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TikTok presents users in the US with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's US ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking — According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location …
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The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into xAI over Grok generating sexualized images of women and children; xAI faces fines of up to 6% of global revenue — European regulators begin investigation into creation and spread of sexualised images of women and children
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Claude Code can feel daunting, and most people's problems are not software-shaped, but it is clearly autonomous and the home-cooked app renaissance is great — are your problems software-shaped? — ∙ Paid — If you tell a friend they can now instantly create any app, they'll probably say “Cool!
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A deep dive into Apple's AI strategy reset, as it prepares to announce a Gemini-powered personalized Siri next month and a reimagined chatbot-like Siri at WWDC — Apple shakes up its AI efforts with a Google partnership, management changes and two new versions of Siri.
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Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that raised a $25M seed led by a16z in June 2022, is shutting down after “several pivots, and two rounds of layoffs” — Partner offers — Quick Take — Entropy founder Tux Pacific announced the crypto startup is shutting down after four years … | Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Ricursive, founded by ex-Google researchers to automate advanced chip design, raised $335M from Sequoia, Radical, Lightspeed, and others at a $4B valuation — One new start-up is called Recursive with an “e.” Another is called Ricursive with an “i.” They are trying to do the same thing … | New York Times: |
Interviews with 100+ therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings — Dozens of doctors and therapists said chatbots had led their patients to psychosis, isolation and unhealthy habits.| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
OpenAI says nearly 1.3M weekly users are discussing “advanced topics in hard science” in January, with an average of 8.4M ChatGPT messages on those topics — AI is increasingly being used as a research collaborator for mathematicians and scientists, per a new report from OpenAI shared exclusively with Axios.| Irina Anghel / Bloomberg: |
Morgan Stanley: UK companies reported that AI led to 8% net job losses over the past 12 months, above Japan's 7%, Germany's 4%, Australia's 2%; the US added 2% — The UK is losing more jobs than it's creating because of artificial intelligence — and at a faster rate than its international peers.| Josh Chin / Wall Street Journal: |
Documents: China's military is focused on harnessing AI to deploy swarms of drones, robot dogs, and other autonomous systems, learning from hawks and coyotes — Beijing's military focuses on swarming drones that can pick off prey or robots that can chase down enemies| John Keilman / Wall Street Journal: |
Manufacturers say that AI is fundamentally changing how some new products are created, finding unexpected solutions and reducing R&D time from weeks to days — PPG, 3M and other manufacturers say digital tools can suggest counterintuitive solutions and do weeks of work within days
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Quantum computing company IonQ acquires US chipmaker SkyWater for ~$1.8B, paying $35/share, in IonQ's biggest deal yet; SkyWater will operate as a subsidiary — IonQ works with the U.S. government and has been on a deal spree — Quantum-computing company IonQ struck a deal …
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Sources: SoftBank halts talks about a ~$50B acquisition of US data center operator Switch, a setback to Masayoshi Son's goal to roll out Stargate infrastructure — SoftBank Group Corp. has halted talks about an acquisition of US data center operator Switch Inc., a setback … | Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: |
London-based enterprise AI video startup Synthesia raised a $200M Series E led by GV at a $4B valuation, up from $2.1B after raising $180M in January 2025 — W — hile AI video generators like OpenAI's Sora, Google's Veo, and Kling are best known for creating “AI slop” … Sponsor Posts
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