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Investors led by Elon Musk make an unsolicited $97.4B bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, complicating Sam Altman's plans to convert to a for-profit — Unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman's plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company — A consortium of investors led …
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| The Hill: |
In response to the $97.4B OpenAI bid, Sam Altman says on X “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want”; Elon Musk replies “swindler” — OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman appeared to shut down a reported offer from an investor group led …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Paris AI summit takeaways: Europe has regulation regrets, AI doomsayers have lost ground, and policymakers can't seem to grasp how soon powerful AI could arrive — At times, Kevin Roose writes, it feels like he is watching policymakers on horseback trying to install seatbelts on a passing Lamborghini.| Financial Times: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says DeepSeek's $5.6M 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”, its China origin is “a big deal”, the US will “shut down” the app, and more — Rene Haas has reshaped chip designer's business to focus on royalties rather than fees
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| Reuters: |
Sources: OpenAI is finalizing its first in-house chip's 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 …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Lyft says it will launch a fleet of robotaxis, using Intel's Mobileye self-driving tech, in Dallas “as soon as 2026”, and scale to “thousands” in more markets — Lyft is working with Mobileye and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni to manage the fleet.
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Google Maps now shows “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico” for users in the US; users in Mexico see “Gulf of Mexico”, and everyone else sees both names — Google has officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico for US users.
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| 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: on February 7, DOGE staff gained access to all the CFPB's data systems, which hold potentially competitive info that may be useful to X's payments push — Government-efficiency team's initial ‘read-only’ access expanded quickly to encompass closely guarded data, internal emails say
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| Anna Washenko / Engadget: |
Discord unveils Ignore, a feature that lets users hide new messages, DMs, server notifications, profiles, and activity from selected users without alerting them — Take a break from other accounts without alerting them. — Social platform Discord announced a new feature today called Ignore.| Scott Rosenberg / Axios: |
Anthropic debuts Anthropic Economic Index to track AI's impact by analyzing Claude usage data, showing AI use leans 57% for augmentation vs. 43% for automation — The more information AI makers share with the world, the better we'll be able to understand how the new technology is changing our lives.
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| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
An Alabama man pleads guilty in relation to the SIM-swap hack of the US SEC's X account, to falsely claim in January 2024 the agency had approved bitcoin ETFs — An Alabama man pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Washington, D.C., in connection with last year's hack of the U.S. Securities … | Kalley Huang / The Information: |
Memo: Meta's privacy teams will have less authority to delay product launches and Meta will review prior decisions, as some practices have become “risk-averse” — Meta Platforms has erected guardrails around how it develops new products over the past decade to better protect …
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