Data breach at govtech giant Conduent balloons, affecting millions more Americans

February 5, 2026

The ransomware attack at Conduent allowed hackers to steal a “significant number of individuals’ personal information” from the govtech giant’s systems. Conduent handles personal and health data of more than 100 million people across America.

Sam Altman Rants About Anthropic’s ‘Dishonest’ and ‘Authoritarian’ Super Bowl Ads

February 5, 2026

The commercials mocked ChatGPT’s new campaign, causing the OpenAI CEO to rage against his rival on X.

It’s About To Get A Lot Easier to Shop Using ChatGPT. How Can You Make Sure Your Products Appear There?

February 5, 2026

With ChatGPT Shopping rolling out now, this is what will make brands succeed.

Fundamental raises $255 million Series A with a new take on big data analysis

February 5, 2026

Fundamental has built a new foundation model to solve an old problem: how to draw insights from the huge quantities of structured data produced by enterprises.

Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers

February 5, 2026

Substack said that customer data was accessed in October 2025, but wasn’t discovered until early February.

ElevenLabs CEO: Voice is the next interface for AI

February 5, 2026

ElevenLabs CEO argued at Web Summit Qatar that voice is the next interface for AI, as OpenAI, Google, and Apple push conversational systems into wearables, new hardware, and everyday interactions.

Running Your Business Efficiently Means Having the Right Software Foundation

February 5, 2026

Eliminate subscription costs from your budget with this Microsoft Office and Windows 11 Pro deal.

The Download: attempting to track AI, and the next generation of nuclear power

February 5, 2026

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This is the most misunderstood graph in AI Every time OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic drops a new frontier large language model, the AI community holds its breath. It doesn’t exhale until METR, an…

Google’s subscriptions rise in Q4 as YouTube pulls $60B in yearly revenue

February 5, 2026

The company said it now has 325 million paying users across Google One and YouTube Premium, up from 300 million users three months earlier.

Spotify ventures into physical book sales, adds new audiobook features

February 5, 2026

Spotify users in the U.S. and the UK will soon be able to buy physical books in the app. There’s also a new tool that syncs physical books to audiobooks.

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