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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Elon Musk announces xAI implemented a reorganization that “required parting ways with some people”, after two xAI co-founders said they were leaving this week — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday announced the the company's xAI artificial intelligence venture implemented a reorganization that …
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| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
US FTC chair asks Tim Cook to review Apple News' ToS and curation, citing allegations that it promotes “left-wing” outlets and suppresses conservative sources — US regulator issues warning to iPhone maker about its News platform following controversy over Super Bowl half-time show
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| Reuters: |
Z.ai says it will raise prices by at least 30% for new GLM coding plan subscribers to accommodate surging demand for its AI coding tools — Chinese artificial intelligence startup Zhipu on Thursday said it was raising prices for subscriptions to its GLM coding plan to accommodate a rapid increase …
| Z.ai: |
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, and Lobsters
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung says it sent the first commercial HBM4 shipments to customers; Samsung seeks to supply Nvidia and compete with memory rivals like SK Hynix and Micron — Samsung Electronics Co. claimed an early lead in the race to supply advanced memory for AI accelerators like those made by Nvidia Corp. … | Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Google's TIG says Gemini has been inundated by “commercially motivated” actors who are trying to clone it, including one campaign that prompted it 100K+ times — Google says private companies and researchers are trying to copy Gemini's capabilities by repeatedly prompting it at scale.| Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: |
Anthropic donates $20M to Public First, a super PAC pushing for AI guardrails and transparency in opposition to OpenAI-backed PACs, ahead of the US midterms — Anthropic and OpenAI now have their own well-funded political groups that will square off in the midterm elections over artificial intelligence safety and regulation.
More: The Hill, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, CNBC, New York Times, Axios, Implicator.ai, Anthropic, Reuters, The Information, Wall Street Journal, Axios, and Inc.com
| Chainalysis: |
Crypto transaction volume linked to suspected human trafficking, largely based in Southeast Asia, hit hundreds of millions of dollars in 2025, up 85% YoY — The intersection of cryptocurrency and suspected human trafficking intensified in 2025, with total transaction volume reaching hundreds … | Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Internal messages: Amazon steers teams to use its in-house AI coding assistant Kiro for production, prompting criticism as ~1,500 employees push for Claude Code — - Amazon internally promotes Kiro over third-party AI coding tools including Claude Code. — Some employees …
More: tildeweb.nl. X: @gergelyorosz, @bryanrbeal, @vikhyatk, @chrismunns, @ns123abc, @eugenekim222, @kylebrussell, and @astuyve
| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
ByteDance's new AI video generation model Seedance 2.0 goes viral in China, with one state-backed newspaper saying it is bigger than DeepSeek's “Sputnik moment” — ByteDance's new video-generating artificial intelligence model has already impressed the likes of Elon Musk and gone viral in China …
More: Fast Company, The Verge, TechNode, MIT Technology Review, and Reuters
| CNBC: |
Waymo begins deploying its next-gen Ojai robotaxis, which it says can better navigate in harsh weather, starting with employees and their guests in SF and LA — Waymo on Thursday said it has begun using its sixth-generation driverless system to provide robotaxi rides to employees on Ojai vehicles … | Financial Times: |
Israeli authorities charge a reservist and a civilian for allegedly using classified information to bet on “the occurrence of military operations” on Polymarket — Civilian and reservist charged with security offences, bribery and obstructing justice after ‘red line’ crossed with online gambling
More: Jerusalem Post, Decrypt, Associated Press, NBC News, crypto.news, The Block, and Bloomberg. Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz
| Jonathan Weil / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta's auditor Ernst & Young raised a red flag over the financial engineering Meta used to keep its $27B Hyperion data center project off its balance sheet — Meta Platforms' latest annual report contained an unusual, cautionary note for investors. — The tech giant's auditor … | Financial Times: |
Russia removes WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram from a Roskomnadzor-run online directory, essentially blocking them in the country, unless users rely on a VPN — Move follows months of pushing users to state-controlled app — Millions of Russians were abruptly cut off …
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| Steve Yegge: |
AI tools like Claude Opus 4.6 make engineers 10x more productive and are addictive, but also drain developers' energy, causing increasingly widespread burnout — This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.
X: @solarise_webdev, @badlogicgames, @sockdrawermoney, and @championswimmer
LinkedIn: Steve Yegge and Lars Tackmann
Bluesky: @swallez.com and @hunterwalk.com
Forums: Hacker News and Lobsters
| Financial Times: |
Private equity and private credit groups' big bets on SaaS companies, the biggest area of PE activity in the past decade, risk being derailed by the rise of AI — Dealmakers and lenders are facing a ‘Darwinian moment’ as digital services risk being made obsolete by new technologies
More: Insurance Business, Bloomberg, and Bloomberg
| New York Times: |
Social media addiction trial in LA: Adam Mosseri says social media is not “clinically addictive” and that Meta is careful to test features used by young people — Instagram's chief executive said on Wednesday that social media was not “clinically addictive,” …
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| Bloomberg: |
Some of the biggest VC firms are backing both OpenAI and Anthropic; the growing trend of backing rival startups, once taboo, shows how AI has scrambled funding — Silicon Valley investors are breaking a longstanding taboo by investing in competing startups.
More: The Information and Pulse 2.0
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
The US DOJ says Peter Williams, the former boss of L3Harris' Trenchant, stole and sold tools that can hack millions of computers worldwide to a Russian broker — The former boss of a U.S. maker of hacking and surveillance tools stole and sold technology that can hack millions of computers …
Bluesky: @campuscodi.risky.biz and @zackwhittaker.com. Mastodon: @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange. Forums: Slashdot
| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Simile, which uses AI to help companies predict human behavior, including guessing items customers might buy, raised $100M led by Index and emerges from stealth — - Simile is building a lab to help predict peoples' actions — The company is backed by Index, A* and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li
More: PYMNTS.com and Index Ventures
| Jared Perlo / NBC News: |
Anthropic says it will upgrade US power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases to minimize the effects of its data centers — Leading AI company Anthropic said it would upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases …
More: Anthropic, Forbes, The Register, Tom's Hardware, Yahoo Finance, Techstrong IT, Crain's Chicago Business, Business Today, Newser, Capacity, Silicon UK, Benzinga, and Business Insider
X: @anthropicai, @_arohan_, @timmlatimer, @edzitron, @natolambert, @jigarshahdc, @aakashgupta, @aaronbergman18, @joefioti, @matthewberman, @morqon, @wholemars, @joshdcaplan, @generic_void, @corbtt, @daniellefong, @arcorren, @mattscottcap, @techau, @0xdevshah, @ramez, and @kyliebytes. Bluesky: @awpiitr
Forums: r/ArtificialInteligence and Slashdot
| John Collison / Cheeky Pint: |
Q&A with Stratechery's Ben Thompson on aggregation theory, AI, TikTok, ByteDance, AI agentic commerce, SaaS stocks, running Stratechery, TSMC, Stripe, and more — Ben Thompson, the internet's premier tech analyst, joins John for a wide-ranging conversation on the mechanics of the internet economy.| MiniMax: |
MiniMax releases M2.5, claiming the model delivers on the “intelligence too cheap to meter” promise, priced at $0.30/1M input tokens and $1.20/1M output tokens — Today we're introducing our latest model, MiniMax-M2.5. — Extensively trained with reinforcement learning …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| Reuters: |
Sources: the Pentagon is pushing OpenAI, Anthropic, and others to make their AI tools available on classified networks without the standard user restrictions — The Pentagon is pushing the top AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic to make their artificial-intelligence tools available … | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Sony launches the $330 WF-1000XM6 earbuds, with AI-powered beamforming mics for enhanced voice call clarity, improved ANC, and hands-free Gemini on Android — Sony Group Corp. introduced its latest pair of premium wireless earbuds, offering a retooled design and active noise cancellation … | The Keyword: |
Google updates Gemini 3 Deep Think to better solve modern science, research, and engineering challenges and expands it via the Gemini API to some researchers — Our most specialized reasoning mode is now updated to solve modern science, research and engineering challenges.| Bloomberg: |
Lenovo reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $22.2B on strong PC sales ahead of expected memory price hikes and rising AI server demand; net income fell 21% to $546M — Lenovo Group Ltd. expects the memory crunch to affect the global hardware industry for the rest of the year, Chief Executive Officer Yang Yuanqing said on Thursday.
More: Lenovo StoryHub, Thurrott, and Tech in Asia
| New York Times: |
Sources: some OpenAI executives were surprised by a WSJ report that OpenAI was aiming to IPO in December; OpenAI hopes to triple its ~$13B 2025 revenue in 2026 — The maker of ChatGPT hopes to triple its revenue in the coming year because it is planning to spend tens of billions of dollars.
Bluesky: @edzitron.com and @dannygroner
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