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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: 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 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, Quartz, and Forbes
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| 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 …
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Forums: r/OpenAI, r/politics, 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.
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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.| 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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| 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 … | Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
TikTok US says it doesn't “have rules against sharing the name Epstein in direct messages” and is “investigating why some users are experiencing issues” — Officials at TikTok say they are looking into why many users have been unable to send the word “Epstein” …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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| 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.
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| 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 … | 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.
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| 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 … | 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.| 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, Wall Street Journal, and CBS News
| 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: 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.| 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. X: @a_greenberg. Bluesky: @agreenberg, @couts, @brbarrett, and @mattburgess1
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| 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, Cryptonews, CryptoPotato, and BeInCrypto
| 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: |
The Allen Institute for AI launches SERA, open-source coding agents including 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 and machine minds now work alongside human hands.
More: The New Stack
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Samsung says the Galaxy Z TriFold costs $2,899, or $899 more than the Galaxy Z Fold 7, launching in the US on January 30 exclusively via its website and stores — Samsung Electronics Co. announced that its Galaxy Z TriFold, the first foldable phone of its kind to ship in the US, will sell for $2,899 and become available Jan. 30.| 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.| 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, BusinessCloud, and UK Tech Investment News
| 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
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