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Grok says image generation and editing are now limited to paid subscribers, after outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery — X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
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| Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
Filings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from £69.1M in 2023 to £28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profit fell from £8.5M in 2022 and £2.2M in 2023 to £767K in 2024 — Elon Musk-owned site reports plunging profits amid outcry over use of AI tool Grok to create sexually explicit imagery| Hadas Gold / CNN: |
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| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
Docs: xAI had a net loss of $1.46B in Q3, up from $1B in Q1; sources: xAI told investors it plans to build AI that will eventually power Optimus humanoid robots — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI is burning cash quickly, with losses mounting as it spends to build data centers … | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI is rolling out a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to assist with medical reasoning and administrative tasks, at Cedars-Sinai and others — Health care is shaping up to be a key battleground for the top AI labs this year. But first... Three things to know:
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X: @nearcyan and @bradlightcap
LinkedIn: Ashley Alexander, Steven Michaels, and Kavin Karthik
| Bloomberg: |
Omdia: global humanoid robot shipments rose more than 5x YoY in 2025 to ~13K units; China accounted for the vast majority, led by AgiBot shipping ~5,168 units — Humanoid robot makers in China accounted for the vast majority of the roughly 13,000 units shipped globally last year …
More: South China Morning Post, AGIBOT Innovation …, Silicon UK, and TechNode
| Sophie Bates / Associated Press: |
Mississippi Gov. Reeves says xAI is set to spend $20B+ to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, xAI's third data center in the greater Memphis area — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build a data center in Southaven, Mississippi …
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| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Nvidia has hired Google Cloud VP of Marketing Alison Wagonfeld to be Nvidia's first CMO; source: Wagonfeld will report to CEO Jensen Huang — Alison Wagonfeld will report to CEO Jensen Huang as marketing rises in importance at the AI chip maker — Nvidia, the top AI chip maker … | Cody Combs / The National: |
NetBlocks says internet connectivity in Iran has fallen on multiple providers as protests hit 100+ cities; Cloudflare says IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply — Cloudflare Radar says country's IPv6 traffic has dropped sharply as protests spread across 100 cities
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Jennifer Swann / Wired: |
How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles — Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, find love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces.| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B — Snowflake plans to acquire Observe, an observability platform that has been built on Snowflake's databases from day one.
More: Tech Monitor, InfoWorld, The Snowflake AI Data Cloud, PYMNTS.com, The Information, Runtime, The Information, TechTarget, CIO Dive, SiliconANGLE, and San Francisco Business Times
X: @ramaswmysridhar and @snowflake
LinkedIn: Kristin Liu, Sumit Bhatia, Vikram Ghosh, Xuewei Zhang, and Tom Vangel Jr
| Ann Gehan / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data — OpenAI's efforts to turn ChatGPT into a go-to personal shopper are off to a slow start. — Challenges with wrangling product data mean … | Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
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X: @kross_roads, @protonvpn, @kimmonismus, @paypal, @acce, and @msftnews
LinkedIn: Ricky Ranjan, Carolina Puerto, and Jeff Pomeroy
| The Information: |
Source: Lambda, which rents access to AI chips and is backed by Nvidia, is in talks to raise $350M+ led by Mubadala Capital, ahead of an IPO planned for H2 2026 — Lambda, an upstart cloud provider that rents out Nvidia AI chips—and whose biggest customer was recently Nvidia itself …
More: DatacenterDynamics
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
a16z raises over $15B across five new funds, including $6.75B for its fifth growth fund and $3B for unspecified “other venture strategies” — Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, whose past investments included Airbnb and Coinbase, on Friday announced that it raised over $15 billion for a group of new funds.| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Artemis Analytics: total stablecoin transaction volumes rose 72% YoY to a record $33T in 2025, led by Circle's USDC at $18.3T and Tether's USDT at $13.3T — Stablecoin transactions reached unprecedented heights last year, buoyed by favorable policy in the US under pro-crypto President Donald Trump.
More: BeInCrypto, CryptoNinjas, Bitcoin Insider, Coinspeaker, Artemis, Cryptonews, The Crypto Times, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph
X: @aservais1, @mdudas, and @wublockchain
| Louise Breusch Rasmussen / Reuters: |
The EU says it is considering designating WhatsApp a “very large platform”, after WhatsApp published user numbers above the DSA threshold in February 2025 — The European Commission is considering recategorizing Meta's (META.O) WhatsApp messaging service to make it more responsible … | Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta strikes a 20-year deal to buy 2,600+ MW of nuclear power from Vistra, and announces deals to back new reactor projects from TerraPower and Oklo — Facebook parent will back nuclear projects with Oklo, Bill Gates-backed TerraPower and Vistra — Meta Platforms on Friday unveiled … Sponsor Posts
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