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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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| New York Times: |
Memo: Meta considered adding facial recognition to its smart glasses during a “dynamic political environment” in the US when civil society groups are distracted — In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release.
More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Verge, Thurrott, The Information, Tom's Guide, Engadget, TechCrunch, Pixel Envy, Business Insider, Straight Arrow News, NextDraft, iPhone in Canada, Gizmodo, Redmond Pie, Biometric Update, Android Headlines, MacRumors, MediaPost, Crypto Briefing, Neowin, Digital Trends, Android Central, CNET, Forbes, The Independent, PCMag, FlowingData, Android Authority, and Sherwood News
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| 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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| New York Times: |
Sources: recently the DHS has 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 …
More: Raw Story and Reclaim The Net
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| Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast: |
Q&A with Dario Amodei on getting close to “a country of geniuses in a data center”, how AI will diffuse through the economy, frontier lab profits, China, more — “That's why I'm sending this message of urgency” — Dario Amodei thinks we are just a few years away from “a country of geniuses in a data center”.
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| 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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| 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 … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming it infringed on Disney's works to train its Seedance 2.0 video generation model without pay — The Walt Disney Company on Friday sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging the Chinese tech giant has been infringing … | 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.| 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 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 … | 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
More: Tom's Hardware, Reuters, DigiTimes, and Bloomberg
| 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.”| Fortune: |
Sources: Binance in late 2025 fired employees who claimed to have uncovered evidence that Iran received $1B+ through Binance between March 2024 and August 2025 — In 2023, the crypto exchange Binance pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering and know-your-customer laws as well as sanctions violations.
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