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Chinese matchmaking apps like Wanmei Qinjia, which has 50M users and lets parents look for spouses for their children, surge as marriage rates continue to fall (Kohei Fujimura/Nikkei Asia)

Xiaomi launches the €15 Xiaomi tag, an AirTag-like device that works with both Apple Find My and Android Find Hub, and the €300 Xiaomi Watch 5, in Europe (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect (Wall Street Journal)

Court docs from a New Mexico trial reveal internal divisions at Meta as Instagram teen safety initiatives conflicted with growth and engagement goals (The Atlantic)

Suno CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman says the AI music company hit 2M paid subscribers and $300M ARR; pitch deck: it had 1M paid subscribers in November 2025 (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)

Some AI policymakers and lawyers warn that DOD's threats to Anthropic are contradictory and could chill partnerships between the government and Silicon Valley (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity is partnering with brands like Gap, Visa, and Tinder to market its World ID human verification product (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)

Apple says iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 have become the first consumer devices NATO approved for use up to the "restricted" level of classified data (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)

A livestream of Samsung Galaxy Unpacked February 2026 (Samsung on YouTube)

YouTube updates its $7.99 per month Premium Lite subscription to let users download videos for offline access and play videos in the background (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sources: DoD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a "supply chain risk", if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday (Axios)

Software stocks rebound as Anthropic announces partnerships integrating its AI tools with enterprise apps, including Slack, Intuit, Docusign, and FactSet (Annie Palmer/CNBC)