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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
The OpenAI-led Stargate announcement only mentioned Microsoft as a tech partner, but Microsoft is poised to benefit from the JV by offloading AI computing costs — - OpenAI-led venture lets Microsoft offload AI computing costs — Software giant could still decide to invest more in future
More: Reuters, OpenAI, ITPro, Microsoft, CNBC, TNGlobal, Motley Fool, The Verge, and TechCrunch
| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
A look at The Stargate Project: lots of unanswered questions, PR wins, SoftBank only has ~$30B in cash, many projects are old, and 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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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI were arguing over Microsoft's ability to fulfill OpenAI's computing needs, in the months leading up to the Stargate announcement — The partnership that launched the AI boom has been strained by disagreements over computing resources| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman denies Musk's Stargate claim that “they don't” have the money, adding “what is great for the country isn't always what's optimal for your companies” — Billionaire Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate, the enormous infrastructure project …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Samsung announces the $800+ Galaxy S25 with a 6.2" screen and the $1,000+ 6.7" Galaxy S25 Plus with 12GB of RAM, Snapdragon 8 Elite, “Qi2 Ready”, and more — If the Galaxy S24 series heralded the triumphant arrival of Galaxy AI, then the S25 and S25 Plus may be a bit of a comedown …
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| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Samsung unveils the $1,300+ Galaxy S25 Ultra with a 6.9" QHD+ AMOLED screen, up from 6.8", 50MP sensor for the ultra-wide camera, and a small S Pen downgrade — Samsung's latest fad is the introduction of AI agents. — Senior Writer, Reviews — Last year Samsung embraced artificial intelligence …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
| Reuters: |
ByteDance launches Doubao-1.5-pro, an upgraded AI model, claiming it outperforms OpenAI's o1 in AIME benchmarks, joining DeepSeek in China's AI reasoning push — TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday released an update to its flagship AI model aimed at challenging Microsoft-backed OpenAI's …
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How Ross Ulbricht's allies, including crypto investors, libertarian politicians, and his mother Lyn Ulbricht, persuaded Trump to pardon the Silk Road founder — Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road website … | Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google's Gemini will be the default on-device assistant for the new Galaxy S25 series, and gets the ability to work across multiple apps in a single prompt — Google's AI assistant Gemini is now able to carry out tasks across multiple apps in a single interaction, in an update announced today alongside …
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Faithful: |
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| David DiMolfetta / Defense One: |
Sources: the Trump admin dismissed the members of the CSRB, which investigates major cybersecurity incidents, likely disrupting the Salt Typhoon hacks probe — The Department of Homeland Security advisory committee was investigating a Chinese hack into U.S. telecommunications.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/moderatepolitics, r/Layoffs, r/law, r/cybersecurity, r/cybersecurity, and Ars OpenForum
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
The UK CMA opens investigations into Apple's and Google's mobile ecosystems, including OSes, app stores, and browsers, to see the impact on users and businesses — LONDON — Britain's competition regulator on Thursday launched an investigation into Apple and Google's huge mobile ecosystems … | Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
Moderators for 50+ subreddits announce bans of X links in new posts and comments, with several citing Elon Musk's recent gesture that many saw as a Nazi salute — The cascade of link bans came after Musk made a hand gesture at a Monday rally that many compared to a Nazi salute, which many cited in their protests, among other things.
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
SK Hynix reports Q4 revenue up 75% YoY to a record ~$13.7B, a ~$5.6B net profit, and a ~$5.6B operating profit, in line with estimates, as HBM chip demand soars — - Its shares slide in Seoul after a 30% run-up this year — Demand for high-end memory soaring on datacenter rollouts| Jonathan Briskman / Sensor Tower: |
State of Mobile 2025: in 2024, app downloads on iOS and Google Play dropped ~1% YoY to 136B, while revenue from IAP, paid apps, and games rose 13% YoY to $150B — The mobile market is stronger than ever as we enter 2025, with a recovering mobile gaming market adding to the rapid growth seen in non-gaming.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More: Adweek, Sensor Tower, Yahoo Finance, Sensor Tower, Tech in Asia, and Light Reading
| Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: |
A GDC survey of 3,000+ developers: 80% are currently making PC games, up from 66% in 2024, compared to 38% for the PlayStation 5 and 34% for the Xbox Series X/S — Interest in PC game development is higher than ever. — It's kind of funny to look back on all the times PC gaming has been declared dead …
More: Game Developers Conference, VICE, The Verge, Game World Observer, Game Developer, and GDC
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
EA expects net bookings of $7B to $7.15B for the FY ending March 31, below guidance of $7.5B to $7.8B, citing underperforming games; stock falls 5%+ — Electronic Arts slashed its full-year bookings guidance on Wednesday, blaming the shortfall on underperforming games, notably its soccer franchise, EA Sports FC.| Patrick G. Eddington / Cato Institute: |
A US district judge rules that the FBI's warrantless “backdoor” searches of FISA's Section 702 databases violate the Fourth Amendment — Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. — Sometimes when “secret law” is involved—and that is always the case with the Foreign Intelligence …
More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU, and Medill on the Hill
| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI is working on an advanced AI coding assistant that can replicate a Level 6 engineer and relies in part on the company's o1 reasoning model — OpenAI's artificial intelligence for writing software code has fueled a multibillion-dollar revenue business, with human programmers using … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
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