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Sources: Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100B in OpenAI, announced in September 2025, has stalled after some inside Nvidia expressed doubts about the deal — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has privately played down likelihood original deal will be finalized, although the two companies will continue to have a close collaboration
More: Business Standard, Bloomberg Law, and The Information
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| Fabiola Arámburo / Reuters: |
Report: Jensen Huang has privately criticized what he has described as a lack of discipline in OpenAI's business approach — Nvidia's (NVDA.O) plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to help it train and run its latest artificial-intelligence models has stalled after some inside … | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more — The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It's an open source implementation …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple lost at least four more AI researchers in recent weeks, two of whom went to Meta and one to DeepMind; a top Siri executive left for DeepMind — Apple Inc. has lost at least four more of its artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks in addition to a top Siri executive …
More: 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada, MacTech.com, iClarified, Stocktwits, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, MacRumors, and MacDailyNews
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Gurman: internal development at Apple “runs on Anthropic at this point” and Apple wanted to rebuild Siri around Claude but Anthropic “wanted a ton of money” — Bloomberg's @markgurman says that even though Apple partnered with Google Gemini for Siri, they actually run their business on Anthropic. “Apple runs on Anthropic at this point. Anthropic is powering a lot of the stuff Apple's doing internally in terms of product development and [video]
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| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Shares of gaming companies plunge after Google released Project Genie, which lets users create interactive worlds; Unity closed down 24.2% and Take-Two 7.9% — Shares of videogame companies fell sharply in afternoon trading on Friday after Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) rolled …
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| Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic expands its agentic plugins, which let enterprise users automate department-specific workflows, from Claude Code to its new general-use tool Cowork — Earlier this month, Anthropic launched Cowork, a new agentic tool designed to take the benefits of its AI coding assistant Claude Code …
More: Claude, The New Stack, and The Verge
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details an experiment on whether AI coding tools shape developer skills: the biggest performance decline for developers occurred in debugging tasks — Read the paper — Research shows AI helps people do parts of their job faster. In an observational study of Claude.ai data, we found AI can speed up some tasks by 80%.
More: Ars Technica, arXiv.org, CIO.com, and The Deep View
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users rose 60% in 2025 to 41.2M, including AT Protocol accounts; moderation reports from users grew 54% to 9.97M — Bluesky released its first transparency report this week documenting the actions taken by its Trust & Safety team and the results …
More: Bluesky. Bluesky: @mmasnick, @ivanthek, @simonehochgreb, @dumbmike, @aaron.bsky.team, and @bsky.app. Mastodon: @SuffolkLITLab@esq.social. Forums: Hacker News
| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details how NASA engineers used Claude to plot out the route for Perseverance rover to navigate a ~400 meter path on the Martian surface — The first AI-planned drive on another planet. — EXPLORING NEW PLANETS means that you're always operating in the past.
More: Engadget, JPLraw on YouTube, TechEBlog, NASA, and NASA
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Forums: r/singularity and r/Anthropic
| Ron Schmelzer / Forbes: |
Peter Steinberger rebrands his AI agent project to OpenClaw, its second name change after Anthropic forced a shift from Clawdbot to Moltbot — What began as a side project that quietly drew more than 100,000 GitHub stars has turned into one of the most viral experiments in AI.
More: OpenClaw, Rest of World, Fast Company, CNET, forkable, WinBuzzer, and Michael Tsai
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| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Tether says it generated over $10B in net profits in 2025, down from $13B+ in 2024, and says it holds $193B in assets backing the $186B USDT in circulation — Partner offers — Quick Take — The stablecoin issuer now holds $193 billion in assets backing the $186 billion USDT in circulation, primarily in U.S. Treasuries.
More: Tether, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, BTC Times, and Bloomberg
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the clash between Coinbase and Wall Street over the Clarity Act and whether crypto exchanges can offer stablecoin “rewards” — Coinbase chief Brian Armstrong is clashing with Jamie Dimon and other bank stewards over the future of finance
More: CoinGape, CoinDesk, Bitcoin Magazine, Yahoo Finance, Cointelegraph, The Block, crypto.news, Benzinga, and The Verge
X: @buccocapital, @patrickc, and @aosipovich
LinkedIn: Amrith Ramkumar and Dylan Tokar
| Fumie Yaku / Nikkei Asia: |
Global Net: three Chinese firms ranked among the world's top 20 chipmaking equipment manufacturers in 2025, up from one in 2022, with Naura Tech rising to fifth — TOKYO — Three Chinese companies were among the world's top 20 manufacturers of chipmaking equipment last year, up from just one in 2022 … | Bloomberg: |
Taiwan's GDP rose 12.68% in Q4 2025, its fastest quarterly growth since 1987; full-year GDP grew 8.63%, topping the 7.5% forecast on AI demand for tech products — Taiwan's economy expanded at the quickest pace for a quarter since 1987, propelled by unquenchable demand for the tech goods needed to develop AI.| Ryo Mukano / Nikkei Asia: |
Sandisk and Kioxia announce a five-year extension of their JV manufacturing contract from 2029 to 2034; the new deal involves SanDisk paying Kioxia $1.165B — US partner's access to Yokkaichi plant to last 5 more years through 2034 — Kioxia and Sandisk extended their joint production agreement …
More: Business Wire, Blockonomi, DigiTimes, and Bloomberg
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI details its custom internal-only GPT‑5.2-powered AI data agent that allows its employees to do natural language data analysis across 600+ PB of data — Loading... Data powers how systems learn, products evolve, and how companies make choices.| Natasha Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: |
A look at South Park Commons, the VC firm behind a startup community focusing on idea exploration over immediate business plans, as it aims to raise $500M — The investors at South Park Commons realize there are a lot of places that promising founders can go for help when they're starting companies.
LinkedIn: Finn Meeks and Siddhant Jain Jaiswal
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OnlyFans is in talks to sell a nearly 60% stake to Architect Capital in a deal that values the company at around $5.5B, including debt — Deal with Architect Capital would value the adult social-media platform at $3.5 billion — OnlyFans, the British online platform popular … | Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: |
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators — Chris Larsen and Tim Draper, two outspoken Silicon Valley leaders, are planning to spend tens of millions of dollars to elect moderate state lawmakers this year.| Reuters: |
Sources: SpaceX generated about $8B in EBITDA on $15B to $16B of revenue last year; Starlink accounted for about 50% to 80% of the total revenue — SpaceX generated about $8 billion in profit on $15 billion to $16 billion of revenue last year, two people familiar with the company's results said … Sponsor Posts
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