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Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing the risk of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, becoming the first country to block the AI tool — Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk's Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool.
More: Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, Fast Company, Tech in Asia, WinBuzzer, Business Insider, TechCrunch, WebProNews, CBS News, Euractiv, The Information, SheKnows, Gizmodo, The Indian Express, The Independent, RTÉ, France 24, Livemint, Quartz, and Financial Times
Bluesky: @riana, @blue-fire1, @daphnek, @spudislander45, @justinhendrix, @sundersays, @craigbrittain.com, @avondeer, @petertl, @nicmiller, @paulbernal, @nicolashenin.net, and @fabiochiusi
Forums: r/anime_titties and r/BetterOffline
| Helena Horton / The Guardian: |
Grok says image generation and editing are now limited to paid subscribers, after 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
More: BBC, Wired, Wired, The Verge, Tech in Asia, 404 Media, Connected Places, Reuters, BBC, Ars Technica, CyberScoop, AppleInsider, WebProNews, Breitbart, CNBC, Kotaku, Semafor, The American Bazaar, WinBuzzer, CNN, Mashable, Fortune, Mirror, Al Jazeera, Canary, UPI, TechCrunch, PetaPixel, Music Ally, eWeek, The Hollywood Reporter, Eschaton, The Guardian, and Deadline
X: @jess4lowestoft, @miles_brundage, @mikeisaac, @brianod_news, and @grok
LinkedIn: Rory Brooke and Jess Asato MP
Bluesky: @princess-vimentin, @thiccreese, @maryannefranks, @anet2111, @chrisward.de, @seniormcgeezer, @pamspaulding, @jf2u, @toilandtroublemedia.com, @carnage4life, @watchdogprg, @mantzarlis.com, @joenoonan, @samleecole, @climateadam, @joeuchill, @seachange12, @justinhendrix, @socialmedialab.ca, @gsoh31, @missingthept, @brexitpirates, @davidgerard.co.uk, @missingthept, @gadget44027447, @bastardsheep.com, @trufflehog, @seanjones.org, @peterwalker99, @andyscollick, @stormageddon, @docbaty, and @ketanjoshi.co
Mastodon: @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org, @newsguyusa@flipboard.social, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, and @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: Hacker News, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/technews, r/tech, r/technology, and r/grok
| Jackson Chen / Engadget: |
Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses — As spotted by Malwarebytes, the alleged leak includes usernames, email addresses, phone numbers and more. — If you received a bunch …
More: Gizmodo, The CyberSec Guru, Mirror, The Sun, 9News, Mashable, Cyber Security News, Digit, The Independent, Forbes, CyberInsider, and Notebookcheck
| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Tether's role in Venezuela's economy, which puts it in a prime position to aid the U.S. as it seeks to find funds allegedly stolen by Maduro's regime — The stablecoin served as a tool to avoid sanctions and a lifeline for everyday citizens — Nicolás Maduro helped make tether the world's dominant stablecoin.| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Grubhub parent Wonder, which has raised about $2B and is rolling out robotic meal-assembly tech acquired from Sweetgreen for $186M in November 2025 — E-commerce mogul Marc Lore's Wonder is leaning into automation in a $2 billion effort to do to restaurants what Amazon did to shopping.
More: New Jersey Online
| Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: |
Morgan Stanley survey of audio habits in the US: 50% to 60% of listeners aged 18-44 reported listening to AI-generated music for 2.5 to 3 hours per week — That's enough AI music to last the run time of “Avatar.” — Video may have killed the radio star, but AI is starting to dance on its grave.
Bluesky: @th.alassa.pink and @rawx
| The Substack Post: |
Michael Burry, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, and Dwarkesh Patel on the future of AI, whether AI tools improve productivity, job losses due to AI, and more — The man who predicted the 2008 crash, Anthropic's co-founder, and a leading AI podcaster jump into a Google doc to debate the future of AI—and, possibly, our lives
More: Implicator.ai and MarketWatch
X: @patio11, @intuitmachine, @edzitron, @xpasky, @thebronxviking, @tmtlongshort, @michaeljburry, and @hamishmckenzie. Forums: r/accelerate
| Claire Yubin Oh / Sherwood News: |
Stack Overflow's monthly question volume in Dec. 2025 sank to 2008 levels; revenue has doubled since ChatGPT's debut driven by enterprise tools and AI licensing — The platform is raking in millions of dollars in revenue, with AI an ironic new source of revenue.| Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: |
Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted — On tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden.
More: arXiv.org, WinBuzzer, and The Decoder
LinkedIn: Mike O'Brien, A. Feder Cooper, and Manasa Chappeti
Bluesky: @yyahn, @megangray, @segyges, @dmnd.me, @dbrody, and @damonberes.com
Forums: Hacker News, r/books, and r/technology
| Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: |
Internal document: Amazon rolled out a manager dashboard that tracks employees' office attendance and how many hours they spend there, after its RTO mandate — - Amazon rolled out a manager dashboard that tracks the time corporate employees spend in the office.
More: Moneycontrol, Inc.com, eWeek, Newser, and Newsweek
| Wired: |
Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current or previous jobs to evaluate its models, leaving it to them to scrub confidential info — To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs …
More: TechCrunch. X: @zeffmax, @zeffmax, @zeffmax, and @zeffmax. LinkedIn: Eric Wise. Bluesky: @katie-drummond. Forums: r/BetterOffline
| Reuters: |
US PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire a majority stake in business contract software company Sirion; a source says the deal values Sirion at about $1B — U.S. private equity firm Haveli Investments has agreed to make a majority investment in Sirion, which provides software …
| Bloomberg: |
Xreal co-founder and CEO Chi Xu says the smart glass maker, which has a $1B+ valuation, recently raised $100M from “supply chain partners” and other backers — Smart glasses maker Xreal Inc. recently raised $100 million, its chief executive officer said, adding to the firm's coffers as competition in the category heats up.
More: Mashable
| Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: |
D-Wave Quantum agrees to acquire Quantum Circuits, a developer of error-corrected gate-model technology, for $550M, with $300M in stock and the rest in cash — D-Wave Quantum announced Wednesday that it has struck a deal to purchase Quantum Circuits for $550 million, as the annealing-centric … | Pragyan Kalita / Reuters: |
Rain, which helps businesses issue stablecoin-linked Visa cards, raised a $250M Series C led by ICONIQ at a $1.95B valuation, taking its total funding to $338M+ — Stablecoin firm Rain said on Friday it has raised $250 million in a funding round led by ICONIQ, valuing the company at $1.95 billion …
More: Tech in Asia, Rain, DL News, Pulse 2.0, crypto.news, This Week in Fintech, Cointelegraph, SiliconANGLE, Ventureburn, Bitcoin Insider, Crunchbase News, PYMNTS.com, FinSMEs, Bloomberg, VC News Daily, The Block, NFTgators, and Cryptonews
X: @hosseeb, @cnaut, @theoneandomsy, @alliance, @lightspeedvp, @sytaylor, @lmrankhan, @mottice, and @raincards. LinkedIn: Daniel C. Liem
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
The FCC approves SpaceX's request to deploy an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites, bringing the total to 15,000 satellites worldwide — The Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it has approved SpaceX's request to deploy another 7,500 second-generation Starlink satellites …
More: Ars Technica, The Verge, FCC, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, WebProNews, SpaceNews, Engadget, ISPreview UK, PCMag, Benzinga, Reuters, and Bloomberg Law
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