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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.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI partners with DoorDash, Instacart, Priceline, StubHub, and Uber to ensure that Operator respects these businesses' terms of service agreements — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman kicked off this year by saying in a blog post that 2025 would be big for AI agents, tools that can automate tasks and take actions on your behalf.| Every: |
Hands-on with Operator: limited in what it can browse, can perform repetitive workflows, and can do lengthy tasks on its own with minimal prompting — Operator (Could you help me do this task?) … Today, OpenAI announced Operator, a new research preview of ChatGPT that acts as an agent for your repetitive tasks.
More: Ars Technica, Platformer, OpenAI, TechCrunch, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Trump signs an EO to create a crypto working group led by David Sacks to consider a national digital asset stockpile “potentially derived” from seized crypto — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to promote the advancement of cryptocurrencies in the U.S …
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| Associated Press: |
Trump signs an EO to develop AI systems “free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas”, revoking Biden policies that “act as barriers” to innovation — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Thursday …
More: The White House, The Information, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Republic World, The White House, Healthcare IT News, and Unite.AI
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| Donald Judd / CNN: |
Trump shrugs off Musk's criticism of Stargate, saying Musk “hates one of the people in the deal” and his comments are not an indictment of the deal's viability — President Donald Trump on Thursday shrugged off an ugly back-and-forth between tech CEOs Elon Musk and Sam Altman … | 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, Carscoops, Jalopnik, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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LinkedIn: Dilpreet Matharoo and Arin Waichulis
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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 …
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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 …
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| 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 … | 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 …
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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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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic debuts Citations, a new API feature letting developers “ground” answers in source documents, available for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku — In an announcement perhaps timed to divert attention away from OpenAI's Operator, Anthropic Thursday unveiled a new feature …
More: Anthropic and Maginative
| 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: Pixel Envy. Mastodon: @chrismerkel@infosec.exchange and @lhn@mastodon.online
Forums: r/politics and r/cybersecurity
| 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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Substack launches a $20M Creator Accelerator Fund to lure US creators who have $2K+ per month in recurring revenue away from other subscription-based platforms — Substack on Thursday announced the launch of its Creator Accelerator Fund, which provides a $20 million funding guarantee aimed …
More: Substack Reads, The Verge, Tubefilter, and Bloomberg
| 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, The Information, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch, and The Block
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Brave Search rolls out Rerank to let users boost or downgrade domains from their search results through thumbs up or thumbs down buttons — Brave Search has introduced a new feature called Rerank, which allows users to define search results ordering preferences and set specific sites rank higher.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Stargate lacks a fully developed plan, hasn't secured funding yet, will get no government support, and will exclusively serve OpenAI once operational — Donald Trump has called the SoftBank-backed venture a 'resounding declaration of confidence in America's potential'| 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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
The US DOJ charges the former CEO of AI chatbot startup GameOn and his wife for allegedly defrauding investors of more than $60M between 2018 and 2024 — The founder of GameOn, a San Francisco artificial intelligence startup, has been indicted for running a “brazen and wide-ranging” …
More: Forbes, US Department of Justice, and Bloomberg Law
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| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Q&A with Stanford professor and IP lawyer Mark Lemley on deciding to quit representing Meta in AI copyright case Kadrey v. Meta, Trump, DEI, Elon Musk, and more — In an exclusive interview with WIRED, celebrated intellectual property lawyer Mark Lemley elaborates on why he quit and what he makes of the AI copyright battlefield.| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Twilio says its adjusted operating margin will reach 21%-22% in 2027, exceeding est. and up from 16.1% in the most recent quarter; TWLO jumps 11%+ after hours — Cloud communications software maker Twilio on Thursday issued a hopeful profit forecast for the next few years.
More: Benzinga
| Akila Quinio / Financial Times: |
HSBC shuts Zing after launching the payments app in Jan. 2024 to compete with Revolut and Wise, marking the latest failed fintech venture by a traditional bank — Closure marks latest failed fintech effort by traditional bank — HSBC is shutting its payments app Zing just a year …
More: Reuters and PYMNTS.com
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Daniel Guarnera, a DOJ lawyer who helped file US antitrust lawsuits against Google and Apple, has been picked to lead the FTC's Bureau of Competition — - Daniel Guarnera picked to lead FTC's Bureau of Competition — Chris Mufarrige tapped to head Bureau of Consumer Protection
Bluesky: @schock.cc
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