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Donald Trump signs an executive action to direct officials to create a US sovereign wealth fund and says that it could be used to facilitate a sale of TikTok US — - Fund could be used as US facilitates TikTok sale, Lutnick says — Bessent says fund will be created in the next 12 months
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| Evan Weinberger / Bloomberg Law: |
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent orders the CFPB to stop activities, like rulemaking, communications, and litigation; in November, Musk said to “Delete CFPB” — Search by Topic — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shut down a wide variety of operations inside …
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford pauses retaliatory measures like “ripping up” the province's CA$100M Starlink contract, after Donald Trump delays US tariffs on Canada — Retaliatory measures included ‘ripping up’ Starlink contract, taking American booze of LCBO shelves
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Sources: Thomas Shedd, GSA's new Technology Transformation Services director and Elon Musk ally, told GSA workers the agency will pursue an “AI-first strategy” — Sources say the former Tesla engineer now in charge of the Technology Transformation Services wants an agency that operates like a “startup software company.”
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An OPM staffer believes a server Musk's associates installed, with access to federal staff info like SSNs, has not undergone a Privacy Impact Assessment — The Musk-connected political hires include two recent high school graduates — Several of Elon Musk's associates installed at the Office …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
The first ever native iPhone porn app, Hot Tub, arrives in the EU via the alternative app store AltStore PAL, which was made possible by the DMA — A native pornography app for iOS is coming to the EU via the approved alternative app store AltStore PAL, made possible by Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta describes what kinds of AI systems it may deem too risky to release, including ones that could aid in cyberattacks, and how such systems will be flagged — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to make artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which is roughly defined as AI that can accomplish … | Adrian Pennington / StreamTV Insider: |
Ampere Analysis: the US streaming market will reach $17B in advertising revenue in 2025; 24% of US-based Netflix subscribers are on the Standard with Ads tier — Ampere Analysis monetization ad-supported video Netflix — The U.S streaming market will approach $17 billion in advertising revenue … | Andrew Orr / AppleInsider: |
Counterpoint: iPhone 15 led global smartphone sales in 2024, followed by iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro, Galaxy A15 5G; global smartphone revenue grew 5% YoY — Apple's iPhone 15 led global sales in 2024, with Pro models close behind, as premium device demand drove a revenue rebound.
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X: @canalys, @counterpointtr, and @counterpointtr
| Bloomberg: |
A US appeals court panel appeared skeptical of Google's bid to overturn a 2023 jury verdict that declared the Play Store an illegal monopoly in the Epic case — - Jury ruled Google violated antitrust law by restricting apps — Google argues case shouldn't have been decided by jury
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| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Dick Kramlich, who co-founded NEA in 1977, died on February 1 at age 89; he was an early investor in Apple and led investments in Juniper Networks and others — - Richard “Dick” Kramlich made one of the earliest investments in Apple. — He cofounded NEA in 1977, which now has nearly $26 billion in assets under management.
More: NEA, CNBC, and Venture Capital Journal
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LinkedIn: Sanjeev Kumar, Ben Bergman, and Ian Rountree
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Anthropic details Constitutional Classifiers, a system that aims to guard AI models against jailbreaks, monitoring both inputs and outputs for harmful content — Leading tech groups including Microsoft and Meta also invest in similar safety systems — Artificial intelligence start …
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
A US district court judge denies Apple's emergency motion to halt the remedy trial of the DOJ v. Google case, saying it hasn't demonstrated satisfactory reasons — Apple won't get to say how a Google monopoly breakup could affect its business dealings.| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
OpenAI's Deep Research hands-on: very good at nuanced, complex research, and the first narrow agent to do sophisticated and likely economically valuable work — The first narrow agents are here — A hint to the future arrived quietly over the weekend. For a long time …
More: Gizmodo. X: @emollick, @aravsrinivas, @kimmonismus, @bobmcgrewai, @polynoamial, @mckaywrigley, @dharmesh, @reidhoffman, @afinetheorem, @emollick, and @blader
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Threads: @parkerortolani. X: @sama, @danhendrycks, @sama, @danshipper, @gdb, @sama, @gergelyorosz, @afinetheorem, @miles_brundage, @hxiao, @openai, @aarushselvan, @millionint, @aesoperator, @tsarnick, @thestalwart, @parth_laxmikant, @reidhoffman, @alexandr_wang, @openai, @openai, @danshipper, @willdepue, @emollick, @emollick, @kevinroose, @sama, @felipe_millon, @_jasonwei, @shaunralston, @edwardsun0909, @deryatr_, @liamfedus, @sama, @deryatr_, @sama, @sama, and @sama
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