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AI Gets Social, Musk Raided, Intel Challenges Nvidia: Tech's Wild Week

French Investigators Raid Paris Offices of Elon Musk's X Amid Widening Probe

Paris, France - French investigators raided the Paris offices of Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, as part of a widening investigation into the company's practices, according to Sky News. Prosecutors also summoned Musk, the platform's billionaire owner, for questioning.

The investigation, which initially launched last month, now encompasses alleged complicity in the possession and distribution of child abuse images, Sky News reported. Present and past employees, including former chief executive Linda Yaccarino, who left the company last year, were also summoned as witnesses.

Meanwhile, in the United States, the tech community in Minneapolis is facing a "tense and difficult time" as U.S. immigration agents have escalated their crackdown in the city, according to TechCrunch. The crackdown has reportedly resulted in multiple deaths, including at least two U.S. citizens. Eight Minneapolis-based founders and investors told TechCrunch that they have largely put their work on hold to focus on supporting their communities, volunteering at churches, and helping to provide food. "There's a lot of commonality between how a teacher is reacting right now and how a tech professional is reacting," Scott Burns, an investor in the area, told TechCrunch, adding that people are "very fatigued." Burns stated he is attending church more frequently to assist with food distribution.

Adding to the immigration concerns, Júnior Pena, a rightwing Brazilian influencer who defended Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, was arrested by ICE agents in New Jersey, The Guardian reported. Pena, whose full name is Eustáquio da Silva Pena Júnior, had declared his support for the former U.S. president in a recent video message to his hundreds of thousands of social media followers. He had falsely claimed that migrants being rounded up, including Brazilians, were all criminals, according to The Guardian. Pena has reportedly lived in the U.S. since 2009.

In other tech news, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announced at the Cisco AI Summit on Tuesday that the company will begin producing graphics processing units (GPUs), a market currently dominated by Nvidia, TechCrunch reported. These specialized processors are used for gaming and training artificial intelligence models. Kevork Kechichian, the executive vice president and general manager of Intel's data center group, will oversee the project, according to Reuters. Kechichian was hired in September as part of a wave of new engineer-focused hires.

Finally, a new social network called Moltbook, designed for artificial intelligence, has emerged, according to BBC Technology. Launched in late January by Matt Schlicht, head of commerce platform Octane AI, Moltbook allows AI to post, comment, and create communities known as "submolts." The platform, which resembles Reddit, claims to have 1.5 million users. Humans are "welcome to observe" but cannot post, the company stated.

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