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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Elon Musk announces xAI implemented a reorganization that “required parting ways with some people”, after two xAI co-founders said they were leaving this week — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday announced the the company's xAI artificial intelligence venture implemented a reorganization that …
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| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
| Z.ai: |
Z.ai launches GLM-5, saying its flagship open-weight model has “best-in-class performance among all open-source models” in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks — We are launching GLM-5, targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks.
More: South China Morning Post, WinBuzzer, Latent.Space, The Rundown AI, blog.e01.ai, Reuters, and Bloomberg
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
US FTC chair asks Tim Cook to review Apple News' ToS and curation, citing allegations that it promotes “left-wing” outlets and suppresses conservative sources — US regulator issues warning to iPhone maker about its News platform following controversy over Super Bowl half-time show
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung says it sent the first commercial HBM4 shipments to customers; Samsung seeks to supply Nvidia and compete with memory rivals like SK Hynix and Micron — Samsung Electronics Co. claimed an early lead in the race to supply advanced memory for AI accelerators like those made by Nvidia Corp. … | Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: |
Anthropic donates $20M to Public First, a super PAC pushing for AI guardrails and transparency in opposition to OpenAI-backed PACs, ahead of the US midterms — Anthropic and OpenAI now have their own well-funded political groups that will square off in the midterm elections over artificial intelligence safety and regulation.
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| Financial Times: |
Russia removes WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram from a Roskomnadzor-run online directory, essentially blocking them in the country, unless users rely on a VPN — Move follows months of pushing users to state-controlled app — Millions of Russians were abruptly cut off …
More: Reuters, Engadget, PCMag, The Record, 9to5Mac, CNBC, BBC, The Guardian, CyberInsider, UPI, The Moscow Times, Ukrainian National News, Gizmodo, Coinpaper, Politico, and The Verge
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| New York Times: |
Social media addiction trial in LA: Adam Mosseri says social media is not “clinically addictive” and that Meta is careful to test features used by young people — Instagram's chief executive said on Wednesday that social media was not “clinically addictive,” …
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Google's TIG says Gemini has been inundated by “commercially motivated” actors who are trying to clone it, including one campaign that prompted it 100K+ times — Google says private companies and researchers are trying to copy Gemini's capabilities by repeatedly prompting it at scale.| Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta's auditor Ernst & Young raised a red flag over the financial engineering Meta used to keep its $27B Hyperion data center project off its balance sheet — Meta Platforms' latest annual report contained an unusual, cautionary note for investors. — The tech giant's auditor … | Chainalysis: |
Crypto transaction volume linked to suspected human trafficking, largely based in Southeast Asia, hit hundreds of millions of dollars in 2025, up 85% YoY — The intersection of cryptocurrency and suspected human trafficking intensified in 2025, with total transaction volume reaching hundreds … | Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
ByteDance's new AI video generation model Seedance 2.0 goes viral in China, with one state-backed newspaper saying it is bigger than DeepSeek's “Sputnik moment” — ByteDance's new video-generating artificial intelligence model has already impressed the likes of Elon Musk and gone viral in China …
More: Fast Company, The Verge, MIT Technology Review, and Reuters
| Financial Times: |
Israeli authorities charge a reservist and a civilian for allegedly using classified information to bet on “the occurrence of military operations” on Polymarket — Civilian and reservist charged with security offences, bribery and obstructing justice after ‘red line’ crossed with online gambling
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| Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
Anthropic says it will upgrade US power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases to minimize the effects of its data centers — Leading AI company Anthropic said it would upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases …
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Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence and Slashdot
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Internal messages: Amazon steers teams to use its in-house AI coding assistant Kiro for production, prompting criticism as ~1,500 employees push for Claude Code — - Amazon internally promotes Kiro over third-party AI coding tools including Claude Code. — Some employees …
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| Bloomberg: |
Some of the biggest VC firms are backing both OpenAI and Anthropic; the growing trend of backing rival startups, once taboo, shows how AI has scrambled funding — Silicon Valley investors are breaking a longstanding taboo by investing in competing startups.
More: The Information and Pulse 2.0
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
The US DOJ says Peter Williams, the former boss of L3Harris' Trenchant, stole and sold tools that can hack millions of computers worldwide to a Russian broker — The former boss of a U.S. maker of hacking and surveillance tools stole and sold technology that can hack millions of computers …
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz and @zackwhittaker.com. Mastodon: @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange. Forums: Slashdot
| Steve Yegge: |
AI tools like Opus 4.6 actually do make engineers 10x more productive and are addictive, but the “AI Vampire” effect is causing widespread developer burnout — This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.
X: @solarise_webdev, @badlogicgames, @sockdrawermoney, and @championswimmer
LinkedIn: Steve Yegge and Lars Tackmann
Bluesky: @swallez.com and @hunterwalk.com
Forums: Hacker News and Lobsters
| Financial Times: |
Private equity and private credit groups' big bets on SaaS companies, the biggest area of PE activity in the past decade, risk being derailed by the rise of AI — Dealmakers and lenders are facing a ‘Darwinian moment’ as digital services risk being made obsolete by new technologies
More: Insurance Business, Bloomberg, and Bloomberg
| Bloomberg: |
Lenovo reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $22.2B on strong PC sales ahead of expected memory price hikes and rising AI server demand; net income fell 21% to $546M — Lenovo Group Ltd. expects the memory crunch to affect the global hardware industry for the rest of the year, Chief Executive Officer Yang Yuanqing said on Thursday.
More: Thurrott, Lenovo StoryHub, Tech in Asia, and Dow Jones Newswires
| Reuters: |
Sources: the Pentagon is pushing OpenAI, Anthropic, and others to make their AI tools available on classified networks without the standard user restrictions — The Pentagon is pushing the top AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic to make their artificial-intelligence tools available … | Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
SoftBank reports Q3 net profit of $1.6B, below est., and Vision Fund posted a $2.4B gain, after a $4.2B gain in its OpenAI investment helped offset losses — SoftBank posted a $2.4 billion gain at its Vision Fund in the December quarter as a jump in the value of its OpenAI investment helped offset losses in some of its other bets.
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X: @briantycangco, @ns123abc, @dariocpx, @madhavchanchani, and @madhavchanchani. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Dell Cameron / Wired: |
The US CBP signs a one-year Clearview AI deal, granting access to its facial recognition tool for “tactical targeting” and “strategic counter-network analysis” — US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.
More: FedScoop. Bluesky: @newshoundellen, @markriedl, @dell, @rmac, @couts, and @dell
Forums: r/politics and r/fednews
| The Keyword: |
Google updates Gemini 3 Deep Think to better solve modern science, research, and engineering challenges and expands it via the Gemini API to some researchers — Our most specialized reasoning mode is now updated to solve modern science, research and engineering challenges.
X: @oriolvinyalsml, @synthwavedd, @google, @scaling01, @googleai, and @googledeepmind
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Alibaba says Qwen generated 120M+ in orders from Chinese users over the past six days, ahead of the Lunar New Year; Alibaba is giving a ~$3.60 shopping voucher — Alibaba Group said its Qwen chatbot app's AI e-commerce service has generated more than 120 million orders from Chinese consumers …
More: South China Morning Post, Dow Jones Newswires, and Benzinga
| Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
Multiple responses from DeepSeek's namesake chatbot confirm that the startup has expanded the context window of its flagship AI model from 128K tokens to 1M+ — The upgrade will allow DeepSeek's AI model to remember and process more information in a single conversation or task| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Dutch payments company Adyen reports H2 2025 net revenue up 17% YoY to €1.27B and forecasts 2026 net revenue growth at 20%-22%, vs 22.8% est.; ADYEN falls 15%+ — Dutch payments giant Adyen's stock fell as much as 20% after it posted net revenue guidance and payment processing volume that were slightly weaker than expected.
More: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Adyen, and Blockonomi
| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Coinbase rolls out Agentic Wallets, a wallet infrastructure that lets AI agents make autonomous crypto transactions “without human intervention” — Quick Take — Agentic Wallets builds on the x402 protocol developed to enable autonomous crypto payments “without human intervention.”
More: Decrypt, Coinbase, crypto.news, The Coin Republic, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, PYMNTS.com, The Crypto Times, and Crypto Briefing
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Simile, which uses AI to help companies predict human behavior, including guessing items customers might buy, raised $100M led by Index and emerges from stealth — - Simile is building a lab to help predict peoples' actions — The company is backed by Index, A* and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li
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