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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is like “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea” and has “incredible national security implications” — Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei said selling advanced artificial intelligence chips to China … | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI and ServiceNow sign a three-year deal to integrate OpenAI's models into ServiceNow's business software, including using OpenAI's AI agents for IT tasks — The AI model maker and business-software provider signed a three-year pact that underscores how AI agents are increasingly being embedded in corporate software| Brian Stelter / CNN: |
Netflix and WBD say Netflix revised its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75/share, with the same $82.7B value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing — In an ongoing struggle over the future of Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix says it is now prepared to pay all cash for Warner Bros. and HBO …
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Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff to build collaborative AI, raised a $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others at a $4.48B valuation — As a research scientist at Anthropic, one of the world's leading A.I. companies, Andi Peng was part of a team that tried …
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Sony and TCL sign a non-binding agreement to spin off Sony's TV and home audio hardware business into a new joint venture, aiming to finalize the deal by March — The two companies are planning to form a new joint venture that will carry the ‘Sony’ and ‘Bravia’ branding.
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Ukraine says it plans to share nearly four years of combat data, including millions of hours of drone footage, with allies to help train AI models — Ukraine will establish a system allowing its allies to train their artificial intelligence models on Kyiv's valuable combat data collected throughout … | Shona Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
World Economic Forum panel: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says AI-driven job displacement will “make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration” — Artificial intelligence will displace so many jobs that it will eliminate the need for mass immigration …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Filings from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit detail Microsoft's decade-long relationship with OpenAI, including plans for a new subsidiary during Sam Altman's firing — The launch of the AI lab that would redefine Microsoft caught the tech giant by surprise. — “Did we get called to participate?”
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Netflix adds a real-time voting feature for its Star Search reboot, available on mobile, smart TVs, and streaming devices, but not on a browser — Netflix today is launching a new feature that will allow users to interact with live content through voting. The streaming company said the option … | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Setapp Mobile, one of the first alt iOS app stores launched in 2024 after the EU's DMA, plans to shut down, blaming “still-evolving and complex business terms” — Ukraine-based developer MacPaw is set to close Setapp Mobile, its alternative app store for iOS devices in the European Union, next month.
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The World Economic Forum in Davos is now dominated by tech giants, whose interests shunt aside topics like climate change, as Trump and AI take center stage — The World Economic Forum is now dominated by global technology companies whose interests shunt aside most others.| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: AI inference startup Baseten raised $300M led by IVP and CapitalG at a $5B valuation, more than doubling its valuation; Nvidia invested $150M — The move follows other investments from the chip giant to improve the delivery of artificial-intelligence services to customers| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
Greg Yang, one of the co-founders of xAI, is stepping down from the company after being diagnosed with Lyme disease — Greg Yang, one of the co-founders of Elon Musk's startup xAI, is stepping down from the company after being diagnosed with Lyme disease. — Yang will be an informal adviser …
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Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50%+ of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025 — More than half of all ads on Meta's Instagram ran in the service's short-form video Reels product in 2025, up from 35% in 2024 … | Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: |
Meta VP of Public Policy Simon Milner, the company's most senior Asia-Pacific policy executive, plans to leave after 14 years to retire from full-time work — Meta Platforms Inc. is losing its most senior public policy executive in the Asia-Pacific at a time when the company faces several … | Anthropic: |
Anthropic details the “Assistant Axis”, a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior — Read the full paper — When you talk to a large language model, you can think of yourself as talking to a character.
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| Michael Thomsen / New York Times: |
How Zynga uses a secretive VIP program with personal account managers and exclusive sweepstake entries to keep top players spending on games like FarmVille — CSR 2 Realistic Drag Racing is a simple game, even by smartphone standards. Players compete in short street races … | Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Portugal orders Polymarket to stop operations and blocks it in the country after heavy activity tied to its recent presidential election, with €110M+ in volume — Partner offers — Quick Take — Portugal's gambling regulator has ordered prediction market platform Polymarket … | Juby Babu / Reuters: |
OpenAI rolls out age prediction on ChatGPT globally to identify users under 18 and apply automatic content protections as it prepares to introduce adult content — OpenAI on Tuesday said it is rolling out age prediction on ChatGPT globally, to determine whether an account is likely owned by a minor … | Alex Wickham / Bloomberg: |
Sources: UK and Chinese security officials set up a forum to discuss cyberattacks after hacking accusations, the first of its kind, to help prevent escalation — British and Chinese security officials established a forum to discuss cyberattacks following a spate of hacking accusations that soured relations between the two countries.| John Liu / Bloomberg: |
Sources: China broadens its probe into Temu owner PDD, dispatching 100+ investigators to its Shanghai HQ, after staff exchanged physical blows with regulators — China has broadened a probe into PDD Holdings Inc. after its employees exchanged blows with regulators, dispatching over 100 investigators …
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| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Substack challenger Beehiiv expects to nearly double its annual revenue to $50M in 2026; it now has over 40,000 MAUs, including nearly 15,000 paying subscribers — Beehiiv expects to nearly double annual revenue to $50 million this year as the newsletter startup challenges larger rival Substack … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
xAI faces a growing outcry from global regulators over Grok's generation of nonconsensual explicit photos, but has faced little regulatory action in the US — Despite global uproar over the generation of non-consensual explicit photos, Elon Musk has continued to downplay the issue.
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