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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)

Anuj Behal / The Guardian : Women in rural India report experiencing trauma from data annotation work, which requires them to review viol...

6 February 2026

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)

Anuj Behal / The Guardian:
Women in rural India report experiencing trauma from data annotation work, which requires them to review violent content and porn for global tech companies  —  Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

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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)

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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  —  Intel (INTC.O) and AMD (AMD.O) have notified Chinese customers of supply shortages for server central processing units (CPUs) …

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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)

Cao Li / South China Morning Post:
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  —  China's food delivery giant Meituan said on Thursday that it had agreed to acquire Dingdong, a leading on-demand commerce platform in China specialising in fresh groceries.

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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)

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Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after a WSJ story about Instagram and teen mental health, noting Apple faces less scrutiny  —  The Meta CEO said Apple seems to get away with less criticism by lying low. … One day after The Wall Street Journal published …

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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)

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How the SpaceX-xAI $1.25T merger deal was fast-tracked after SpaceX had a technical breakthrough in orbital data centers last fall  —  The fast-tracked deal is premised on SpaceX's satellite prowess combining with xAI's technology  —  Elon Musk took a gulp of water on stage at the World Economic Forum …

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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)

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
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  —  People without coding backgrounds are discovering that they can build their own custom apps using so-called vibe coding …

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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)

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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  —  What to know: … Tether, issuer of the world's most popular stablecoin USDT … , has acquired a $150 million minority stake in Gold.com …

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Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft forecast capital expenditures that reach a combined ~$650B in 2026, a 60% YoY increase driven by data center construction (Bloomberg)

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Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft forecast capital expenditures that reach a combined ~$650B in 2026, a 60% YoY increase driven by data center construction  —  Four of the biggest US technology companies together have forecast capital expenditures that will reach about $650 billion in 2026 …

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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)

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French authorities charge four people with spying for China by allegedly seeking to obtain satellite data from Starlink and other critical entities  —  French authorities charged four people with spying for China in a case that targeted Elon Musk's satellite Internet provider Starlink.

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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)

Victoria Waldersee / Reuters:
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  —  Around a third of countries attending a military AI summit agreed on Thursday to a a declaration on how to govern deployment …

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