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Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M+ total installs that collected users' conversations with AI chatbots and sold them for marketing use — Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting users' complete and extended AI conversations and selling …
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| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California's SB 53 — Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed the RAISE Act into law Friday, making New York the latest state to have broad safety rules for the most advanced AI models.
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| Blake Brittain / Reuters: |
Google sues data scraping company SerpApi, alleging it used millions of fake search requests to access copyrighted content and sold it to third parties — Google on Friday sued a Texas company that “scrapes” data from online search results, alleging it uses hundreds of millions …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use of headers, lists, and emojis — OpenAI is making it easier to edit emails with ChatGPT, too. … OpenAI will now give you the ability to dial up — or down — ChatGPT's warmth and enthusiasm.
More: Tech in Asia and Blockchain.News
| Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: |
A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B+ — $10 billion of investment. Code names to disguise projects and companies. Mixed opinions. Skyrocketing property values.
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras plans to file for a US IPO as soon as next week, targeting a Q2 2026 listing, after withdrawing its prior IPO filing in October — AI chip maker Cerebras Systems is preparing to file for a U.S. initial public offering as soon as next week …
More: Tech in Asia
| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
Micron projects FY Q2 sales to grow over 2x YoY to $18.7B and adjusted operating income to rise over 5x to $11.3B, signaling higher memory chip prices in 2026 — The AI gold rush is creating shortages for memory chips that could raise prices for all sorts of gadgets
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI introduces a framework to evaluate chain-of-thought monitorability and a suite of 13 evaluations designed to measure the monitorability of an AI system — We introduce evaluations for chain-of-thought monitorability and study how it scales with test-time compute, reinforcement learning, and pretraining.
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| Bloomberg: |
China issues new rules letting online merchants set their own prices across platforms for goods and services they sell, effective April 10, 2026, for five years — China issued rules for governing pricing-related practices of internet platform operators to safeguard the interests of consumers and merchants …
More: Reuters
| Andrej Karpathy / karpathy: |
2025 LLM Year in Review: shift toward RLVR, Claude Code emerged as the first convincing example of an LLM agent, Nano Banana was paradigm shifting, and more — 2025 has been a strong and eventful year of progress in LLMs. The following is a list of personally notable and mildly surprising …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store to install it within 24 hours — Google says it's complying with the Epic injunction by erecting new programs and fees. … Today was the deadline for Google … | Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: |
Filings: Tether-owned Northern Data sold its bitcoin mining unit, Peak Mining, for up to $200M to a group including companies controlled by Tether executives — Stablecoin giant's Devasini is director of groups that bought Peak Mining from Northern Data — Companies run by Tether's … | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B — Resolve AI, a startup developing an autonomous site reliability engineer (SRE), a tool that automatically maintains software systems …
More: Tech in Asia
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M+ hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 — That's up from 400 million hours a year ago as podcasts become the new late-night TV. — People are spending more time tuning …
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