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Filings: Meta has hired Bill McGinley, a veteran Republican operative and the former top lawyer for DOGE, as a lobbyist — Meta Platforms Inc. has hired the former top lawyer for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency as a lobbyist, according to previously unreported government filings.
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Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B — Snowflake plans to acquire Observe, an observability platform that has been built on Snowflake's databases from day one.
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Sources: Strava, the fitness app founded in 2009, filed confidentially for an IPO; its revenue grew more than 50% YoY in 2025 but was still less than $500M — Strava, a fitness app popular with runners and cyclists, filed confidentially in recent weeks for an initial public offering …
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Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to raise about $2B, after raising more than $1.5B across a pair of rounds in September and October — Data center company Nscale is in talks with investors to raise about $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter …
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OpenAI is rolling out a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to assist with medical reasoning and administrative tasks, at Cedars-Sinai and others — Health care is shaping up to be a key battleground for the top AI labs this year. But first... Three things to know:
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OpenAI VP of research Jerry Tworek is leaving, sources say after OpenAI sided with Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki in a dispute over its research direction — Tech companies are calling AI the next platform. But some developers are reluctant to let AI agents stand between them and their users.
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Statcounter: four months after its release, iOS 26 is in use by only about 15% of iPhone users; in January 2025, about 63% of users were on iOS 18 — Only a tiny percentage of iPhone users have installed iOS 26, according to data from a web analytics service.
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Sources: Google, Meta, Netflix, Microsoft, and Amazon will not be included in the EU's Digital Networks Act, despite calls from telecoms companies — Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O), Meta Platforms (META.O), Netflix (NFLX.O), Microsoft (MSFT.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O) will not face heavy-handed regulations …
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Source: a few weeks before Grok started “digitally undressing” people, Elon Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on Grok's image and video generator — Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, has been flooded with sexual images of mainly women, many of them real people.
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Most iPhone users are still running iOS 18, with iOS 26 adoption slow: report — iOS 26 has been available for nearly four months, yet reporting from Statcounter indicates the iPhone update is lagging significantly behind predecessors in adoption, with most users opting to stay on iOS 18.
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