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| Helena Horton / The Guardian: |
X limits Grok's image generation and editing to paying subscribers after widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery — X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
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| Hadas Gold / CNN: |
Source: a few weeks before Grok started “digitally undressing” people, Elon Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on Grok's image and video generator — Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, has been flooded with sexual images of mainly women, many of them real people.
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| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
Docs: xAI had a net loss of $1.46B in Q3, up from $1B in Q1; sources: xAI told investors it plans to build AI that will eventually power Optimus humanoid robots — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is burning cash quickly, with losses mounting as it spends to build data centers … | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI is rolling out a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to assist with medical reasoning and administrative tasks, at Cedars-Sinai and others — Health care is shaping up to be a key battleground for the top AI labs this year. But first... Three things to know:
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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LinkedIn: LinkedIn, Denise Holland Dresser, Sarah Friar, Emil Protalinski, and Olivia Deitcher
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| Bloomberg: |
Omdia: global humanoid robot shipments rose more than 5x YoY in 2025 to ~13K units; China accounted for the vast majority, led by AgiBot shipping ~5,168 units — Humanoid robot makers in China accounted for the vast majority of the roughly 13,000 units shipped globally last year …
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| Cody Combs / The National: |
NetBlocks says internet connectivity in Iran has fallen on multiple providers as protests hit 100+ cities; Cloudflare says IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply — Cloudflare Radar says country's IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply as protests spread across 100 cities
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| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Nvidia has hired Google Cloud VP of Marketing Alison Wagonfeld to be Nvidia's first CMO; source: Wagonfeld will report to CEO Jensen Huang — Alison Wagonfeld will report to CEO Jensen Huang as marketing rises in importance at the AI chip maker — Nvidia, the top AI chip maker … | Sophie Bates / Associated Press: |
Mississippi Gov. Reeves says xAI is set to spend $20B+ to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, xAI's third data center in the greater Memphis area — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build a data center in Southaven, Mississippi …
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| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B — Snowflake plans to acquire Observe, an observability platform that has been built on Snowflake's databases from day one.
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X: @ramaswmysridhar and @snowflake
LinkedIn: Kristin Liu, Sumit Bhatia, Vikram Ghosh, Xuewei Zhang, and Tom Vangel Jr
| Ann Gehan / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data — OpenAI's efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start. — Challenges with wrangling product data mean … | Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
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X: @kross_roads, @protonvpn, @kimmonismus, @paypal, @acce, and @msftnews
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| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Artemis Analytics: total stablecoin transaction volumes rose 72% YoY to a record $33T in 2025, led by Circle's USDC at $18.3T and Tether's USDT at $13.3T — Stablecoin transactions reached unprecedented heights last year, buoyed by favorable policy in the US under pro-crypto President Donald Trump.
More: The Crypto Times, Coinspeaker, crypto.news, Artemis, Cryptonews, and Cointelegraph
X: @aservais1, @mdudas, and @wublockchain
| Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: |
Chinese AI startup MiniMax jumped as much as 54% in its Hong Kong debut on Friday, after raising ~$619M in its IPO priced at ~$21.17 per share — MiniMax Group Inc., one of China's largest generative AI startups, surged in Hong Kong after an initial public offering that raised $619 million.| The Information: |
Source: Lambda, which rents access to AI chips and is backed by Nvidia, is in talks to raise $350M+ led by Mubadala Capital, ahead of an IPO planned for H2 2026 — Lambda, an upstart cloud provider that rents out Nvidia AI chips—and whose biggest customer was recently Nvidia itself … | Jennifer Swann / Wired: |
How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles — Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, find love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces.| Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: |
Filings: Meta has hired Bill McGinley, a veteran Republican operative and the former top lawyer for DOGE, as a lobbyist — Meta Platforms Inc. has hired the former top lawyer for Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency as a lobbyist, according to previously unreported government filings.
Bluesky: @melissaks
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