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Sources: SpaceX is in advanced talks to combine with xAI and they have informed some of their investors, as Elon Musk moves quickly to consolidate his empire (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-2 Elon Musk SpaceX

NationStates confirms data breach, shuts down game site (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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The US' high-speed internet rollout means drillers, linemen, and splicers pull in soaring pay nationwide amid a labor shortage for the physically demanding work (www.wsj.com)
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Snap blocked 415K+ Australian accounts as of January to comply with the under-16 social media ban and warns of “technical limitations” in the implementation (www.theguardian.com)
2026-2-2 Australia Ban

China's desire to lead in cutting-edge AI is bumping against its aim to control it; Zhipu warned IPO investors about the burden of complying with 6+ AI rules (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-2 China IPO AI

A look at Polymarket's rise since the US DOJ dropped its probe: securing publisher deals and US licenses, insider trading concerns, and bet resolution disputes (www.wsj.com)
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Seoul plans to integrate AI chatbot Maeumi into its suicide prevention hotline, offering immediate emotional support before a human counselor connects (www.koreaherald.com)
2026-2-2 AI chatbot

Alibaba plans to spend ~$431M in a Lunar New Year campaign starting February 6 to attract users to its Qwen AI app, above Tencent's ~$143.7M and Baidu's ~$71.8M (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-2 Alibaba AI Tencent

Linux Kernel Developer Chris Mason's New Initiative: AI Prompts for Code Reviews (linux.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Linux AI

SEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-2-2 Israel Google AI Drone

Taiwan hits a 21.06% weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, surpassing China's 20.93%, the first time since July 2007, boosted by AI-linked local companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-2 China Taiwan AI

Sources: a KKR-led consortium is nearing a deal to buy Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers for $10B+, as Asia sees a data center investment frenzy (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-2 Asia Singapore

A look at DestinE, an EU-funded project to create Earth's digital twin using AI that has produced climate models with far higher resolution than current models (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-2-2 AI Climate

OpenSourceMalware: 230 malicious OpenClaw extensions, disguised as crypto trading automation tools to steal user info, were uploaded to ClawHub since January 27 (www.tomshardware.com)
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Q&A with D‑Wave CEO Alan Baratz on the Quantum Circuits acquisition, error-correcting quantum systems, its Davidson and Anduril defense collaboration, and more (sherwood.news)
2026-2-2 Quantum

AI conferences have rushed to restrict the use of LLMs for writing and reviewing research papers in recent months after being flooded with AI-generated slop (www.ft.com)
2026-2-2 AI

Is the TV Industry Finally Conceding That the Future May Not Be 8K? (entertainment.slashdot.org)
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French IT company Capgemini plans to sell its US subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions, whose contract with the US ICE drew scrutiny from French lawmakers (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-2 France

Anthropic researchers detail “disempowerment patterns” in AI assistant interactions where AI potentially distorts a user's reality, beliefs, or actions (arstechnica.com)
2026-2-2 AI

EU Deploys New Government Satcom Program in Sovereignty Push (science.slashdot.org)
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Apple, long dominant in the electronics supply chain, is starting to be outbid by AI companies for components like memory as suppliers gain leverage over Apple (www.wsj.com)
2026-2-2 AI Apple

TikTok US says it has resolved technical issues and glitches that have impacted core features, such as video likes and view counts, over the past week (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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What Go Programmers Think of AI (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Programmer AI

Anthropic's $200M Pentagon Contract at Risk Over Objections to Domestic Surveillance, Autonomous Deployments (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Pentagon

Oracle says it plans to raise $45B to $50B in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure through a combination of debt and equity sales (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-2 Oracle Equity

SpaceX and Tesla are feeling the gravitational pull toward xAI, as Elon Musk looks to use his empire to fund xAI's ravenous appetite for cash and compute (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-2 Tesla Elon Musk SpaceX

Is Meta's Huge Spending on AI Actually Paying Off? (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 AI

Bitcoin Drops 40% in Four Months. Bloomberg Blames Absence of Buyers and Belief (slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 Bitcoin

Survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production vs. 44% for Anthropic, but Anthropic's gains are impressive (www.a16z.news)
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Walmart Begins Building Out Nationwide EV Charging Network Across America (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-2-2 U.S. Walmart

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