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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI releases a “research preview” of its Operator AI agent that can automate web-based tasks, launching in the US to subscribers of the $200/month Pro tier — OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” according to a blog post.
More: OpenAI, OpenAI on YouTube, Wired, The Information, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Axios, Bloomberg, CNBC, Quartz, Silicon UK, AIM Media House, WinBuzzer, and Inc.com
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
OpenAI says Operator is powered by Computer-Using Agent, or CUA, which combines GPT-4o's vision capabilities with “reasoning” abilities of more advanced models — After weeks of buzz, OpenAI has released Operator, its first AI agent. Operator is a web app that can carry … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers detail Subaru's now-fixed web vulnerabilities that would've let them unlock and start millions of Subarus via Starlink in the US, Canada, and Japan — Now-fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access …
More: Sam Curry, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, Jalopnik, and Fast Company
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Forums: Hacker News, r/SubaruForester, r/subaru, and r/technews
| 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| The Information: |
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| 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 …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Epic launches a free games program on mobile and promises to pay the Apple Core Technology Fee for participants in the program on iOS for one year — Epic Games is adding nearly 20 third-party games onto its mobile app store worldwide on Android and in the European Union on iOS and launching …
More: Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Reuters, Eurogamer.net, IGN, and Mobilegamer.biz
| Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
France says David Balland, a co-founder of French crypto wallet startup Ledger, was kidnapped on January 21 and freed on January 22 after a police operation — - A crypto ransom has been partly paid, traced and seized — Balland's partner was also kidnapped and released on Thursday
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Q&A with former CISA Director Jen Easterly, appointed in 2021, on leaving the agency, Donald Trump, China's Salt Typhoon, Russia, unfinished business, and more — Chinese hacks, rampant ransomware, and Donald Trump's budget cuts all threaten US security.
More: Dark Reading. Mastodon: @chrismerkel@infosec.exchange and @lhn@mastodon.online
Forums: r/politics and r/cybersecurity
| Bloomberg: |
ByteDance board member Bill Ford says ByteDance is exploring alternatives to selling TikTok US, including a change to local control to comply with the US law — - Firm's options with Trump team include change of control — Bill Ford runs General Atlantic, which owns stake in ByteDance
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| Justin Sink / Bloomberg: |
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
CAIS and Scale AI release “Humanity's Last Exam”, which they claim is the hardest- AI test yet, consisting of ~3,000 multiple-choice and short answer questions — If you're looking for a new reason to be nervous about artificial intelligence, try this: Some of the smartest humans … | Reuters: |
ByteDance debuts Doubao-1.5-pro, claiming its latest flagship AI model 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 …
More: Computerworld, Doubao Team, The Indian Express, BGR, The Rundown AI, and Enterprise AI Trends
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google acquihires “some of the HTC VIVE engineering team” in Taiwan with “a proven track record in VR” for $250M in cash, to “accelerate” Android XR development — To “accelerate” Android XR development, Google announced this evening that it …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google rolls out the first public beta of Android 16 for Pixel devices, introducing Live Updates, a limited version of Apple's Live Activities, and more — Android 16's first public beta will start rolling out later today, bringing with it dynamic lockscreen notifications for ride-sharing and food delivery … | Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: India's technology ministry asked Apple, Google, and other smartphone makers to provide Indians direct access to the state-backed GOV.in app store — India is trying to pry open the doors of the world's biggest app stores, setting up a likely clash with Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc …
More: 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, PCMag, Malwarebytes, UNILAD, Neowin, Digital Trends, The Indian Express, Macworld, AppleInsider, PetaPixel, PYMNTS.com, The US Sun, and Patently Apple. Threads: @bloombergbusiness
| Bloomberg: |
At Davos, Trump blasts EU for targeting Apple, Google, and Meta, describing regulatory cases as “a form of taxation”, and references Apple's €13B Irish tax bill — - Comments mark start of clash between Trump, EU over tech — Apple lost case last year over $14.4 billion Irish tax bill
More: 9to5Mac, The Hill, TechCrunch, Computerworld, The Block, Business Insider, and MacDailyNews
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Perplexity launches Perplexity Assistant in its Android app, which can take “multi-app actions” like hailing a ride, initially free for users in 15 languages — AI-powered search engine Perplexity has launched an “agent,” of sorts, called Perplexity Assistant …
More: The Verge, Reuters, The Decoder, and The Intelligence
Bluesky: @vega. X: @aravsrinivas, @perplexity_ai, @aravsrinivas, @aravsrinivas, @forevermylapore, @aravsrinivas, @arrington, and @harjtaggar
| New York Times: |
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 … | 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, PCWorld, TechSpot, and Game World Observer
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 review: fastest Blender benchmark score ever, DLSS4 frame generation works well, and good cooling but very expensive and power hungry — It's the fastest video card I've ever seen, but it's not meant for mere mortals. — A $2,000 video card for consumers shouldn't exist.
More: VideoCardz.com, StorageReview.com, Phoronix, and The Shortcut
| 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: Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU, Reclaim The Net, and Medill on the Hill
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Google changes how visible URLs show up on mobile search results globally, dropping the “breadcrumbs” that show the hierarchy of a webpage's URL — Google is changing the way visible URLs show up on mobile search results worldwide. Search results since 2009 have shown …
More: Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land, and Search Engine Roundtable
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com and @andysokay
| Song Jung-a / Financial Times: |
SK Hynix's Q4 operating profit grew over 20x YoY to ~$5.6B, beating Samsung's for the first time, with HBM chips making up 40% of its total DRAM chip revenue — South Korean chipmaker expects sales of high-bandwidth memory products to more than double this year
More: The Korea Times, Blocks and Files, THE INVESTOR, and Reuters
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
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