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Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 builds on K2 with “pretraining over ~15T mixed visual and text tokens” and “can self-direct an agent swarm with up to 100 sub-agents” — Today, we are introducing Kimi K2.5, the most powerful open-source model to date.
More: Hugging Face, The Deep View, WinBuzzer, TestingCatalog, Implicator.ai, and Constellation Research
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| Bloomberg: |
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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/LocalLLaMA
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
TikTok settles a California lawsuit ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial; Snap recently settled the suit, while Meta and YouTube remain defendants — The settlement means TikTok will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective …
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
OpenAI launches Prism, a free cloud-based LaTeX editor that embeds GPT-5.2 to assist in scientific paper drafting and citation management — OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered tool for scientists called Prism …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Anthropic is set to raise about $20B led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue, double the amount it had targeted, at a $350B valuation — Company in talks to raise new funds from Coatue, GIC, Iconiq and Sequoia at $350bn valuation — Anthropic is set to raise about $20bn from venture capitalists … | New York Times: |
Internal Slack message: Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff that “What's happening with ICE is going too far” and he hopes President Trump “will rise to this moment” — Business leaders continue to feel pressure to speak out about the immigration crackdown and the fatal shooting of two U.S. citizens.
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
TikTok says the new US entity has not updated its algorithm since the joint venture was announced, after users accused it of suppressing posts related to ICE — Some users had accused the app of blocking them from posting videos about Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The app said it was a power outage issue.
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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
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| Tyler Katzenberger / Politico: |
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
An interview with Mozilla president Mark Surman about plans to deploy its ~$1.4B in reserves to fund an AI “rebel alliance” to challenge companies like OpenAI — From his small, snow-covered farm outside Toronto, home to cats and a dog, and soon some donkeys …
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| Henry Chandonnet / Business Insider: |
Clawdbot creator Peter Steinberger says he is changing the name of the viral AI agent to Moltbot after he “was forced to rename the account by Anthropic” — - Clawdbot, the viral AI agent that's leading techies to buy up Mac Minis, is now named Moltbot.
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Bluesky: @kevinbriody, @puddleoops.com, and @caseynewton
| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
WhatsApp launches Strict Account Settings, a high-security mode to protect high-risk users like journalists and public figures from sophisticated cyberattacks — Meta's WhatsApp messaging service is offering users an advanced security mode, joining a growing number of U.S. tech firms …
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| Washington Post: |
US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to “destructively scan” up to 2M books with a hydraulic “cutting machine” led by an ex-Google exec — In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet.
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Forums: r/technology and r/technews
| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon plans to close all 57 Fresh and 15 Go locations in the US, as it pivots its physical retail strategy to focus exclusively on Whole Foods — Amazon's homegrown grocery stores are getting shelved. — The company said Tuesday morning that it's closing all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations …
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Google adds Gemini 3 to AI Overviews as the default model globally and now lets users ask follow-up questions “seamlessly” via AI Mode — Gemini 3 is coming to AI Overviews and you can ask follow-ups for a ‘seamless Search experience.’ — Google is making Search less about links and more about AI.
More: The Keyword, Android Police, 9to5Google, Thurrott, Android Central, CNET, Business Insider, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, Mashable, Search Engine Journal, and The Deep View
LinkedIn: Grant Noskey and Rohan Shah
| John Sakellariadis / Politico: |
Sources: the interim director of CISA, Madhu Gottumukkala, triggered automated security warnings last summer by uploading sensitive documents to ChatGPT — Cybersecurity sensors at CISA flagged the uploads this past August, said the four officials. One official specified there were multiple …
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| Jeff Horwitz / Reuters: |
Court filings: Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions — Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable …
X: @andymstone. Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @froggleston.carpentries.org, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, and @daniloc.xyz. Mastodon: @ricmac@mastodon.social
| David Gilbert / Wired: |
Meta blocks users from sharing links to ICE List, which compiles names of DHS staffers; Meta cites a policy against “asking for personally identifiable” info — Users of Meta's social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.
More: The Daily Beast. X: @hshaban. Bluesky: @katie-drummond, @makenakelly, and @timmarchman
Threads: @daviscanu, @crustnews, and @crustnews
Forums: r/facebook, r/technology, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/politics, and r/ICE_Raids
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Tether launches USAT, a US-regulated stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, marking the company's direct return to the US market that it left in 2018 — Tether Holdings SA said it has launched a US-focused stablecoin, as the world's largest issuer of dollar-pegged tokens prepares to return to crypto's largest market.
More: CoinDesk, PYMNTS.com, Fortune, Tether, DL News, The Block, Bitcoin Insider, Blockonomi, The Crypto Times, CoinGape, Yahoo Finance, and Crypto Briefing
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 12.5.8 for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 6, extending software support for these devices to 13 and 12 years after their respective launches — Alongside iOS 26.2.1, Apple today released an updated version of iOS 12 for devices that are still running that operating system update …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LinusTechTips, and MacRumors Forums
| Pascale Davies / Euronews: |
France plans to replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with French-made and Outscale-hosted Visio by 2027, as part of a push to drop US software vendors in government — France announced that it will roll out the Visio platform across all government departments by 2027.
More: Gizmodo, Politico, Engadget, Computerworld, GitHub, TechCrunch, Windows Central, and The Register
Mastodon: @jim@social.openrightsgroup … and @brucelawson@social …
Forums: r/BuyFromEU, r/technology, r/europe, and Slashdot
| Steven Melendez / Fast Company: |
Privacy-focused MVNO Cape, which has raised $61M from a16z and others, launches across the US following a March 2025 beta, offering a $99 monthly plan — A privacy-centric cellphone carrier called Cape is now officially available across the United States, offering a unique set of features …
More: Cape
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Sonos announces the Amp Multi, a large digital amplifier and its first new device in over a year, ending a pause in hardware releases as it focused on software — Sonos Inc. introduced its first new device in over a year, marking the end of an intentional lull in product launches … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google expands Android's anti-theft suite, including a dedicated toggle for its Failed Authentication Lock feature on devices running Android 16 or later — Google on Tuesday announced an expanded set of Android theft protection features, designed to make its mobile devices less of a target for criminals.| Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Crypto payments network Mesh raised a $75M Series C led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $200M — Partner offers — Quick Take — Mesh raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Dragonfly Capital, valuing the crypto payments startup at $1 billion.
More: Mesh, PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Coinspeaker, and Cryptonews
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google expands its AI Plus subscription to 35 new countries and territories, including the US at $7.99/month, with “enhanced access” to Gemini 3 Pro and more — After introducing the plan internationally in September, Google is bringing its AI Plus subscription to 35 new countries, including the US.
More: The Keyword, Android Police, MobileSyrup, Forbes, Thurrott, TechCrunch, The Verge, Engadget, MacRumors, Android Authority, Android Central, and Droid Life
X: @shimritby, @rustybrick, and @geminiapp
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Ai2 launches Open Coding Agents, starting with SERA, an open-source family that includes 32B and 8B parameter models designed to adapt to private codebases — Artificial intelligence is moving swiftly, changing how developers craft, as code flows ever faster into repositories such as GitHub …
More: Ai2, GeekWire, and The Decoder
X: @soldni, @allen_ai, @ethnlshn, @ethnlshn, @tim_dettmers, @nvidiaaidev, and @allen_ai
| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
The EU gives Google a six-month deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers — Google was handed a six-month European Union deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android … | Kerry Flynn / Axios: |
Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace — Yahoo is joining the next era of search with Yahoo Scout, a new AI answer engine that has a standalone site and app, and will be available across its properties.
More: Yahoo Inc. Press, Engadget, Search Engine Land, Near Media, Fast Company, and The Verge
LinkedIn: Rob Wilk and Ann-Marie Taylor
| Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgraded optical character recognition model that replaces OpenAI-developed CLIP framework with Alibaba's Qwen2-0.5b — The Chinese AI start-up says its latest OCR model delivers stronger performance after adopting an Alibaba-developed open-source model
X: @unslothai, @dorialexander, @garyfung, and @teortaxestex
| Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
Texas Instruments reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.42B, vs. $4.44B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates; TXN jumps 9%+ after hours — Texas Instruments (TXN.O) forecast first-quarter revenue above Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, signaling recovering demand for its analog chips following a prolonged market slump.Sponsor Posts
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