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📱 Threads has overtaken X in daily users
💥 Asus may have made its last phone
📈 NYSE develops 24/7 blockchain trading platform for stocks
🖥️ xAI launches world's first 1GW AI training cluster
🤖 Tesla confirms Dojo 3 development has resumed
📉 Thinking Machines faces investor scrutiny after talent exodus
🎁 + 15 other news you might like
🧰 + 6 trending tools
📚 + 1 trending papers
📱 Threads has overtaken X in daily users LINK
Meta's Threads app has passed Elon Musk's X in daily mobile users, with 141.5 million people using Threads on iOS and Android compared to 125 million on X, according to market intelligence firm Similarweb.
The growth appears driven by cross-promotions from Facebook and Instagram, a focus on creators, and new features like interest-based communities, DMs, long-form text, and disappearing posts rather than recent X controversies.
X still leads on the web with around 145 million daily visits compared to just 8.5 million for Threads, and X remains ahead in the U.S. market, though that gap has narrowed significantly over the past year.
💥 Asus may have made its last phone LINK
Asus chairman Jonney Shih announced the company will stop making new smartphones, effectively ending both its Zenfone and ROG Phone product lines after years in the mobile market.
Shih said Asus is entering a period of "indefinite observation" of the smartphone market, leaving open the possibility of returning someday while promising to support existing phone users.
The company released only two phones in 2025, the Zenfone 12 Ultra and ROG Phone 9 FE, neither of which launched in the US, following a quiet period after 2023.
📈 NYSE develops 24/7 blockchain trading platform for stocks LINK
The New York Stock Exchange is building a blockchain-based platform that would allow investors to trade tokenized stocks and ETFs around the clock with instant settlement.
The platform would combine NYSE's Pillar matching engine with blockchain post-trade systems, letting trades be funded and settled in real time using stablecoins instead of the current one-day cycle.
ICE, the NYSE's parent company, is working with banks like BNY and Citibank to support tokenized deposits at its clearinghouses, helping members move money outside normal banking hours.
🖥️ xAI launches world's first 1GW AI training cluster LINK
xAI has launched Colossus 2, the world's first gigawatt-scale AI training cluster, with Elon Musk announcing on X that the supercomputer is now operational and will be upgraded to 1.5 GW in April.
The 1-GW power load exceeds San Francisco's peak electricity demand, and xAI plans to reach 2 GW total capacity after purchasing a third building called "MACROHARDRR" in Memphis last December.
Unlike OpenAI and Anthropic, which rely on Microsoft and Amazon for data centers, xAI is building its own facilities, funded by a recently completed $20 billion Series E funding round.
🤖 Tesla confirms Dojo 3 development has resumed LINK
Tesla has confirmed it is restarting development of its Dojo3 supercomputer project after Elon Musk said the AI5 chip design is now "in good shape" following last year's shutdown.
During Tesla's Q2 2025 earnings call, Musk said the company is considering merging the Dojo3 chip with the AI6 design, moving away from its earlier approach of building everything in-house.
Tesla paused Dojo in 2025 after losing top engineers including Milan Kovac and David Lau, while also facing lower sales, growing competition, and political backlash tied to Musk's statements.
📉 Thinking Machines faces investor scrutiny after talent exodus LINK
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is facing serious questions from investors after firing a co-founder and losing several researchers to OpenAI in a single week.
CEO Murati fired co-founder Barret Zoph during an all-hands meeting for poor performance and talking to competitors, and two researchers quit via Slack before the meeting ended.
The company is trying to raise money at a $50 billion valuation, but investors are now "rattled" after five employees left this week, with four returning to OpenAI.
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🧰 Trending tools
Noodle Seed: a no-code platform that helps businesses get discovered in AI chatbot conversations by optimizing their presence for AI-generated recommendations and responses.LINK
Updatest: a macOS dashboard that consolidates updates from Homebrew, Mac App Store, Sparkle, Electron, and GitHub Releases into one interface.LINK
Compound Interest Calculator Collection: a suite of 60+ financial and utility calculators built by a non-developer using AI coding tools like Claude and Windsurf.LINK
pdfwithlove: browser-based PDF toolkit that processes files entirely client-side without uploading to servers, including merge, split, compress, and conversion features.LINK
Tofu Maps: a frictionless web tool for quickly collecting and sharing location pins on a custom map without requiring signup or complex setup.LINK
Internet Makes Music: a collaborative pixel-based music sequencer where strangers place pixels together to create shared compositions in real-time without ads or tracking.LINK
📚 Trending papers & reports
Binary fuse filters cut memory use in half: researchers created a data structure that checks set membership using 9 bits per item versus 18 for previous filters.LINK
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