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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple's internal chatbot deserves a public release; sources: Apple nears production of M5 MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and two monitors for Q4 2025 or Q1 2026 — Apple should release its internal ChatGPT-like app publicly to give its revamped AI system more credibility.
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X: @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| The Information: |
How Nvidia's large investments in AI startups and data centers act like a form of financial stimulus, potentially artificially inflating demand for its GPUs — Even by the standards of one of the most prodigious dealmakers in tech, the past month or so has been a head-spinning one for Nvidia's Jensen Huang.
More: Fortune, Bloomberg, Motley Fool, TipRanks Financial, and Tom's Hardware
X: @theinformation, @waynema, @theinformation, @benbajarin, and @asdf_101. LinkedIn: Vince Kellen, Ph.D.
Bluesky: @kentindell, @peoriabummer, and @jessefelder
Mastodon: @malwaretech@infosec.exchange and @j12t@j12t.social
| Rodney Brooks: |
iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks details why humanoid robots won't learn human-level dexterity from current methods, how to make them safe for humans, and more — rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids- wont-learn-dexterity/ — In this post I explain why today's humanoid robots will not learn …
More: TechCrunch and AI, Robotics & …
X: @rodneyabrooks and @yuxiang_irvl
LinkedIn: Alan Vaksman and Rodney Brooks
Bluesky: @thefarce.org, @carnage4life, @folletto, @techcrunch.com, and @glynmoody
Forums: Hacker News, r/robotics, r/technology, and Lobsters
| Pedro Nakamura / Rest of World: |
Since 2019, Brazil's courts have developed or implemented over 140 AI projects that have helped make the country's overburdened judicial system more efficient — Brazil's overburdened courts and lawyers are adopting artificial intelligence. But experts wonder whether it serves justice.| Gary Greenberg / New Yorker: |
A therapist details treating ChatGPT as a “patient”, describing its programmed self-critique as “a brilliant means of seducing a techno-skeptical therapist” — When I played doctor with the chatbot, the simulated patient confessed problems that are real—and that should worry all of us.
X: @newyorker and @newyorker
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
A look at AI-powered “nudify” tools, which make it fast and easy to make nonconsensual, deepfake porn, and the limited legal options available to their victims — In June of last year, Jessica Guistolise received a text message that would change her life.
More: CNBC. X: @jonathanvanian and @sal19
LinkedIn: Slavko Kovačević, CNBC, Michael Glenmullen, and Ari Levy. Bluesky: @mantzarlis.com. Forums: r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Google agrees to guarantee $1.4B of a $3B contract between AI computing startup Fluidstack and Cipher Mining, and gets the right to buy a 5.4% stake in Cipher — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has agreed to anchor a $3 billion data center contract with Cipher Mining Inc. in the latest tie up between …
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X: @cipherinc, @joe_swanson057, @javierhermosa21, @coinbureau, @wublockchain, and @cnbc. LinkedIn: Oma Wilkie
| Financial Times: |
An investigation reveals how the Russian military spy ship Yantar is being used to map and potentially intercept undersea telecommunication cables across Europe — Covert operations in waters surrounding the British Isles pose a grave threat to critical infrastructure and a fresh challenge to Nato
More: ZeroHedge News
| Washington Post: |
How JD Vance played a key role in the TikTok US deal, amid concerns about the VP acting as a corporate dealmaker in the forced spin-off of a private company — The creation of a U.S. spin-off, which has raised questions about censorship and favor for allies, will almost certainly be touted by Vance as a top achievement.| Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: |
A profile of digital microlender Tala, which has an annualized revenue of $340M but remains unprofitable 11 years in, as it plans to double its lending in 2027 — Before starting Tala, founder and CEO Shivani Siroya was a Wall Street analyst and studied microloans for the United Nations.
X: @william_r2rclub and @lanneabrooks
Bluesky: @forbes.com, @unklebiff, @timothycarroll.com, @brian49047, and @raretophat
| Felix Salmon / Bloomberg: |
Turning compute into a tradable commodity could fuel the next stage of the AI boom, just like oil futures and spectrum auctions unlocked waves of investment — Just as oil futures and spectrum auctions unlocked waves of investment, turning compute into a tradable commodity will be needed to fuel AI's next stage.
Forums: r/finance and r/NBIS_Stock
| Emily Baker-White / Forbes: |
A book excerpt details how a small team of content curators hired by ByteDance in Mexico City in 2018 shaped TikTok's For You algorithm in Latin America — An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app's powerful recommendation engine was shaped …
Bluesky: @camsavage00
| CNN: |
How Mode to Code, a nonprofit founded by a teenager, is teaching Bay Area seniors to use AI and avoid scams through free coding and tech literacy classes — Jacob Shaul is the kind of rising high school student who spends Saturdays playing chess and devours books by Malcom Gladwell and Angela Duckworth.
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