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Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards; Anthropic says only mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons are off limits — The Pentagon is considering severing its relationship with Anthropic over the AI firm's insistence on maintaining some limitations …
More: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, The Guardian, WinBuzzer, ZeroHedge News, Washington Times, Telegraph, and Fox News
| Scott Shambaugh / The Shamblog: |
A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath — Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code …
More: The Shamblog, Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, Fast Company, Ardent Performance Computing, Simon Willison's Weblog, I Am Completely Serious, The Decoder, and WinBuzzer
LinkedIn: Alex Salkever, Abhinaba Naskar, Scott Shambaugh, and Scott Shambaugh
Bluesky: @davidcrespo, @shannonvallor, @antisomniac, @karlbode.com, @ironyuppie.com, @dancow, @kendraserra, @tyleraking.com, @themckenziest.gay, and @druce.ai
Mastodon: @acdha@code4lib.social, @munin@infosec.exchange, and @michael@mstdn.thms.uk
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, Hacker News, r/technology, r/Futurology, r/slatestarcodex, r/technews, r/technology, r/Cyberpunk, Beehaw, Lobsters, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| New York Times: |
Sources: the US DHS recently sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas, which do not need a judge's approval, to tech firms to identify people critical of ICE — The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment …
More: Engadget, Mashable, The Information, The UnPopulist, WinBuzzer, TechCrunch, Robert Reich, Newser, and Raw Story
X: @clearing_fog and @emptywheel
Bluesky: @jcollins, @sethandrews.com, @doctoralex, @evelyndouek, @jbarab, @litzz11, @futurexander, @gilesyb, @charliearchy, and @saltydiggitydawg. Mastodon: @talzag@sfba.social
| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
ByteDance launches Doubao 2.0, an “agent era” upgrade of China's most widely used AI app capable of executing multi-step tasks, ahead of the Lunar New Year — China's ByteDance has rolled out its Doubao 2.0 model, an upgrade of the country's most widely used artificial-intelligence app, the company said on Saturday.
More: Moneycontrol, Wall Street Journal, DigiTimes, Tech in Asia, Caixin Global, The Economic Times, TechNode, and CNBC
| Jessica Brice / Bloomberg: |
A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups — A vast ecosystem supported by the gig economy has sprung up to clean all that cash. — The pitch was simple: Crypto for “cold hard cash.”
LinkedIn: Tamer Yalav, Poppy Alexander, CAT Labs, Scott Greytak, and Nicola White
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 — India has cleared a $1.1 billion state-backed venture capital program that will channel government money into startups through private investors … | Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Current and former senior employees say AWS is undergoing a strategic shake-up amid fears it is losing ground to competitors in securing corporate AI contracts — Shake-up follows fears tech giant missed early AI boom as Microsoft and Google challenge cloud business
More: Bloomberg, Implicator.ai, and Yahoo Finance
| Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: |
Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, China is expected to produce 2% of global AI chips in 2026 and 70x less memory storage than foreign chipmakers — More than a decade into Beijing's push for self sufficiency, Chinese firms are producing fewer, lower-performing chips than their foreign competitors.
Forums: r/hardware
| Rani Molla / Sherwood News: |
Amazon stock fell for the ninth straight day on Friday, its longest losing streak since 2006, opening at $244.98 on Feb. 3 and closing at $198.79 on Feb. 13 — Amazon shares marked their ninth straight day of losses — the company's longest losing streak since 2006.| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safety, constantly playing catch up to OpenAI, infighting, and more — Former employees say the restructuring followed tensions over safety and being “stuck in the catch-up phase.”
More: Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Futurism, The Decoder, San Francisco Business Times, Implicator.ai, and Big Technology
Forums: r/singularity and r/technology
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming it infringed on Disney's works to train its Seedance 2.0 video generation model without pay — The Walt Disney Company on Friday sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging the Chinese tech giant has been infringing …
More: TechCrunch, Forbes, The A.V. Club, Gizmodo, primetimer.com, Engadget, Deadline, CineD, ZeroHedge News, The Asia Business Daily, Tech in Asia, The Wrap, Variety, The Guardian, South China Morning Post, The Information, The Hollywood Reporter, Deseret News, Yahoo News, Los Angeles Times, Motion Picture Association, Page Six, and Screen
| Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media: |
Dealroom and NATO Innovation Fund: European defense, security, and resilience startup funding rose 55% YoY to a record $8.7B in 2025, with AI accounting for 44% — Ahead of the big Munich Security Conference later this week, the analysts at Dealroom teamed up with the NATO Innovation Fund …
More: Dealroom and NATO Innovation Fund
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says 74% of iPhones launched in the last four years and 66% of all iPhones are running iOS 26; 68% of iPhones were running iOS 18 as of Jan. 21, 2025 — Apple has shared updated iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 adoption figures, revealing how many iPhones and iPads are running those software versions.
More: Apple, Pixel Envy, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, Forbes, Livemint, Moneycontrol, Redmond Pie, The Mac Observer, iClarified, AppleInsider, MacTech.com, and MacDailyNews
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
BNP Paribas analysis: Anthropic saw visits to its site jump 6.5% after its Super Bowl ad and DAUs jump 11% post-game, outperforming other AI companies — The Seahawks may have won the Super Bowl, but Anthropic also walked away with bragging rights, according to data analyzed by BNP Paribas.Sponsor Posts
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