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Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials — Italy fined Cloudflare 14.2 million euros for refusing to block access to pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service …
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The US Commerce Department drops a plan to impose restrictions on Chinese drones to address national security concerns; FCC barred imports in December 2025 — The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it has withdrawn a plan to impose restrictions on Chinese drones to address national security concerns …
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Anthropic adds safeguards to prevent third-party apps, like OpenCode, from spoofing Claude Code to access Claude models for more favorable pricing and limits — Anthropic has confirmed the implementation of strict new technical safeguards preventing third-party applications from spoofing …
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| Wojciech Kość / Politico: |
Poland's President Karol Nawrocki vetoes legislation meant to enforce the EU's DSA in Poland, arguing it would grant excessive powers to government officials — Nawrocki called EU social media law “Orwellian,” echoing Washington's main line of attack. — WARSAW — Poland's nationalist … | Alex Reisner / The Atlantic: |
Researchers say GPT 4.1, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3 can reproduce long excerpts from books they were trained on when strategically prompted — On tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden.
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| Claire Yubin Oh / Sherwood News: |
Stack Overflow recorded just 6,866 questions in Dec. 2025, about the same as in 2008; Stack Overflow now primarily makes money from enterprises and licensing — The platform is raking in millions of dollars in revenue, with AI an ironic new source of revenue.| The Substack Post: |
Michael Burry, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, and Dwarkesh Patel on the future of AI, whether AI tools improve productivity, job losses due to AI, and more — The man who predicted the 2008 crash, Anthropic's co-founder, and a leading AI podcaster jump into a Google doc to debate the future of AI—and, possibly, our lives| Iain Martin / Forbes: |
a16z captured 18%+ of all venture capital allocated in the US in 2025 and now manages $90B in assets, vs. Sequoia Capital's $56B and General Catalyst's $43B — Andreessen Horowitz has raised $15 billion for five new growth and venture funds in one of the largest-ever raises for a venture capital fund.
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US PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire a majority stake in business contract software company Sirion; a source says the deal values Sirion at about $1B — U.S. private equity firm Haveli Investments has agreed to make a majority investment in Sirion, which provides software …
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OpenAI and SoftBank say they will each invest $500M in SB Energy to support the infrastructure company's growth as a data center developer and operator — OpenAI and SoftBank Group Corp. have jointly invested $1 billion in SB Energy, an infrastructure company that's working with the tech firms … | Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: |
Internal document: Amazon rolled out a manager dashboard that tracks employees' office attendance and how many hours they spend there, after its RTO mandate — - Amazon rolled out a manager dashboard that tracks the time corporate employees spend in the office.| Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: |
D-Wave Quantum agrees to acquire Quantum Circuits, a developer of error-corrected gate-model technology, for $550M, with $300M in stock and the rest in cash — D-Wave Quantum announced Wednesday that it has struck a deal to purchase Quantum Circuits for $550 million, as the annealing-centric … | Bloomberg: |
Xreal co-founder and CEO Chi Xu says the smart glass maker, which has a $1B+ valuation, recently raised $100M from “supply chain partners” and other backers — Smart glasses maker Xreal Inc. recently raised $100 million, its chief executive officer said, adding to the firm's coffers as competition in the category heats up.
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| Bloomberg: |
Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's stock has surged 88% over the past year, driven by the success of its Kling AI video generator, which has amassed 60M users — Few major companies have tried to pull off a pivot to AI as swiftly as Kuaishou Technology. — Long known as a laggard … | Wired: |
Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current or previous jobs to evaluate its models, leaving it to them to scrub confidential info — To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs … | The Guardian: |
The UK government says X restricting Grok's image creation to paid users is insulting as it just makes the ability to generate unlawful images a premium service — Spokesperson says limiting access to paying subscribers just makes ability to generate unlawful images a premium service
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