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Bloomberg:
Alibaba Chair Joe Tsai says Apple will use the Chinese tech giant's AI tech on iPhones sold in China, speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai  —  - Chairman Joe Tsai confirms Apple will use its AI technology  — Alibaba is staging a comeback after years of turbulence
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple resumes advertising on X for the first time since November 2023, when it halted ads due to Elon Musk's comments; @Apple is running a Safari privacy promo  —  Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in more than a year.  The company had stopped advertising …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Tim Cook teases an announcement of “the newest member of the family” on February 19; Mark Gurman reported Apple would update the iPhone SE  —  Apple will reveal its next device on February 19th.  —  Apple will reveal its next device on February 19th.
Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle:
Sony reports PlayStation 5 sales in Q3 were 9.5M, the best quarter since its launch, and hits 75M total PS5 sales; MAUs across its platform rose 43% YoY to 129M
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
PlayStation's State of Play event showed that Microsoft might publish more PS5 games in 2025 than Sony does, even as Xbox hardware sales continue to decline
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
YouTube updates Shorts to integrate Google DeepMind's latest video model Veo 2, letting creators generate AI video clips to add to any of their Shorts  —  YouTube Shorts is integrating with Google DeepMind's latest video model, Veo 2, allowing creators to generate AI video clips for their posts.
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Recorded Future: Salt Typhoon breached five more telcos and ISPs, including two US telcos, and 12+ universities in December-January by exploiting Cisco routers  —  Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn't stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic, Politico, Vox and others sue Cohere, alleging it used copyrighted works to train its LLM and shared versions of entire articles without permission  —  Lawsuit accuses Canadian company of sharing versions of entire articles without permission  —  The Atlantic, Politico …
Reuters:
Germany's Bundeskartellamt charges Apple with abusing its market power via App Tracking Transparency, giving itself preferential treatment, and requires changes  —  The German antitrust authority has charged Apple (AAPL.O) with abusing its market power through its app tracking tool …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Roku reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $1.2B, vs. $1.15B est., a net loss of $35.5M, and streaming households up 12% YoY to 89.8M; ROKU jumps 10%+ after hours  —  Roku overdelivered for the fourth quarter of 2024, boosting revenue 22% and narrowing its net loss to beat Wall Street expectations.
Dan Primack / Axios:
Texas-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised a $350M Series A co-led by B Capital and Capital Factory and plans a series of pilot programs in 2025  —  embargo moved to thurs...  Apptronik, a Texas-based developer of humanoid robots, announced Wednesday that it's raised $350 million in Series A funding.
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: Anthropic has developed a hybrid AI model that combines traditional LLM capabilities with reasoning features and plans to release it in the coming weeks  —  After OpenAI released its reasoning models last fall, Google, Alibaba, High-Flyer Capital Management and others followed with their own.
Beatrice Nolan / Fortune:
After Meta laid off 3,600 of its “lowest performers” on February 10, some say they had good performance reviews, and experts say the label is highly subjective  —  - <strong>Meta said it was cutting low performers in its most recent round of cuts.  However, some staffers and experts have questioned the company's methods.
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Andy Biggs write to National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard asking her to demand the UK retract its back door request to Apple  —  Letter urges new intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard to take resolute action to stymie a top ally's controversial and confidential order.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Court filing: Elon Musk will withdraw his $97.4B bid if OpenAI's board of directors “preserve the charity's mission” and halt its conversion to a for-profit  —  In a court filing on Wednesday, a lawyer for Elon Musk said the billionaire will withdraw his $97.4 billion bid …
Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg:
Filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's $97.4B bid contradicts his attacks in his lawsuit against OpenAI that its assets can't be “transferred away” for “private gain”
Chainalysis:
In 2024, crypto scams received at least $9.9B on-chain, up 40% YoY and likely a record; scams marketplace Huione Guarantee received $376M+ in crypto in 2024  —  The Chainalysis Crypto Crime Report  —  In 2024, cryptocurrency scams received at least $9.9 billion on-chain …
Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg:
Sources: Thoma Bravo-backed enterprise security software company SailPoint raised $1.38B in an upsized IPO at $23 per share, giving it a $12.8B market cap  —  The Austin-based company and the sellers sold 60 million shares Thursday for $23 each after marketing 50 million for $21 to $23 apiece …
More: Bloomberg

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From Mediagazer

Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Experts say FCC chair Brendan Carr's threats to broadcasters violate the First Amendment and are an abuse of the FCC's power

Scott Nover / Washington Post:
Doc: journalists covering the Pentagon will be required to pledge not to gather confidential or unauthorized info, and their passes will be revoked if they do

Dan Raby / CBS News:
Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation after being in the US for 20+ years; he was arrested while covering a Georgia rally in June

More News

Dan Primack / Axios:
Slow Ventures raised $60M+ for a fund to invest in creators who are authorities on niche areas like automotive; the fund appears to be the first of its kind
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
EnCharge AI, which claims its AI accelerators use 20x less energy to run workloads compared with other chips, raised a $100M+ Series B led by Tiger Global
The Markup:
Investigation: Match Group, which runs 12+ dating apps, has known for years about abusive and violent users, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark
More: Engadget and Mashable
Bluesky: @stephrwolf.  Mastodon: @themarkup@mastodon ….  X: @aaron_glantz.  Forums: r/Denver and Beehaw
Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
Elon Musk and right-wing influencers redefine “doxxing” to include reporting on government employees; free speech advocates say they aim to intimidate the press
Hsiuwen Liu / Rest of World:
Experts say Southeast Asian students in Taiwan's work-study programs often end up as low-paid labor in the chip industry under the guise of “practical training”

Earlier Picks

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
OpenAI plans to give free ChatGPT users unlimited GPT-5 access at “the standard intelligence setting”; Plus and Pro users will get to run GPT-5 at higher levels
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google plans to begin testing an ML-based model in the US in 2025 that estimates whether a user is under 18 to help provide more “age-appropriate experiences”
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