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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the Pentagon used Claude in its major air attack in Iran, hours after Trump declared that the federal government will end its use of Anthropic's tools — Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic …
More: Benzinga, Cointelegraph, Livemint, Inc.com, CBS News, Sky News, The Atlantic, Moneycontrol, MarketWatch, PYMNTS.com, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Al Jazeera, CNBC, and Los Angeles Times
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Bluesky: @robertscotthorton, @nitasha, @histoftech, @edzitron.com, and @kurtrisser
Mastodon: @yogthos@social.marxist … and @dalfen@mstdn.social
| Sam Altman / @sama: |
[Thread] In an AMA, Sam Altman says DOD blacklisting Anthropic sets an “extremely scary precedent”, OpenAI rushed its deal to “de-escalate things”, and more — I'd like to answer questions about our work with the DoW and our thinking over the past few days. Please AMA.
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and “has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's” — We think our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's.
More: Axios, TechRadar, Türkiye Today, Hartford Courant, Business Insider, Rohan's Bytes, Reuters, DigiTimes, fishbowlification, Bloomberg, Engadget, Flux, and Tech in Asia
X: @arozenshtein, @uswremichael, @2plus2make5, @natesilver538, @trekedge, @thezvi, @sama, @gothburz, @alexolegimas, @deredleritt3r, @max_spero_, @theo, @amasad, @captgouda24, @laneless_, @sama, @tysonbrody, @thezvi, @natseckatrina, @boazbaraktcs, @rcbregman, @boazbaraktcs, @morallawwithin, @krishnanrohit, @benedictk__, @thdxr, @petereharrell, @blackhc, @markvalorian, @sama, @stephenlcasper, @allinallnotbad, @josheakle, @manlikemishap, @gupgup12212657, @pawelhuryn, @kimmonismus, @eggerdc, @gjmcgowan, @jacquesthibs, @krishnanrohit, @neil_chilson, @polynoamial, @darlingtondev, and @zeffmax
LinkedIn: Sergey Kochnev and Katrina Mulligan
Bluesky: @masnick.com, @wildebees, @mshelton, @hunesocial, @kalihays, @timkellogg.me, @alanrozenshtein.com, and @matthew.flux.community. Mastodon: @mshelton@mastodon.social
Forums: r/technology, r/codex, r/ChatGPT, r/OpenAI, and r/singularity
| @openai: |
OpenAI says it does not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and it has made its position on this clear to the Pentagon — We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and we've made our position on this clear to the Department of War.
More: Reuters, The Decoder, Implicator.ai, Mercury News, TechCrunch, DNYUZ, Business Insider, Hürriyet Daily News, Silver Bulletin, The Next Web, Originally Reported …, The Japan Times, Tom's Hardware, Dow Jones Newswires, Semafor, Nairametrics, The Information, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, Neowin, Techstrong.ai, Business Today, The Hacker News, Axios, CBS News, Politico, Benzinga, The Hill, Bloomberg, NewsMax.com, and The National Pulse
X: @captgouda24, @chrisharihar, @terronk, @arthurconmy, @daniellefong, @gauravkapadia, @_nathancalvin, @claudia_sahm, @openai, and @openai. LinkedIn: Stefano. Bluesky: @wildebees
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/politics, r/technology, and r/technology
| Charlie Eccleshare / The Athletic: |
How some companies are trying to become the “Strava of tennis” by offering match video, stats, highlights, social features, and performance analysis for players — Share full article — More people are playing tennis in America than ever before.| Financial Times: |
Multiple AWS developers say they are asked to take on new roles with AI tools' assistance, and engineers are now required to complete technical writing tasks — Drive for ‘leaner’ operations piles pressure on employees but could be a playbook for rivals — Amazon's HR chief last month sought … | Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Polymarket trades on contracts tied to strikes on Iran hit $529M, and six new accounts profited a total of $1M by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28 — As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in.
More: Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Blockchain.News, Event Horizon, The Independent, The Verge, CoinGape, BeInCrypto, and The Block
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @surflaw, @chadloder, and @saltcreekbrews
Forums: r/business and r/CryptoCurrency
| Chip Cutter / Wall Street Journal: |
Block's plan to lay off over 4,000 employees, citing AI work automation, adds to growing angst among white-collar workers over AI's potential for job disruption — Layoffs at Block add to growing backlash bubbling up across American companies; ‘It brings out the pitchforks’
More: Wall Street Journal, On my Om, Sherwood News, Forbes, and Global News
| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
Netflix actually won by walking away from the WBD bid, collecting a $2.8B termination fee and driving up the price and debt load of the Paramount-WBD merger — King of streaming preserves its business model, while Paramount will have to deal with a massive debt load| Bloomberg: |
Inside the world's largest crypto casino Stake, which claims ~4% of all BTC transactions, with popularity boosted by celebs like Drake and influencers on Kick — Drake just needed some juice. In 82 minutes of online slots play, the Canadian rapper's starting balance of $3.5 million worth of Bitcoin had dwindled to $422,355.
X: @bw, @dannyfunt, @cecianasta, @business, @cecianasta, @cecianasta, and @oliviasolon. Bluesky: @jeffhorwitz
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect — Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning urging …
More: Wired and Straight Arrow News
| Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg: |
AI coding agents are fueling productivity panic among executives and engineers, as a UCB study finds those offloading work to AI are also working longer hours — AI coding agents promised to make software development easier. Instead they've kicked off a high-pressure race to build at any cost.| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Xiaomi launches the €999 Xiaomi 17, the €1,499 17 Ultra, and the €1,999 Leica-branded Leitzphone, all featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, in Europe — It's just launched in Europe, joined by the larger, more photography-focused Xiaomi 17 Ultra.
More: Engadget, 9to5Google, and Wired
| Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis on plans to use in-house chips, Trainium and Inferentia, to develop AI models more cheaply, and more — Amazon's new artificial intelligence czar, Peter DeSantis, is a larger-than-life figure within the company where he has worked since its early days| Bloomberg: |
China faces a dilemma as it looks to balance productivity gains from AI with labor displacement risks due to automation, which could trigger an economic spiral — Days after back-flipping AI humanoids dazzled China with a new year performance alongside dancers, a small research firm jolted US markets …
More: South China Morning Post
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