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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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| 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 …
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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 … | 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 … | 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 … | 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 … | 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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| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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 … | 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: Blockonomi and crypto.news
| 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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Introducing intelligent document processing with Zoho RPA — Documents are a major bottleneck at many organizations. Invoices, contracts, forms, ID cards, receipts: They all arrive in different shapes and sizes …
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