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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, The Hans India, Business Standard, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, Appleosophy, SammyGuru, Cult of Mac, Livemint, Digit, SamMobile, iClarified, Wccftech, Engadget, The Mac Observer, WiFi Planet, The Mac Observer, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, MacRumors, iClarified, iPhone in Canada, iClarified, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Spyglass, Forbes, AppleInsider, and MacRumors
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| 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, 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
| 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.| 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.| 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 … | a16z: |
Survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production vs. 44% for Anthropic, 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.| 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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
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, New York Times, Cryptonews, Washington Post, CoinGape, CNBC, CoinDesk, Raw Story, Sydney Morning Herald, The Information, The Coin Republic, CNBC, Mediaite, Benzinga, Bitcoin Insider, The Block, Telegraph, Cointelegraph, The Parnas Perspective, Bloomberg, Semafor, and To the Contrary
X: @kenvogel, @danpfeiffer, @jefftimmer, @tvietor08, @malinowski, @superwuster, @senwarren, @sruhle, @sarahlongwell25, @michaelpfreeman, @senatorandykim, @bakari_sellers, @benjysarlin, @tomcolicchio, @repyassansari, @akoz33, @janemayernyer, @dylanotes, @houseforeign, @stephenwertheim, @phillipspobrien, @scott_wiener, @ronfilipkowski, @realjimchanos, @radiofreetom, @j_g_allen, @barbaracomstock, @kurtbardella, @davidaxelrod, @rubengallego, @mattyglesias, @mehdirhasan, @stephen_richer, @kasparov63, @glcarlstrom, @luismorenolg, @scarylawyerguy, @brendannyhan, @skesslr, @ninaburleigh, @jim_benemann, @buncahn, @rebeccaballhaus, @rebeccaballhaus, @jaynordlinger, @kengardner11, @darrigomelanie, @mpolymer, and @mcfaul. LinkedIn: Gabrielle Coppola
Bluesky: @tomjoscelyn, @johncassidysays, @thesteadystate.org, @robertscotthorton, @tariqpanja, @schiff.senate.gov, @naomioreskes, @nicholasgrossman, @wendysiegelman, @socialmedialab.ca, @carlquintanilla, @anno1540, and @thetnholler. Threads: @ronaldfilipkowski
Mastodon: @wendysiegelman@mastodon …, @[email protected], and @[email protected]
Forums: r/neoliberal, r/law, r/Intelligence, r/IRstudies, r/longform, r/ABoringDystopia, r/TrueReddit, r/allinpodofficial, and r/politics
| Bloomberg: |
SpaceX and Tesla are feeling the gravitational pull toward xAI, as Elon Musk looks to use his empire to fund xAI's ravenous appetite for cash and compute — Spiraling costs have prompted talk of a Tesla and SpaceX merger as the billionaire looks to use his empire to fund his ambitions.
More: The Daily Upside, Business Insider, DigiTimes, Blockchain.News, and Pulse 2.0
| Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: |
Q&A with D‑Wave CEO Alan Baratz on the Quantum Circuits acquisition, error-correcting quantum systems, its Davidson and Anduril defense collaboration, and more — “If 2025 was the international year of quantum, 2026 is the international year of D-Wave Quantum,” said CEO Dr. Alan Baratz.
Forums: r/QBTSstock
| Sybille de La Hamaide / Reuters: |
French IT company Capgemini plans to sell its US subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions, whose contract with the US ICE drew scrutiny from French lawmakers — French IT company Capgemini (CAPP.PA) will sell its U.S. subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions, it said on Sunday …
| 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: PYMNTS.com, Moneycontrol, Inc42, Fortune India, Livemint, The Indian Express, NDTV, The Economic Times, and Bloomberg
| 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: Associated Press, Engadget, Social Media Today, TechCrunch, Livemint, Nairametrics, Reuters, and Bloomberg
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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