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| Chip Cutter / Wall Street Journal: |
Block's plan to lay off over 4,000 employees, citing AI work automation, adds to growing angst among white-collar workers over AI's potential for job disruption — Layoffs at Block add to growing backlash bubbling up across American companies; ‘It brings out the pitchforks’| 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.
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Forums: r/technology, r/codex, r/ChatGPT, r/OpenAI, 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.
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/politics, r/technology, and r/technology
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the Pentagon used Claude in its major air attack in Iran, hours after Trump declared that the federal government will end its use of Anthropic's tools — Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic …
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Mastodon: @yogthos@social.marxist … and @dalfen@mstdn.social
Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence, r/LocalLLaMA, r/ClaudeAI, and r/singularity
| Jo Ling / CBS News: |
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Bluesky: @kurtrisser and @stevetally
Forums: r/wallstreetbets_wins and r/StockMarket
| 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, The Independent, The Verge, CoinGape, BeInCrypto, and The Block
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @saltcreekbrews, @chadloder, and @surflaw
Forums: r/business and r/CryptoCurrency
| 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, and Wired
| 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, PhoneArena, The Verge, 9to5Mac, and Notebookcheck
| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix actually won by walking away from the WBD bid, collecting a $2.8B termination fee and driving up the price and debt load of the Paramount-WBD merger — King of streaming preserves its business model, while Paramount will have to deal with a massive debt load| 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 and Straight Arrow News
| Financial Times: |
Multiple AWS developers say they are asked to take on new roles with AI tools' assistance, and engineers are now required to complete technical writing tasks — Drive for ‘leaner’ operations piles pressure on employees but could be a playbook for rivals — Amazon's HR chief last month sought … | 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| 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.| 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: TechCrunch, Runtime, The Economic Times, Latent.Space, Tech in Asia, InfoWorld, VentureBeat, Seattle Business Journal, On my Om, The Information, The Register, Benzinga, PC Gamer, and Neowin
Forums: r/theprimeagen, r/AMD_Stock, and r/technology
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LinkedIn: Steve McDonald, Tadahiro Kaburaki, Manu Parbhakar, Julia White, and Malcolm Featonby. Bluesky: @om.co
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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