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Sources: Apple is developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging, set for release as early as 2027 — Apple is developing an AI-powered wearable pin the size of an AirTag that is equipped with multiple cameras, a speaker …
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Forums: r/NowInTech, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
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Sources: Apple plans to revamp Siri this fall in iOS 27 and macOS 27 by turning it into the company's first AI chatbot, replacing the current Siri interface — Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company's first artificial intelligence chatbot …
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Forums: r/apple, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: |
Anthropic overhauls Claude's “constitution” to enable the AI model to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules — Anthropic is overhauling a foundational document that shapes how its popular Claude AI model behaves.
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LinkedIn: Jim Kaskade, Leon Furze, and Drew Bent
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NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M+ sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X — Over nine days, Elon Musk's Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.
More: Center for Countering … and The Economic Times
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Sources: the US Senate's crypto market structure bill is likely to be delayed by several weeks as key lawmakers shift focus to potential housing legislation — A sweeping US crypto market bill is likely to be delayed by at least several weeks as key lawmakers shift their focus … | AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: |
xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has “left” the company after appearing on a podcast last week where he claimed that xAI had been skirting regulations — Interesting timing. — Sulaiman Ghori, an engineer at Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, went on the podcast Relentless last week …
More: Relentless on YouTube, Moneycontrol, and Business Insider
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Sources: the US and China approve a deal to sell TikTok's US business to a group of mostly US investors led by Oracle and Silverlake, set to close this week — The US and China have signed off on a deal to sell TikTok's US business to a consortium of mostly US investors led by Oracle and Silverlake … | Bloomberg: |
BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO, selling ~11.7M shares at $18 each, above the $15 to $17 range, giving it a ~$2.1B market value, in 2026's first crypto IPO — BitGo Holdings Inc. and some of its backers raised $212.8 million in a US initial public offering, pricing its shares above the marketed range.| Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
Ubisoft cancels six games and delays others amid a restructuring into five genre-specific “creative houses”, and expects net bookings of ~€1.5B for FY 2025-2026 — Ubisoft Entertainment SA is canceling game projects, shutting down studios and cutting its guidance …
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X: @princeofpersia, @grummz, @oliverjia1014, @gameoverthirty, @synthpotato, @legacykillahd, @thencsmaster, @mr_rebs_, @shinobi602, and @nintyprime
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Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a satellite communications network for enterprise, data center, and government customers, and plans to begin deployment in Q4 2027 — Jeff Bezos' space venture Blue Origin announced Wednesday it plans to deploy 5,408 satellites in space for a communications network that will take on SpaceX and Amazon.
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X: @davill, @rmcentush, @sciguyspace, and @blueorigin
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Sources: Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East, looking in early talks to raise $50B+ for OpenAI at a ~$750B to ~$830B valuation — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East to line up funding for a new investment round …
More: eWeek, Benzinga, CNBC, WebProNews, Tech Funding News, Silicon UK, and Gazetteer SF. Forums: r/singularity
| Daniel Tudor / Financial Times: |
South Korea's Kospi stock index breaks through the record 5,000 level, driven by chip stocks, led by Samsung, up ~3X, and SK Hynix, up ~4x, in the past year — Kospi is up almost 20% in 2026 as reforms to woo investors spur market — South Korea's Kospi benchmark has broken through … | Business Insider: |
Vimeo is laying off staff for the second time since September 2025, when it cut 10% of its workforce; Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for ~$1.38B in November 2025 — - Vimeo is laying off staffers globally in a new round of cuts. — The job cuts arrived a few months after tech holding company Bending Spoons bought Vimeo.
More: CTech. X: @daemon404. Bluesky: @davidgerard.co.uk and @danhon.com
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| Lindsay Ellis / Wall Street Journal: |
Survey: over 40% of executives said AI saved them more than eight hours per week, while two-thirds of non-management staff said they saved less than two hours — How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report — Largest divergence:| Will Knight / Wired: |
An analysis of 5,290 AI research papers at NeurIPS: 141, or ~3%, had US-China AI lab collaboration, up from 134 in 2024; Llama featured in 106 Chinese papers — WIRED analyzed more than 5,000 papers from NeurIPS using OpenAI's Codex to understand the areas where the US and China actually work together on AI research.
More: TechCrunch and Fortune
| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
Unsealed docs: Spotify and labels sued Anna's Archive over plans to release scraped Spotify data; a US court grants a temporary order taking down some domains — Anna's Archive is generally known as a meta-search engine for shadow libraries, helping users find pirated books and other related resources.| The Information: |
Memo: Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI last week, will lead OpenAI's enterprise push, as part of a broader reorganization — Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI in a swirl of controversy last week, will lead the company's push …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X unveils Bluesky-like “Starterpacks” to help users find accounts that match their interests, curated by X and rolling out in the coming weeks — Bluesky's “Starter Packs,” the curated lists of suggested users to follow, have proven a popular way to help people connect with others …
More: crypto.news, Engadget, Cointelegraph, and Social Media Today
X: @nikitabier, @luke_metro, and @oalexanderdk. Mastodon: @eloquence@social.coop. Forums: r/BlueskySocial
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on Netflix's stock roller coaster, viewer engagement, ads, the WBD acquisition, regulation, competition, Hollywood, and more — This week's Stratechery Interview is with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters. Peters became co-CEO of Netflix in 2023 …
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Austin-based Neurophos, which develops a photon-based “Optical Processing Unit” to replace GPUs in AI training, raised $110M led by Bill Gates' Gates Frontier — Bill Gates' VC fund, Microsoft Corp.'s investment arm and Saudi Arabia's Aramco Ventures are investing $110 million in Neurophos Inc. … | Rajesh Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: |
Filing: PhonePe reports H1 FY 2026 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$427.5M, a ~$157M loss, and 657.6M users; the payments company plans to sell 50.7M shares in its IPO — Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing. Sign up here.
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and 800+ creatives launch “Stealing Isn't Innovation” to protest unauthorized AI training, backed by RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, and others — Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, George Saunders, and other creatives say that AI companies are … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Snap updates its Family Center tool to let parents view daily screen time averages and a breakdown of time spent by specific app segment like Snap Map — Two days after settling a lawsuit accusing Snapchat of causing social media addiction and mental health issues, Snap announced that it's introducing new parental controls.
More: Fortune India, Snap Newsroom, Australian Financial Review, and MediaPost
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Source: Google DeepMind signs a licensing deal with Hume AI, which builds emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, to hire CEO Alan Cowen and ~7 top engineers — Hume AI's CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.Sponsor Posts
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