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Matt Shumer:
GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 can meaningfully contribute to the improvement of AI models, a sign of what's coming for most knowledge work within five years  —  Think back to February 2020.  —  If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas.
New York Times:
xAI all-hands meeting: Elon Musk told employees that xAI needs a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space  —  In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.
Sanuj Bhatia / Android Central:
Google releases Android 17 Beta 1, which requires developers to optimize apps for foldables and large screens, includes performance improvements, and more  —  The beta that never was. … What you need to know  — Google has released Android 17 beta 1 shortly after wrapping up Android 16 QPR3 testing.
Z.ai:
Z.ai launches GLM-5, its flagship open-weight model, saying it has best-in-class performance among open-source models in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks  —  We are launching GLM-5, targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks.  Scaling is still one of the most important ways …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: OpenAI fired VP Ryan Beiermeister in January for alleged sexual discrimination; she had earlier raised concerns about the upcoming launch of adult mode  —  The executive, who was accused of sexual discrimination against a male employee, had raised concerns about upcoming launch of erotic content
Zoë Hitzig / New York Times:
An OpenAI researcher who helped shape how models were built and priced says she quit after two years due to “deep reservations” about ads and OpenAI's strategy  —  This week, OpenAI started testing ads on ChatGPT.  I also resigned from the company after spending two years …
Alex Heath / Sources:
Q&A with Fidji Simo on ChatGPT ads, OpenAI's efforts to ship a new model soon to end Sam Altman's Code Red, Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Sora, Codex, and more  —  How ads in ChatGPT will work, what will end the Code Red, those Anthropic attack ads, working with Sam Altman, and much more...
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
T-Mobile announces a network-level, AI-based Live Translation feature that supports 50+ languages, coming “this spring” in beta and available on 4G LTE and 5G  —  Live Translation will be available to beta testers ‘this Spring.’  —  T-Mobile is preparing to test …
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta launches an AI feature that lets Threads users temporarily personalize their feed by specifying topics in a public post that begins with “Dear Algo”  —  Meta on Wednesday debuted an AI feature called “Dear Algo” that lets Threads users personalize their content-recommendation algorithms.
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
OpenAI announced Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT via GenAI.mil; sources say the move came after months of deliberation among employees  —  THE SCOOP  —  OpenAI's announcement Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT came after months of deliberation …
Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg:
Mistral says it will spend €1.2B to build AI infrastructure in Sweden with partner EcoDataCenter, set to open in 2027 as its first data center outside France
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: to catch leakers, OpenAI security staff use a custom ChatGPT with access to Slack, email, and docs that cross-references news articles with access logs  —  Here at The Information, we're always trying to break through the hype to understand how folks are actually using AI in the real world.
Financial Times:
xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba says he is leaving, the sixth co-founder to depart; sources and social media posts show at least six researchers left in recent weeks  —  Jimmy Ba will be the sixth member of the founding team to depart  —  A sixth co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI is leaving …
Tim De Chant / TechCrunch:
Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A  —  Inertia Enterprises has raised $450 million to build one of the world's most powerful lasers, which it hopes will serve …
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Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, expected to be operational at the end of 2027 or in early 2028  —  Meta Platforms Inc. said it will spend more than $10 billion to build a data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, ranking it among …
Reuters:
Sources: ByteDance plans to produce 100K+ units of its in-house AI inference chip in 2026, is in talks with Samsung to manufacture it, before ramping up to 350K  —  China's ByteDance is developing an artificial intelligence chip and is in talks with Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) …
Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg:
Austin-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised $520M led by Google and others at a $5.5B+ valuation, up ~3x from when it raised $415M in February 2025  —  Apptronik, a fast-growing startup that makes artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots, has secured about $520 million …
Isomorphic Labs:
Isomorphic Labs, a Google DeepMind spinoff, unveils IsoDDE, a system that it says surpasses AlphaFold 3 in biomolecular structure prediction and drug discovery  —  Today, we are excited to share an update on our progress towards a new frontier of drug design.

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Dominic Ponsford / Press Gazette:
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Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
A study of 596 Indian high-tech startups suggests that homegrown entrepreneurs fare better over the long run than returning diaspora with overseas experience
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Docs: London-based AI chip startup Olix, founded by James Dacombe, CEO of brain monitoring startup CoMind, raised $220M led by Hummingbird at a $1B+ valuation
Amy Feldman / Forbes:
NYC-based Garner Health, which uses data analytics to help 2.5M+ workers find physicians, raised a $118M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $1.35B valuation
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