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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent orders the CFPB to stop activities, like rulemaking, communications, and litigation; in November, Musk said to “Delete CFPB” — Search by Topic — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shut down a wide variety of operations inside …
More: Consumer Financial …, New York Times, House Financial Services Committee, Washington Post, U.S. House Committee …, National Law Review, New Republic, CNBC, Americans for Financial Reform, American Banker, New York Times, Law360, Forbes, Consumer Bankers Association, Reuters, Politico, UPI, NBC News, Salon, NPR, Bloomberg, Bank Automation News, Wall Street Journal, Fox Business, The Block, and The Hill
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Forums: r/politics and r/politics
| Bloomberg: |
Donald Trump signs an executive action to direct officials to create a US sovereign wealth fund and says that it could be used to facilitate a sale of TikTok US — - Fund could be used as US facilitates TikTok sale, Lutnick says — Bessent says fund will be created in the next 12 months
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| Makena Kelly / Wired: |
Sources: Thomas Shedd, GSA's new Technology Transformation Services director and Elon Musk ally, told GSA workers the agency will pursue an “AI-first strategy” — Sources say the former Tesla engineer now in charge of the Technology Transformation Services wants an agency that operates like a “startup software company.”
More: New York Times and Nextgov/FCW
Bluesky: @lizthegrey.com, @kateconger.com, @tyleraking.com, @timmarchman, @brbarrett, and @rayosunlong. Forums: r/politics
| Caleb Ecarma / Musk Watch: |
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X: @slisker, @chadpergram, @tim_walz, @mattgertz, and @victorshi2020
| CBC News: |
Ontario Premier Doug Ford pauses retaliatory measures like “ripping up” the province's CA$100M Starlink contract, after Donald Trump delays US tariffs on Canada — Retaliatory measures included ‘ripping up’ Starlink contract, taking American booze of LCBO shelves
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| Financial Times: |
The US' largest companies, like Visa, United, Amazon, Apple, and Oracle, are cutting deals with Elon Musk's businesses as he solidifies his power in government — Companies from Boeing to Amazon have sought out the world's richest man as he seeks to remake US government
More: New York Times, Australian Financial Review, The Information, Social Media Today, and Wired
Bluesky: @marypcbuk. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. X: @digiphile. Forums: r/politics, r/politics, r/politics, and r/neoliberal
| FinSMEs: |
Salt Lake City-based Jump, which offers AI tools for financial advisors and other financial services providers, raised a $20M Series A led by Battery Ventures — Jum p, a Salt Lake City, UT-based provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for financial advisors and other financial … | Bloomberg: |
A US appeals court panel appeared skeptical of Google's bid to overturn a 2023 jury verdict that declared the Play Store an illegal monopoly in the Epic case — - Jury ruled Google violated antitrust law by restricting apps — Google argues case shouldn't have been decided by jury
More: Benzinga and Associated Press
X: @vidushi_law, @leehepner, @vidushi_law, @vidushi_law, @vidushi_law, @vidushi_law, @vidushi_law, and @vidushi_law. Forums: r/Android
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
The first ever native iPhone porn app, Hot Tub, arrives in the EU via the alternative app store AltStore PAL, which was made possible by the DMA — A native pornography app for iOS is coming to the EU via the approved alternative app store AltStore PAL, made possible by Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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Mastodon: @altstore@fosstodon.org, @paul@tapbots.social, @stroughtonsmith …, @myNameIsT@snailedit.social, @jsnell@zeppelin.flights, @jsnell@zeppelin.flights, @stroughtonsmith …, and @mark@tapbots.social
X: @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @9to5mac, @timsweeneyepic, @mysk_co, @florian4gamers, @timsweeneyepic, @kantrowitz, @timsweeneyepic, @markgurman, @mysk_co, and @timsweeneyepic
Forums: r/apple, r/technology, r/europe, and MacRumors Forums
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta defines the types of AI systems that it deems too risky to release, including ones capable of aiding in cybersecurity, chemical, and biological attacks — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to make artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which is roughly defined as AI that can accomplish … | Josh Xiao / Bloomberg: |
China's State Administration for Market Regulation says it will probe Google for antitrust violations, moments after Trump announced tariffs on Chinese goods — China announced an investigation into Google and imposed new tariffs on a range of US products moments after President Donald Trump slapped …
More: Livemint, TechCrunch, Financial Express, Reuters, Decrypt, CoinDesk, The Irish Times, Le Monde, ITV News, The Guardian, Forbes, The i Paper, WAtoday, CBS News, The Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Sharecafe, Xinhua, FOX31 Denver, The Indian Express, Türkiye Today, Fortune, The Korea Times, NPR, Financial Times, Daily Mail, and Australian Financial Review. Forums: r/politics
| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Dick Kramlich, who co-founded NEA in 1977, died on February 1 at age 89; he was an early investor in Apple and led investments in Juniper Networks and others — - Richard “Dick” Kramlich made one of the earliest investments in Apple. — He cofounded NEA in 1977, which now has nearly $26 billion in assets under management.
More: NEA, Venture Capital Journal, and CNBC
X: @dadiomov, @jonsakoda, @nea, @danprimack, @nadahosking, @ianrountree, and @kevinhartz
LinkedIn: Sanjeev Kumar, Ben Bergman, and Ian Rountree
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Anthropic details Constitutional Classifiers, a protective LLM layer designed to stop AI model jailbreaking by monitoring inputs and outputs for harmful content — Leading tech groups including Microsoft and Meta also invest in similar safety systems — Artificial intelligence start …
More: Anthropic, Ars Technica, Simon Willison's Weblog, MIT Technology Review, VentureBeat, Dark Reading, MarkTechPost, and WinBuzzer
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