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Source: TikTok CEO Shou Chew proposed to senior White House officials a US-based joint venture between US investors and TikTok that would oversee data security — Vance tapped to help oversee negotiations, with companies including Oracle and Amazon signaling interest while TikTok officials hope to avoid a sale
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| Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
How DeepSeek's R1 led to more chatbots' “chains of thought” being shown to users; an expert says seeing a chatbot's supposed inner monologue can trigger empathy — How Chinese start-up DeepSeek triggered a rush to launch chatbots that “reason.”
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Chainalysis: just under 700K wallets recorded gains on $TRUMP, 810K+ have lost money, and $6.6B has been secured in cashed-out profits, mostly by early buyers — Some traders made tens of millions off a new cryptocurrency launched by President Trump and his sons. Many others lost out.| Sam Altman: |
Observations on AI and how it may change society, the likely uneven impact of AGI, which could mess up the balance of power between capital and labor, and more — Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.
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| 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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| Alice Robb / Bloomberg: |
A look at the debate over how much authors should get paid for licensing books to train AI; Microsoft offered HarperCollins $5K/title, of which authors get 50% — Most experts agree that tech companies should pay creators whose work is used to train artificial intelligence.| Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: |
T-Mobile's satellite texting feature, currently in beta and powered by SpaceX's Starlink, will cost customers $15/month starting in July for users on most plans — - Anticipated upgrade goes into a free beta period until July … The service is in beta mode now and users can sign up online to participate …
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Edison: despite Spotify's video push, only two of the top 10 US podcasts post videos on Spotify; 37 of the top 50 US podcasts regularly post videos on YouTube — Popular programs like New Heights and Club Shay Shay have yet to put their videos on the streaming service — Hello, and welcome back to Soundbite.| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
TrendForce: China's share of global mature node manufacturing capacity in 2024 was 34%, vs. Taiwan's 43%; China's share is forecasted to exceed Taiwan's by 2027 — When Taiwan's Powerchip Technology entered a deal with the eastern Chinese city of Hefei in 2015 to set up a new chip foundry …
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| Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
An analysis of US DOL data: the IT sector unemployment rate rose from 3.9% in December to 5.7% in January, with the number of unemployed rising from 98K to 152K — Artificial intelligence continues to impact the technology labor market — The unemployment rate in the information technology sector rose …
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| Financial Times: |
Macron announces that companies have agreed to invest €109B in AI projects in France in the coming years, saying it's France's equivalent to Stargate for the US — French president speaks ahead of AI summit in Paris involving executives such as OpenAI's Sam Altman| Bloomberg: |
Crypto.com and Kalshi launched sports wagers tied to the Super Bowl in 50 US states, creating a turf war with the sports betting industry and state regulators — Crypto.com and Kalshi have made an end-run around state regulators to allow wagers on the NFL championship, the biggest betting day in American sports.
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