Amazon is planning a Super Amazon-mart store near Chicago

Stevie Bonifield / theverge - Amazon could be taking another, even bigger swing at physical stores, this time with a Walmart-like supercenter. On Tuesday, the Orland Park Plan Commission in the Chicago suburb Orland Park, Illinois voted 6-1 to approve Amazon's proposal to develop 35 a…

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Amazon is apparently planning a big box store in the Chicago suburbs

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Crypto VC Giant Andreessen Horowitz Raises $15 Billion to Help America 'Win' Tech Race

Logan Hitchcock / decrypt - Major crypto investor Andreessen Horowitz raised $15 billion across multiple funds to propel technology bets and help boost America's prospects.

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Crypto VC Giant Andreessen Horowitz Raises $15 Billion to Help America 'Win' Tech Race

1 month / decrypt / Logan Hitchcock

Andreessen Horowitz raises $15 billion, as VC firm goes big in infrastructure, defense

1 month / cnbc

Watch: China’s Unitree H2 Robot Delivers 360-Degree Kick to Watermelon

1 month / eweek / Aminu Abdullahi

Ripple Secures FCA Authorization, Boosting UK Expansion

Ekemini / ventureburn - Ripple just got the green light from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which is a big deal for its push into Europe. With this approval, Ripple can now expandThe post Ripple Secures FCA Authorization, Boosting UK Expansion appeared first on Vent…

#blockchain #fintech #crypto #business #uk #payments #law #wallet #regulation

U.Today Crypto Digest: Ripple Gets Major EU License Approval, Shiba Inu (SHIB) Price Teases 22% Golden Cross Breakout, Bitwise Launches Chainlink (LINK) ETF - U.Today

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Ripple dips on Thursday as European licensing gains momentum - FXStreet

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Ripple secures EU EMI license in Luxembourg after UK FCA nod — what it means for XRP utility and price - MSN

7 wks / msn

Ripple Secures Initial EMI Approval in Luxembourg, Eyes EU Expansion - The Crypto Times

7 wks / cryptotimes

Ripple Turbocharges Cross-Border Payments in Europe After Luxembourg Nod - Coinpaper

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XRP ETFs hit record weekly volume as bitcoin, ether funds face $750 million in combined outflows

7 wks / theblock / Zack Abrams

Ripple Secures Electronic Money Institution License and Crypto Asset Registration in UK

1 month / pymnts / PYMNTS

Ripple Secures FCA Authorization, Boosting UK Expansion

1 month / ventureburn / Ekemini

The Daily: Cathie Wood says US government may soon start buying bitcoin, Ripple secures FCA authorization, and more

1 month / theblock / James Hunt

Ripple secures FCA authorization, clearing path for UK expansion

1 month / theblock / Sarah Wynn

Ripple wins UK regulatory approval from Financial Conduct Authority

1 month / coindesk / Jamie Crawley

OpenAI and SoftBank announce $1 billion investment in SB Energy as part of massive AI buildout

cnbc - OpenAI and SoftBank agreed to invest $1 billion into a SoftBank-backed energy provider as the companies prepare for a massive buildout of AI data centers.

#ai #cloud #fintech #openai #genai #energy #business #datacenter #technology #softbank

OpenAI invests $500M in SoftBank’s SB Energy unit

1 month / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

OpenAI and SoftBank Bet $1B on SB Energy to Power AI Data Centers

1 month / parameter / Yasmin Werner

OpenAI and SoftBank to invest $1bn in energy and data centre supplier

1 month / ft

OpenAI and SoftBank Commit $1 Billion to SB Energy, Launching 1.2 GW Stargate Site in Texas

1 month / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

OpenAI and SoftBank announce $1 billion investment in SB Energy as part of massive AI buildout

1 month / cnbc

OpenAI, SoftBank to Invest $1 Billion in SB Energy

1 month / wsj / Katherine Hamilton

OpenAI, SoftBank Invest $1 Billion in Stargate Partner SB Energy

1 month / bloomberg / Michelle MaShirin GhaffaryBrian Eckhouse

The U.S. government is punting on Grok’s undressing issue

Rebecca Heilweil / fastcompany - Grok’s digital undressing scandal is horrifying. In recent days, countless women, including the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, have found AI-generated and nonconsensual sexual images of themselves propagating across the web. According to one analy…

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Deepfake Sexual Abuse Outcry (4)
Monetization and Paywall Tactics (8)
Other Scandals and Technical Woes (5)
Regulatory and Political Backlash (14)
All Other Stories

Deepfake Sexual Abuse Outcry

Why Elon Musk is laughing off Grok’s flood of deepfake AI porn

7 wks / fastcompany / Jay Willis

Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Sarees

1 month / wired / Kat Tenbarge

The latest on Grok’s gross AI deepfakes problem

1 month / theverge / Verge Staff

Elon Musk's Grok Faces Backlash Over Nonconsensual AI-Altered Images

1 month / cnet / Gael Cooper

Monetization and Paywall Tactics

X Restricts Grok's Image Generation to Paid Users After Global Backlash

1 month / reddit / /u/i-drake

Elon Musk Moves to Monetize Grok Deepfake Abuse, UK Calls It Insulting

1 month / gizmodo / Bruce Gil

X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing

1 month / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery

1 month / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

X Didn't Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

1 month / wired / Matt Burgess

No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature

1 month / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

Grok image generation is now paywalled on X amid AI "undressing" deepfake controversy

1 month / techspot

Limiting Grok AI image edits to paid users 'insulting' to victims, says UK Govt.

1 month / reddit / /u/Negative_Round_8813

Other Scandals and Technical Woes

Just like its dad, Grok keeps failing up

7 wks / qz / Shannon Carroll

Grok Is In Massive Trouble

1 month / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Why AI could mark the end of Big Tech's invincibility

1 month / semafor / Reed Albergotti

AI-coded malware arrives on the Mac through fake Grok AI app

1 month / appleinsider

The Grok Disaster Isn't An Anomaly. It Follows Warnings That Were Ignored.

1 month / techpolicy

Regulatory and Political Backlash

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Blocked in Indonesia Over Sexualized Content

7 wks / bloomberg / Soraya Permatasari

‘Abhorrent’: PM slams Elon Musk’s Grok

7 wks / news.com.au

X could be banned in UK amid sexualised AI images concerns

1 month / reddit / /u/PaiDuck

Is Apple’s ‘Safe’ App Store a Myth? Senators Want X Booted Over Grok Deepfakes

1 month / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards / X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?

1 month / reddit / /u/MarvelsGrantMan136

Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards

1 month / theverge / Elizabeth Lopatto

Grok and X should be suspended from Apple, Google app stores, Democratic senators say

1 month / cnbc

Senators urged Apple and Google to remove X and Grok from app stores over sexual deepfakes

1 month / reddit / /u/Well_Socialized

US Senators from the Democratic Party Urge Apple and Google to Remove X and Grok from App Stores Following Grok Generating Illegal Sexual Images at Scale

1 month / reddit / /u/CandidAd9457

Senators tell Apple to remove X & Grok from App Store because of AI-generated child porn

1 month / appleinsider

U.S. Senators Ask Apple and Google to Remove X and Grok Apps Over Sexualized Image Generation

1 month / macrumors / Eric Slivka

The U.S. government is punting on Grok’s undressing issue

1 month / fastcompany / Rebecca Heilweil

Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores / Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes violate the app stores’ terms of service, the senators argue.

1 month / reddit / /u/MarvelsGrantMan136

Democrats ask Apple and Google to remove X’s undressing bot from their app stores

1 month / theverge / Lauren Feiner

All Other Stories

Elon Musk needed three years to transform Twitter from maybe the world’s most important news source and a vital tool for real-world change into a weird right-wing AI slop machine generating on-demand bespoke nonconsensual porn. A real innovator in the spa

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A substantial number of AI images generated or edited with Grok are targeting women in religious and cultural clothing. www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

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New from @kattenbarge.bsky.social: X influencers are using Grok to unveil Muslim women in hijabs and show them being beaten by men. Women in sarees are also being stripped: www.wired.com/story/grok-i...

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www.theverge.com/news/859715/...

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Mosyle has identified a macOS malware campaign that uses generative AI-assisted code and spreads through a fake AI app download.

1 month / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

The message also includes a link pushing people toward the social media platform’s $395 annual subscription tier. In one test of the system requesting Grok create an image of a tree, the system returned the same message.

1 month / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

The apparent change comes after days of growing outrage against and scrutiny of Musk’s X and xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot. www.wired.com/story/x-didn...

1 month / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

The companies face an increasing number of investigations from regulators around the world over the creation of nonconsensual explicit imagery and alleged sexual images of children.

1 month / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

Neither X nor xAI, the Musk-owned company behind Grok, has confirmed that it has made image generation and editing a paid-only feature. An X spokesperson acknowledged WIRED’s inquiry but did not provide comment ahead of publication. Read the full story:

1 month / bsky / @wired.com / wired.com

I would much rather have RAM than an AutoHarass Gold subscription www.wired.com/story/x-didn...

1 month / bsky / @subzerofrog.bsky.social / subzerofrog.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/x-didn... Seriously!

1 month / bsky / @beavington.bsky.social / beavington.bsky.social

Kia’s EV2 is its smallest and most affordable EV for Europe

Andrew J. Hawkins / theverge - Kia unveiled the EV2, a small and affordably priced electric vehicle built for the European market. The EV2 made its debut at the Brussels Auto Show, where executives touted it as its "most compact" EV to date. Of course, it was another in a long line of …

#innovation #cars #business #environment #europe #batteries #automotive #ev

Kia's Newest SUV Is A Stylish, Affordable Subcompact You Can't Have - CarBuzz

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Kia Introduces EV2 as City-Friendly Electric SUV at 2026 Brussels Motor Show - Motor Illustrated

1 month / motorillustrated

Kia’s EV2 is its smallest and most affordable EV for Europe

1 month / theverge / Andrew J. Hawkins

Kia EV2: The Most Affordable Kia EV Is A Small SUV With 278 Miles Of Range - inkl

1 month / inkl

Kia's budget EV2 arrives with up to 240 miles of range

1 month / engadget / Steve Dent

Kia Unveils EV2 Globally: Brand's Smallest Electric Car With Up To 448 km Range - DriveSpark

1 month / drivespark

Kia EV2 Compact Electric SUV Debuts in Brussels - The EV Report

1 month / theevreport

Kia unveils EV2 compact SUV at Brussels Motor Show

1 month / co / Chang Dong-woo

Rain Raises $250 Million to Scale Platform for Launching Stablecoin Cards

PYMNTS / pymnts - Rain raised $250 million in a Series C funding round to scale its infrastructure for stablecoin payments and add new capabilities and products. The round boosted Rain’s valuation to $1.95 billion, which is 17 times higher than its valuation 10 months ago,…

#startups #vc #blockchain #fintech #crypto #banking #business #payments #wallet

Stablecoin payment card startup Rain reels in $250M

1 month / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Rain Raises $250 Million to Scale Its Global Stablecoin Infrastructure

1 month / ventureburn / Clinton

Rain Raises $250 Million to Scale Platform for Launching Stablecoin Cards

1 month / pymnts / PYMNTS

Rain valuation nears $2 billion after $250 million Series C raise for stablecoin payments firm

1 month / theblock / Brian Danga

Rain Raises $250M in Series C Funding

1 month / finsmes / FinSMEs

Xbox’s Avowed is coming to PS5, and you can pre-order it today

digitaltrends - Avowed is coming to PlayStation 5 on February 17, 2026, and pre-orders are live now. Here’s the price, what’s confirmed so far, and why Standard may be the smarter pick.The post Xbox’s Avowed is coming to PS5, and you can pre-order it today appeared first…

#gaming #microsoft #entertainment #playstation #business #xbox #sony #videogames

Obsidian’s Avowed is the next Xbox game to come to PS5

1 month / mobilesyrup / Bradly Shankar

Avowed is the Next Xbox Game Coming to PS5 on February 17

1 month / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Avowed is the latest Xbox exclusive to jump ship to PS5

1 month / theshortcut / Adam Vjestica

Xbox’s Avowed is coming to PS5, and you can pre-order it today

1 month / digitaltrends

Xbox is bringing Avowed to PS5

1 month / engadget / Kris Holt

Avowed Lands on PS5 February 17, 2026, While the Anniversary Update Drops on All Platforms

1 month / wccftech / Alessio Palumbo

Healthcare Voice Tech Startup Tucuvi Raises $20M To Improve Care

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Tucuvi, a Spanish voice technology startup for healthcare, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. Designed to support and execute clinical decisions during patient phone calls its solution offers a new approach to managing healthcare workflow…

#ai #startups #digitalhealth #voice #health #business #europe #technology

HealthTech Tucuvi raised €17 mn to scale certified voice AI in healthcare - Beinsure

1 month / beinsure

Spain’s HealthTech startup Tucuvi raises €17 million to scale LOLA voice AI, reporting up to 80% automation in nursing follow-up

1 month / eu-startups / David Cendon Garcia

Tucuvi Raises $20M in Series A Funding

1 month / finsmes / FinSMEs

Healthcare Voice Tech Startup Tucuvi Raises $20M To Improve Care

1 month / startuprise / Kailee Rainse

Startup Strikes $20M Deal to Enhance Healthcare with AI - cointurk finance

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Meta signs nuclear energy deals to power Prometheus AI supercluster

cnbc - Meta said it secured agreements with energy companies Vistra, TerraPower and Oklo, which are all working on nuclear power technologies.

#climate #ai #cloud #meta #energy #stockmarket #business #datacenter #environment #technology

Meta Partners with High-Profile Nuclear Startups and Investors (2)
Meta's Nuclear Energy Deal Announcements (14)
Other Tech Giants Strike Innovative AI Energy Deals (1)
Stocks Surge as Meta Seals Nuclear Pacts (4)
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Meta Partners with High-Profile Nuclear Startups and Investors

Meta Is Making a Big Bet on Nuclear With Oklo

1 month / wired / Alexander C. Kaufman

Meta expands nuclear power ambitions to include Bill Gates’ startup

1 month / theverge / Jess Weatherbed

Meta's Nuclear Energy Deal Announcements

Meta Signs Deals With 3 Nuclear Energy Companies to Power Data Centers

1 month / pymnts / PYMNTS

Meta reacts to power needs by signing long-term nuke deals

1 month / theregister / Dan Robinson

Meta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power

1 month / techcrunch / Tim De Chant

Meta Signs Massive 6.6 GW Nuclear Deal to Power ‘Prometheus’ AI Supercluster

1 month / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Meta announces a slew of nuclear energy agreements

1 month / engadget / Andre Revilla

Meta’s AI data centers get nuclear boost equal to 5 million homes

1 month / qz / Niamh Rowe

Meta inks deals to supply a staggering 6 gigawatts in nuclear power for data center ambitions — enough wattage to supply 5 million homes

1 month / tomshardware

Meta signs three nuclear power deals to help support its AI data centers

1 month / techxplore

Meta signs three nuclear power deals to help support its AI data centers

1 month / go

Meta bets big on nuclear power with 6.6 gigawatt expansion plan

1 month / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

Meta strikes deals with nuclear start-ups to meet AI power demand

1 month / ft

Meta signs nuclear energy deals to power Prometheus AI supercluster

1 month / cnbc

Meta Unveils Sweeping Nuclear-Power Plan to Fuel Its AI Ambitions

1 month / wsj / Jennifer Hiller

Meta Signs Multi-Gigawatt Nuclear Deals to Power AI Data Centers

1 month / bloomberg / Will WadeRiley Griffin

French MedTech FineHeart Raises €83 Million Funding

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - FineHeart, a Bordeaux- and Tours-based clinical-stage medical device company focused on cardiovascular technologies, has completed the first closing of its Series C financing round, raising €35 million. Investors in the round include Groupe Pasteur Mutual…