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TikTok advises its US Android users to sideload the app through APKs on its website; its app still isn't back in Apple's App Store and Google Play in the US — The social media app is still not available on Apple App Store and Google Play. — If you need to download and install TikTok in the US …
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| Shelly Banjo / Bloomberg: |
At a conference in January, Elon Musk said he hadn't bid for TikTok and was not “chomping at the bit to acquire” it, amid reports of China evaluating the option — Elon Musk said he isn't interested in buying TikTok, the popular social video app the US has tried to ban … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Christie's plans to hold its first AI art auction beginning February 20; critics say the sale elevates AI tools trained on artists' works without their consent — Fine art auction house, Christie's, has sold AI-generated art before. But soon, it plans to hold its first show dedicated solely …
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| Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review: |
Meta shares work on a system that uses a magnetic scanner and a deep neural network to analyze brain signals and identify which keys people pressed while typing — Back in 2017, Facebook unveiled plans for a brain-reading hat that you could use to text just by thinking.| New York Times: |
How Sam Altman outflanked Elon Musk to win over Donald Trump, including by telling Trump in a phone call that the tech industry will achieve AGI during his term — After helping President Trump get elected, Elon Musk was poised to dominate the country's A.I. policies. Then Mr. Altman sneaked into the White House.
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| Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Data from crypto security company Coinkite shows 78 listed companies globally are following MicroStrategy's example in buying bitcoin to hold in place of cash — Firms buy ‘kryptonite for short sellers’ as they try to emulate US software group's success — Software business-turned-bitcoin …
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| Scott Cacciola / New York Times: |
Some users are wearing the Apple Watch on their ankles to get around problems, like skin conditions; some believe health metrics are more accurate on the ankle — In pursuit of tracking fitness goals in a comfortable manner, a growing number of people are relocating their watches (and causing some confusion along the way).| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
DeepSeek R1 is more susceptible to jailbreaking than ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude; it can instruct on a bioweapon attack, write a pro-Hitler manifesto, and more — Testing shows the Chinese app is more likely to dispense details on how to make a Molotov cocktail or encourage self-harm by teenagers| Shakeel Hashim / Transformer: |
Leaked draft: the statement set to be signed at the Paris AI Action Summit barely mentions AI risks and fails to follow up on commitments from previous Summits — The statement, set to be signed by countries next week, is a ‘wasted opportunity’, experts say — and looks unlikely to be signed by US officials
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| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
DeepSeek recruiting recent graduates from China's top universities reflects a growing trend among the country's top AI talent to pursue opportunities at home — Young Chinese engineers focus on homegrown innovation, drawn by fewer visa hurdles and the chance to build a future on their own terms.
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| Bloomberg: |
PitchBook: almost 66% of VC funding in Europe came from abroad in 2024; no European company with €100B+ in market cap has been built from scratch in 30 years — A fractured system is frustrating businesses and hurting the economy. — The natural location for UK payments firm Zilch …
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| Adam Starkey / Metro.co.uk: |
Take-Two estimates that 94M+ current generation consoles, excluding Nintendo Switch, were sold as of November 2024, implying sales of ~28.5M for Xbox Series X/S — Sales figures from Take-Two have unintentionally revealed the divide between the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and it isn't looking good for Microsoft.
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