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January 23, 2025, 1:40 AM

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M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
A look at The Stargate Project: lots of unanswered questions, PR wins, SoftBank only has ~$30B in cash, many projects are old, and Musk trolled the announcement  —  If John ‘Hannibal’ Smith loves it when a plan comes together, I love it when a plan comes together hastily.
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Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Samsung announces the $800 Galaxy S25 with a 6.2" screen and the $1K 6.7" Galaxy S25 Plus, with 12GB of RAM, Snapdragon 8 Elite, “Qi2 Ready”, and more  —  If the Galaxy S24 series heralded the triumphant arrival of Galaxy AI, then the S25 and S25 Plus may be a bit of a comedown …
Sam Rutherford / Engadget:
Samsung unveils the $1.3K Galaxy S25 Ultra with a 6.9" QHD+ AMOLED screen, up from 6.8", 50MP sensor for the ultra-wide camera, a small S Pen downgrade, more  —  Samsung's latest fad is the introduction of AI agents.  —  Senior Writer, Reviews  —  Last year Samsung embraced artificial intelligence …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Samsung teases the Galaxy S25 Edge; an exec says it aims to sell the ultra-thin phone in the US and other markets by the middle of 2025, priced under $1,300  —  Samsung Electronics Co. plans to launch an ultrathin version of its Galaxy S25 phone in the first half of this year, beating Apple Inc. to a promising new category.
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A recording of Samsung Galaxy Unpacked January 2025  —  #GalaxyUnpacked is now LIVE.  Join us.  #GalaxyAI #SamsungWatch our ASL stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/QhhG6Q- XWFMTo view the YouTube streams on a deskto...
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Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Google's Gemini will be the default on-device assistant for the new Galaxy S25 series, and gets the ability to work across multiple apps in a single prompt  —  Google's AI assistant Gemini is now able to carry out tasks across multiple apps in a single interaction, in an update announced today alongside …
Reuters:
ByteDance launches Doubao-1.5-pro, an upgraded AI model, claiming it outperforms OpenAI's o1 in AIME benchmarks, joining DeepSeek in China's AI reasoning push  —  TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday released an update to its flagship AI model aimed at challenging Microsoft-backed OpenAI's …
David DiMolfetta / Defense One:
Sources: Trump administration dismissed the members of CSRB, which investigates major cybersecurity incidents, likely disrupting the Salt Typhoon hacks probe  —  The Department of Homeland Security advisory committee was investigating a Chinese hack into U.S. telecommunications.
Kat Tenbarge / NBC News:
Moderators for 50+ subreddits announce bans of X links in new posts and comments, with several citing Elon Musk's recent gesture that many saw as a Nazi salute  —  The cascade of link bans came after Musk made a hand gesture at a Monday rally that many compared to a Nazi salute, which many cited in their protests, among other things.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
EA expects net bookings of $7B to $7.15B for the FY ending March 31, below guidance of $7.5B to $7.8B, citing underperforming games; stock falls 5%+ after hours  —  Electronic Arts slashed its full-year bookings guidance on Wednesday, blaming the shortfall on underperforming games, notably its soccer franchise, EA Sports FC.
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Insomniac Games founder and CEO Ted Price plans to step down from the Sony-owned studio after 30+ years; a trio of Insomniac veterans will serve as co-heads  —  Taking over for Price, who will be staying with the PlayStation Studio through March, are a trio of Insomniac vets who will serve …
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
SK Hynix reports Q4 revenue up 75% YoY to a record ~$13.7B, a ~$5.6B net profit, and a ~$5.6B operating profit, in line with estimates, as HBM chip demand soars  —  - Its shares slide in Seoul after a 30% run-up this year  — Demand for high-end memory soaring on datacenter rollouts
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: OpenAI plans to release a new ChatGPT feature called Operator this week to automate complex tasks typically done via a web browser  —  OpenAI is preparing to release a new ChatGPT feature this week that will automate complex tasks typically done through the Web browser …
Patrick G. Eddington / Cato Institute:
A US district judge rules that the FBI's warrantless “backdoor” searches of FISA's Section 702 databases violate the Fourth Amendment  —  Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology.  —  Sometimes when “secret law” is involved—and that is always the case with the Foreign Intelligence …

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