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Daily Tech News Roundup - 2026-02-02

1. AI layoffs or ‘AI-washing’?
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/ai-layoffs-or-ai-washing/
Summary: How many of the companies with recent layoffs are just using AI as an excuse?

2. Why Tether’s CEO is everywhere right now
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/why-tethers-ceo-is-everywhere-right-now/
Summary: For years, Tether's CEO avoided the United States, watching from offshore as regulators circled and prosecutors investigated. Those days are over.

3. Bill Gates says accusations contained in Epstein files are ‘absolutely absurd’
Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/871879/bill-gates-epstein-files-absolutely-absurd
Summary: Reports of Bill Gates' connections with Jeffrey Epstein grow more lurid with each dump of documents from the Department of Justice. The latest includes somewhat confusing emails that Epstein may have been drafting on behalf of someone named Boris, who worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The messages claim that Bill contracted an […]

4. Amazon’s ‘Melania’ documentary makes $7M on opening weekend
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/amazons-melania-documentary-makes-7m-on-opening-weekend/
Summary: While the documentary is exceeding box office expectations, it's unlikely to make a profit in theaters.

5. Shedding light on Iran’s longest internet blackout
Source: https://www.theverge.com/policy/871848/iran-blackout-internet-mahsa-alimardani
Summary: After protests broke out in early January, the Iranian regime shut down the internet, starting the longest blackout in Iranian history. Despite this attempt to stop the protests from spreading, they did not stop. Still, the internet shutdown slowed down the spread of information both inside and outside Iran. Behind the heavily policed borders and […]

6. You need to listen to M83’s icy post-rock record Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Source: https://www.theverge.com/column/871847/m83-dead-cities-red-seas-lost-ghosts
Summary: New York City got hit with a hell of a snowstorm last week. And, inevitably, when I'm watching the snow fall, wandering the oddly quiet streets after dark, people hiding inside and staying warm, I put on M83's sophomore record, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts. Before Nicolas Fromageau left the band and Anthony […]

7. Indonesia ‘conditionally’ lifts ban on Grok
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/indonesia-conditionally-lifts-ban-on-grok/
Summary: Indonesia has followed Malaysia and the Philippines in lifting a ban on xAI’s chatbot Grok.

8. TechCrunch Mobility: The great Tesla rebranding
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/techcrunch-mobility-the-great-tesla-rebranding/
Summary: Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

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