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guard your card.com. Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Wednesday, February 12th. I'm Julie

Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

Elon Musk's Platform X has agreed to pay about $10 million to settle a lawsuit that Donald Trump brought against the company and its former CEO. The agreement makes X the second social

media platform to settle litigation that Trump filed when the company's deep platformed him

over his role in the January 6th riot

at the U.S. Capitol. A spokesman for X didn't respond to requests for comment. All the parties involved

last week filed a motion to dismiss the appeal. It was granted on Monday. SoftBank reported a quarterly

loss partly due to the weakness in its technology funds business.

The Japanese technology investment company said today that it booked a net loss for the three months ended in December, roughly $2.42 billion.

That's compared to a net profit of about $6.15 billion in the year earlier period.

This comes at a time when SoftBank announced a joint venture with OpenEI and

Oracle called Stargate, aiming to invest up to $500 billion in artificial intelligence

infrastructure in the U.S. SoftBank said that Stargate will be funded primarily through

project finance and that equity investment will be limited. And Chinese internet company Baidu

is in talks with authorities in the United Arab

Emirates to bring robotaxies there. That's according to people familiar with the matter.

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