Apple updates iOS and iPadOS for older devices, including iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and iPod touch (7th gen), to address the Coruna exploit disclosed last week (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
Chinese Gen Z day traders, who prefer tech stocks and increasingly use AI chatbots for investment advice, fuel the country's latest tech investment craze (Bloomberg)
A profile of Sachin Katti, who joined OpenAI from Intel in November as head of industrial compute and is helping guide the company's infrastructure efforts (Bloomberg)
The AI-assisted overhaul of a Python character encoding detection library raises questions about software relicensing and derivative versions of the original (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
Pentagon official Emil Michael says Anthropic's lawsuit is an "expected reaction" and "I don't think there's a scenario where this gets resolved in that way" (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $131.5M led by Oman's sovereign funds, with $81.5M equity, at a $2.3B valuation, up from $1.5B in August 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
How "dark factories", powered by AI and robotics and requiring essentially no workers, are set to upend China's labor market, already stressed by tariffs (Bloomberg)