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Sources: Haofei Wang, X's director of engineering who joined the company in July 2023, has left the company (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

Massachusetts' top securities regulator probes Robinhood's decision to launch a prediction markets hub, after sending the company a subpoena last week (Nate Raymond/Reuters)

Google is rolling out new real-time AI video features, including the ability to "see" screens and camera feeds, for Gemini Advanced subscribers (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Research shows a surge in the popularity of deepfake porn services, with the 10 most popular "nudifying" websites receiving 18M views in January 2025 alone (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)

How one of the world's major money laundering networks, linked to Cambodia's Huione Group, services online scammers using cryptocurrency, Telegram, and more (New York Times)

An interview with Helsing co-CEO Torsten Reil on delivering the defense tech company's AI-enabled strike drones to Ukraine, the herd mentality of VCs, and more (John Thornhill/Financial Times)

As Spotify pushes its new video monetization program, sexually explicit videos have appeared on its top podcast charts, violating the company's terms of use (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praises cell phone restrictions in schools, saying their electromagnetic radiation causes neurological and cellular damage (Aria Bendix/NBC News)

Democratic Senators helping Trump's strongest Senate allies repeal Section 230 could give the Trump administration unprecedented power to control online speech (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

Kuo: A20 chips in iPhone 18 models will be made using TSMC's 2nm process, as TSMC's trial production of 2nm chips reached yields well above the 60-70% range (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is "singularly positioned to rebuild" it "without creating a monopoly" (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

Meta is testing a "Write with Meta AI" prompt on Instagram that gives users AI-generated suggestions to help write comments under other users' posts (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

Sources: Coinbase is in advanced talks to buy Deribit, the largest bitcoin and ether options trading platform, which was reportedly valued at $4B-$5B in January (Bloomberg)