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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
TikTok users in the US were presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking — According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A deep dive into Apple's AI strategy reset, as it prepares to announce a Gemini-powered personalized Siri next month and a reimagined chatbot-like Siri at WWDC — Apple shakes up its AI efforts with a Google partnership, management changes and two new versions of Siri.
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Microsoft confirms it does provide BitLocker recovery keys for encrypted data if it receives a valid legal order and the user has stored the keys on its servers — The tech giant said it receives around 20 requests for BitLocker keys a year and will provide them to governments in response to valid court orders.
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| Jason Lemkin / SaaStr: |
Many AI founders now find it necessary to raise at valuations requiring absolute domination of the field; Brex, once valued at $12B, shows the downsides of this — Capital One just announced it's acquiring Brex for $5.15 billion. An incredible, top .1% “exit” in less than 10 years …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta's decision to deprioritize VR in favor of AI and internet-connected glasses has chilled the VR industry, leading to concerns about its future — Meta's deprioritizing virtual reality in favor of artificial intelligence and Internet-connected smart glasses has chilled the industry, leading to concerns about its future.| Bethan Staton / Financial Times: |
A profile of Mercor, which pays about $2M daily to ~30K experts training AI models at $95/hour on average, with roles like radiologists earning up to $375/hour — Tens of thousands of professionals are joining tech start-up Mercor to hone technology in their skills — At first Lola thought the job ads were fake.| Andy Kemp / Gallup: |
Gallup: 12% of employed US adults reported using AI daily in their job in Q4 2025, compared to 10% in Q3 and 8% in Q2; 49% say they never use AI in their role — The total percentage of employees using AI remains flat, but use varies meaningfully by industry and role type.| Rani Molla / Sherwood News: |
Q&A with David Liu, CEO of PlusAI, which is slated to go public next month, on the ongoing commercial trial of its autonomous truck driving software, and more — With his company set to hit the public markets in February, Liu envisions a future where most vehicles, commercial or not, are driving themselves.| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung enters the final qualification phase to supply its HBM4 chips to Nvidia, and targets mass production in February; Samsung's shares jumped 3.2% — Samsung Electronics Co. is getting close to securing certification from Nvidia Corp. for the latest version of its AI memory chip …
More: Benzinga, Reuters, Investing.com, Reuters, Channel NewsAsia, and KED Global
| Tim McLaughlin / Reuters: |
Power prices surge in Virginia, home to the world's largest data center hub; record demand is expected during the winter storm, partly due to data center needs — Power prices in the largest U.S. grid rose sharply on Sunday as demand in a region with the world's largest concentration …
More: Bloomberg, POWER Magazine, and Travel And Tour World
| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
A look at Clawdbot, an open-source personal AI agent that runs locally on the user's computer and integrates with multiple LLMs and messaging services — For the past week or so, I've been working with a digital assistant that knows my name, my preferences for my morning routine …
More: MarkTechPost and Implicator.ai
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| Aisha Down / The Guardian: |
Tests show GPT-5.2 on ChatGPT is citing Grokipedia as a source on some obscure topics, including Iranian political structures — Guardian found OpenAI's platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers — The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk's Grokipedia …
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| Sherwood News: |
Domain Name Stat: the number of .ai domains has surpassed 1M; data suggests Anguilla, the UK territory managing the domain, made ~$70M in fees in the past year — Data from Domain Name Stat reveals that the top-level domain originally assigned to the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla passed the milestone in early January.| Manish Singh / India Dispatch: |
HSBC: JioHotstar had 300M paying subscribers in India in 2025, compared with 65M for Amazon Prime Video and 20M for Netflix; ~24% of OTT users pay for content — And more than $900 million in annual revenue in India. — Amazon Prime Video has more than three times the subscribers as Netflix in India, according to HSBC.Sponsor Posts
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