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South Korea's data protection authority says DeepSeek app downloads have been suspended in the country after DeepSeek failed to follow its personal data rules — South Korea's data protection authority on Monday said it had temporarily suspended the domestic service of Chinese AI app DeepSeek since Saturday.
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X: @afp and @montezumachavez
Forums: Hacker News, r/China, r/privacy, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Matt Binder / disruptionist: |
X shows error messages when trying to share Signal's Signal.me links in DMs, posts, and profile pages, and a warning page if users click on already posted links — Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, BleepingComputer, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, MakeUseOf, The Hill, Boing Boing, Neowin, CyberInsider, Engadget, TechIssuesToday.com, Digital Trends, New York Post, iPhone in Canada Blog, PCMag, Forbes, New Republic, and Werd I/O
Bluesky: @j4ck.xyz, @quillmatiq.com, @drewharwell.com, and @cuthrell.com
Mastodon: @privacyguides@mastodon … and @psoutham@infosec.exchange
| Reuters: |
Bain Capital says it will not launch a tender offer for Fuji Soft, after KKR raised its offer earlier in February for the Japanese IT company, valued at $4B+ — U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital said on Monday it will not launch a tender offer for Fuji Soft (9749.T) … | Bloomberg: |
President Xi meets Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, and others, signaling Beijing's support for the long-marginalized private sector — - Meeting signals a more supportive stance toward private firms — Xi promises relief from excessive fines, level playing field| Financial Times: |
Sources: Wall Street banks led by Morgan Stanley have offloaded almost all the $12.5B in loans that Elon Musk used to buy Twitter, and now hold $1B+ in X debt — Investor perception of debt has changed since Donald Trump's election victory — Wall Street banks have rid themselves of almost …
Bluesky: @bondhack.ft.com
| Max Tani / Semafor: |
Documents: the NYT greenlights using select internal and external AI tools for editorial and product staff, including from OpenAI, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — The Scoop — The New York Times is greenlighting the use of AI for its product and editorial staff, saying that internal tools …
More: The Verge, TechSpot, Moneycontrol, Beyond Search, TechCrunch, and Pivot to AI
Bluesky: @davidgerard.co.uk, @carnage4life, and @hypervisible
X: @thelincoln, @maxwelltani, @rakeshsfnyc, @semafor, and @davidshepardson. LinkedIn: Jon Schubin. Forums: r/technology
| Kate Clark / Bloomberg: |
Source: Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence is raising $1B+ led by Greenoaks Capital Partners, which plans to invest $500M, at a valuation of $30B+ — - SSI raising more than $1 billion, including from Greenoaks — Former OpenAI chief scientist left the company last year
More: SiliconANGLE
| Namanyay Goel / N's Blog: |
New junior developers are reliant on Copilot, Claude, and other AI tools, meaning foundational coding knowledge is missing, potentially creating future problems — 100k+ views 70+ votes 50+ votes — Something's been bugging me about how new devs and I need to talk about it.
Bluesky: @mariotoday. Mastodon: @rabc@hachyderm.io, @dwallach@discuss.systems, and @sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place
X: @soorajchandran_, @gergelyorosz, @gergelyorosz, @remilouf, @gergelyorosz, @namanyayg, @erikphoel, @danshipper, @chombabupe, @adamsinger, @deedydas, @nickadobos, @deedydas, @gergelyorosz, @deedydas, @namanyayg, and @elonmusk
Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPTCoding, lobste.rs, and Slashdot
| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Dream, which offers cybersecurity tools to governments and critical infrastructure firms, raised $100M led by Bain at a $1.1B valuation, up from ~$190M in 2023 — - Cybersecurity-focused firm raised $100 million in latest round — Dream targets $100 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025
More: Reuters, PYMNTS.com, Dream, SiliconANGLE, and FinSMEs
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Mistral debuts Mistral Saba, a 24B-parameter custom-trained model for Arabic language and culture, via its API; Saba bests Mistral Small 3 for Arabic content — The next frontier for large language models (LLMs), one of the key technologies underpinning the boom in generative AI tools, might be geographical.
More: Mistral AI, The Decoder, and TestingCatalog
Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/MistralAI
| Financial Times: |
Surj, the sporting arm of Saudi Arabia's PIF, plans to invest $1B in DAZN and a new joint venture with the sports streamer; source: Surj will take a <5% stake — Surj Sports Investment will take stake in DAZN and help fund a Middle East broadcasting joint venture| Politico: |
X challenges a German court ordering it to share metrics such as likes and shares with researchers before the February 23 election, in a test of the EU's DSA — Elon Musk's X has challenged a German court decision that instructed the platform to share data with researchers, the court confirmed to POLITICO.
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