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Cloudflare debuts “Pay per Crawl”, a marketplace that lets sites charge AI crawlers per crawl; new sites using Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default — Cloudflare, a cloud infrastructure provider that serves 20% of the web, announced Tuesday the launch of a new marketplace …
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| Bloomberg: |
The Senate votes 99-1 to remove a Trump tax bill provision that would have barred states from regulating AI if they got funding from a $500M broadband program — The Senate killed a controversial effort to prevent US states from regulating artificial intelligence, marking a loss …
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| Avery Lotz / Axios: |
Trump says “We might have to put DOGE on Elon”, “DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon”, and “We'll have to take a look” at deporting Musk — President Trump said Tuesday that DOGE could investigate Elon Musk, the latest indicator …
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| Financial Times: |
AI researcher salaries are steadily rising, with mid to senior level scientists' total pay packages of $500K to $2M at Big Tech, up from $400K to $900K in 2022 — OpenAI says it will review its compensation to high-profile engineers after being targeted by Meta| Zoë Schiffer / Wired: |
Sam Altman said in a memo to staff, “missionaries will beat mercenaries” and “I believe there is much, much more upside to OpenAI stock than Meta stock” — “What Meta is doing will, in my opinion, lead to very deep cultural problems,” said CEO Sam Altman in a leaked memo sent to OpenAI researchers.
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| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to diversify and build an AI productivity suite; Superhuman was valued at $825M in August 2021 — Grammarly has acquired email efficiency tool Superhuman as part of the company's push to build an artificial intelligence-powered productivity suite …
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| Miles Kruppa / The Information: |
Morgan Stanley says xAI raised $5B of equity in addition to $5B in debt; the startup raised $6B in December from a16z, BlackRock, Lightspeed, MGX, and others — Elon Musk's xAI raised $5 billion of equity in addition to $5 billion in debt, according to Morgan Stanley, which advised on the debt transactions.
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| Ethan Baron / SiliconValley.com: |
Filing: Apple sues Di Liu, a former senior product designer for the Vision Pro, for allegedly stealing a “massive volume” of its trade secrets to take to Snap — Di Liu allegedly told iPhone maker he needed family time — Di Liu of San Jose told Apple he was resigning …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Threads launches DMs for users aged 18 and older, without support for E2EE, and announces a “highlighter” feature to emphasize trending topics — For now, you can only send DMs to your followers on Threads or mutual followers on Instagram. … Threads has officially launched direct messaging for everyone.
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| Bloomberg: |
CoinMarketCap: bitcoin's share of crypto market value grew to 64% in 2025, the highest since January 2021, and altcoins lost $300B+, as investors buy BTC ETFs — On the face of it, 2025 looks like a banner year for crypto: Bitcoin hitting a record, an industry-boosting US president whose family …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
AT&T launches Account Lock to protect wireless users against SIM swapping attacks, following similar features from T-Mobile, Verizon, and Google Fi — The carrier's new Account Lock feature will prevent unauthorized changes to your account, including phone number and SIM card transfers.| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
American Bitcoin, a bitcoin mining and holding company backed by Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. that is a subsidiary of publicly traded Hut 8, raised $220M — Eric Trump (left), Donald Trump Jr. (center), and Mike Ho, executive chairman and board member of American Bitcoin.| Reuters: |
Sources: data labeling company Surge AI aims to raise up to $1B, targeting a $15B+ valuation; Surge AI had $1B+ in 2024 revenue, vs. Scale AI's reported $870M — Surge AI, a data-labeling firm that competes with Scale AI, has hired advisors to raise as much as $1 billion in the first capital raising … | The Information: |
Sources: Anthropic's revenue hit a pace of $4B/year, up almost 4x from the beginning of 2025; Cursor maker Anysphere has poached two of Claude Code's leaders — Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, an artificial intelligence-powered coding app, has hired two leaders of Anthropic's competing coding product … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
The passed version of the Senate's OBBB has a provision that removes the 6 GHz band's protection from spectrum auctions; Wi-Fi 6E and Wi-Fi 7 use the 6 GHz band — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has a plan for spectrum auctions that could take frequencies away from Wi-Fi and reallocate them for the exclusive use of wireless carriers.
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