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Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration — $500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips
More: Financial Times, CoinDesk, Sydney Morning Herald, CNBC, New York Times, The Block, Bloomberg, Bitcoin Insider, Telegraph, Raw Story, Cointelegraph, The Parnas Perspective, and To the Contrary
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Bluesky: @thesteadystate.org, @schiff.senate.gov, @carlquintanilla, @wendysiegelman, @nicholasgrossman, @naomioreskes, @socialmedialab.ca, @anno1540, and @thetnholler. Threads: @ronaldfilipkowski
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Forums: r/IRstudies, r/ABoringDystopia, r/TrueReddit, r/allinpodofficial, and r/politics
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple execs question if it has the ingredients to win in AI-first era, new MacBook Pros are about to launch, Apple considers clamshell foldable iPhone — Apple's blockbuster holiday quarter was impressive — but it shouldn't give cover to avoid an AI reckoning.
More: Macworld, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Forbes, iPhone in Canada, The Mac Observer, Digital Trends, MacRumors, and AppleInsider
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
A look at China's “genius class” system, which picks ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni span ByteDance, PDD, and more — About three years ago, Stacey Tang, a manager in a pharmaceuticals company in Beijing, received a peculiar phone call.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotics foundation models and has raised $1B+ — From the street, the only indication I've found Physical Intelligence's headquarters in San Francisco is a pi symbol that's … | Matthew Gault / 404 Media: |
A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of the site's AI agents and post anything; the database has since been secured — Moltbook is a “social media” site for AI agents that's captured the public's imagination over the last few days.
More: Financial Times, moltbook, Marcus on AI, Ars Technica, The Decoder, Implicator.ai, Cyber Security News, New York Post, Livemint, Simon Willison's Newsletter, and WinBuzzer
X: @theonejvo, @lea_kelbsch, @theonejvo, @theonejvo, @theonejvo, @theonejvo, @mattprd, @theonejvo, and @karpathy
LinkedIn: Rico Komenda, Andrea Tessera, Jim Amos, Chris H., and Paul McCarty
Bluesky: @andytseng, @jbakcoleman, @markriedl, @404media.co, @mjgault, and @jasonkoebler
Mastodon: @jerry@infosec.exchange, @gedankenstuecke@scholar …, @timnitGebru@dair …, and @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Forums: r/cybersecurity, r/OpenAI, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Andrew Zucker / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at iOS 26's call-screening feature, which some compare to an executive assistant filter unwanted calls, as others complain it makes people hard to reach — Thanks to a new iPhone feature, everyone now has an executive assistant in their pocket to filter unwanted calls
More: Business Insider and Pixel Envy
| Reuters: |
India to exempt foreign companies from being taxed when providing equipment to their contract manufacturers in the country, a rule change Apple lobbied for — India's government on Sunday handed a major win to Apple (AAPL.O) by allowing foreign companies to provide machines …
More: Reuters and Business Today
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's OpenAI investment will be “the largest investment we've ever made”, after a report said plans to invest $100B in OpenAI stalled — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said the company will be participating in OpenAI's latest funding round …
More: PCMag, Spyglass, New Electronics, Reuters, Neowin, Business Today, The Indian Express, The Economic Times, Hindustan Times, Ace of Spades HQ, iClarified, The Verge, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Decoder, Tom's Hardware, Benzinga, DigiTimes, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Law, Implicator.ai, Notebookcheck, Business Standard, Wall Street Journal, AsiaOne, The Information, and Taipei Times
X: @midnight_captl, @mentoviax, @herbertong, @qthomp, @stocksavvyshay, and @stockmktnewz. Bluesky: @jessefelder. Forums: r/OpenAI
| Jin Yu Young / New York Times: |
Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X “outlining concrete steps” to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok — Indonesia joined Malaysia and the Philippines in reversing its restrictions, weeks after it blocked the chatbot …
More: Engadget, TechCrunch, Reuters, Nairametrics, Livemint, and Bloomberg
| James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before it banned them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live — Civitai—an online marketplace for buying and selling AI-generated content, backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz …
More: arXiv. X: @odonnell_jm, @odonnell_jm, @odonnell_jm, @odonnell_jm, @odonnell_jm, @osome_iu, @mdeverna2, @mdeverna2, @mdeverna2, @mdeverna2, @mdeverna2, and @mdeverna2
| Matteo Wong / The Atlantic: |
Anthropic positions itself as the AI sector's superego, but it's caught between the pressures to be safe, fast, and rigorous while being commercially successful — These are not the words you want to hear when it comes to human extinction, but I was hearing them: “Things are moving uncomfortably fast.”| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers — As the global race to build AI infrastructure accelerates, India has offered foreign cloud providers zero taxes through 2047 …
More: Moneycontrol, The Indian Express, Inc42, Fortune India, The Economic Times, NDTV, Bloomberg, and Livemint
| Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: |
OpenAI says it is asking select advertisers to commit $200K+ as it rolls out beta ads on ChatGPT; two sources say their companies were pitched lower amounts — OpenAI is asking select advertisers to commit at least $200,000 as it rolls out beta ads on ChatGPT, the company confirmed to ADWEEK.
More: BleepingComputer and TestingCatalog
| Nicole Fan / Rest of World: |
Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more — With backing from the Chinese government, TCM practitioners are integrating AI tools to reach new consumers at home and abroad.Sponsor Posts
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