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Wes Davis / The Verge:
xAI confirms Grok briefly had “Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation” as a public-facing instruction for its responses  —  The system prompt for Musk's chatbot was changed by an employee to block the results.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple aims to eventually meld the modem into the main processor on its devices but likely no sooner than 2028; the M4 MacBook Air may launch in March  —  Last week, Apple introduced the long-awaited successor to the iPhone SE: the iPhone 16e.  In doing so, it all but abandoned the budget smartphone market.
Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:
DefiLlama: Bybit experienced a “bank run” of $4B+ after the ~$1.5B hack, leading to a ~$5.5B total outflow; Bybit's CEO says “about 50%” of funds were withdrawn  —  Major cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has seen total outflows of over $5.5 billion after it suffered …
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
Even as Trump embraces crypto, attracting millions of new investors, the Bybit hack and memecoins show how crypto remains the Wild West of the financial world
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Nvidia confirms a “rare” manufacturing issue affecting under 0.5% of RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti GPUs, which are missing render units, the latest hitch since launch  —  Where did the ROPs go? … In the grand scheme of things, that doesn't sound like a lot of affected GPUs …
Financial Times:
Researchers estimate that air pollution related to data centers from Google, Microsoft, and Meta resulted in $5.4B in US public health costs from 2019 to 2023  —  Research suggests the price of treating illnesses related to building of computing infrastructure in the US is on the rise
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Google prices Veo 2, its new AI video model, at $0.50 per second of generated video; in December 2024, OpenAI offered Sora to its ChatGPT Plus and Pro subs  —  Google has quietly revealed the pricing of Veo 2, the video-generating AI model that it unveiled in December.
Bloomberg:
Alibaba pledges to invest more than $53B on AI infrastructure, including new data centers, over the next three years  —  - The e-commerce firm is angling to become an AI company  — Firm to invest in AI infrastructure such as data centers … The internet company co-founded by Jack Ma plans …
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As the Trump administration neuters the PCLOB and reviews the EO behind the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, the EU should stop moving to US clouds  —  We used to think that grieving went through five stages: denial, protest, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
Evan Ratliff / Wired:
A deep look at “the Zizians”, a cult-like group of young tech people exiled from Silicon Valley's rationalist community and allegedly linked to a killing spree  —  A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world.  For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist …
Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal:
Some US school districts are adopting Sonny, an AI “wellbeing companion”, to provide mental health support to students when there aren't enough counselors  —  Is a human-AI texting service the future of mental-health care for students?  —  Teens around the country are confiding …
Enock Nyariki / Poynter:
A Maldita study of nearly 1.2M Community Notes on X published globally in 2024 shows that professional fact-checkers are among the three most cited sources  —  Notes that cite fact-checkers earn more trust from X users and combat misinformation faster  —  When Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced …
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China is increasingly pooling resources from the state and private sectors, including startups like Infinigence AI, to accelerate adoption of AI data centers  —  Beijing is pooling resources from the private and state sectors to accelerate adoption of the fast-developing technology

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CNN:
David Ellison tells Skydance staff he supports CNN's legal action to regain access to covering Trump, reiterates his belief in editorial independence, and more

John Hendel / Politico:
ABC's lawyer tells a US federal judge that ABC is already tempering its election coverage ahead of the midterms due to threats from Trump and Brendan Carr

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney+ will livestream Super Bowl LXI on February 14 in the US and 55+ international markets, providing another platform for ESPN's first Super Bowl production

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Financial Times:
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Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Some journalists are taking freelance jobs with AI training data companies like Scale AI, which recruit them for tasks such as fact-checking and prompt drafting
Kendra Barnett / Adweek:
X is rolling out Grok-powered AI tools for advertisers to generate ready-to-use ad copy and imagery and provide campaign performance analysis
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