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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic signs an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple GWs of TPU capacity, and says run-rate revenue has crossed $30B, up from ~$9B at 2025's end — We have signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity that we expect to come online starting in 2027.
More: Wall Street Journal, The Information, Bloomberg, Constellation Research, Google Cloud, and Benzinga
X: @nikunj, @zeffmax, @yuchenj_uw, @signulll, @theprimeagen, @scaling01, @krishnanrohit, @beffjezos, @andrewcurran_, @chatgpt21, @lennysan, @eliebakouch, @benbajarin, @anthropicai, @anthropicai, and @alexpalcuie. LinkedIn: Amol Avasare. Forums: r/ClaudeAI
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Filing: Broadcom agrees to produce future versions of Google's TPUs and expands its Anthropic deal to give the startup access to ~3.5 GW of computing capacity — - Broadcom said it agreed to produce future versions of Google's artificial intelligence chips,
More: Reuters, Barron's Online, SEC, Stocktwits, and Benzinga
| 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: Semafor, The Hill, Tech Brew, Sacramento Bee, Gazetteer SF, Inc.com, Bloomberg, The Verge, Futurism, Marcus on AI, Implicator.ai, and Business Insider
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Bluesky: @davelevitan, @emilynussbaum, @jacobsilverman.com, @petertl, @carnage4life, @miafarrow, @stokel, @lopatto, @karlbode.com, @caseynewton, @harmancipants, @thefarce.org, and @paularmstrongtbd
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, Fortune, Ars Technica, CoinDesk, Decrypt, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, PCMag, Forbes, eMarketer, The Decoder, Gizmodo, OpenAI, and DL News
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LinkedIn: Adrian Brown, David Robinson, Michael Kokin, Jabran Chaudhry, Viviana Jordan, and Vinod K.
| 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 …
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LinkedIn: Jenny Kim and Kelly Lawler
| 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 and Louder With Crowder
X: @blueboxdave, @christopherrufo, @nikitabier, @nikitabier, @redsteeze, @petersavodnik, @catturd2, @alanmcole, @nikitabier, @devahaz, @elonmusk, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, @micsolana, @ryanburge, @timcast, @natesilver538, @kirkegaardemil, @davidu, @jason_koebler, @micsolana, @besttrousers, @paulnovosad, @kareem_carr, @natesilver538, @asymmetricinfo, @cesifoti, @jaybaxter, @richardhanania, @stefanfschubert, @notjessewalker, @natesilver538, @literaryeric, @richardhanania, @natesilver538, @yimbyland, @david_ingram, @juliangough, @jason_kint, @ryanburge, @ddiamond, @soncharm, @neeratanden, @bretdevereaux, @nikitabier, @catturd2, @nateduncannba, @akarlin, @elonmusk, @richardhanania, @modeledbehavior, @mattvanswol, @ryanradia, @yacinemtb, @natesilver538, @natesilver538, @timcast, @jason_kint, @nikitabier, @bing_chris, @jaredlholt, @natesilver538, @nikitabier, @benryanwriter, @natesilver538, @modeledbehavior, @alx, @sailaunderscore, @alanmcole, @nkulw, @haroon, @catturd2, @crazy_stephen_i, @buccocapital, @phl43, @razibkhan, @zerohedge, @mikeisaac, @katiemiller, @elonmusk, @natesilver538, @raharrisonpa, @phl43, @david_ingram, @asymmetricinfo, @jonatanpallesen, @aricohn, @richardhanania, @elonmusk, @richardhanania, @tha_muser, @jamessurowiecki, @kasparov63, @christopherrufo, @akoustov, @natesilver538, @modeledbehavior, and @noupside. LinkedIn: Adam Shapiro. Bluesky: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @jalefkowit@vmst.io. Forums: r/fivethirtyeight
| 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 Social Media Today
| 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 … | New York Times: |
The rapid adoption of AI coding tools has let workers generate massive volumes of code, leaving companies scrambling to review and secure the AI-generated code — When a financial services company recently began using Cursor, an artificial intelligence technology that writes computer code, the difference that it made was immediate.| 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: Ars Technica, Engadget, PYMNTS.com, New York Post, Sports Business Journal, Cointelegraph, Courthouse News Service, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Law, CoinGape, Crypto Briefing, Bloomberg Law, Benzinga, CoinDesk, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, crypto.news, Front Office Sports, Bitcoin News, The Crypto Times, and The Block
X: @mansourtarek_, @sam_mcquill, @wallachlegal, @wallachlegal, @wallachlegal, @rvangrack, @wallachlegal, @wallachlegal, @apartovi, @jacobrobinsonjd, and @adamscochran. LinkedIn: Dan Bernstein. Forums: r/law
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information via the Frontier Model Forum to detect adversarial distillation attempts that violate their ToS — Rivals OpenAI, Anthropic PBC, and Alphabet Inc.'s Google have begun working together to try to clamp down on Chinese competitors extracting results … | Esther Fung / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon and USPS reach a new delivery deal; sources: Amazon will reduce the packages it ships through USPS by 20%, instead of the two-thirds cut proposed earlier — The e-commerce giant would cut back the packages it ships through USPS by 20%, less than the proposal the sides had discussed earlier
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones Newswires, Barron's Online, Value Added Resource, and The US Sun. Forums: r/USPS
| 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, crypto.news, and Blockonomi
| 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. LinkedIn: M Mohan. Bluesky: @dmnd.me
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