Bloomberg:
Alphabet raised almost $32B in debt in less than 24 hours; it sold sterling- and Swiss franc-denominated offerings following Monday's $20B dollar debt sale  —  Alphabet Inc. raised almost $32 billion in debt in less than 24 hours, showing the enormous funding needs of tech giants competing …

Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
OpenAI updates ChatGPT's deep research tool with GPT-5.2, a full-screen report view, and an option to focus research on specific websites  —  The feature now runs on the new GPT-5.2 model, as OpenAI announced on X. A key addition is that users can connect apps to ChatGPT and—potentially very useful—search specific websites.

Robert Playter, CEO of Boston Dynamics, announced on Tuesday that he is stepping down from his role effective immediately and leaving the company on February 27th, as previously reported by A3. Under Playter's leadership, Boston Dynamics navigated its way through an acquisition from Softbank that brought it to Hyundai in 2021, and it launched a […]

The city’s Medical Examiner is investigating 22 deaths attributed to the recent cold snap, a number which includes 15 people found dead outdoors and another seven found at private residences who are also confirmed to have died of hypothermia. Those seven people’s deaths did not appear to have been tallied before Tuesday and a spokesperson […]

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Gideon Lewis-Kraus / New Yorker:
A profile of Anthropic and its key executives like Chris Olah, and a look at Project Vend, an internal “Claudius” experiment to run the office vending machine  —  Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system's mind—examining its neurons …