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Sources: Chinese officials told customs agents this week that Nvidia H200s are barred from China and told 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, Reuters, DigiTimes, Outlook India, Beyond Search, Fox Business, The Register, Agence France-Presse, Caixin Global, DatacenterDynamics, Implicator.ai, and WebProNews
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| 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, Breitbart, Cryptonews, Mirror, Financial Times, PublicTechnology, ComputerWeekly.com, CoinJournal, Sky News, Euro Weekly News, Biometric Update, The Daily Sceptic, The US Sun, Cointelegraph, and Metro.co.uk
X: @nigel_farage, @rupertlowe10, @bryanglick, @archrose90, @maxkendix, @rupertlowe10, and @jamesmelville. Forums: r/technology
| 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 …
More: Metacurity, MarketWatch, CTech, and Barron's Online
| 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: Stratechery, GamesIndustry.biz, Video Games Chronicle, Engadget, WebProNews, UploadVR, Metro.co.uk, Kotaku, GamingBolt, Digital Trends, Polygon.com, The Overspill, Tech in Asia, Digit, Sources, GameSpot, Game Developer, TheSixthAxis, TechRaptor, Shacknews, VG Charts, Android Central, and Irish Examiner
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Bluesky: @davelee.me, @marioprime, and @themoonis.gay
Threads: @kathrynyu and @denny_cloudhead
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/Games, and Slashdot
| Danny Lee / Bloomberg: |
Elon Musk says that Tesla will stop selling FSD after February 14 and will offer it only as a monthly subscription; FSD costs $8,000 upfront or $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.
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Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars, r/TeslaLounge, and r/teslainvestorsclub
| 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, Engadget, Music Ally, Stereogum, The Decoder, The A.V. Club, Consequence, BrooklynVegan, NME, and PC Gamer
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Forums: Hacker News, r/BandCamp, and r/synthesizers
| 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| 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 …
More: Z.ai, Z.ai on Hugging Face, South China Morning Post, The Information, Z.ai on GitHub, Investing.com, and Tech in Asia
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| 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 … | 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 … | 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.
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, WebProNews, The Mac Observer, and AppleInsider
| The Information: |
Source: Microsoft quietly becomes one of Anthropic's top clients and was recently on pace to spend nearly $500M/year for Anthropic to power Microsoft products — OpenAI is Microsoft's most important AI provider and its biggest cloud server customer. — But as OpenAI does more business …
More: Barron's Online, Windows Central, Computerworld, and ZeroHedge News
| 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: Associated Press, Bloomberg, France 24, Benzinga, Forbes, New York Times, ZeroHedge News, Semafor, Ars Technica, Washington Post, Telecompaper, The Guardian, and heise online
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| 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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
UK police say they banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a soccer match in 2025 after Copilot hallucinated a fake West Ham-Maccabi match in an intelligence report — Copilot invented a nonexistent football match that was included in an intelligence report.
More: The Guardian, The Athletic, PC Gamer, BBC, and The Times
| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
Belgian startup Aikido Security, which offers automated security guardrails for developers, raised $60M led by DST Global at a $1B valuation — Belgium's Aikido Security has raised $60 million from investors led by tech-focused private equity firm DST Global at a valuation of $1 billion …
More: Tech.eu and Tech Funding News
| 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
| 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 …, The Decoder, WebProNews, Tech Times, The 19th, Roll Call, The Hill, CBS News, Global News, The Economic Times, Mother Jones, Insurance Journal, Digit, and NPR
Bluesky: @themilfmag.net and @themilfmag.net
Forums: r/goodnews and Slashdot
| 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 … | Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Pittsburgh-based Skild AI, which makes robotics foundation models, raised a $1.4B Series C at a $14B valuation, up from $4.5B after raising $300M in June 2025 — Skild AI Inc., a fast-rising startup that makes software to help robots learn to complete tasks, has secured about $1.4 billion … | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb hires Meta executive Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led generative AI and the Llama team after working at Apple, as its CTO, as it aims to integrate AI in its app — Airbnb Inc. has hired a former Meta Platforms Inc. executive as its new chief technology officer, as the short-term rental company … | 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: Anthropic, eWeek, WebProNews, Unite.AI, The Information, and The Register
Forums: r/ClaudeAI and r/Anthropic
| 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
| 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: Livemint, The Decoder, Digit, Analytics India Magazine, and MarkTechPost
Forums: r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/Bard
| Bloomberg: |
Saudi Arabia's PIF transfers ~$12B worth of gaming company shares, including Nintendo, to Savvy Games; PIF transferred 11M Take-Two shares in December 2025 — Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is transferring roughly $12 billion worth of gaming company shares, including firms …
More: PocketGamer.biz and The Circuit
| Denitsa Tsekova / Bloomberg: |
Polymarket is hosting a growing number of contracts related to military conflicts, including China invading Taiwan; possible US strikes in Iran has $18M+ volume — Even as prediction-market platforms have tested legal and regulatory norms like never before, most have drawn a line at one category: direct wagers on war.
Bluesky: @carnage4life
| 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
| SemiAnalysis: |
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