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Techmeme - 2026-02-06T09:35:44-05:00

SIA: chip sales hit $791.7B in 2025, up 25.6% YoY, with Nvidia, AMD, and Intel accounting for $301.9B, up 40%; SIA expects sales to reach $1T in 2026 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) - 2026-02-06T09:35:00-05:00

How an appeal changed the way the USPTO assesses AI patents under the US Patent Act, signaling a shift towards more favorable treatment of AI and ML inventions (Matthew Carey/Bloomberg Law) - 2026-02-06T08:40:02-05:00

The EU says that TikTok's "addictive design" is illegal under the DSA, citing the app's infinite scroll and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings (Adam Satariano/New York Times) - 2026-02-06T06:45:00-05:00

Goldman Sachs says it has been working with Anthropic on AI agents to automate a growing number of roles at the bank, including client vetting and onboarding (Hugh Son/CNBC) - 2026-02-06T06:35:05-05:00

AT&T launches amiGO Jr., a mid-tier Samsung-made smartphone for kids with parental controls on contacts, app access, screen time, and more, for $2.99 per month (Annie Bang/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-06T06:10:07-05:00

Women in rural India report experiencing trauma from data annotation work, which requires them to review violent content and porn for global tech companies (Anuj Behal/The Guardian) - 2026-02-06T05:50:02-05:00

Sources: Intel and AMD have notified Chinese customers of supply shortages for server CPUs, with Intel warning of delivery lead times of up to six months (Reuters) - 2026-02-06T02:25:01-05:00

Meituan agrees to buy Dingdong, a Chinese fresh grocery e-commerce company, for $717M in cash; Dingdong had 7M+ monthly transacting users as of September 2025 (Cao Li/South China Morning Post) - 2026-02-06T01:10:01-05:00

Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after a WSJ story about Instagram and teen mental health, noting Apple faces less scrutiny (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) - 2026-02-05T23:55:00-05:00

How the SpaceX-xAI $1.25T merger deal was fast-tracked after SpaceX had a technical breakthrough in orbital data centers last fall (Wall Street Journal) - 2026-02-05T23:25:00-05:00

Sapiom, which is developing a financial layer for enterprises to let AI agents automatically buy the services they need, raised a $15M seed led by Accel (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-05T22:40:00-05:00

Tether acquires a 12% stake, worth $150M, in Gold.com, which enables access to physical and tokenized gold, and plans to integrate its gold-backed XAUT token (CoinDesk) - 2026-02-05T22:15:01-05:00

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft forecast a combined ~$650B in 2026 capital expenditures, an estimated 60% YoY increase, driven by data center construction (Bloomberg) - 2026-02-05T22:05:01-05:00

French authorities charge four people with spying for China by allegedly seeking to obtain satellite data from Starlink and other critical entities (Jenny Che/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-05T21:50:22-05:00

Only 35 nations signed a declaration affirming "human responsibility over AI-powered weapons", with the US and China opting out; the US endorsed prior pledges (Victoria Waldersee/Reuters) - 2026-02-05T21:25:01-05:00