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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI releases a “research preview” of its Operator AI agent that can automate web-based tasks, launching in the US to subscribers of the $200/month Pro tier — OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” according to a blog post.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI partners with DoorDash, Instacart, Priceline, StubHub, and Uber to ensure that Operator respects these businesses' terms of service agreements — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman kicked off this year by saying in a blog post that 2025 would be big for AI agents, tools that can automate tasks and take actions on your behalf.| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Trump signs an EO to create a crypto working group led by David Sacks to consider a national digital asset stockpile “potentially derived” from seized crypto — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to promote the advancement of cryptocurrencies in the U.S …
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| Associated Press: |
Trump signs an EO to develop AI systems “free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas”, revoking Biden policies that “act as barriers” to innovation — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Thursday …
More: Computerworld, The White House, NPR, iTnews, Time, SiliconANGLE, Republic World, Press Trust of India, and The Information
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| Politico: |
Although Trump downplayed Elon Musk's Stargate criticism, assuring reporters “they're putting up the money”, key White House sources say they're furious at Musk — “It's clear he has abused the proximity to the president,” said one ally of the president.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers detail Subaru's now-fixed web vulnerabilities that would've let them unlock and start millions of Subarus via Starlink in the US, Canada, and Japan — Now-fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access …
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| Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: |
DeepSeek's latest AI model R1 sticks to Chinese government restrictions on sensitive topics like Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, and the treatment of Uyghurs in China — Those who train the AI models get to decide what the truth is. — 5H — The AI world was abuzz this week with the release …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Epic launches a free games program on mobile and promises to pay the Apple Core Technology Fee for participants in the program on iOS for one year — Epic Games is adding nearly 20 third-party games onto its mobile app store worldwide on Android and in the European Union on iOS and launching …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google rolls out the first public beta of Android 16 for Pixel devices, introducing Live Updates, a limited version of Apple's Live Activities, and more — Android 16's first public beta will start rolling out later today, bringing with it dynamic lockscreen notifications for ride-sharing and food delivery … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic debuts Citations, a new API feature letting developers “ground” answers in source documents, available for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku — In an announcement perhaps timed to divert attention away from OpenAI's Operator, Anthropic Thursday unveiled a new feature …
More: Anthropic, Maginative, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Substack launches a $20M Creator Accelerator Fund to lure US creators who have $2K+ per month in recurring revenue away from other subscription-based platforms — Substack on Thursday announced the launch of its Creator Accelerator Fund, which provides a $20 million funding guarantee aimed …
More: The Verge, Substack Reads, Tubefilter, and Bloomberg
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Perplexity launches Perplexity Assistant in its Android app, which can take “multi-app actions” like hailing a ride, initially free for users in 15 languages — AI-powered search engine Perplexity has launched an “agent,” of sorts, called Perplexity Assistant …
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Mukesh Ambani's Reliance is buying Nvidia's AI chips and plans to build a 3-gigawatt data center in Jamnagar, India, set to be the largest in the world — - Reliance joins rush of tech companies building data centers … Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Group is building what may become … | Kyle Chan / High Capacity: |
How China's progress across a range of overlapping industries like smartphones, AI, robotics, and drones creates a mutually reinforcing feedback loop — EVs, batteries, lidar, drones, robotics, smartphones, AI. China's progress across a range of overlapping industries creates a mutually reinforcing feedback loop.
Forums: r/China
| Bloomberg: |
Tesla plans a software update for ~1.2M cars in China, around half its fleet in the country, to address power steering and rear-view camera issues — A potential malfunction of the cars' rear-view cameras could meanwhile impair drivers' fields of vision when reversing, increasing the risk of collisions.| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Texas Instruments reports Q4 revenue down 1.7% YoY to $4.01B, net income down 12% YoY to $1.2B, and projects Q1, 2025 sales between $3.74B and $4.06B — - Factory expansion weighs on chipmaker's profit projection — Tepid outlook follows better-than-expected quarterly results| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
PE firm Everstone acquires Delhi-based Wingify, whose flagship product Visual Website Optimizer helps businesses improve online conversion rates, for $200M — Private equity firm Everstone has reached a deal to acquire a majority stake in Wingify, one of India's earliest bootstrapped software …
More: The Economic Times, YourStory.com, Times of India, and VCCircle
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
The US DOJ charges the former CEO of AI chatbot startup GameOn and his wife for allegedly defrauding investors of more than $60M between 2018 and 2024 — The founder of GameOn, a San Francisco artificial intelligence startup, has been indicted for running a “brazen and wide-ranging” …
More: Fortune, US Department of Justice, Forbes, and Bloomberg Law
| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI faces challenges in transitioning to for-profit status, including valuing Microsoft's stake; its charitable arm could be worth $30B — ChatGPT-maker in complex talks over splitting from its non-profit arm in move opposed by Elon Musk — OpenAI's board is locked …
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