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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
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| 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
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| 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
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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
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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
| 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
| 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.| Alan Boyle / GeekWire: |
Amazon asks the FCC for a 2-year extension until July 30, 2028, to deploy half of the 3,232 satellites for its Leo internet system, citing a rocket shortage — Amazon says it's been harder than expected to secure rides for its Amazon Leo broadband internet satellites, and now it's asking … | Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: |
Sources: Alibaba has delivered more than 100K units of the Zhenwu 810E, an ASIC for AI training and inference, surpassing those of its domestic rival Cambricon — The milestone underscores Alibaba's growing footprint in AI hardware, as Chinese firms accelerate efforts to build home-grown processorsSponsor Posts
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