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Sources: Apple executives question if it has the ingredients to win the AI era, new MacBook Pros are set to launch, and Apple mulls a clamshell foldable iPhone — Apple's blockbuster holiday quarter was impressive — but it shouldn't give cover to avoid an AI reckoning.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple, long dominant in the electronics supply chain, is starting to be outbid by AI companies for components like memory, as suppliers gain leverage over Apple — Parts for iPhones to cost more owing to surging demand from AI companies — Apple has dominated the electronics supply chain for years.| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
SEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video — A whistleblower complaint filed with the SEC claims that Google breached its own ethics rules to help an Israeli contractor apply AI to drone surveillance video.
More: Wall Street Journal and Jerusalem Post
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Anthropic researchers detail “disempowerment patterns” in AI assistant interactions where AI potentially distorts a user's reality, beliefs, or actions — At this point, we've all heard plenty of stories about AI chatbots leading users to harmful actions, harmful beliefs, or simply incorrect information.
More: arXiv.org, Digit, Futurism, and Anthropic
X: @mrinanksharma, @anthropicai, @roanoke_gal, @ryan_t_lowe, @fu_joehudson, @maxsloef, @saffronhuang, @russellbrandom, @justenmichel, @missmi1973, @ellgood, @jankulveit, @moleh1ll, @infinitereign88, @danshipper, @1a3orn, @kahntweets, @kindkristin, @barthazian, @dave_bernardi, @mattbeane, and @m47429m. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Luke James / Tom's Hardware: |
OpenSourceMalware: 230 malicious OpenClaw extensions, disguised as crypto trading automation tools to steal user info, were uploaded to ClawHub since January 27 — Or is that Moltbot, or Clawdbot? I can't keep up. … Security researchers are warning that the growing ecosystem around 'OpenClaw …
More: OpenSourceMalware.com and Koi
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
TikTok US says it has resolved technical issues caused by an Oracle data center outage; core features such as video view counts were impacted over the past week — The outage happened just days after U.S. companies, including Oracle, assumed control of the domestic operations of the video platform.| Vincent Lee / Bloomberg: |
Oracle says it plans to raise $45B to $50B in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure through a combination of debt and equity sales — Oracle Corp. said Sunday it plans to raise $45 billion to $50 billion in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure through … | Reuters: |
Alibaba plans to spend ~$431M in a Lunar New Year campaign starting February 6 to attract users to its Qwen AI app, above Tencent's ~$143.7M and Baidu's ~$71.8M — Alibaba (9988.HK) said on Monday it will spend 3 billion yuan ($431 million) to attract users to its Qwen AI app during the Lunar …
More: The Economic Times, South China Morning Post, and Tech in Asia
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A survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production, above Anthropic's 44%, but Anthropic's gains are impressive — Results from our third annual CIO Survey — The enterprise AI battleground is heating up, and we've got some fresh data on the state of play and who's winning.| New York Times: |
China's desire to lead in cutting-edge AI is bumping against its aim to control it; Zhipu warned IPO investors about the burden of complying with 6+ AI rules — Beijing wants to lead the world in developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence, but it also wants companies to adhere to an increasingly complex set of rules.| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
The US' high-speed internet rollout means drillers, linemen, and splicers pull in soaring pay nationwide amid a labor shortage for the physically demanding work — Record demand for fiber-optic cables means drillers, linemen and splicers pull in soaring pay at projects nationwide| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Polymarket's rise since the US DOJ dropped its probe: securing publisher deals and US licenses, insider trading concerns, and bet resolution disputes — Shayne Coplan has built the crypto-based betting platform into a $9 billion company; Justice Department probe gets shelved| P.R. Venkat / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: a KKR-led consortium is nearing a deal to buy Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers for $10B+, as Asia sees a data center investment frenzy — Talks are at a very advanced stage, and an announcement could be made soon. — A KKR -led consortium is nearing a deal to buy … | Choi Jeong-yoon / The Korea Herald: |
Seoul plans to integrate AI chatbot Maeumi into its suicide prevention hotline, offering immediate emotional support before a human counselor connects — AI chatbot, community-based counselors to bolster access to mental health support — Seoul is confronting persistent suicide pressures … | 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: Business Today, PYMNTS.com, Moneycontrol, Inc42, Fortune India, Livemint, The Indian Express, NDTV, The Economic Times, and Bloomberg
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