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Credit derivatives trading on specific tech companies continues to rise, amid concerns that they may be borrowing too much to fuel AI development (Bloomberg) - 2026-02-16T01:55:01-05:00

Vitalik Buterin, who backed Polymarket, says he's "starting to worry" that prediction markets "seem to be over-converging to an unhealthy product market fit" (Zack Abrams/The Block) - 2026-02-16T01:10:00-05:00

Sensor Tower: TikTok's US DAUs are at ~95% of the week of Jan. 19, with engagement metrics showing little sign of a mass exodus since its Jan. 23 US takeover (Matthew Chin/CNBC) - 2026-02-16T00:55:00-05:00

Bengaluru-based C2i Semiconductors, building a "grid-to-GPU" power system for datacenters, raised a $15M Series A led by Peak XV, bringing total funding to $19M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-15T23:50:01-05:00

Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP (Todd Spangler/Variety) - 2026-02-15T23:25:01-05:00

Keir Starmer says no platform "should get a free pass", as the UK moves to tighten online safety laws covering AI chatbots and social media, to protect children (Mari Novik/Financial Times) - 2026-02-15T23:00:45-05:00

India-based AI cloud startup Neysa plans to raise up to $600M in equity led by Blackstone, plus $600M in debt, to deploy 20K+ GPUs in India for AI training (Baiju Kalesh/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-15T21:35:01-05:00

A look at a new generation of Chinese billionaire AI entrepreneurs who keep a low profile, with fortunes entwined with China's push for tech independence (Bloomberg) - 2026-02-15T19:05:02-05:00

Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters (New York Times) - 2026-02-15T17:45:01-05:00

Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI "to drive the next generation of personal agents"; OpenClaw will remain open source (Sam Altman/@sama) - 2026-02-15T16:51:03-05:00

Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI "to drive the next generation of personal agents"; OpenClaw will remain open source (The Information) - 2026-02-15T16:30:01-05:00

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to hire OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger and several team members; Steinberger would likely work on personal agents (Nick Wingfield/The Information) - 2026-02-15T16:10:00-05:00

Analysis: DRAM and NAND memory prices have jumped 600%+ over the past year for routers and set-top boxes, hitting telcos targeting aggressive broadband rollouts (Counterpoint Research) - 2026-02-15T15:55:01-05:00

Sam Altman says that India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, the app's second-largest userbase after the US, ahead of the AI Impact Summit (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-15T14:40:01-05:00

Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor (Will Oremus/Washington Post) - 2026-02-15T13:00:30-05:00