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A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath — Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code …
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Sources: the US DHS recently sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas, which do not need a judge's approval, to tech firms to identify people critical of ICE — The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment …
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
ByteDance launches Doubao 2.0, an “agent era” upgrade of China's most widely used AI app capable of executing multi-step tasks, ahead of the Lunar New Year — China's ByteDance has rolled out its Doubao 2.0 model, an upgrade of the country's most widely used artificial-intelligence app, the company said on Saturday.
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| Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media: |
Dealroom and NATO Innovation Fund: European defense, security, and resilience startup funding rose 55% YoY to a record $8.7B in 2025, with AI accounting for 44% — Ahead of the big Munich Security Conference later this week, the analysts at Dealroom teamed up with the NATO Innovation Fund …
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| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Current and former senior employees say AWS is undergoing a strategic shake-up amid fears it is losing ground to competitors in securing corporate AI contracts — Shake-up follows fears tech giant missed early AI boom as Microsoft and Google challenge cloud business
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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
BNP Paribas analysis: Anthropic saw visits to its site jump 6.5% after its Super Bowl ad and DAUs jump 11% post-game, outperforming other AI companies — The Seahawks may have won the Super Bowl, but Anthropic also walked away with bragging rights, according to data analyzed by BNP Paribas.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says 74% of iPhones launched in the last four years and 66% of all iPhones are running iOS 26; 68% of iPhones were running iOS 18 as of Jan. 21, 2025 — Apple has shared updated iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 adoption figures, revealing how many iPhones and iPads are running those software versions.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: TSMC plans to invest another $100B to build four more US fabs to ensure tariff-free chip sales; analysis: its Arizona site has land for four more fabs — Agreements reached between Taiwan and Trump administration imply big expansion for world's biggest chipmaker
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Blockchain-based lending company Figure confirms a data breach; ShinyHunters hacking group published 2.5GB of data, saying Figure refused to pay a ransom — Figure Technology, a blockchain-based lending company, confirmed it experienced a data breach. — On Friday, Figure spokesperson … | Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more — Former employees say the restructuring followed tensions over safety and being “stuck in the catch-up phase.”| The Information: |
Sources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools, is in talks to raise at a $9B valuation, up from $6.6B in 2024; its ARR hit $400M in Sept. — Grafana Labs, a software startup that helps companies monitor cloud and AI activity and spending, is finalizing a new funding round …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI is charging $60 per 1,000 impressions for ads in ChatGPT, a high price similar to Netflix's rate when it introduced ads — In May 2024, the big question for OpenAI was how it would make money with its revolutionary ChatGPT tool. At a talk at Harvard, chief executive Sam Altman … | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers, highlighting its selective engagement with Chinese platforms — India's government has partnered with China's Alibaba.com on an export-focused program aimed at helping startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers.
LinkedIn: George Chen
| Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: |
SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay files for a US IPO, and reports a $675.47M profit on ~$1.82B revenue for the nine months ending December 31, 2025 — PayPay publicly filed its paperwork for a U.S. initial public offering on Thursday, as the SoftBank-backed Japanese payments app moves ahead … Sponsor Posts
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