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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Thoughts on MacBook Neo, as Apple also expands its superpremium tier via “Ultra” products; sources: Apple wants to use aluminum 3D-printing for Watch and iPhone — Apple has taken the wraps off its $599 MacBook Neo, entering new territory in a way that could shake up the computer market.
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| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotics, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's DOD contract — Caitlin Kalinowski, who had been leading hardware and robotic engineering teams at OpenAI since November 2024, announced she has left the company.
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X: @kalinowski007, @kalinowski007, @nic_carter, @jason, @_ueaj, @daveshapi, @garymarcus, @ns123abc, @teortaxestex, and @signulll. LinkedIn: Sharon Goldman. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/UnderReportedNews, and Slashdot
| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he takes a leading role in the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic — Emil Michael made his name in Silicon Valley a decade ago as an aggressive dealmaker for a startup — Uber Technologies Inc. …
More: Mercury News, Fortune, Benzinga, Pirate Wires, Associated Press, Schneier on Security, DNYUZ, and DefenseScoop. X: @rebeccatorrenc5
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it is “open to strategic co-operation” with more AI groups, having recently added Perplexity to its mobile OS — Korean giant's device chief says its future Galaxy devices will host multiple models as users mix and match AI tools
Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social
| Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times: |
Documents show two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants, worth over $100M, to be cut for being related to DEI — Documents show how A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the agency embraced President Trump's agenda.
More: Artforum. LinkedIn: Mary Okin, Mary Okin, and James Grossman
Mastodon: @petersuber@fediscience.org, @acdha@thepit.social, and @kfitz@hcommons.social. Forums: r/politics
| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks — Ask about this article... Like Google's Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 1.5, Uni-1 is built on an autoregressive transformer …
X: @teortaxestex, @lumalabsai, and @nachos2d_
| Wall Street Journal: |
The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with unprecedented speed and precision in attacks, even as the cost of ill-informed decisions remains high — Intelligence, targeting and damage assessments are accelerating thanks to military versions of software now remaking business and daily life
More: Washington Post, Daily Sabah, Newsweek, The Asia Business Daily, and Associated Press. X: @bindureddy
| Elizabeth Gibney / Nature: |
A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can help with academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv — - Elizabeth Gibney — Search author on: — PubMed Google Scholar — All major large language models (LLMs) …
More: AFIM Benchmark, AFIM Benchmark, AFIM Benchmark, AFIM Benchmark, AFIM Benchmark, and Semafor
Bluesky: @massi.pippi.im, @davidcolquhoun, @joshuafoust.com, @richardsever, and @richardsever
| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical — Circle Internet Group Inc. and Stripe Inc. are racing to build payments systems for a world that doesn't exist yet …
More: CoinGape
| Harvard Business Review: |
A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause “AI brain fry”, a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity — On New Year's Day, programmer Steve Yegge launched Gas Town, an open-source platform that lets users orchestrate swarms … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia — Over the past few months, several countries have announced plans to restrict social media access for children and teens.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
ZyG, whose software coordinates AI agents across SEO, marketing, and more for DTC brands, raised a $58M seed co-led by Bessemer, Viola Ventures, and Lightspeed — When it comes to product innovation, global brands have an enormous advantage over smaller companies thanks to their massive scale …
More: The SaaS News, ZyG, ZyG, CTech, Retail Technology …, FinSMEs, Ventureburn, and Tech Funding News
LinkedIn: Tal Barnoach and ZyG
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate, a look at some alternatives to GPS, including using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors — The proliferation of cheap, powerful GPS jammers has airline operators, shipping firms and militaries alike scrambling for navigation alternatives| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Guild.ai, which helps companies develop, deploy, and observe AI agents, raised a $14M seed and $30M Series A, both led by GV, and is now valued at $300M — Guild.ai, a startup helping companies develop AI agents, has raised $44 million in a seed and Series A and is now valued at $300 million … Sponsor Posts
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