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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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Bluesky: @revealinglight, @flingjore.com, @mrsdeborahlynn, @lorak, @seldo.com, and @leahfeiger
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
X: @turn_trout, @w01fe, @william_fitz, @thezvi, @arozenshtein, @s_oheigeartaigh, and @zeffmax. Bluesky: @peard33
Forums: r/Anthropic and r/OpenAI
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Filing: Anthropic says it had $5B+ in all-time revenue since 2023 and could lose billions after clients paused deal talks due to supply-chain risk designation — Executives at the AI startup say companies paused deal talks after the Trump administration labeled it a supply-chain risk …
More: Fortune, PCMag, Tom's Hardware, Decrypt, Proactive, NBC Bay Area, Washington Times, New York Sun, and CBS News
| 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.
More: Bluesky, The Verge, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Toni.org, Engadget, Reuters, Social Media Today, GeekWire, Thurrott, Fast Company, MediaPost, and TheDesk.net
Bluesky: @toni.bsky.team, @joshsternberg.com, @bnewbold.net, @davelee.me, @craigbrittain.com, @anildash.com, @chriswolfvision, @caseynewton, @danabra.mov, @kandake.africa, @rose.bsky.team, @ryanlcooper.com, @wired.com, @quillmatiq.com, @fraying, @clairewillett, @strngwys, @daveweigel, @gilliandn, @jay.bsky.team, @evansutton, @masnick.com, and @brainnotonyet. Mastodon: @liaizon@social.wake.st
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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X: @satyanadella, @clamanna, @tunguz, @yacinelearning, @boringbiz_, @sandraleow, @marlene_zw, @geoffreylitt, @jshpigler, @clamanna, @jeffteper, @zackkorman, @akoustov, @rihardjarc, @emollick, @metacriticcap, and @laurentgiret
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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X: @openai, @snsf, @mil0theminer, @cryptopunk7213, @dkundel, @benhylak, and @monali_dambre. LinkedIn: Vanessa Sauter. Forums: r/OpenAI
| 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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| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Anthropic debuts Code Review for Claude Code, which uses agents to check pull requests for bugs, and says a code review could average $15-$25 in token usage — ZDNET's key takeaways — Anthropic launches AI agents to review developer pull requests. — Internal tests tripled meaningful code review feedback.
More: Claude, The Register, TechCrunch, The New Stack, and The Verge
X: @kayvz, @sterlingcrispin, @bznotes, @rohanvarma, @icesolst, @lanreadelowo, @claudeai, @adocomplete, @jarredsumner, @claudeai, @trq212, @dillon_mulroy, @claudeai, @yuchenj_uw, @lucas_montano, @bcherny, and @daniel_mac8. Bluesky: @natemoo.re. Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| 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 … | 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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X: @kanishkanarayan, @michaeldell, @darlingtondev, @nscale_cloud, @uksovereignai, @stefanroberts, @andrewhart, @peterkyle, @_iainmartin, @sebjohnsonuk, and @nickclegg
LinkedIn: Josh Payne and Alex Sharp
| 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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| 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| 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, 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, Decrypt, The Verge, CNET, and NBC News
X: @nick_field90, @tszzl, @agoldmund, @plathiandc, @noahpinion, @mattyglesias, @saikatc, @nkulw, @rokhanna, @austinahlman, and @wexler
| Aisha Down / The Guardian: |
UK's AI drive, touted since 2024 and featuring splashy NScale and CoreWeave deals, to build datacenters is riddled with phantom investments and shaky accounting — Exclusive: Rented datacentres and ‘supercomputer’ site that's still a scaffolding yard raise questions for Starmer's push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’
Bluesky: @mxhollyclara and @hannahfearn
Forums: Hacker News, r/unitedkingdom, r/ukpolitics, and r/BetterOffline
| Wired: |
Sources: Nvidia is pitching NemoClaw, an upcoming open-source AI agent platform for enterprises, and plans to offer security and privacy tools for it — Ahead of its annual developer conference, Nvidia is readying a new approach to software that embraces AI agents similar to OpenClaw.
X: @zeffmax
| Reuters: |
Sources: PE firm EQT is exploring a sale of Linux distribution vendor SUSE in a deal that could value it at up to $6B; SUSE was valued at ~$2.96B in 2023 — Private equity firm EQT AB (EQTAB.ST) is exploring a sale of open-source software company SUSE in a deal that could value it up to $6 billion … | Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: |
Canada will allow TikTok to continue operating in the country under new security commitments, reversing a 2024 order to wind down TikTok's Canadian subsidiary — Canada will allow TikTok to continue operating in the country, a complete reversal after the government had previously ordered … Sponsor Posts
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