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Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 builds on K2 with “pretraining over ~15T mixed visual and text tokens” and “can self-direct an agent swarm with up to 100 sub-agents” — Today, we are introducing Kimi K2.5, the most powerful open-source model to date.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Bloomberg: |
Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2.5, saying the model can process text, images, and videos simultaneously and beats its open-source peers in some tests — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.-backed Moonshot AI released an upgrade of its flagship model, heating up a domestic arms race ahead …
More: The Information, Sherwood News, TechCrunch, and Time
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Forums: r/LocalLLaMA and r/LocalLLaMA
| New York Times: |
Internal Slack message: Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff that “What's happening with ICE is going too far” and he hopes President Trump “will rise to this moment” — Business leaders continue to feel pressure to speak out about the immigration crackdown and the fatal shooting of two U.S. citizens.
More: Wired, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Information, Forbes, and Quartz
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Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz, @hypervisible.blacksky.app, @cassim.montilla.fr, and @tnewmsblues
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
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Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @daniloc.xyz, @carnage4life, and @davidwelton
Forums: r/politics, r/OpenAI, and r/technology
| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
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Forums: r/politics, r/thebulwark, and r/apple
| Washington Post: |
US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to “destructively scan” up to 2M books with a hydraulic “cutting machine” led by an ex-Google exec — In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon plans to close all 57 Fresh and 15 Go locations in the US, as it pivots its physical retail strategy to focus exclusively on Whole Foods — Amazon's homegrown grocery stores are getting shelved. — The company said Tuesday morning that it's closing all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations …
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Bluesky: @dmnd.me and @davelee.me
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
An interview with OpenAI for Science head Kevin Weil on the team's mission, why LLMs can't come up with game-changing discoveries yet, and more — In the three years since ChatGPT's explosive debut, OpenAI's technology has upended a remarkable range of everyday activities at home, at work … | Robert Hart / The Verge: |
Google adds Gemini 3 to AI Overviews as the default model globally and now lets users ask follow-up questions “seamlessly” via AI Mode — Gemini 3 is coming to AI Overviews and you can ask follow-ups for a ‘seamless Search experience.’ — Google is making Search less about links and more about AI.| Henry Chandonnet / Business Insider: |
Clawdbot creator Peter Steinberger says he is changing the name of the viral AI agent to Moltbot after he “was forced to rename the account by Anthropic” — - Clawdbot, the viral AI agent that's leading techies to buy up Mac Minis, is now named Moltbot.
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| Tyler Katzenberger / Politico: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom says he will launch a review into whether TikTok is violating state laws by censoring content critical of President Trump — In a separate X post Monday, the governor's press account said Newsom was launching the review after his office “received reports … | Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
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Forums: r/nottheonion, r/NPR, and r/technology
| Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
WhatsApp launches Strict Account Settings, a high-security mode to protect high-risk users like journalists and public figures from sophisticated cyberattacks — Meta's WhatsApp messaging service is offering users an advanced security mode, joining a growing number of U.S. tech firms …
More: TechCrunch, WhatsApp Blog, The Verge, Meta Newsroom, CyberScoop, Engadget, 9to5Mac, and The Hacker News. Bluesky: @raphae.li
| Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Crypto payments network Mesh raised a $75M Series C led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation, bringing its total funding to $200M — Partner offers — Quick Take — Mesh raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Dragonfly Capital, valuing the crypto payments startup at $1 billion.
More: Mesh, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, FinSMEs, Coinspeaker, Cryptonews, and Blockonomi
| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
Amazon agrees to pay a $309M settlement and return $600M to users in a US class action lawsuit over allegedly incorrectly denied refunds since September 2017 — Amazon (AMZN.O) has agreed to pay $309 million and provide other benefits in a class action settlement with customers who claimed …
More: PCMag, How-To Geek, The Verge, and Cord Cutters News
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google expands Android's anti-theft suite, including a dedicated toggle for its Failed Authentication Lock feature on devices running Android 16 or later — Google on Tuesday announced an expanded set of Android theft protection features, designed to make its mobile devices less of a target for criminals.| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
An interview with Mozilla president Mark Surman about plans to deploy its ~$1.4B in reserves to fund an AI “rebel alliance” to challenge companies like OpenAI — From his small, snow-covered farm outside Toronto, home to cats and a dog, and soon some donkeys … | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Sonos announces the Amp Multi, a large digital amplifier and its first new device in over a year, ending a pause in hardware releases as it focused on software — Sonos Inc. introduced its first new device in over a year, marking the end of an intentional lull in product launches … | Sam Tabahriti / Reuters: |
The UK government says it recruited a team of AI specialists to build AI tools to improve transport, public safety and defense, backed by Meta's funding — The British government said on Tuesday it had recruited a team of artificial intelligence specialists to build AI tools to improve transport … | Pascale Davies / Euronews: |
France plans to replace Microsoft Teams and Zoom with French-made and Outscale-hosted Visio by 2027, as part of a push to drop US software vendors in government — France announced that it will roll out the Visio platform across all government departments by 2027.
More: TechCrunch, The Register, and Windows Central
| Samantha Cole / 404 Media: |
Pornhub parent Aylo says it will restrict UK users from February 2, after six months of complying with the UK's OSA; users who verified their ages can login — Starting February 2, many people connecting from the UK will not be able to access the porn site and many others.
More: TechCrunch, BBC, The Verge, Mirror, Metro.co.uk, Telegraph, Wired, Politico, Mashable, and Biometric Update
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it will test new paid subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on its apps and plans to scale Manus as part of those offerings — Meta plans to test new subscriptions that give people access to exclusive features on it apps, the company told TechCrunch on Monday.| Kerry Flynn / Axios: |
Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace — Yahoo is joining the next era of search with Yahoo Scout, a new AI answer engine that has a standalone site and app, and will be available across its properties.| Katarina Hoije / Bloomberg: |
Khaby Lame, the world's biggest TikToker, partners with Nasdaq-listed Rich Sparkle in a $975M, 36-month deal to monetize his fan base, including an AI version — Khaby Lame, the world's biggest TikToker, partnered with Rich Sparkle Holdings Ltd. to transform his 360 million social-media followers into a commercial venture.| Financial Times: |
A profile of White House AI adviser Sriram Krishnan, who wrote an EO against “Woke” AI, aims to “fight China”, and rallies executives around Trump's policies — White House adviser Sriram Krishnan has been instrumental to the US administration's light touch on AI
X: @skupor
| Wired: |
Documents: a whistleblower details the Boshang scam compound in Laos that defrauded victims of ~$2.2M over 11 weeks and utilized a system of worker debt bondage — A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials …
More: Wired and Decrypt
X: @a_greenberg. Bluesky: @knibbs, @agreenberg, @couts, @brbarrett, @katie-drummond, @mattburgess1, @timmarchman, @lhn, and @davidgilbert
Forums: r/TrueReddit and r/longform
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