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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.
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 …
Namanyay Goel / N's Blog:
New junior developers are reliant on Copilot, Claude, and other AI tools, meaning foundational coding knowledge is now missing, creating problems down the road  —  100k+ views 70+ votes 50+ votes  —  Something's been bugging me about how new devs and I need to talk about it.
Reuters:
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.
David Barnett / The Guardian:
An interview with Nadia Odunayo on building Goodreads alternative StoryGraph, remaining bootstrapped, reaching 3.8M active users, not allowing DMs, and more  —  Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers' platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's and Meta's robotics efforts; sources say Apple is working on a 27" Studio Display successor to launch by 2026 and considering monetizing Maps  —  Apple and Meta are set to go toe-to-toe in another emerging area: AI-powered humanoid robots.
Bloomberg:
Chinese President Xi meets with Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, and more, signaling Beijing's support for the long-marginalized sector  —  - Meeting signals a more supportive stance toward private firms  — Xi promises relief from excessive fines, level playing field
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Mistral releases Mistral Saba, a 24B-parameter custom-trained model focused on Arabic language and culture, via its API; Saba outperforms Mistral Small 3  —  The next frontier for large language models (LLMs), one of the key technologies underpinning the boom in generative AI tools, might be geographical.
Politico:
X challenges a German court order requiring it to share metrics such as likes and shares with researchers before the February 23 election, in a test of 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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Variety:
Sources: the legal team for Paramount President Jeff Shell has engaged in preliminary talks about a possible exit from the company, where he was hired in 2024

Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
WME is selling sports marketing agency 160over90 to Publicis Groupe for, sources say, $500M+; WME bought the agency in 2018 for about $200M

Erik Wemple / New York Times:
Judges have now cited verbal attacks on the press by Trump and appointees when ruling against the US government in at least three cases involving news outlets

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Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
Meta's Joel Kaplan says Meta “won't shy away” from taking up its case with President Trump if the EU uses its rules to unfairly target Meta's digital products
Reuters:
Tencent is testing using DeepSeek for search in its messaging app Weixin, while Baidu plans to fully connect its search engine to DeepSeek and its Ernie LLM
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