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Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, a crypto and libertarian cult hero serving a life sentence since 2015 on money laundering, drug charges, and more — Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle unveil The Stargate Project, a JV to invest in US AI infrastructure, committing $100B now and up to $500B over the next four years — OpenAI says that it will team up with both the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, along with others, to build multiple data centers for AI in the U.S.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Google is investing $1B+ more in Anthropic, which is also nearing a further $2B round from Silicon Valley VCs led by Lightspeed at a ~$60B valuation — Artificial intelligence group closes in on $60bn valuation — Google is making a fresh investment of more than $1bn into OpenAI rival Anthropic …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says it has signed a new deal with OpenAI that gives Microsoft “right of first refusal”, meaning it's no longer OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider — Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models. No longer.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: a deep philosophical rift over how DOGE should operate spurred Vivek Ramaswamy's exit, with Donald Trump's January 20 EO embodying Elon Musk's vision — A deep philosophical rift between the two billionaire leaders of the “Department of Government Efficiency” left Musk to run the group.
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| Becky Bracken / Dark Reading: |
The Trump administration fires all advisory committee members within the DHS, including those in the CISA's CSRB, which was investigating Salt Typhoon hackers — In a letter sent today, the acting DHS secretary terminated membership to all advisory boards, including the Cyber Safety Review Board …
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.2B and 301.6M global subscribers, adding 18.9M subscribers, more than double analysts' estimates; NFLX jumps 14%+ — - Netflix is raising subscription prices in its biggest market — Report marks the end of regular quarterly customer updates
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| Drew Lerner / Awful Announcing: |
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| The Cloudflare Blog: |
In 2024, Cloudflare's autonomous DDoS defense systems blocked ~21.3M DDoS attacks, up 53% YoY, and 420+ DDoS attacks in Q4 2024 exceeded 1Tbps, up 1,885% QoQ — This post is also available in .體中文, Deutsch, 한국어, Español (Espaňa) and Français.| Bloomberg: |
Donald Trump says he would be open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok US as part of a joint venture that would give the US government 50% ownership — “I have the right to make a deal,” Trump said at an event alongside Ellison at the White House on Tuesday.| Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: |
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
A survey of 3,000+ game developers: 11% were laid off in the past year, 58% back unionization, 30% say generative AI negatively impacts the industry, and more — The 2025 GDC survey revealed the impact of industry-wide layoffs in 2024 where one of every 11 game developers lost a job.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta aims to debut glasses with a built-in display and Oakley-branded smart glasses for athletes in 2025, resumes work on a watch, and explores earbuds — - Company resumes work on smartwatch and develops AirPods rival — First real AR glasses, dubbed ‘Artemis,’ are planned for 2027
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says installing macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3, or iPadOS 18.3 will turn on Apple Intelligence automatically on compatible devices; users can opt out later — When installing macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3, or iPadOS 18.3, Apple Intelligence will be turned on automatically on compatible devices …
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| TechCrunch: |
Truecaller rolls out real-time caller ID to its ~750K iOS subscribers, who account for 40% of its revenue; Truecaller has 2.6M+ paying subscribers in total — Popular caller ID app Truecaller has long left iPhone users at a disadvantage by not offering the caller information in real-time …
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| Financial Times: |
UK CMA Chair Marcus Bokkerink plans to leave the antitrust agency, forced out by UK ministers; the CMA appoints ex-Amazon executive Doug Gurr as interim chair — Marcus Bokkerink replaced at CMA with government saying it wants pro-business decisions to drive prosperity and growth
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Days before TikTok briefly went dark, Meta made Instagram and Facebook design tweaks, added new features, and ran ads promoting its apps as TikTok alternatives — In the days before TikTok went dark, Instagram and Facebook released a flurry of new features and ran advertisements promoting its platforms as a comparable alternative.| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
Documents: Google gave Israel access to its latest AI tools from the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas war, directly assisting the Defense Ministry and the IDF — The company fulfilled requests from Israel's military for more access to AI tools, as it sought to compete with Amazon, documents obtained by The Post show.| Bloomberg: |
Quant trading firm XTX Markets, which manages $250B+ in daily trades, plans to invest €1B+ in five data centers in Finland to support its growing use of ML — - Billionaire's quant firm plans five data centers in Finland — The move bucks trend of relying on third-party infrastructure
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| James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review: |
Filing: OpenAI spent $1.76M on lobbying in 2024, up from 2023's $260K, including for the AI Advancement and Reliability Act and the Future of AI Innovation Act — OpenAI spent $1.76 million on government lobbying in 2024 and $510,000 in the last three months of the year alone … | Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: |
Data analytics startup Databricks closed its $10B Series J, announced in December 2024, with investment from Meta, Temasek, and QIA, and raised $5.25B in debt — Data analytics platform Databricks has confirmed that it has closed a previously announced $10 billion in Series J equity financing at a $62 billion valuation.| Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: |
Crypto exchange Deribit reports total trading volume, including options, futures, and more, rose 95% YoY to $1.19T in 2024; options volume rose 99% YoY to $743B — Need evidence of the crypto market's maturation? Look no further than Deribit, the crypto exchange that registered record trading volumes in 2024.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Vertice, which offers an AI-powered SaaS spend management platform, raised a $50M Series C led by Lakestar, taking its total funding to ~$100M — Vertice has made a name for itself over the years in the crowded world of expenditure management by focusing on applying AI to optimize …
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