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January 13, 2025, 8:05 AM

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Financial Times:
The Biden admin unveils new chip export rules, giving 18 key allies full AI chips access while requiring licenses from most other countries, including China  —  US semiconductor industry warns move will aid competitors  —  The US is imposing expansive export controls on chips used …
Karen Freifeld / Reuters:
The Biden admin says chip orders with collective computation power up to ~1,700 advanced GPUs need no license and don't count against country specific chip caps  —  The U.S. government said on Monday it would issue a new regulation designed to control access to U.S.-designed artificial intelligence chips …
Keir Starmer / Financial Times:
The UK PM debuts plans to increase its public sector compute by over 20x to spark a “national renewal”, saying the UK doesn't need to walk a US or EU path on AI  —  Going our own way will unleash national renewal  —  Artificial intelligence is the defining opportunity of our generation.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's plans for 2025, a year likely to be seen as a stepping stone toward more revolutionary products, rather than one of remarkable innovation  —  Apple plans a loaded 2025, with plans for an overhauled iPhone line, new AI features, a smart home push and updates to products it hasn't refreshed in a while.
Counterpoint Research:
Global smartphone shipments grew 4% YoY in 2024 after a decade-low in 2023; top two brands, Samsung and Apple, were mostly flat, while Xiaomi grew 12% YoY  —  - Global smartphone sell-through grew 4% YoY in 2024, following the weakest year in a decade in 2023.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Qventus, which builds AI-based tools to automate health care work, raised a $105M Series D, including $85M in equity and $20M in optional debt  —  Healthcare is proving to be one of the more lucrative industries for building AI solutions to speed up clinical, research and administrative operations.
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Colin Demarest / Axios:
Overland AI, which is developing off-road self-driving systems for military purposes, raised a $32M Series A led by 8VC  —  Overland CEO Byron Boots told Axios the millions will be used to hire more people, sharpen software development and wade into hardware.
Renée DiResta:
Meta's changes to its content policies will appease vocal political critics only for the short term, and they signal a retreat from responsibility to users  —  Hello!  Happy new year!  It was a busy week in tech policy land.  Yesterday was the SCOTUS hearing on TikTok (interesting legal takes).
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