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February 10, 2025, 4:25 PM
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Wall Street Journal:
A group of investors led by Elon Musk makes an unsolicited $97.4B offer to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating Sam Altman's plans for OpenAI  —  Unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman's plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company — A consortium of investors led …
Bloomberg:
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says DeepSeek's $6M training cost claim is “exaggerated and a little bit misleading” and a “fraction of the total cost”  —  DeepSeek Ramps Up Hiring for Arcane AI Field as Ambitions Swell  —  Mistral CEO Plans to Raise More Funds to Back AI Data Center
Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
An interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on DeepSeek, why it isn't AI's “Sputnik moment” but is “a big deal”, how DeepSeek will “get shut down” by the US, and more  —  Rene Haas has reshaped chip designer's business to focus on royalties rather than fees
Liam Dawe / GamingOnLinux:
Steam creates an ad documentation page highlighting its ban on forcing players to watch ads, saying “developers should not utilize paid ads as a business model”  —  Turns out this was actually already a rule that Valve had (thanks SteamDB).  It was listed on their Pricing page …
Financial Times:
Ahead of the Paris AI summit, Macron says companies plan to invest €109B in AI projects in France in the coming years and it is France's equivalent to Stargate  —  French president speaks ahead of AI summit in Paris involving executives such as OpenAI's Sam Altman
Reuters:
Sources: OpenAI is finalizing its first in-house chip design in the next few months, to cut its Nvidia reliance, and plans to send it for fabrication at TSMC  —  OpenAI is pushing ahead on its plan to reduce its reliance on Nvidia (NVDA.O) for its chip supply by developing its first generation …
Bloomberg:
Sources: late on Friday night DOGE staffers gained access to all of the CFPB's data systems, which hold confidential info potentially pertaining to X's rivals  —  Government-efficiency team's initial ‘read-only’ access expanded quickly to encompass closely guarded data, internal emails say
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Lyft says it will launch a fleet of robotaxis, using self-driving tech from Intel's Mobileye, in Dallas “as soon as 2026”  —  Lyft is working with Mobileye and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni to manage the fleet.  —  Lyft is working with Mobileye and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni to manage the fleet.

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix and WBD say Netflix revised its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75/share, with the same $82.7B value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing

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The US House Armed Services Committee formally asks the Defense Department how it plans to safeguard Stars and Stripes' congressionally required independence

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