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| Jack Queen / Reuters: |
Anthropic sues to block the DOD from designating it a supply chain risk, says the designation is unlawful and violates its free speech and due process rights — Anthropic on Monday filed a lawsuit to block the Pentagon from placing it on a national security blacklist, escalating …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ClaudeAI, r/politics, r/Anthropic, r/law, r/technology, r/news, r/ChatGPT, r/artificial, and r/Anthropic
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
More than 30 staffers from OpenAI and Google, including DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean, file an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its fight with DOD — Google DeepMind chief scientist Jeff Dean is among the AI researchers and engineers rushing to Anthropic's defense.
More: TechCrunch, The Information, and CourtListener
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
More: PCMag, Tom's Hardware, Fortune, Decrypt, Proactive, New York Sun, CBS News, Washington Times, Dow Jones Newswires, NBC Bay Area, The Guardian, and The Information. Bluesky: @peard33
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Jay Graber is stepping down as Bluesky CEO, saying a “seasoned operator focused on scaling and execution” is needed; VC Toni Schneider is named interim CEO — Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky's board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/BlueskySocial, r/technews, and Slashdot
| Charles Lamanna / Microsoft 365 Blog: |
Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, integrating Anthropic's Claude Cowork tech into Microsoft 365 Copilot and using Work IQ to ground its actions in work data — AUDIENCE — Try Microsoft 365 Copilot — Available on desktop and mobile devices — If you have used Copilot …
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LinkedIn: Charles Lamanna, Larry Cannell, and Nicole Herskowitz
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft launches E7, which bundles Office tools and Copilot, for $99/user/month, a 65% jump; of its 450M+ business users in January, ~3% also paid for Copilot — Microsoft Corp. is launching a new bundle of workplace software with the aim of getting more people to use its artificial intelligence tools for the office.| OpenAI: |
OpenAI agrees to acquire Promptfoo, which fixes security issues in AI systems being built and is “trusted by 25%+ of Fortune 500”, to fold into OpenAI Frontier — Accelerating agentic security testing and evaluation capabilities in OpenAI Frontier
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| Brian Westover / PCMag: |
MacBook Pro 16" (M5 Max) review: “Super core” architecture and 40-core GPU deliver beastly performance, but still retains a five-year-old design — Outstanding — THE BOTTOM LINE — Pros & Cons — “Super core” architecture delivers incredible performance
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple delayed the release of its smart home display, planned for this month, until later this year to let the company finish work on the new Siri — Apple Inc.'s artificial intelligence struggles are rippling through its product plans, forcing the company to delay a long …
More: Engadget, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iClarified, The Mac Observer, The Shortcut, Cult of Mac, and Digital Trends
| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
UK data center developer Nscale raised a $2B Series C led by Aker and 8090 Industries at a $14.6B valuation and adds Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board — Nscale, a UK developer for artificial intelligence data centers, has raised $2 billion in funding and added a trio …
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LinkedIn: Josh Payne and Alex Sharp
| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Anthropic debuts a Code Review feature for Claude Code, which uses agents working in teams to check pull requests for bugs, available in research preview — ZDNET's key takeaways — Anthropic launches AI agents to review developer pull requests. — Internal tests tripled meaningful code review feedback.
More: Claude, TechCrunch, The Verge, The New Stack, MarkTechPost, and Digital Trends
| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Nasdaq partners with Kraken to develop a framework for 24/7 tokenized stock trading, targeting a 2027 launch, focusing on corporate governance like proxy voting — Nasdaq sought approval in September to let investors trade tokenized versions of its listed stocks and other exchange-traded products| Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press: |
The DOJ reaches a settlement in its antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and Live Nation in a case that alleged an illegal monopoly over live events in the US — Justice Department lawyers announced Monday that they'd reached a settlement in their antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster …
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Qualcomm unveils the Arduino Ventuno Q, a single-board computer for AI and robotics applications, powered by Dragonwing IQ8 processor and 16GB of RAM — It marries a Qualcomm processor with a microcontroller and comes with 16GB of RAM. — Qualcomm, which purchased microcontroller board …
More: Qualcomm, Forbes, Arduino Blog, TechCrunch, HotHardware, The Verge, eeNews Europe, Crypto Briefing, and Notebookcheck
| Jake Angelo / Fortune: |
NBC News poll of 1,000 registered voters: just 26% had a positive view of AI, while 46% had a negative view, the third worst net negative score of all topics — Artificial intelligence has permeated nearly every part of daily American life. It's being adopted across the professional sphere …
More: Gizmodo and CNET
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| Bloomberg: |
OpenClaw mania hits China: AI labs launch tools to help users deploy OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts a policy encouraging free OpenClaw services, and more — Chinese software shares surged Monday after local government agencies joined tech leaders such as Tencent Holdings Ltd …
More: The Verge, TechNode, Reuters, South China Morning Post, and The Information
| Bloomberg: |
Kalshi partners with XP, Brazil's largest brokerage firm with 4.8M active clients in December 2025, to list event contracts, its first international expansion — Prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. is expanding outside the US for the first time, partnering with Brazil's XP Inc. to list event contracts.
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