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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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| 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 … | Microsoft Corporate Responsibility: |
A look at the global AI adoption in 2025; use in the global north grew nearly twice as fast as the south; the UAE leads with 64% of working-age adults using AI — AI Diffusion Report 2025 — Executive summary — Global adoption of artificial intelligence continued to rise in the second half of 2025 … | Bloomberg: |
China releases draft guidelines for governing online personal data collection, open for public consultation amid privacy concerns and companies' data misuse — China has issued draft regulations for the governance of personal information collection from the internet and its use by applicants … | Hideaki Ryugen / Nikkei Asia: |
Taiwan's data shows the US became its top export destination in 2025 over China, including Hong Kong, the first time since 1999, partly driven by AI tech demand — TAIPEI — Taiwan's exports to the U.S. exceeded its exports to China, including Hong Kong, for the first time in 26 years in 2025 …
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| 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.
X: @marionawfal, @wublockchain, @inca_digital, and @wsjmarkets. LinkedIn: Vicky Ge Huang. Forums: r/Buttcoin
| 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.
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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
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China launches a probe into competition among online food delivery platforms, aiming to curb price wars that have contributed to deflationary economic pressures — China will investigate cutthroat competition among food delivery platforms operated by tech firms such as Meituan and Alibaba … | 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.| 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 …
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| 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.
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