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Sources: Chinese officials told customs agents that Nvidia H200 chips are barred from China and instructed local tech companies not to buy them unless necessary — Chinese customs authorities told customs agents this week that Nvidia's (NVDA.O) H200 artificial intelligence chips are not permitted … | Bloomberg: |
More: Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, Beyond Search, Reuters, DigiTimes, Outlook India, Agence France-Presse, Fox Business, The Register, Modern Diplomacy, Caixin Global, DatacenterDynamics, WebProNews, and Implicator.ai
X: @ohlennart, @eastland_maggie, @kakashiii111, @ohlennart, @samsolid57, @chorzempamartin, and @dnystedt. Bluesky: @awpiitr. Forums: r/politics
| Reuters: |
Sources: Chinese authorities told domestic companies to stop using cybersecurity software made by ~12 US and Israeli companies due to national security concerns — Chinese authorities have told domestic companies to stop using cybersecurity software made by roughly a dozen firms from the U.S …
Bluesky: @sensehofstede.nl
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
As part of its Reality Labs cuts, Meta is closing three VR gaming studios and will stop developing new content and features for its VR fitness app Supernatural — Developers from Twisted Pixel Games and Sanzaru Games have posted about their studios being closed down.
More: GamesIndustry.biz, Video Games Chronicle, Engadget, UploadVR, Kotaku, Digital Trends, Polygon.com, The Overspill, Tech in Asia, Digit, Sources, GameSpot, WebProNews, Game Developer, TheSixthAxis, TechRaptor, Shacknews, VG Charts, and Irish Examiner
X: @andythps, @afoxdesign, @thedowd, @pranavdixit, @bmfshow, @tomwarren, @sophiebaybey, @asychov, @raeljamsesh, @jasteinerman, @victor_lucas, @dbloodworth2, @killian_c_u, @bangbangclick, @thejobchick, @glitchfandango, @hero_kvatch, @mauronl3, @vescosein, @scobleizer, @neogamespark, @karn_ex, and @benz145
Bluesky: @davelee.me, @marioprime, and @themoonis.gay
Threads: @kathrynyu and @denny_cloudhead
Forums: r/pcgaming and r/Games
| Maya Perez / WebProNews: |
Bandcamp bans music and audio that is “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI”, hoping to build trust with fans that the music they find was human-made — Bandcamp has banned music substantially generated by AI to uphold human artistry and authenticity, amid rising concerns over AI flooding platforms like Spotify.
More: Bandcamp Updates, Stereogum, The A.V. Club, NME, Consequence, BrooklynVegan, and PC Gamer
X: @danielraffel and @future_of_music
Bluesky: @negativeagent, @mwl.io, @davidgerard.co.uk, @ripridermusic, @nowplaying.cool, @lesterlee, @colinhemphill.com, @2mello.net, @lauramarie, @logicalnuisance, @rrrrroseazerty …, @mmmmmmuhh, and @bandcamp.com
Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @dallin@writing.exchange, @headfirstonly@mastodon.social, and @n8dly@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/BandCamp, and r/synthesizers
| Financial Times: |
How smuggled Starlink receivers and customized software let some Iranians evade a near-total internet blackout as the regime brutally cracked down on protesters — Tehran went from ‘halal internet’ to near-total blackout but activists have smuggled in Starlink devices to get information out
More: France 24, Semafor, Washington Post, Ars Technica, The Guardian, and Forbes
X: @wrodgers2 and @mattreed1
| Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg: |
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Z.ai releases GLM-Image, an open-source multimodal AI model trained on Huawei chips that it says is China's first to be fully trained using domestic chips — Chinese AI startup Knowledge Atlas Technology JSC Ltd. released a new multimodal model that it says is the country's … | Danny Lee / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says Tesla will stop selling FSD after February 14 and will offer it only as a monthly subscription; FSD is already available for $99 per month — Tesla Inc. will stop selling the advanced driver-assistance system it calls Full Self-Driving, and instead switch to an entirely monthly subscription service.| Bloomberg: |
The US Senate passes the Defiance Act that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images, amid furor over Grok images — The US Senate unanimously passed legislation Tuesday that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images …
More: The Atlantic, Engadget, The Verge, U.S. Senator Dick Durbin …, Tech Times, The 19th, The American Bazaar, Observer, CBS News, The Hill, Global News, The Economic Times, GameSpot, Mother Jones, WinBuzzer, Time, Insurance Journal, Digit, NPR, and SFist
Bluesky: @themilfmag.net and @themilfmag.net
Forums: r/goodnews and Slashdot
| Ben Fritz / Wall Street Journal: |
Matthew McConaughey secured eight trademarks of himself from the USPTO in the past several months to protect his likeness and voice from unauthorized AI use — Actor plans to use trademarks of himself saying ‘Alright, alright, alright’ and staring at a camera to combat AI fakes in court| Tasmin Lockwood / CNBC: |
US Big Tech companies have been on an energy-related hiring spree; Workforce.AI says Microsoft has hired 570+ people with energy-related expertise since 2022 — Big Tech has been on an energy hiring spree. — Technology companies investing heavily in artificial intelligence are bolstering …
LinkedIn: Tasmin Lockwood
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple and Qualcomm are scrambling to secure glass cloth fiber, used in chip substrates and PCBs, as the AI boom boosts demand for the component — TAIPEI/TOKYO — It looks something like heavy-duty plastic wrap and is buried so deep in the guts of an iPhone that most users don't even know it exists.| The Information: |
A source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features will launch in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more — In another AI win for Google lately, Apple announced on Monday that it will use Google's Gemini models to power … | Google Research: |
Google announces MedGemma 1.5 with improved medical imaging support, and MedASR for medical dictation, both available on Hugging Face and Vertex AI — Daniel Golden, Engineering Manager, and Fereshteh Mahvar, Software Engineer, Google Research — We are updating our open MedGemma model with improved medical imaging support.
More: The Decoder, Digit, Analytics India Magazine, and MarkTechPost
Forums: r/singularity and r/LocalLLaMA
| BBC: |
The UK government drops plans for mandatory digital IDs to work in the country, marking a reversal from when the UK first announced the policy in September 2025 — The government has dropped plans requiring workers to sign up to its digital ID scheme in order to prove their right to work in the UK.
More: The Guardian, The Register, Engadget, Associated Press, Financial Times, ComputerWeekly.com, CoinJournal, The Daily Sceptic, GB News, Sky News, UKTN, Mirror, Euro Weekly News, Biometric Update, The Spectator, The US Sun, Cointelegraph, and Metro.co.uk
X: @rupertlowe10, @nigel_farage, @archrose90, @maxkendix, @rupertlowe10, and @jamesmelville. Forums: r/technology
| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 41% of US teens aged 13 to 17 support a ban on middle and high school students from using phones in class while 51% oppose it; 73% oppose a full-day ban — Schools nationwide are cracking down on students' cellphone use. At the same time, support for cellphone bans is rising among U.S. adults.| Jonathan Greig / The Record: |
The US urged UN members to take a tougher stance against North Korea IT worker scams and crypto thefts; an October 2025 report said 40+ countries were affected — The U.S. on Monday urged United Nation member states to take a tougher stance against North Korean efforts to skirt sanctions through …
More: UN Web TV and KCNA Watch
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Anthropic shakes up its C-suite: CPO Mike Krieger will become the co-lead of its Labs incubator, and head of product Ami Vora will take over Krieger's duties — Chief product officer Mike Krieger will change roles and join the “Labs” team. … Mike Krieger, the Instagram co-founder …
More: eWeek, Anthropic, The Information, and The Register
X: @anthropicai, @omarshaikdev, @yenkel, @mikeyk, and @shensi_. LinkedIn: Hayden Field. Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| John Sakellariadis / Politico: |
President Trump renominates Sean Plankey to be the next director of CISA, which has been running without a full-time chief since Trump's return to office — Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) scotched Plankey's confirmation in 2025, reportedly due to a Coast Guard ship-building contract.| Financial Times: |
Sources: McKinsey pilots an overhaul in how it recruits its next generation, asking candidates to use its AI tool Lilli to analyze a case study during a test — Candidates in pilot assessed on how they prompted consulting firm's AI assistant and ability to adapt responses
X: @ft
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Alpaca, which builds software to let companies offer stocks, ETFs, and other financial instruments, raised a $150M Series D led by Drive at a $1.15B valuation — Yoshi Yokokawa, cofounder of Alpaca.COURTESY OF ALPACA — Trading platforms like Coinbase and Robinhood are rushing to offer …
More: Financial Post
| Bloomberg: |
How Ireland, an early data center winner, missed out on much of the current AI boom, hampered by creaking infrastructure and a strained electricity grid — The government has a new energy plan to get investment flowing again — Every few weeks, electricians, fitters and welders pass through Dublin Airport …
More: The Guardian
| Josh Noble / Financial Times: |
An interview with IMG President Adam Kelly on streaming platforms' increasing share of sports media rights, live sports as an antidote to AI content, and more — As Netflix and Apple expand their sports ambitions, the head of IMG says media rights are entering a new phase driven by scarcity, retention and measurable returns
LinkedIn: Adam Kelly
| New York Times: |
An inside look at a Myanmar online scam center that opened in 2024 with 3,500 workers from ~30 countries and closed in November 2025 after rebels captured it — Times journalists got a rare look inside one of the compounds where the online fraud industry makes its billions.
More: 9News, San Diego Union-Tribune, and Chainalysis
| SemiAnalysis: |
Highlights from IEDM 2025: 3D NAND is suddenly relevant again, interconnect metals beyond copper are emerging, 2D materials that could replace silicon, and more — IEDM 2025 Round-Up — It's an odd time in the chipmaking industry. On one hand, we are ramping into the biggest supercycle ever seen.| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
In South Korea's competition to develop an indigenous AI model, three of the five finalists used foreign open-source code, which they argue is practical — Korea's efforts show how hard it is to develop homegrown AI models and break a reliance on U.S. or Chinese tech giants| The Economic Times: |
India lacks specific policies or zoning regulations for overseeing quick commerce dark stores, which are projected to hit 5,000 to 5,500 by FY2026 end, per HSBC — The army of on-the-clock delivery boys, imperilling themselves and pedestrians, has become a familiar sight across urban India.| Delphine Strauss / Financial Times: |
Ahead of WEF 2026, the IMF urges governments to step up support for young workers displaced by AI, arguing candidates could use AI “rather than compete with it” — Analysis finds evidence of the technology hitting wages and employment in certain areas
More: IMF
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