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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.
More: Tech Brew, Gazetteer SF, Bloomberg, Inc.com, Business Insider, Futurism, The Verge, Marcus on AI, and Implicator.ai
X: @danprimack, @danprimack, @buccocapital, @packym, @packym, @ronanfarrow, @nkulw, @buccocapital, @krishnanrohit, @mattzeitlin, @bigmeaninternet, @kakashiii111, @pkafka, @michhuan, @garymarcus, @mikeisaac, @samfbiddle, @ronanfarrow, @aisafetymemes, @alexandermccoy4, @shakeelhashim, and @highyieldharry. LinkedIn: Jim Kaskade
Bluesky: @stokel, @karlbode.com, @emilynussbaum, @jacobsilverman.com, @paularmstrongtbd, @petertl, @carnage4life, @miafarrow, @lopatto, @harmancipants, @caseynewton, and @thefarce.org
Threads: @jjackyliang, @nwbrownboi, and @sami
Mastodon: @nixCraft@mastodon.social and @evacide@hachyderm.io
| 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
More: OpenAI, OpenAI, Axios, Business Insider, Decrypt, CoinDesk, PCMag, Forbes, Bloomberg, eMarketer, Gizmodo, OpenAI, The Decoder, DL News, and Yahoo Finance
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LinkedIn: Adrian Brown, David Robinson, Michael Kokin, Jabran Chaudhry, Viviana Jordan, and Vinod K.
| Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin: |
How social media became a freak show: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are very low-quality but get more engagement than NYT — The ecosystem is unhealthy, especially on Twitter, and that's producing some strange beasts among the most influential accounts.
More: Reason, Louder With Crowder, and Barrett Media
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Netflix launches Netflix Playground, a games app for kids aged eight and under, in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, and New Zealand — It's called Netflix Playground, and it's out now. … Netflix has made family-friendly titles a key part of its current games strategy …
More: Netflix Games on YouTube, Netflix Press Site, CNET, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Reuters, Thurrott, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Neowin, Cord Cutters News, Animation Magazine, USA Today, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles Times, The Wrap, Kidscreen, Media Play News, Deadline, and Sherwood News. LinkedIn: Jenny Kim
| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
A federal appeals court rules New Jersey cannot block Kalshi users in the state from sports-related event contracts, finding CFTC has exclusive jurisdiction — A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that New Jersey gaming regulators cannot prevent Kalshi from allowing people in the state …
More: PYMNTS.com, Sports Business Journal, Benzinga, Cointelegraph, Courthouse News Service, CoinDesk, The Block, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Law, CoinGape, Crypto Briefing, Bloomberg Law, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, crypto.news, Front Office Sports, Bitcoin News, The Crypto Times, and Reason
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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.
More: Garbage Day and The Nation
X: @benthompson, @curtismakes, @buccocapital, @joshgans, @_simonsmith, @reidjjackson, @mediaevan, @signulll, @jaypatel, @iankar_, and @anshelsag. Bluesky: @dmnd.me
| 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 … | The Information: |
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 …
More: Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, San Francisco Business Times, Implicator.ai, Fortune, The Economic Times, WinBuzzer, PYMNTS.com, Digit, The Information, Reuters, and On my Om
X: @pkafka, @yoda, @anissagardizy8, @buccocapital, @dalibali2, @jfischoff, @xw33bttv, @bilalfarooqui, @dmtcapital, @niubi, @ns123abc, @onagel33303, @jose_cong, @tcnoca, @aakashgupta, @edzitron, @ivan_bezdomny, @greenmonsterah, @highyieldharry, @compound248, @granthesser, @chr1sa, @eltimidotorero, @macdonaldncode, @negligible_cap, @sharongoldman, @paulyacoubian, @cobracommanduhr, @firstadopter, @benitoz, and @ryenotberben. LinkedIn: Yael Demedetskaya
Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @barretblake.dev, @aiddya, @joe.hardy.id.au, @rivertam, and @dmnd.me
| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Eko, whose Arkansas “capture factory” creates digital product catalogs intended to serve as training data for retail-focused AI models — In an Arkansas ‘capture factory,’ hand models and food stylists are preparing for the future of shopping| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Sources: Meta is preparing to release the first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to offer versions of those models via an open source license — Meta is preparing to release the first new AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to eventually offer versions …
More: Gizmodo, MediaPost, and Sherwood News
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus raised $505M led by Coatue at a $5.5B valuation, bringing its funding raised in the last six months to $1.35B — Data center builder Firmus Technologies Pty raised $505 million in an investment round led by Coatue Management LLC … | 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: PYMNTS.com, Blockonomi, and crypto.news
| 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 … | Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Netflix debuts VOID, a vision language model that can erase objects from a scene and simulate how remaining objects would behave in the scene without them — Video-language model revises how objects interact when things get removed from a scene — A new Netflix model promises to rewrite the way we make movies.
More: Tom's Guide and MobileSyrup
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