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OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle unveil The Stargate Project, a JV to invest in US AI infrastructure, committing $100B now and up to $500B over the next four years — OpenAI says that it will team up with both the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, along with others, to build multiple data centers for AI in the U.S.
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| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
A look at The Stargate Project: unanswered questions, PR wins, SoftBank only has ~$30B cash, many projects are old news, and Elon Musk trolled the announcement — If John ‘Hannibal’ Smith loves it when a plan comes together, I love it when a plan comes together hastily.
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| New York Times: |
Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, a crypto and libertarian cult hero serving a life sentence since 2015 on money laundering, drug charges, and more — Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Google is investing $1B+ more in Anthropic, which is also nearing a further $2B round from Silicon Valley VCs led by Lightspeed at a ~$60B valuation — Artificial intelligence group closes in on $60bn valuation — Google is making a fresh investment of more than $1bn into OpenAI rival Anthropic … | Becky Bracken / Dark Reading: |
The Trump administration fires all advisory committee members within the DHS, including those in the CISA's CSRB, which was investigating Salt Typhoon hackers — In a letter sent today, the acting DHS secretary terminated membership to all advisory boards, including the Cyber Safety Review Board …
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| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Insomniac Games founder and CEO Ted Price plans to step down from the Sony-owned studio after 30+ years; a trio of Insomniac veterans will serve as co-heads — Taking over for Price, who will be staying with the PlayStation Studio through March, are a trio of Insomniac vets who will serve …
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| The Cloudflare Blog: |
In 2024, Cloudflare's autonomous DDoS defense systems blocked ~21.3M DDoS attacks, up 53% YoY, and 420+ DDoS attacks in Q4 2024 exceeded 1Tbps, up 1,885% QoQ — This post is also available in .體中文, Deutsch, 한국어, Español (Espaňa) and Français.| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Samsung launches a kid-friendly mode for the Galaxy Watch 7, letting children call and text trusted contacts, and parents track kids via GPS — Samsung dropped some wearable news ahead of its Unpacked event later today: parents can now use the cellular Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 as a smartwatch for their kids.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says it has signed a new deal with OpenAI that gives Microsoft “right of first refusal”, meaning it's no longer OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider — Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models. No longer.
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI plans to release a new ChatGPT feature called Operator this week to automate complex tasks typically done via a web browser — OpenAI is preparing to release a new ChatGPT feature this week that will automate complex tasks typically done through the Web browser …
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: a deep philosophical rift over how DOGE should operate spurred Vivek Ramaswamy's exit, with Donald Trump's January 20 EO embodying Elon Musk's vision — A deep philosophical rift between the two billionaire leaders of the “Department of Government Efficiency” left Musk to run the group.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
A survey of 3,000+ game developers: 11% were laid off in the past year, 58% back unionization, 30% say generative AI negatively impacts the industry, and more — The 2025 GDC survey revealed the impact of industry-wide layoffs in 2024 where one of every 11 game developers lost a job.| TechCrunch: |
Truecaller rolls out real-time caller ID to its ~750K iOS subscribers, who account for 40% of its revenue; Truecaller has 2.6M+ paying subscribers in total — Popular caller ID app Truecaller has long left iPhone users at a disadvantage by not offering the caller information in real-time … | Financial Times: |
UK CMA Chair Marcus Bokkerink plans to leave the antitrust agency, forced out by UK ministers; the CMA appoints ex-Amazon executive Doug Gurr as interim chair — Marcus Bokkerink replaced at CMA with government saying it wants pro-business decisions to drive prosperity and growth
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| Financial Times: |
Some crypto executives fear investor backlash over $TRUMP and $MELANIA memecoins; CoinMarketCap reports most $TRUMP trading is concentrated on Asian exchanges — Industry trying to rebuild its reputation frets over potential conflicts of interest and investor losses
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.2B and 301.6M global subscribers, adding 18.9M subscribers, more than double analysts' estimates; NFLX jumps 14%+ — - Netflix is raising subscription prices in its biggest market — Report marks the end of regular quarterly customer updates
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
YouTube adds experimental features for Premium users, including higher audio bitrate of up to 256kbps for music videos and faster playback on mobile — YouTube said Wednesday that it is adding new experimental features for Premium users, including high-quality audio, faster playback speed option on mobile …
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| Bloomberg: |
Donald Trump says he would be open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok US as part of a joint venture that would give the US government 50% ownership — “I have the right to make a deal,” Trump said at an event alongside Ellison at the White House on Tuesday.
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| Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Data analytics startup Databricks closed its $10B Series J, announced in December 2024, with investment from Meta, Temasek, and QIA, and raised $5.25B in debt — Data analytics platform Databricks has confirmed that it has closed a previously announced $10 billion in Series J equity financing at a $62 billion valuation.| Daniel Tencer / Music Business Worldwide: |
Music AI, the AI startup behind Moises music creation service, raised a $40M Series A led by monashees and Connect Ventures, a partnership between CAA and NEA — Music AI, the “AI-first” company behind the increasingly popular Moises music creation platform, has announced it has raised USD $40 million in a Series A funding round.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Vertice, which offers an AI-powered SaaS spend management platform, raised a $50M Series C led by Lakestar, taking its total funding to ~$100M — Vertice has made a name for itself over the years in the crowded world of expenditure management by focusing on applying AI to optimize … | Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Days before TikTok briefly went dark, Meta made Instagram and Facebook design tweaks, added new features, and ran ads promoting its apps as TikTok alternatives — In the days before TikTok went dark, Instagram and Facebook released a flurry of new features and ran advertisements promoting its platforms as a comparable alternative.| Danny Park / The Block: |
A Texas District Court rules against the sanctions on Tornado Cash, ordering a previous decision to be reversed; the US sanctioned Tornado Cash in August 2022 — - A U.S. District Court has ordered the sanctions on Tornado Cash to be reversed. — The price of TORN jumped over 140% following the news.
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
Documents: Google gave Israel access to its latest AI tools from the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas war, directly assisting the Defense Ministry and the IDF — The company fulfilled requests from Israel's military for more access to AI tools, as it sought to compete with Amazon, documents obtained by The Post show.| Financial Times: |
Memo: ByteDance asks Chinese staff in Singapore to pay tax to China or risk losing their ability to cash out on stock options, as China steps up tax enforcement — ByteDance's missive comes as China steps up enforcement of global tax collection — TikTok parent ByteDance is asking Chinese employees …
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