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Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo, instead of Altman, in August 2025 — Sam Altman has committed OpenAI to spend $600 billion in the next five years and privately said he wants to go public as soon …
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| New Yorker: |
Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of consistent lying and more: some defend him as others call him a sociopath — New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher taxes on capital gains, a public AI investment fund, bolstered safety nets, and more — ChatGPT maker put out policy proposals so consumers benefit from rapid advancements in artificial intelligence
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| Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph: |
Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat, used during protests in five countries, from the App Store in China at the CAC's request — Bitchat launched in July last year and has been used during protests in Madagascar, Uganda, Nepal, Indonesia and Iran … | Wall Street Journal: |
Docs: OpenAI and Anthropic have projected profitability to investors with and without training costs, and report inference costs exceeding half of their revenue — Silicon Valley's hottest startups have the same challenge: funding giant computing costs — OpenAI and Anthropic …
More: Techstrong.ai, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Fortune, and Yahoo Finance
| Gary Marcus / Marcus on AI: |
Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startup with $1B+ in revenue, is a warning for how AI can be abused for scammy business and marketing practices — AI isn't the only thing behind Medvi — On Thursday, The New York Times published a thing — and it went viral, declared as a victory for AI:
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
How advanced chip packaging became one of Intel's fast-growing businesses; sources: Intel is in talks with Google and Amazon for its advanced packaging services — Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom. Intel is going all in. — Sixteen miles north of Albuquerque …
X: @jukan05, @laurengoode, and @laurengoode
| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole $270M posing as a quant trading firm in a 6+ month operation with in-person meetings and a $1M+ deposit — Attackers posed as a trading firm, met Drift contributors in person across multiple countries, deposited $1 million of their own capital …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
OpenAI buying TBPN makes little sense, par for the course for a company that, like Twitter, stumbled into a big market and may never build a functional business — OpenAI's purchase of TBPN makes no sense, which may be par for the course for OpenAI. Then, AI is breaking stuff, starting with tech services.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Source: Binance Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman is looking to leave in 2026 or 2027; other senior compliance staff have departed over the past few months — When Binance pleaded guilty to US sanctions and anti-money-laundering violations in late 2023, rebuilding its compliance operation was key to the deal.
More: crypto.news
| Reuters: |
Indian IT giant Wipro agrees to acquire Mindsprint, the IT services arm of Singapore-based Olam, for $375M, and strikes an eight-year, $1B+ contract with Olam — Shares of Wipro (WIPR.NS) rose as much as 3.2% on Monday after the Indian IT services firm agreed to buy the IT services business … | Financial Times: |
Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion — Videos show A7 office in Nigeria, while company also claims new branch in Zimbabwe — A recent vacancy posted … | Kieran Smith / Financial Times: |
Sources: Palo Alto Networks, Sophos, and others record an increase in demand for their ransom negotiators, as businesses seek help in talks with cybercriminals — With ransomware attacks on the rise, businesses are calling on a new class of security expert to help with high-stakes talks
LinkedIn: Kieran Smith
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale — Physical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, with Japan's push driven more by necessity than anything else.
More: The Indian Express and Silicon Canals
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