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Wall Street Journal:
Source: TikTok CEO Shou Chew proposed to senior White House officials a US-based joint venture between US investors and TikTok that would oversee data security  —  Vance tapped to help oversee negotiations, with companies including Oracle and Amazon signaling interest while TikTok officials hope to avoid a sale
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Mariella Moon / Engadget:
TikTok advises its US Android users to sideload the app through APKs on its website; its app still isn't back in Apple's App Store and Google Play in the US
Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
How DeepSeek's R1 led to more chatbots' “chains of thought” being shown to users; an expert says seeing a chatbot's supposed inner monologue can trigger empathy  —  How Chinese start-up DeepSeek triggered a rush to launch chatbots that “reason.”
New York Times:
Chainalysis: just under 700K wallets recorded gains on $TRUMP, 810K+ have lost money, and $6.6B has been secured in cashed-out profits, mostly by early buyers  —  Some traders made tens of millions off a new cryptocurrency launched by President Trump and his sons.  Many others lost out.
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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Christie's plans to hold its first AI art auction, beginning February 20; critics say the sale elevates AI tools trained on artists' works without their consent  —  Fine art auction house, Christie's, has sold AI-generated art before.  But soon, it plans to hold its first show dedicated solely …
Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters:
TrendForce: China's share of global mature node manufacturing capacity in 2024 was 34%, vs. Taiwan's 43%; China's share is forecasted to exceed Taiwan's by 2027  —  When Taiwan's Powerchip Technology entered a deal with the eastern Chinese city of Hefei in 2015 to set up a new chip foundry …
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Edison: despite Spotify's video push, only two of the top 10 US podcasts post videos on Spotify; 37 of the top 50 US podcasts regularly post videos on YouTube  —  Popular programs like New Heights and Club Shay Shay have yet to put their videos on the streaming service  —  Hello, and welcome back to Soundbite.
Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
T-Mobile's satellite texting feature, currently in beta and powered by SpaceX's Starlink, will cost customers $15/month starting in July for users on most plans  —  - Anticipated upgrade goes into a free beta period until July … The service is in beta mode now and users can sign up online to participate …
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
A look at WikiTok, a site that lets users vertically swipe through an endless stream of random Wikipedia article stubs without an algorithm that tracks the user  —  On Wednesday, a New York-based app developer named Isaac Gemal debuted a new site called WikiTok, where users can vertically swipe through …

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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Analysis: among the top 50 news websites in the US and the UK, 34% blocked all major AI training bots; 14%, including Fox and Substack, allowed access to all

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: Disney CEO Bob Iger's pay package rose 11.5% in 2025 to $45.8M; the Disney board is expected to name his successor early this year

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
British podcasters like Steven Bartlett of The Diary of a CEO are adopting various strategies, including moving to the US, to break into the larger US market

More News

Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
DeepSeek recruiting recent graduates from China's top universities reflects a growing trend among the country's top AI talent to pursue opportunities at home

Earlier Picks

Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review:
Meta shares work on a system that uses a magnetic scanner and a deep neural network to analyze brain signals and identify which keys people pressed while typing
Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:
Leaked draft: the statement set to be signed at the Paris AI Action Summit barely mentions AI risks and fails to follow up on commitments from previous Summits
Jay Peters / The Verge:
PlayStation Network experienced a 24-hour outage on Feb. 7, affecting account management, gaming and social, and PlayStation Video, Store, and Direct services
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