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Sources: Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies are ramping up orders for Nvidia's H20 AI chip due to booming demand for DeepSeek's models — Chinese companies are ramping up orders for Nvidia's (NVDA.O) H20 artificial intelligence chip due to booming demand …
More: PC Guide, Tech Monitor, TipRanks Financial, Atlantic Council, Proactive, WinBuzzer, Benzinga, and Tech in Asia
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Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended, step-by-step thinking, and Claude Code, an agentic coding tool — Anthropic is releasing a new frontier AI model called Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which the company designed to “think” about questions for as long as users want it to.
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More: Ben's Bites Newsletter. Bluesky: @emollick. X: @zoharatkins, @dyot_meet_mat, @levie, @emollick, and @thestalwart. LinkedIn: Michael Dowling
| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
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| CNBC: |
Chegg sues Google, saying AI Overviews hurt its traffic and revenue, as it mulls strategic options, including an acquisition; CHGG drops 30%+ — Chegg on Monday filed suit in federal district court against Google, claiming that artificial intelligence summaries of search results have hurt …
More: Chegg, Engadget, Silicon Republic, MEDIANAMA, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Ghacks, Reuters, Search Engine Roundtable, Sherwood News, TweakTown, Cryptopolitan, Silicon UK, TechIssuesToday.com, Hindustan Times, and Bloomberg
Bluesky: @carnage4life. X: @bluff_capital, @dannyocean555, @ernestwongbwm, @thetranscript_, and @thetranscript_
| Dan Milmo / The Guardian: |
Kate Bush and 1,000+ other musicians “co-write” a “silent” album to protest the UK's proposal to let AI train on their copyrighted work if they don't opt out — Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK's plans to let AI train on their work without permission
More: Is This What You Want?, TechCrunch, BBC, TechSpot, Ghacks, Radio Times, Al Jazeera, Fortune, Telegraph, Mirror, Silicon Republic, Music Ally, Digital Music News, Rolling Stone UK, Daily Mail, Music Business Worldwide, The Standard, The Independent, Billboard, Reuters, and The Sun
Bluesky: @hutchingsmusic, @annedudleymusic, @policedoghogan, @markayresrws, @GossiTheDog.cyberplace …, @petewishart, @psbhq, and @flomm.us
Mastodon: @WarnerCrocker@mastodon.social and @garyhall@hcommons.social
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Forums: r/Music, r/blur, r/DefendingAIArt, r/indieheads, and r/katebush
| Arjun Sha / Beebom: |
Microsoft quietly launched free, ad-supported desktop versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows, with banner and video ads and limited functionality — In Short — Microsoft has quietly introduced a free ad-supported Office that brings access to desktop Word, Excel, and PowerPoint without any subscription.
More: The Register, Windows Central, Engadget, The Verge, PCWorld, Laptop Mag, BetaNews, Tom's Hardware, Tech.co, Pureinfotech, Android Authority, Guru3D, WinBuzzer, TechSpot, and MakeUseOf
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Forums: r/assholedesign, r/technology, r/Windows11, and Slashdot
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google releases its free Gemini Code Assist globally in public preview for solo developers, with 180K code completions per month; GitHub Copilot offers 2,000 — And provides 90 times more monthly code completions than GitHub Copilot's free tier. … A free version of Gemini Code Assist … | Financial Times: |
Sources: left-leaning staff at Meta, Apple, Google, and Amazon mostly stayed silent on their CEOs attending Trump's inauguration due to a less secure job market — Fearful employees have done little to protest against the rightward shift of leaders such as Meta's Mark Zuckerberg
Bluesky: @hypervisible
| Brad Norton / Dexerto: |
Activision confirms on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's Steam page that it “uses generative AI tools to help develop some in game assets”, after fan speculation — Activision has finally admitted to using AI-generated content in its games and Call of Duty players aren't the least bit surprised.
More: Windows Central, Kotaku, TechSpot, Comic Book, IGN, Video Games Chronicle, The Shortcut, TweakTown, Push Square, Game Rant, Gameranx, VideoGamer, PC Gamer, KitGuru, Eurogamer.net, TheGamer, and 80 Level
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SpaceX seeks to deploy Starlink terminals for the FAA, raising questions about Elon Musk's conflicts of interest and Verizon's $2B FAA contract in 2023 — Elon Musk's SpaceX is seeking to deploy Starlink satellite internet terminals to help accelerate an upgrade …
More: The Post Millennial, CNN, Simple Flying, Proactive, The Indian Express, and Benzinga
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Epic v. Apple: Phil Schiller says he initially feared Apple's 27% App Store fee posed a compliance risk and could create “antagonistic” developer relations — Apple Fellow Phil Schiller, the executive in charge of leading the App Store, testified in court on Monday … | Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Bitcoin falls below $90K, its lowest level since mid-November 2024, as the rally that followed Trump's election fades; ETH, XRP, SOL, and more also fell sharply — - Biggest token is now down almost 20% since Trump inauguration — Macro factors and crypto blowups combine to erode confidence
More: PYMNTS.com, Decrypt, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, The Block, Reuters, CoinDesk, crypto.news, Bitcoin Insider, The Standard, The Independent, Coinpedia Fintech News, CryptoPotato, Blockonomi, and Forbes. Forums: r/Economics
| Faris Mokhtar / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Indonesia and Apple agree a deal to lift the iPhone 16 ban, with Apple set to invest $1B; a memorandum of agreement may be signed this week — - Tech giant has promised to invest $1 billion in Indonesia — Deal would be win for Prabowo after series of policy setbacks
More: Engadget, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Tech in Asia, Macau Business, PhoneArena, Cult of Mac, BGR, The Jakarta Post, Patently Apple, and Reuters
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe launches an updated Photoshop app for iOS, including many design, editing, and AI tools from the desktop app; an Android app is coming “later this year” — It's free and available on iOS first, with an Android version coming later this year.
More: TechCrunch, The Adobe Blog, PCMag, VentureBeat, Investor's Business Daily, ZDNET, Android Police, Reuters, T3, CNET, Macworld, XDA Developers, Engadget, How-To Geek, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Adobe, TechRadar, Laptop Mag, RedShark News, Creative Bloq, Digital Trends, The Shortcut, BGR, PetaPixel, and SlashGear
| Carly Page / TechCrunch: |
Employee screening company DISA confirms a data breach in February 2024, found in April 2024, affecting 3.3M+ people and including Social Security numbers — DISA Global Solutions, a U.S.-based provider of employee screening services, has said it suffered a data breach that affects more than 3.3 million people.
More: Engadget, The Record, Malwarebytes, and CyberInsider
| NBC News: |
Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI — The revelation comes as federal workers face a midnight deadline to respond. — WASHINGTON — Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email …
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Threads: @jw and @thebrianpenny
Forums: Hacker News, r/politics, r/ABoringDystopia, r/nottheonion, r/economicCollapse, r/artificial, r/NIH, r/politics, r/Fauxmoi, r/optimistsunitenonazis, r/WeirdGOP, r/nothinghappeninghere, r/Trumpvirus, r/FedEmployees, r/democrats, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/NewsOfTheStupid, r/politics, r/technology, r/fednews, r/OpenAI, r/1102, r/antiwork, r/moderatepolitics, r/inthenews, r/neoliberal, r/law, r/NIH, r/law, r/washdc, r/unusual_whales, r/politics, r/fednews, r/Liberal, and r/politics
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Israeli startup Quantum Machines, which offers hardware tools to other quantum computing companies, raised a $170M Series C led by PSG Equity — Quantum computing remains a holy grail in the world of technology, but with some important breakthroughs in the last several months …
More: Forbes, Globes Online, VentureBeat, Reuters, Fortune, Intel Capital, and The Quantum Insider
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Italy wants to replace STMicro CEO Jean-Marc Chéry for poor performance, as the Franco-Italian chipmaker struggles to navigate a slump in chip demand — Italy's government wants to replace Jean-Marc Chéry, the man at the helm of Franco-Italian chipmaking joint-venture STMicroelectronics NV, for poor performance.
More: MacDailyNews
| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Crypto exchange OKX settles charges with the US DOJ and will pay over $500M in penalties and forfeited fees after facilitating $5B+ in suspicious transactions — An OKX subsidiary said it resolved a U.S. DOJ investigation. — What to know: … OKX, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges …
More: OKX, US Department of Justice, Coinpedia Fintech News, crypto.news, Reuters, and CryptoSlate
X: @sdnynews, @cmdoerfler, and @cmdoerfler
| Wall Street Journal: |
Utah, South Carolina, and at least seven other US states recently proposed bills to require app store operators to check user ages, a move supported by Meta — Meta spars with Apple and Google over who's responsible as child-safety advocates push for age checks
More: 9to5Mac
| Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek reopens API top-ups after suspending them on February 6 due to demand, as Alibaba previews its QwQ-Max model and the Chinese AI rivalry escalates — - It resumed service the same day Alibaba previewed a new model — AI development has quickened since DeepSeek's emergence
More: TechCrunch, Benzinga, and Watcher Guru
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