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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and “has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's” — We think our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's.
More: Forbes, Reuters, Bloomberg, Rohan's Bytes, DigiTimes, Engadget, CBS News, Dow Jones Newswires, Flux, NewsMax.com, and Tech in Asia
X: @uswremichael, @deredleritt3r, @amasad, @captgouda24, @arozenshtein, @zeffmax, @thezvi, @boazbaraktcs, @boazbaraktcs, @krishnanrohit, @benedictk__, @thdxr, @polynoamial, @stephenlcasper, @krishnanrohit, @neil_chilson, @trekedge, @thezvi, @darlingtondev, @sama, @max_spero_, @tysonbrody, @natseckatrina, @rcbregman, @sama, @allinallnotbad, @kimmonismus, @gjmcgowan, and @sama. LinkedIn: Katrina Mulligan
Bluesky: @kalihays, @alanrozenshtein.com, @matthew.flux.community, and @timkellogg.me
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/codex, r/ChatGPT, r/technology, and r/singularity
| @openai: |
OpenAI says it does not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and it has made its position on this clear to the Pentagon — We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and we've made our position on this clear to the Department of War.
More: New York Times, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Silver Bulletin, Implicator.ai, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, DNYUZ, Associated Press, Originally Reported …, Tom's Hardware, The Information, Fortune, Semafor, Nairametrics, The Verge, The Japan Times, Financial Times, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, The Decoder, NPR, Neowin, Business Insider, Techstrong.ai, Business Today, Axios, The Hill, Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg, The Hacker News, Politico, CBS News, The National Pulse, Washington Times, NewsMax.com, WTOP News, and Benzinga
X: @_nathancalvin, @chrisharihar, @openai, @gauravkapadia, @captgouda24, @terronk, @arthurconmy, @daniellefong, @openai, and @claudia_sahm. LinkedIn: Stefano
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Commands around the world, including the US Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic's Claude AI tool for a range of military operations — Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic …
More: Inc.com, PYMNTS.com, Townhall, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Examiner, and The Power Law
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, r/ClaudeAI, and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Jo Ling / CBS News: |
More: Fortune, Gizmodo, WinBuzzer, Wall Street Journal, Cointelegraph, Business Insider, World Socialist Web Site, Reuters, Tech in Asia, The Hill, Freedom Frequency, No Tech For Apartheid Campaign, SiliconANGLE, Breaking Defense, NBC Bay Area, The Independent, Futurism, Washington Post, Reason, Axios, Benzinga, Tom's Hardware, Politico, The Atlantic, TechRadar, Financial Times, and Wonkette
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
More: TechCrunch, Moneycontrol, PhoneArena, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Breitbart, and XDA Developers
X: @robertjbye, @the_ai_investor, @mikeyk, @robertjbye, @alex, @alexgroberman, @pitdesi, @deedydas, @firstadopter, and @signulll
Bluesky: @anthonymoser.com, @janus303, @thinksensibly, @alanrozenshtein.com, @chet95, and @brbarrett
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Polymarket trades on contracts tied to strikes on Iran hit $529M, and six new accounts profited a total of $1M by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28 — As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in.
More: CoinDesk, Blockchain.News, Kotaku, CoinGape, The Verge, BeInCrypto, The Block, and Barron's Online
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Xiaomi launches the €999 Xiaomi 17, the €1,499 17 Ultra, and the €1,999 Leica-branded Leitzphone, all featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, in Europe — It's just launched in Europe, joined by the larger, more photography-focused Xiaomi 17 Ultra.
More: Engadget, 9to5Google, GSMArena.com, PetaPixel, Wired, CNET, and TechRadar
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi launches the €15 Xiaomi tag, an AirTag-like device that works with both Apple Find My and Android Find Hub, and the €300 Xiaomi Watch 5, in Europe — Xiaomi today launched a slew of gadgets ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona including a camera-focused flagship smartphone …
More: iClarified, The Asia Business Daily, PhoneArena, Phandroid, Moneycontrol, The Verge, 9to5Mac, and Notebookcheck
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect — Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning urging …
More: Wired Middle East, Straight Arrow News, and DNYUZ
| Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg: |
AI coding agents are fueling productivity panic among executives and engineers, as a UCB study finds those offloading work to AI are also working longer hours — AI coding agents promised to make software development easier. Instead they've kicked off a high-pressure race to build at any cost.| Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis on plans to use in-house chips, Trainium and Inferentia, to develop AI models more cheaply, and more — Amazon's new artificial intelligence czar, Peter DeSantis, is a larger-than-life figure within the company where he has worked since its early days
More: Blockonomi
| Bloomberg: |
China faces a dilemma as it looks to balance productivity gains from AI with labor displacement risks due to automation, which could trigger an economic spiral — Days after back-flipping AI humanoids dazzled China with a new year performance alongside dancers, a small research firm jolted US markets …
More: South China Morning Post
| New York Times: |
How India's outsourcing industry, which employs 6M+ people and is worth nearly $300B, is racing to adapt as AI promises to automate white-collar work — Artificial intelligence promises to automate the white-collar work that made India a tech powerhouse. The country is racing to adapt before it's too late.| Manish Singh / India Dispatch: |
AI's deflationary impact on India's IT industry, which has never seen a decline in software exports in 24 years, will likely take years to fully materialize — The cost of electricity does not run an enterprise. — A post written as a fictional memo from June 2028 by short-seller Citrini … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
As part of the Amazon-OpenAI deal, the companies plan a “stateful runtime environment” for AWS, letting agents carry context forward to handle ongoing projects — A deal with OpenAI could put Amazon first to market with a new type of AI service for developers …
More: Motley Fool, Runtime, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, Network World, VentureBeat, Seattle Business Journal, Benzinga, Constellation Research, The Information, and OpenAI
Forums: r/theprimeagen and r/AMD_Stock
| Om Malik / On my Om: |
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X: @patrickmoorhead, @snsf, @kantrowitz, @ajassy, @sama, @benbajarin, @quinnypig, and @danprimack
LinkedIn: Steve McDonald, Tadahiro Kaburaki, Manu Parbhakar, Julia White, Malcolm Featonby, and Scott Rosecrans. Bluesky: @om.co
| Tim Culpan / Culpium: |
Sources: TSMC urges clients to apply for N2 production allocation as far out as Q2 2027, with large capacity allotments nearly sold out for the next two years — [Exclusive] Clients are being asked to finalize their requirements into mid 2027, with larger customers already booking capacity over the next two to three years.| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
Tests of 12+ AI-detection tools show many can spot basic fakes, but struggle with complex images; few analyze video, and most identified fake audio — Artificial intelligence detectors are increasingly used to check the veracity of content online. We ran more than 1,000 tests and found several strengths and plenty of weaknesses.
More: Global Strategy Group and Indicator
| Dell Cameron / Wired: |
US Congressional Joint Economic Committee report: US consumers lost $20.9B nominally to identity theft from four major data broker breaches over the past decade — A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats … | Reuters: |
Coupang reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.8B, below $8.9B est., and a net loss of $26M, versus $131M net profit in Q4 2024, hurt by fallout from a data breach — E-commerce giant Coupang (CPNG.N) swung to a fourth-quarter loss on Thursday and reported revenue below analysts' estimates …
More: The Korea Herald, Bloomberg, Korea Joongang Daily, Coupang Inc., and Nikkei Asia
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