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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.
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| Helena Horton / The Guardian: |
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Bluesky: @thiccreese, @princess-vimentin, @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, @ketanjoshi.co, @pogue.omg.lol, @mattburgess1, @glynmoody, @margaretmorgan, @mrrobertbob, @petefrasermusic, @metacurity.com, @kyledchurch, and @mgraalum
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| 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
| 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
| 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, Engadget, FCC, SpaceNews, PCMag, ISPreview UK, Benzinga, Reuters, and Bloomberg Law
| Claire Yubin Oh / Sherwood News: |
Stack Overflow recorded just 6,866 questions in Dec. 2025, about the same monthly volume as in 2008; annual revenue has risen ~2x to $115M since ChatGPT's debut — The platform is raking in millions of dollars in revenue, with AI an ironic new source of revenue.| 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 …
X: @zeffmax, @zeffmax, @zeffmax, and @zeffmax. LinkedIn: Eric Wise. Bluesky: @katie-drummond. Forums: r/BetterOffline
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials — Italy fined Cloudflare 14.2 million euros for refusing to block access to pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service …
More: WebProNews, TorrentFreak, PPC Land, Times of India, Politico, Neowin, and Advanced Television
X: @eastdakota, @eastdakota, @eastdakota, @elonmusk, and @claudioborghi
Forums: Hacker News, r/eutech, r/europrivacy, r/EUnews, r/technology, r/europe, r/italy, r/Piracy, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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: A. Feder Cooper and Manasa Chappeti
Bluesky: @segyges, @dmnd.me, @megangray, @dbrody, and @damonberes.com
Forums: r/books and r/technology
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic adds safeguards to prevent third-party apps, like OpenCode, from spoofing Claude Code to access Claude models for more favorable pricing and limits — Anthropic has confirmed the implementation of strict new technical safeguards preventing third-party applications from spoofing …
More: WinBuzzer and GitHub
X: @trq212, @banteg, @dhh, @yuchenj_uw, @edzitron, @chatgpt21, @skylermiao7, @minimax_ai, @skylermiao7, @zai_org, @thdxr, @theo, @simonw, @mitsuhiko, @jessethanley, @nickadobos, @badlogicgames, @theo, @thdxr, @sammcallister, @thsottiaux, @dhh, @theahmadosman, @thsottiaux, @astuyve, @maxedapps, @dimillian, @thdxr, @dillon_mulroy, @theprimeagen, @bcardarella, @krishnanrohit, @adamdotdev, @trq212, @trq212, @dhh, and @kyliebytes. Forums: Hacker News
| 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: MarketWatch. X: @tmtlongshort, @edzitron, @patio11, @intuitmachine, @thebronxviking, @michaeljburry, @hamishmckenzie, and @xpasky
| 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 … | 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 …
| 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
| Wojciech Kość / Politico: |
Poland's President Karol Nawrocki vetoes legislation meant to enforce the EU's DSA in Poland, arguing it would grant excessive powers to government officials — Nawrocki called EU social media law “Orwellian,” echoing Washington's main line of attack. — WARSAW — Poland's nationalist … Sponsor Posts
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