamed customer to build a Melbourne data center with 18,400 Nvidia GB300 chips (Sharon Klyne/Bloomberg)

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Early data show wages are rising for AI-exposed jobs that place a high value on a "worker's tacit knowledge and experience", as textbook knowledge loses value (J. Scott Davis/Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)

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A Waymo robotaxi stopped in the middle of a road and blocked an ambulance near a mass shooting site in Austin; Waymo confirms it was en route for rider pickup (Nicole Cobler/Axios)

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A profile of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, who is facing a probe in France on a dozen preliminary charges and a Russian criminal case for "aiding terrorism" (Financial Times)

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AWS says "objects" struck one of its data centers in the UAE, impacting its mec1-az2 availability zone, and that connectivity will take several hours to restore (Reuters)

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Block is a poster child for the lack of operational discipline common among mid-tier public tech companies that lived on the largesse of cloud, mobile, and ZIRP (Om Malik/On my Om)

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Ted Sarandos discusses the scenario planning Netflix did before Paramount's final WBD bid, how if Paramount's deal closes there will be cuts of $16B+, and more (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)

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India, home to one of the world's biggest AI user bases, should treat local datasets for AI as a strategic asset to avoid training Silicon Valley for free (Catherine Thorbecke/Bloomberg)

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Australia's eSafety Commissioner threatens action against app stores and search engines if AI services operating in Australia don't verify user ages by March 9 (Byron Kaye/Reuters)

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Israel-based Guidde, which is developing a platform to accelerate the adoption of AI in organizations, raised a $50M Series B led by PSG Equity (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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Sources describe in detail the failed talks between Anthropic and the DOD, and how US officials at some agencies like the CIA still hope for a peace agreement (New York Times)

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Chinese matchmaking apps like Wanmei Qinjia, which has 50M users and lets parents look for spouses for their children, surge as marriage rates continue to fall (Kohei Fujimura/Nikkei Asia)

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Source describes the failed Pentagon-Anthropic talks: through the end, the Pentagon wanted to use Anthropic's AI to analyze bulk data collected about Americans (Ross Andersen/The Atlantic)

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Nvidia partners with Cisco, Nokia, and others to build 6G networks based on open, software-defined AI radio access networking (AI-RAN) architecture (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)

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A look at Hyundai's Atlas humanoid robot, slated for assembly tasks in 2028; Hyundai has invested billions in robotics since acquiring Boston Dynamics in 2021 (Hyonhee Shin/Bloomberg)

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How some companies are trying to become the "Strava of tennis" by offering match video, stats, highlights, social features, and performance analysis for players (Charlie Eccleshare/The Athletic)

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Inside the world's largest crypto casino Stake, which claims ~4% of all BTC transactions, with popularity boosted by celebs like Drake and influencers on Kick (Bloomberg)

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[Thread] In an AMA, Sam Altman says DOD blacklisting Anthropic sets an "extremely scary precedent", OpenAI rushed its deal to "de-escalate things", and more (Sam Altman/@sama)

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