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 (Bloomberg)
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Published on 2026-02-11
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 (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
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 (Gideon Lewis-Kraus/New Yorker)
Published on 2026-02-10
Samsung announces a Galaxy Unpacked event on February 25 at 10am PT in San Francisco, where it is expected to introduce the Galaxy S26 series (Max Buondonno/The Shortcut)
LayerZero Labs unveils a new Layer 1 blockchain called Zero, in collaboration with Citadel Securities, DTCC, Google Cloud, and Intercontinental Exchange (RT Watson/The Block)
Ex-SafeMoon CEO Braden John Karony is sentenced to 100 months in prison for defrauding investors and is ordered to forfeit ~$7.5M and two residential properties (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
Kalshi says it registered over $1B in trades related to the Super Bowl; Piper Sandler analysts say Kalshi and Polymarket saw ~$1.2B in total trading on Sunday (Bloomberg)
Discord says that the "vast majority of people can continue using Discord exactly as they do today" without needing to use a face scan or ID to verify their age (The Verge)
Robinhood reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $1.28B, below est., crypto revenue down 38% to $221M, below est., and net income down 34%; HOOD drops 5%+ after hours (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
Sen. Warren plans bipartisan legislation with Sen. Banks that bans the sale of certain AI chips to China after Dario Amodei met with Warren and other lawmakers (Ashley Gold/Axios)
