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Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing the risk of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, becoming the first country to block the AI tool — Indonesia temporarily blocked Elon Musk's Grok chatbot on Saturday due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool.
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Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses — As spotted by Malwarebytes, the alleged leak includes usernames, email addresses, phone numbers and more. — If you received a bunch … | TRM Insights: |
Investigation: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used two UK-registered companies to move ~$1B in stablecoins since 2023, evading international sanctions — This blog features a case study from TRM's upcoming 2026 Crypto Crime Report. Be sure to check back in the coming weeks to get your complete copy.
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| Bloomberg: |
China releases draft guidelines for governing online personal data collection, open for public consultation amid privacy concerns and companies' data misuse — China has issued draft regulations for the governance of personal information collection from the internet and its use by applicants … | Microsoft Corporate Responsibility: |
A look at the global AI adoption in 2025; use in the global north grew nearly twice as fast as the south; the UAE leads with 64% of working-age adults using AI — AI Diffusion Report 2025 — Executive summary — Global adoption of artificial intelligence continued to rise in the second half of 2025 …
LinkedIn: David Cornell, Matthew Milton, and Omar Saucedo
| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Tether's role in Venezuela's economy, which puts it in a prime position to aid the U.S. as it seeks to find funds allegedly stolen by Maduro's regime — The stablecoin served as a tool to avoid sanctions and a lifeline for everyday citizens — Nicolás Maduro helped make tether the world's dominant stablecoin.
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Newly listed Chinese AI chipmakers Moore Threads, Biren, and MetaX had strong stock market debuts, but none has sales worth more than a tenth of rival Cambricon — The three newly listed makers of semiconductors are lossmaking, and none has sales worth more than a tenth of their bigger rival
Forums: r/technews
| Bloomberg: |
Analysis: global AI-related companies drove ~40% of benchmark convertible bond index returns in 2025, pushing the amount raised to $166.5B, the most since 2001 — Companies around the world are issuing convertible bonds at the fastest pace in 24 years, as the development of artificial intelligence spurs a hunt for cheaper financing.| Anil Dash: |
A look at the history and rise of Markdown, which has been adopted across the tech industry in the decades since its quiet launch in 2004 by John Gruber — Nearly every bit of the high-tech world, from the most cutting-edge AI systems at the biggest companies, to the casual scraps …
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China launches a probe into competition among online food delivery platforms, aiming to curb price wars that have contributed to deflationary economic pressures — China will investigate cutthroat competition among food delivery platforms operated by tech firms such as Meituan and Alibaba … | Hideaki Ryugen / Nikkei Asia: |
Taiwan's data shows the US became its top export destination in 2025 over China, including Hong Kong, the first time since 1999, partly driven by AI tech demand — TAIPEI — Taiwan's exports to the U.S. exceeded its exports to China, including Hong Kong, for the first time in 26 years in 2025 …
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| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Grubhub parent Wonder, which has raised about $2B and is rolling out robotic meal-assembly tech acquired from Sweetgreen for $186M in November 2025 — E-commerce mogul Marc Lore's Wonder is leaning into automation in a $2 billion effort to do to restaurants what Amazon did to shopping.
More: New Jersey Online
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Morgan Stanley survey of audio habits in the US: 50% to 60% of listeners aged 18-44 reported listening to AI-generated music for 2.5 to 3 hours per week — That's enough AI music to last the run time of “Avatar.” — Video may have killed the radio star, but AI is starting to dance on its grave.| 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
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