• Copilot Injects Ads Into PRs, Then Reverses
  • Affected 1.5M+ PRs; Raycast ad in others' code
  • GitHub killed 'product tips' after developer backlash
  • Hacker News, The Register, Neowin
• Mistral Raises $830M Debt for EU Data Centers
  • Debut debt round; Nvidia-powered Paris facility
  • €4B total spend planned across Europe
  • TechCrunch, Financial Times
• E*Trade to Lead SpaceX IPO Retail Push
  • E*Trade in talks; Robinhood and SoFi may be cut out
  • Nasdaq rule change to fast-track index entry
  • Bloomberg, The Information
• Apple Intelligence Accidentally Goes Live in China
  • Launched without regulatory approval; quickly pulled
  • First availability since US debut 18 months ago
  • MacRumors, 9to5Mac

• Alibaba Ships Qwen3.5-Omni with 10-Hour Audio
  • 10+ hours of audio input per session
  • Plus variant beats Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio benchmarks
  • Techmeme
• Leaked Deck: Anthropic Worth $2T by 2030
  • $14B EBITDA loss projected on $18B 2026 revenue
  • January Coatue presentation; $1.995T valuation target
  • Newcomer
• OpenAI Codex Plugin Arrives Inside Claude Code
  • Invoke Codex from Claude Code to review or delegate
  • Cross-vendor integration; no context switching needed
  • Techmeme
• Microsoft Copilot Now Blends Anthropic and OpenAI
  • Researcher Critique tool uses both model providers
  • Cowork rolling out to Frontier early-access program
  • The Information, Microsoft 365 Blog

• AI Chip Startup Rebellions Raises $400M Pre-IPO
  • $2.3B valuation; IPO planned later in 2026
  • Rack-scale inference chip; direct Nvidia challenger
  • TechCrunch, The Register
• Starcloud Raises $170M for Space Data Centers
  • Led by Benchmark and EQT at $1.1B valuation
  • YC's fastest unicorn: 17 months post-demo day
  • TechCrunch, The Information
• Ex-Atlassian CTO Raises $65M Seed for AI Agents
  • Sycamore: build, deploy, monitor enterprise agents
  • Coatue and Lightspeed led the round
  • TechCrunch, Axios

• PyPI Poisoning Crew Expands Attack to Telnyx
  • Same actors as Trivy breach; LiteLLM drops Delve
  • Credential-stealing malware in Python SDKs
  • The Register, TechCrunch
• OpenAI Patches ChatGPT DNS Data Exfiltration Flaw
  • DNS bypassed outbound content controls
  • Check Point discovered the side-channel leak
  • The Register
• Hackers Now Exploit Critical F5 BIG-IP Flaw
  • Active in-the-wild attacks confirmed
  • Patch immediately; BIG-IP widely deployed in enterprise
  • BleepingComputer

• AI Agents Will Automate Zero-Day Discovery
  • Alters economics of exploit dev, not just speed
  • Ptacek on AI's structural shift in vuln hunting
  • sockpuppet.org
• Why OpenAI Really Killed Sora
  • Shut 6 months after launch; compute redirected
  • App had invited users to upload their own content
  • TechCrunch
• Startup Teaches Human Brain Cells to Play Doom
  • Biocomputing; neurons used for real game processing
  • Could herald an entirely new class of computing
  • The Economist