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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Sources: the Trump admin is in talks for Oracle and a group of US investors to take over TikTok's global operations, with ByteDance retaining a minority stake — The Trump administration is working on a plan to save TikTok that involves tapping software company Oracle and a group …
More: The Verge, Reuters, TechCrunch, Spyglass, Windows Central, Business Standard, Seeking Alpha, Times of India, TweakTown, Wall Street Pit, Livemint, Financial Express, RedState, The Information, India Today, The Post Millennial, The Guardian, NewsBytes, and Motley Fool
Bluesky: @martinsfp, @mmasnick, @hypervisible, @steveinskeep, @npr.org, and @bobbyallyn
X: @danprimack, @bobbyallyn, and @levie
Forums: r/China, r/wallstreetbets, r/democrats, r/technology, r/neoliberal, r/NPR, r/politics, and Slashdot
| Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng told Chinese Premier Li Qiang in a Jan. 20 meeting that US export controls on advanced chips to China were still a bottleneck — DeepSeek is called ‘amazing and impressive’ despite working with less-advanced chips — SINGAPORE—A Chinese artificial-intelligence company …
More: Livemint, TweakTown, and The Indian Express
| Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review: |
Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration — The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model. — The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …
More: The Economic Times, Tech Startups, TechNode, Business Insider, TechEBlog, Lennart Heim, VentureBeat, MarkTechPost, Security Boulevard, The Economist, Forexlive, Decrypt, Shelly Palmer, WinBuzzer, Observer, Digit, Hindustan Times, Moneycontrol, Financial Times, Latent Space, VentureBeat, Techstrong.ai, and Neowin
Bluesky: @prietschka and @willdouglasheaven
X: @garymarcus, @broseph_stalin, @ryangrim, @riyanmendonsa, @gonglei89, @deedydas, @teknium1, @balajis, @davidsholz, @garrytan, @cloneofsimo, @buccocapital, @teroterotero, @suhail, @amasad, @signulll, and @mattbruenig. LinkedIn: Matteo Lippolis
Forums: r/neoliberal and Beehaw
| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
DeepSeek, which started as a deep-learning research branch of Chinese quant hedge fund High-Flyer, is now giving US AI giants a run for their money — When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent.| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Siri with Apple Intelligence is a massive regression from the old Siri, which recognized its limitations and provided a list of search links to answer a query — Writing about the current state of Apple Intelligence yesterday, I mentioned how utterly stupid and laughably wrong Siri is when asked …
More: Financial Express, One Foot Tsunami, Gizchina.com, iDrop News, TidBITS, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac
Bluesky: @shiraovide. Threads: @gruber. X: @neilcybart, @jammasternate, @ditheringfm, and @neilcybart. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Martin Matishak / The Record: |
Sources: US State Dept.'s freeze on foreign aid applies to a bureau that uses cyber diplomacy to fight threats and pursues international norms for emerging tech — The U.S. State Department's move to halt nearly all existing foreign assistance applies to the programs and funds …
More: Politico. Bluesky: @martinmatishak. Forums: r/taiwan, r/ActionForUkraine, r/geopolitics, r/politics, and r/fednews
| Wall Street Journal: |
Despite assurances, advertisers worry Meta's tools may not prevent ads from appearing near offensive content as the new content moderation approach takes effect — Social-media giant's loosening of speech restrictions is unsettling advertisers, who say a decade of efforts to protect their reputations is at risk| Brian Armstrong / @brian_armstrong: |
CEO Brian Armstrong says Coinbase needs to rethink its listing process for new tokens to keep up with “~1m tokens a week being created now, and growing” — We need to rethink our listing process at @coinbase given there are ~1m tokens a week being created now, and growing. High quality problem to have, but evaluating each one by one is no longer feasible. And regulators need to understand that applying for approval for each one is
More: DL News, Bloomberg, and Coinpedia Fintech News
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
After pouring tens of millions into Trump's campaign, the crypto industry has been paid back handsomely during his first week back, with EOs, rule changes, more — Crypto executives, companies and investors are getting an early return on their investment in Donald Trump.| New York Times: |
More: Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Raw Story, Alternet.org, and CoinGeek
| Rest of World: |
Major Chinese social media apps have mastered the “shoppertainment” experience, blending social media with shopping, that Western competitors struggle to match — Addictive algorithms fuse social networking with shopping and entertainment. — In the days leading … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: people affiliated with DOGE have met with representatives of various public blockchains as they explore using a blockchain to track federal spending — - Conversations said to be held with multiple public blockchains — The technology may be used to track government spending
More: Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoNinjas, Bitcoin Insider, Decrypt, Crypto Briefing, CoinGape, and The Block
Bluesky: @molly.wiki, @kklinke, and @shivarammysore
X: @aravsrinivas and @marionawfal
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| Kenrick Cai / Reuters: |
A look at Google's plans to shape public perception and policies on AI, including building out educational programs, ahead of a global wave of AI regulation — Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, already facing an unprecedented regulatory onslaught, is looking to shape public perception and policies …
More: Computerworld, Nairametrics, and Tech in Asia
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta begins a “limited, early test” of ads in Threads in the US and Japan, with the goal of making the ads “as interesting as organic content” — Meta's X rival Threads said Friday that it is now testing ads with select brands in the U.S. and Japan.
More: The Verge, Financial Express, The Information, Livemint, Tech in Asia, Gizchina.com, Tech Xplore, Social Media Today, Facebook, Benzinga, The Verge, Moneycontrol, Yahoo Finance, NewsBytes, The Economic Times, The Economic Times, Neowin, Android Headlines, PhoneArena, calgaryherald, TVNewsCheck, Search Engine Journal, Pocket-lint, TipRanks Financial, Search Engine Land, Reuters, CNBC, Ad Age, Fast Company, Adweek, and Bloomberg
Threads: @mosseri, @zaccomode, @kurtwag8, @cult_papa, @jampacksam, @noahkalina, and @crumbler. X: @mikeisaac
LinkedIn: Samantha Stetson, Simon Whitcombe, and Nick Baughan
| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Hands-on with the live translation feature of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses: adept at translating a basic conversation, but struggles with slang and faster speech — I was in middle school the last time I took a Spanish class. I remember enough for toddler talk — phrases like …
Mastodon: @vicmsong@mastodon.social
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