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Wall Street Journal:
Investors led by Elon Musk make an unsolicited $97.4B bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating Sam Altman's plans to convert to a for-profit  —  Unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman's plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company — A consortium of investors led …
Bloomberg:
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says DeepSeek's $5.6M training cost claim is “exaggerated and a little bit misleading” and a “fraction of the total cost”  —  DeepSeek Ramps Up Hiring for Arcane AI Field as Ambitions Swell  —  Mistral CEO Plans to Raise More Funds to Back AI Data Center
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
An interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on DeepSeek, why it isn't AI's “Sputnik moment”, its China origin is “a big deal”, the US will “shut down” the app, and more  —  Rene Haas has reshaped chip designer's business to focus on royalties rather than fees
Financial Times:
Ahead of the Paris AI summit, Macron says companies plan to invest €109B in AI projects in France in the coming years and it is France's equivalent to Stargate  —  French president speaks ahead of AI summit in Paris involving executives such as OpenAI's Sam Altman
Wall Street Journal:
France plans to pledge one gigawatt of nuclear power for AI, including 250 megawatts by the end of 2026, in a bid to expand Europe's AI computing capabilities
Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI is finalizing its first in-house chip's design in the next few months, to cut its Nvidia reliance, and plans to send it for fabrication at TSMC  —  OpenAI is pushing ahead on its plan to reduce its reliance on Nvidia (NVDA.O) for its chip supply by developing its first generation …
Liam Dawe / GamingOnLinux:
Steam creates an ad documentation page highlighting its ban on forcing players to watch ads, saying “developers should not utilize paid ads as a business model”  —  Turns out this was actually already a rule that Valve had (thanks SteamDB).  It was listed on their Pricing page …
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Lyft says it will launch a fleet of robotaxis, using Intel's Mobileye self-driving tech, in Dallas “as soon as 2026”, and scale to “thousands” in more markets  —  Lyft is working with Mobileye and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni to manage the fleet.
Bloomberg:
Sources: on February 7, DOGE staff gained access to all the CFPB's data systems, which hold potentially competitive info that may be useful to X's payments push  —  Government-efficiency team's initial ‘read-only’ access expanded quickly to encompass closely guarded data, internal emails say
Anna Washenko / Engadget:
Discord unveils Ignore, a feature that lets users hide new messages, DMs, server notifications, profiles, and activity from selected users without alerting them  —  Take a break from other accounts without alerting them.  —  Social platform Discord announced a new feature today called Ignore.
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
An Alabama man pleads guilty in connection with the Jan. 2024 SIM-swap hack of the SEC's X account, then used to falsely claim the SEC had approved bitcoin ETFs  —  An Alabama man pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., in connection with last year's hack of the U.S. Securities …
Dominic Chopping / Wall Street Journal:
Nokia names Justin Hotard, who currently leads Intel's Data Center and AI operations, as its CEO starting April 1, as it focuses on data centers to drive growth  —  The telecom company expects data centers to be its number one growth driver in the coming years

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