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Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI “to drive the next generation of personal agents”; OpenClaw will remain open source — Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple tweaked its Maps app for Tesla before the EV maker's planned addition of CarPlay; low-cost MacBook will get an aluminum chassis in playful colors — Tesla's plan to start supporting CarPlay in its vehicles has been held back by the need for changes in iOS 26's Maps app.
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| Counterpoint Research: |
Analysis: DRAM and NAND memory prices have jumped 600%+ over the past year for routers and set-top boxes, hitting telcos targeting aggressive broadband rollouts — MS Hwang is a research director at Counterpoint, specializing in memory semiconductor research.
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Vitalik Buterin, who backed Polymarket, says he's “starting to worry” that prediction markets “seem to be over-converging to an unhealthy product market fit” — Quick Take — Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin warned that prediction markets are “over-converging” …
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Former NPR host David Greene sues Google for allegedly replicating his voice in NotebookLM without permission; Google says the voice is based on a paid actor — NPR's David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he's suing over it.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Following Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP — Disney also sent a legal demand to Chinese internet company — Paramount Skydance accused ByteDance of engaging in …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at a new generation of Chinese billionaire AI entrepreneurs who keep a low profile, with fortunes entwined with China's push for tech independence — Four years ago, as Yan Junjie pitched his vision for artificial intelligence startup MiniMax Group Inc. to China's largest internet companies …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman says that India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, the app's second-largest userbase after the US, ahead of the AI Impact Summit — India has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, making the country one of OpenAI's largest markets globally, CEO Sam Altman said ahead of a government-hosted AI summit.
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| Financial Times: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Credit derivatives trading on specific tech companies continues to rise, amid concerns that they may be borrowing too much to fuel AI development — Debt investors are worried that the biggest tech companies will keep borrowing until it hurts in the battle to develop the most powerful artificial intelligence.
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bengaluru-based C2i Semiconductors, building a “grid-to-GPU” power system for datacenters, raised a $15M Series A led by Peak XV, bringing total funding to $19M — Power, rather than compute, is fast becoming the limiting factor in scaling AI data centers.
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| Mari Novik / Financial Times: |
Keir Starmer says no platform “should get a free pass”, as the UK moves to tighten online safety laws covering AI chatbots and social media, to protect children — Keir Starmer to warn tech companies that ‘no platform gets a free pass’ after deepfake scandal involving Grok| New York Times: |
Researchers outline Iran's digital surveillance capabilities, integrated across communications and internet networks, and recently used to track down protesters — As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet … | Baiju Kalesh / Bloomberg: |
India-based AI cloud startup Neysa plans to raise up to $600M in equity led by Blackstone, plus $600M in debt, to deploy 20K+ GPUs in India for AI training — A group of investors led by Blackstone Inc. plans to make an equity investment of up to $600 million in India's artificial intelligence cloud startup Neysa.
More: Entrackr, DealStreetAsia, Fortune India, Times of India, The Economic Times, Blackstone, and TechCrunch
| Matthew Chin / CNBC: |
Sensor Tower: TikTok's US DAUs are at ~95% of the week of Jan. 19, with engagement metrics showing little sign of a mass exodus since its Jan. 23 US takeover — TikTok's U.S. joint venture seems to have survived a turbulent rollout with minimal change in usership, as early narratives … | Margaret-Anne Storey: |
As AI and agents are adopted to accelerate development, cognitive load and cognitive debt are likely to become bigger threats to developers than technical debt — The term technical debt is often used to refer to the accumulation of design or implementation choices that later make the software harder …
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