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Email: Google eliminates its goal of hiring more employees from historically underrepresented groups and is reviewing some DEI programs after Donald Trump's EOs — Search giant is eliminating goals to hire more minority employees and reviewing DEI programs, part of a pullback across Silicon Valley
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington claim they trained an AI reasoning model, called s1, for under $50 in cloud compute credits — AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington were able to train an AI “reasoning” model for under $50 in cloud compute credits …
More: simplescaling on GitHub, arXiv, Yahoo Finance, AIwire, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Amazon announces an Alexa-focused event on February 26 in New York; sources say the company will preview its long-delayed Alexa generative AI revamp — Amazon (AMZN.O) is set to release its long-awaited - and delayed - Alexa generative artificial intelligence voice service …
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| Politico: |
The Senate Commerce Committee approves the Kids Off Social Media Act to ban under-13s from social media, clearing the way for consideration by the Senate — The Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation Wednesday to ban children under 13 from social media.| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Kaspersky researchers found apps in Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store that use OCR to steal crypto wallet recovery phrases from images on users' devices — Android and iOS apps on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store contain a malicious software development kit (SDK) …
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| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Arm reports Q3 revenue up 19% YoY to $983M, vs. $946.7M est., royalty revenue up 23% YoY to $580M, and lowers is FY revenue guidance; ARM drops 5%+ — Chip tech provider Arm Holdings (O9Ty.F), said on Wednesday it will no longer meet the top end of its previous full-year guidance …
More: Euronews, Reuters, Benzinga, Financial Times, The Times, More Than Moore, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, and Arm Newsroom
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Reddit banned r/WhitePeopleTwitter for 72 hours due to “a prevalence of violent content”, after Elon Musk said on February 3 that its users had “broken the law” — The company said it was due to a “prevalence of violent content.” — Reddit has temporarily banned …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Qualcomm reports Q1 revenue up 17% YoY to $11.67B, vs. $10.93B est., handsets revenue up 13% to $7.57B, net income up 15% to $3.18B, issues a strong Q2 guidance — Qualcomm reported better-than-expected fiscal first-quarter results on Wednesday and issued strong guidance for the current period.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sonos lays off ~200 employees, or 12% of its staff, as it reorganizes to make its product teams “flatter, smaller, and more focused”, weeks after losing its CEO — Sonos Inc. said it's cutting about 12% of its staff, or 200 workers, in a bid to make its product teams “flatter, smaller and more focused.”
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Sources: OpenAI is expected to air its first TV ad during Super Bowl LIX; MediaRadar says AI companies spent $332M on ads in 2024, over double their 2023 spend — The TV spot marks the artificial-intelligence company's biggest foray into consumer advertising to date| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank is in advanced talks to acquire Ampere Computing in a deal that could value the Oracle-backed Arm chip designer at ~$6.5B, including debt — - Deal could value Oracle-backed Ampere at about $6.5 billion — Chip companies looking to capitalize on AI spending boom
More: TechCrunch, KrASIA, and SiliconANGLE
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Sources: DOGE staff were ordered to stop using Slack while it moves from the OMB to the Executive Office of the President, which is not subject to FOIA — Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told: “OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now.”
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: banks sold $5.5B in debt that X borrowed, at $0.97 on the dollar, after strong investor demand; they had planned to sell ~$3B at ~$0.95 on the dollar — X CEO tells investors that the financial health of social-media company is improving — Elon Musk's power in Washington …
More: Financial Times, Benzinga, The Information, Forbes, New York Post, Reuters, and Bloomberg
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
White House crypto czar David Sacks says stablecoin laws could be done in the next six months, after lawmakers unveiled a bill to create a regulatory framework — As David Sacks, the newly appointed White House AI and crypto czar, collaborates with lawmakers on potential regulations for digital assets … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
XOi, whose software lets field technicians get info about the machines they need to fix, raised $230M from KKR and buys its rival Specifx for an undisclosed sum — Field service engineers may not be the first group of customers that come to mind when you think about lucrative opportunities in B2B technology.
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google adds Gemini 2.0 Flash, 2.0 Flash-Lite, and 2.0 Pro Experimental to Gemini's API, and 2.0 Pro Experimental and 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental to its apps — Gemini 2.0 AI updates include cheaper access for developers, and AI that can use other Google apps like YouTube.
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