Etsy and eBay are starting to embrace tactics popularized by social media platforms, such as algorithm-based personalization, as a way to stay relevant (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)

Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal:
Etsy and eBay are starting to embrace tactics popularized by social media platforms, such as algorithm-based personalization, as a way to stay relevant  —  Companies are starting to emulate some of the tactics popularized by Instagram, TikTok and Pinterest to help boost sales

Delaware lawmakers are considering a bill that would transform the state's corporate law to keep it attractive to both investors and CEOs, following Musk's exit (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Delaware lawmakers are considering a bill that would transform the state's corporate law to keep it attractive to both investors and CEOs, following Musk's exit  —  Tesla CEO Elon Musk turned Delaware's corporate law into a hot-button topic last year after a judge there ruled …

A lack of consensus on what defines an AI "agent" is leading to customer frustration, as Microsoft, OpenAI, Salesforce, and others market it differently (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch:
A lack of consensus on what defines an AI “agent” is leading to customer frustration, as Microsoft, OpenAI, Salesforce, and others market it differently  —  Silicon Valley is bullish on AI agents.  OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said agents will “join the workforce” this year.

A look at the adoption of DeepSeek across China, as Chinese automakers, smartphone sellers, and others rush to build services on top of the homegrown AI model (Kinling Lo/Rest of World)

Kinling Lo / Rest of World:
A look at the adoption of DeepSeek across China, as Chinese automakers, smartphone sellers, and others rush to build services on top of the homegrown AI model  —  Chinese companies, as a signal of patriotism, are racing to build services on top of the homegrown AI model that has taken the world by storm since January.

China's National People's Congress saw an uncharacteristic surge in tech optimism, driven by DeepSeek, which has fired up investors, politicians, and regulators (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
China's National People's Congress saw an uncharacteristic surge in tech optimism, driven by DeepSeek, which has fired up investors, politicians, and regulators  —  - Push for high-tech development follows DeepSeek's breakthrough  — Chinese shares poised to post best NPC performance since 2018

Foxconn reports Q4 profit down 13% YoY to ~$1.41B, missing the ~$1.65B estimate, its first quarterly drop since Q2 2023, but forecasts strong Q1 2025 growth (Reuters)

Reuters:
Foxconn reports Q4 profit down 13% YoY to ~$1.41B, missing the ~$1.65B estimate, its first quarterly drop since Q2 2023, but forecasts strong Q1 2025 growth  —  Taiwan's Foxconn (2317.TW),the world's largest contract electronics maker, said on Friday that solid demand from its tech clients …

A look at Paris-based incubator Station F, which includes Hugging Face as alumni and whose startups raised €1B+ for three straight years, up from €250M in 2017 (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
A look at Paris-based incubator Station F, which includes Hugging Face as alumni and whose startups raised €1B+ for three straight years, up from €250M in 2017  —  Of the Paris-based incubator's 40 best-performing start-ups, 34 have artificial intelligence at the core of their business

Estonian startups aim to turn its thriving tech sector into a military-industrial complex, including making autonomous drones, as Europe boosts defense spending (Ott Tammik/Bloomberg)

Ott Tammik / Bloomberg:
Estonian startups aim to turn its thriving tech sector into a military-industrial complex, including making autonomous drones, as Europe boosts defense spending  —  The Baltic country hopes to turn its thriving tech sector into a military-industrial complex, and tap into rising European defense spending.

After Palantir's stock jumped 350%+ in 2024, founder Alex Karp has sold $1.9B in shares since January 2024; VerityData says his PLTR holdings are worth $12.8B (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
After Palantir's stock jumped 350%+ in 2024, founder Alex Karp has sold $1.9B in shares since January 2024; VerityData says his PLTR holdings are worth $12.8B  —  Data intelligence group's chief cashed in on surging shares to make $1.9bn, behind only Meta's Mark Zuckerberg

Trump's call to scrap the "horrible" CHIPS Act causes concern among Republican lawmakers, who sought and received White House reassurances over the program (New York Times)

New York Times:
Trump's call to scrap the “horrible” CHIPS Act causes concern among Republican lawmakers, who sought and received White House reassurances over the program  —  The president's attack on the key tenet of the Biden administration's industrial policy has set off concerns that he may claw back its funding.

Sources: Kirkland-based enterprise cybersecurity startup Chainguard is in talks to raise $350M led by Kleiner at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1.1B in July 2024 (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)

Katie Roof / Bloomberg:
Sources: Kirkland-based enterprise cybersecurity startup Chainguard is in talks to raise $350M led by Kleiner at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1.1B in July 2024  —  - Kleiner Perkins is said to be leading the funding round  — The deal would triple Chainguard's valuation to $3.5 billion

Memoir: ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, who was fired in 2017, says Joel Kaplan sexually harassed her, among other claims; Meta cleared Kaplan in 2017 (NBC News)

NBC News:
Memoir: ex-Facebook employee Sarah Wynn-Williams, who was fired in 2017, says Joel Kaplan sexually harassed her, among other claims; Meta cleared Kaplan in 2017  —  The book by Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former New Zealand diplomat, addresses Facebook's impact on democracy during a crucial period in the company's history.

Analysis of US job listings: 36% of IT jobs in January 2025 were AI-related, and nearly 25% of tech jobs sought AI skills, a huge jump since ChatGPT's release (Nate Rattner/Wall Street Journal)

Nate Rattner / Wall Street Journal:
Analysis of US job listings: 36% of IT jobs in January 2025 were AI-related, and nearly 25% of tech jobs sought AI skills, a huge jump since ChatGPT's release  —  In industries from finance to retail, companies are seeking artificial-intelligence skills when looking for technology staff

Claude Code hands-on: chews through legacy bugs in gnarly old code and a big step for coding assistants, but its form factor is clunky and no multimodal support (Steve Yegge/@steve_yegge)

Steve Yegge / @steve_yegge:
Claude Code hands-on: chews through legacy bugs in gnarly old code and a big step for coding assistants, but its form factor is clunky and no multimodal support  —  I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days, and it has been absolutely ruthless in chewing through legacy bugs in my gnarly old code base. It's like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks, using nothing but chat. You don't even

Sources: Apple planned to announce a smart home hub in March but it has been postponed since the device relies on the delayed Siri capabilities (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple planned to announce a smart home hub in March but it has been postponed since the device relies on the delayed Siri capabilities  —  Also: The company continues to explore different glasses ideas, and the latest iOS beta software adds a Vision Pro app and new AI capabilities.