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Alphabet won’t talk about the Google-Apple AI deal, even to investors

Posted on February 5, 2026 by Techme101

Alphabet CEO skipped an analyst’s question about Apple on the company’s earnings call.

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Broadcom, Nvidia shares rise on surging Google capital expenditures for AI

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Techme101

Much of Google’s AI software doesn’t run on industry-standard Nvidia chips, but instead on its own tensor processing units. Broadcom helps Google make its TPUs.

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The Wayback Machine debuts a new plug-in designed to fix the internet’s broken links problem

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Techme101

Should a linked web page go offline, the new feature will then redirect readers to the archived versions, so that there is no drop in service. The tool also archives a user’s own posts, helping to ensure their longevity.

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Google’s Gemini app has surpassed 750M monthly active users

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Techme101

Google revealed a significant milestone for it’s Gemini app, announcing over 750 million monthly active users as it competes with ChatGPT and Meta AI.

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Snap shares rise on fourth-quarter earnings that beat on sales

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Techme101

Snap released on Wednesday its fourth-quarter earnings that beat on sales but missed on revenue guidance.

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Qualcomm stock sinks as memory shortage drags on forecast

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Techme101

“We’re starting to see that memory is going to define the size of the mobile market,” Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said in an interview.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX company town is getting a police department

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Techme101

The new department will have up to eight police officers and could be up and running in a few months.

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Meet Gizmo: a TikTok for interactive, vibe-coded mini apps

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Techme101

Gizmo’s app is like a TikTok for vibe-coded mini apps…and it’s a lot of fun.

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy picks marketplace exec to be his new ‘shadow’ advisor

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Techme101

Jassy was Jeff Bezos’ shadow in the early 2000s before going on to lead Amazon Web Services.

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A16z just raised $1.7B for AI infrastructure. Here’s where it’s going.

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Techme101

Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping ⁠new $15 billion in funding⁠. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its ⁠infrastructure team⁠, the one responsible for some of its biggest, most prominent AI investments including Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ⁠ElevenLabs⁠, Ideogram, ⁠Fal⁠ and dozens of others.   A16z ⁠general partner with the infra team Jennifer Li⁠ (who oversees … Continue reading →

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