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| Kimi: |
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: Simon Willison's Weblog, Hugging Face, Implicator.ai, and Constellation Research
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Bloomberg: |
Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2.5, saying the model can process text, images, and videos simultaneously and beats its open-source peers in some tests — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.-backed Moonshot AI released an upgrade of its flagship model, heating up a domestic arms race ahead …
More: TechCrunch, Time, and The Information
X: @theo, @haoningtimothy, @scaling01, @eliebakouch, @bindureddy, @scaling01, @teortaxestex, @chujiezheng, @teortaxestex, @kimmonismus, @eliebakouch, and @kimi_moonshot
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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.
More: Business Insider, The Information, Wired, Quartz, and Forbes
X: @mikeisaac and @laurenshirsch
Bluesky: @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @cassim.montilla.fr, @daniloc.xyz, and @tnewmsblues
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Khosla Ventures' Vinod Khosla and Ethan Choi disavow Keith Rabois' comments on ICE agents killing Alex Pretti; Rabois said Pretti was committing a “felony” — To understand the stance of an unwavering Trump loyalist after United States Custom and Enforcement shocked the nation …
More: The Verge, Reuters, HuffPost, StrictlyVC, and Newcomer
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Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @daniloc.xyz, @carnage4life, and @davidwelton
Forums: r/politics, r/OpenAI, and r/technology
| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
Tim Cook attending a private White House screening of the documentary Melania hours after US agents killed a man suggests horrible judgment, or worse, cowardice — Tim Cook is captured. There is simply no other explanation for his actions over the past year or so.
More: New York Times, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Fortune, The Mac Observer, The Verge, The Hollywood Reporter, Implicator.ai, Mother Jones, Mashable, The Daily Beast, Gizmodo, Advocate, MacStories, SW Newsmagazine, Mercury News, MacDailyNews, Entertainment Weekly, and Wccftech
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Forums: r/politics, r/thebulwark, and r/apple
| 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 … | 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.
X: @willoremus and @eilperin
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
An interview with OpenAI for Science head Kevin Weil on the team's mission, why LLMs can't come up with game-changing discoveries yet, and more — In the three years since ChatGPT's explosive debut, OpenAI's technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at work … | 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 … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings — Meta plans to test new subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on it apps, the company told TechCrunch on Monday.
More: CNET, The Information, 9to5Mac, CNBC, Daily Ausaf, PCMag, PhoneArena, The Mac Observer, iThinkDifferent, Mashable, Gizmodo, Times Now, MacRumors, PetaPixel, Benzinga, Silicon UK, Business Standard, The Indian Express, The Verge, Digital Trends, Sharecast, BMI, BBC, Digit, Tech in Asia, Dexerto, Moneycontrol, and WeRSM
| 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 … | 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, FinSMEs, Blockonomi, Cryptonews, and NFTgators
| 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.| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Amazon agrees to pay a $309M settlement and return $600M to users in a US class action lawsuit over allegedly incorrectly denied refunds since September 2017 — Amazon (AMZN.O) has agreed to pay $309 million and provide other benefits in a class action settlement with customers who claimed …
More: PCMag, The Verge, and Cord Cutters News
| Katarina Hoije / Bloomberg: |
Khaby Lame, the world's biggest TikToker, partners with Nasdaq-listed Rich Sparkle in a $975M, 36-month deal to monetize his fan base, including an AI version — Khaby Lame, the world's biggest TikToker, partnered with Rich Sparkle Holdings Ltd. to transform his 360 million social-media followers into a commercial venture.| Laya Neelakandan / CNBC: |
UPS plans to eliminate 30,000 jobs this year as part of winding down its partnership with Amazon; it expects $3B in savings related to the Amazon unwind — United Parcel Service on Tuesday announced that it was planning to eliminate an additional 30,000 jobs this year as part of winding …
More: Axios, Supply Chain Dive, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, and CBS News
| Wired: |
Documents: a whistleblower details the Boshang scam compound in Laos that defrauded victims of ~$2.2M over 11 weeks and utilized a system of worker debt bondage — A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials …
More: Wired and Decrypt
X: @a_greenberg. Bluesky: @knibbs, @katie-drummond, @agreenberg, @couts, @brbarrett, @mattburgess1, @timmarchman, @lhn, and @davidgilbert
Forums: r/TrueReddit and r/longform
| Financial Times: |
A profile of White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan, who wrote an EO against “Woke” AI, aims to “fight China”, and rallies executives around Trump's policies — White House adviser Sriram Krishnan has been instrumental to the US administration's light touch on AI| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Pornhub parent Aylo says it will restrict UK users from February 2, after six months of complying with the UK's OSA; users who verified their ages can login — Starting February 2, many people connecting from the UK will not be able to access the porn site and many others.| 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: Business Insider, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, The Deep View, and Droid Life
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Flora, whose node-based design tool uses AI to create media assets for clients like Lionsgate, raised a $42M Series A, bringing its total funding to $52M — Flora, a design tool used by designers at Alibaba, Brex, creative agency Pentagram, and entertainment company Lionsgate, has hit a new milestone.
More: FinSMEs, Adweek, and Business Insider
| 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 … | 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.
More: PCMag, The Economic Times, BeInCrypto, The Crypto Times, Cryptonews, and Protos
X: @moltbot, @ibrahimuzn, @steipete, @maxrovensky, @sidravi_, @steipete, @mark_k, @gaikwadpushakar, @harleytt, @dinvesting, @alexfinn, @tcgsealed, @swschramm, @codergeeta, and @echooo17. Bluesky: @caseynewton
| 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 … | 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: The New Stack and The AI Economy
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Summize, which uses AI to let in-house legal teams manage contract workflows within apps like Slack, raised $50M, bringing its total funding to $65M — Summize, a legal tech startup for in-house contract management, secured a $50 million investment, CEO Tom Dunlop tells Axios Pro.
More: FinSMEs, UK Tech Investment News, and BusinessCloud
| Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: |
The UK government says it recruited a team of AI specialists to build AI tools to improve transport, public safety and defense, backed by Meta's funding — The British government said on Tuesday it had recruited a team of artificial intelligence specialists to build AI tools to improve transport … | Chainalysis: |
Chinese-language crypto laundering networks processed ~$16.1B in 2025, or $44M per day on average across 1,799+ wallets, representing 20% of laundering activity — TL;DR — After emerging at the start of the pandemic, Chinese-language money laundering networks (CMLNs) …
More: CoinDesk, Unchained, Bloomberg, CryptoPotato, BeInCrypto, and Cryptonews
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Corning says Meta committed to paying up to $6B through 2030 for fiber-optic cable in its AI data centers, and it plans to expand its Hickory, NC, factory — As Meta tries to rapidly construct massive data centers to keep pace with the artificial intelligence craze, it's turning to a 175-year-old glass manufacturer for help.Sponsor Posts
Niantic Spatial:
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World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate.
Zoho:
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IDrive:
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Anuma:
The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory. Chat, text, create, build, and solve across every model.
The Private AI That Remembers — Anuma is the all-in-one AI platform with private, portable memory. Chat, text, create, build, and solve across every model.Featured Podcasts
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