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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Stanford and University of Washington AI researchers claim they trained AI reasoning model s1, distilled from a Gemini 2.0 model, for under $50 in cloud compute — 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.org, AI Daily News, Sherwood News, WinBuzzer, Tech in Asia, Yahoo Finance, AIwire, and Simon Willison's Weblog
Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @khunger, and @gcampax.com
X: @arankomatsuzaki, @sirajraval, @omarsar0, @simonw, and @muennighoff
Forums: Hacker News, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
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
More: The Verge, BetaNews, New York Times, The Guardian, The Standard, POCIT, CNBC, Daily Mail, The Mirror, Washington Examiner, Adweek, The Independent, Newser, Personnel Today, MacDailyNews, Fortune, Werd I/O, Reuters, Mashable, Moneycontrol, TipRanks Financial, News18, TechSpot, Novinite.com, PinkNews, Silicon Republic, Proactive, Financial Express, Time, Los Angeles Times, Mobile World Live, The Gateway Pundit, Benzinga, National Review, HotAir, NBC News, The Daily Wire, Washington Post, Forbes, Engadget, New York Post, Fox Business, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Quartz, The Information, ZeroHedge News, Mediaite, Seeking Alpha, Blaze Media, KRON4, Axios, Bloomberg, The Hill, and Tech in Asia
LinkedIn: Alex Heath and Lisa Haley
Forums: Hacker News, r/politics, r/technology, and r/womenintech
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI opens ChatGPT search to users who are not logged in, after launching it to paying subscribers in October 2024 and logged-in users in December 2024 — OpenAI is making its AI search engine more accessible. — OpenAI is making its AI search engine more accessible.
More: TechCrunch, Windows Central, Business Standard, Ghacks, BGR, TechRadar, Wccftech, The Decoder, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, The Indian Express, Laptop Mag, Neowin, TestingCatalog, MacRumors, PhoneArena, Hindustan Times, Digit, Maginative, Digital Trends, How-To Geek, Android Authority, ZDNET, Mashable, Engadget, and Search Engine Land. X: @openai
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says Arm has withdrawn its October 2024 breach notice against Qualcomm and Arm no longer plans to end its Qualcomm license agreement — Qualcomm's (QCOM.O) Chief Executive Officer Cristiano Amon on Wednesday said Arm Holdings (O9Ty.F) has withdrawn a threat …
More: The Verge, The Register, PCWorld, Qualcomm, Android Headlines, PC Gamer, and Thurrott
| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
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| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Roblox reports Q4 revenue up 32% YoY to $988.2M, bookings up 21% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.37B est., and DAUs up 19% YoY to 85.3M, vs. 88.4M est.; RBLX falls 15%+ — - Roblox had 85.3 million daily active users in fourth quarter — The company's quarterly bookings reached $1.36 billion| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple is now at the center of an escalating geopolitical fight between the US and China due to tariffs and a backlash from growing anti-US rhetoric in China — - The iPhone is in crosshairs of 10% tariffs on Chinese imports — China also is weighing a probe into company's App Store fees| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Andy Jassy's campaign to flatten Amazon's middle management raises fears among staff of lean years and fewer promotions, as old career paths dry up — Campaign to restructure workforce is capitalizing on a moment when return-to-office policies are more common and the technology job market is cooling off.| Casey Hall / Reuters: |
Trump's de minimis cancellation is likely to hit Shein harder than online dollar-store Temu, which has shifted to an Amazon-like bulk overseas shipment strategy — The Trump administration move to stop low-cost imports entering the U.S. tariff-free is likely to hit fast fashion retailer Shein harder …
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| 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) …
More: Securelist, Moneycontrol, The Verge, MacRumors, Ghacks, PhoneArena, Business Standard, BGR, Wccftech, Digit, Gizchina.com, Lifehacker, Engadget, Decrypt, 9to5Mac, Android Police, and crypto.news
Forums: r/ios, r/apple, r/technology, and r/technews
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Spanish police arrest and raid a suspected hacker over 40 cyberattacks on critical public and private organizations, seizing 50 crypto accounts, PCs, and more — The Spanish police have arrested a suspected hacker in Alicante for allegedly conducting 40 cyberattacks targeting critical public … | Wall Street Journal: |
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
More: TVNewsCheck, en.ain.ua, and Adweek
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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 …
More: The Verge, The Verge, ZDNET, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, Business Today, Tom's Guide, Business Standard, Ghacks, Music Ally, PhoneArena, Phandroid, Android Police, Neowin, Financial Express, Benzinga, MacRumors, SiliconANGLE, iPhone in Canada Blog, iClarified, VICE, MobileSyrup, AFTVnews, PYMNTS.com, Cord Cutters News, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, Android Authority, Trusted Reviews, CNBC, The Shortcut, 9to5Toys, TechRadar, and Engadget. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| 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 full Senate — The Senate Commerce Committee approved legislation Wednesday to ban children under 13 from social media.| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
TrueFoundry, which helps enterprises deploy AI systems at scale, raised $19M led by Intel Capital, taking its total funding to $21M+, and claims 30 customers — TrueFoundry, a startup run by a group of former Meta engineers to help enterprises deploy AI systems at scale, has raised $19 million in fresh investment led by Intel Capital.
More: Inc42 Media and TrueFoundry
| Henry Stockdale / UploadVR: |
Interviews with nearly two dozen VR studios on shipping games on Quest, Meta's increased focus on Horizon Worlds, concerns over declining game sales, and more — With concerns about declining sales and discoverability, UploadVR spoke with nearly two dozen VR studios to discuss the state of VR development for Quest.
Bluesky: @jamesoloughlin, @jamesoloughlin, @jamesoloughlin, and @qualbert.com
X: @karrisaarinen, @id_aa_carmack, @lunayian, @boztank, @id_aa_carmack, and @cixliv
Forums: r/virtualreality and r/PSVR
| Brent Crane / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Joseph Firmage, who co-founded USWeb, which went public with a $2.5B market cap in 1997, and is now being sued by “antigravity machine” investors — Joseph Firmage helped create today's digital economy. These days, he's being sued by antigravity-machine investors … | Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
In Q4 2024, AMD outsold Intel in the data center area for the first time, with revenue up 69% YoY to $3.86B, vs. Intel's $3.4B, but analysts expected more sales — But sales of Instinct GPUs disappoint. — AMD on Tuesday announced its financial results for the fourth quarter of 2024 and for the whole year.| Foster Wong / Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek says it suspended letting customers top up their API credits due to server capacity shortages after being overwhelmed with demand since January 2024 — DeepSeek, the Chinese startup whose artificial-intelligence model roiled global markets last week, said it would restrict access …
More: Engadget, Wall Street Pit, Reuters, and Business Insider
| Canalys: |
Worldwide tablet shipments grew 9.2% YoY in 2024 to 147.6M units, after three consecutive years of decline; Xiaomi grew 51.4% and Apple grew 13.8% — According to the latest data from Canalys, worldwide tablet shipments grew 5.6% year on year in Q4 2024, reaching 39.9 million units.
More: Neowin, SamMobile, GSMArena.com, and XiaomiTime
| Laura Dubois / Financial Times: |
Documents: EU prosecutors are probing how Atos' Moscow office helped build the EU's border system, which will establish the EU's largest personal info database — Investigation examines how French IT group Atos used Moscow office for sensitive European computer project| 404 Media: |
Sources: DOGE staff were ordered to stop using Slack while the group 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.”
More: The Register and Metacurity
Bluesky: @timmarchman, @accountabletech, @GossiTheDog.cyberplace …, @marypcbuk, @paleofuture, @moonalice.com, @metacurity.com, and @tyleraking.com
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X: @timodc, @molly0xfff, @aspertierra, @dmihalopoulos, @jason_koebler, @josephfcox, and @hackingbutlegal
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