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Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
Nvidia forms the Open Secure AI Alliance, a coalition including CrowdStrike, Hugging Face, and Dell to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity  —  Nvidia (NVDA.O) said on Monday it had formed a coalition with other companies to develop and share tools for AI safety and cybersecurity …
Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
Nvidia says it made a “substantial” investment in Safe Superintelligence, which will get access to Nvidia GPUs to up computing power by an “order of magnitude”  —  Partnership with former top OpenAI scientist aims to boost chip giant's high-profile customer roster during AI boom
New York Times:
Microsoft introduces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, an AI model trained for cybersecurity, and launches Perception, an agentic security system to patch vulnerabilities  —  As some executives fret over the safety of new A.I. systems, protecting against them could be a big business for tech companies.
The Information:
Sources: a Chinese state-backed company has begun manufacturing DUV machines, a key step in Beijing's drive to reduce its reliance on foreign chipmaking tech  —  A Chinese state-backed company has begun manufacturing one of the key pieces of equipment used in chip manufacturing for the first time …
Chris Scullion / Video Games Chronicle:
Xbox says it is working to resolve a “major outage” affecting its Account & Profile, Store & Subscriptions, and Apps & Mobile services  —  PLAYERS ARE REPORTING HAVING ISSUES WHEN TRYING TO SIGN IN OR SEE THEIR LIBRARY  —  Xbox has acknowledged that it's currently suffering …
Bloomberg:
Moonshot AI releases model weights for Kimi K3 under the “Kimi K3 License”  —  Moonshot AI has made its Kimi K3 model available for public download, expanding its reach and influence in the global open software community at a time of growing US concern about Chinese encroachment into the top echelons of AI development.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Nvidia is in talks to provide a ~$250B backstop for OpenAI as part of a 10 GW data center project that SoftBank's energy subsidiary is building in Ohio  —  Project would be one of the largest AI computing hubs and involve power controlled by the U.S. government
Akash Sriram / Reuters:
Amazon files an FCC application to deploy a constellation of up to 5,105 satellites starting in 2028 to provide direct-to-device voice and data connectivity  —  Amazon's (AMZN.O) Leo has proposed a new constellation of up to 5,105 satellites to provide direct-to-device voice and data connectivity …
Jenny Lee / CNBC:
CXMT's stock closed up 466% in its Shanghai debut, giving the Hefei-based memory chipmaker a ~$487B market cap, making it the most valuable China-listed company  —  Shares of chipmaker Changxin Technology Group soared nearly 466% Monday in their debut on Shanghai's tech-heavy STAR Market …
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
NBCU and YouTube reach a multiyear deal to include all Peacock content in YouTube Premium subscriptions in the US starting in early 2027  —  NBCUniversal's Peacock is officially landing on YouTube.  —  All of the streaming service's content — including NBC Sports' portfolio of the NFL and NBA …
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Crypto exchange BitMart says it plans to wind down its trading platform on January 31, 2027, ending nine years of operation, and stops accepting new orders  —  Cryptocurrency exchange BitMart said Sunday it will wind down its trading platform, ending 9 years of operation, and its exchange token fell almost 60% after the announcement.

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From Mediagazer

Brian Stelter / CNN:
Filing: Paramount and state AGs agree to freeze the WBD merger until an antitrust trial occurs or until June 2027; a preliminary injunction hearing is canceled

Inside Radio:
Nielsen plans to discontinue its radio and TV audience-ratings measurement services for TV and radio in Puerto Rico at the end of 2026

Alyssa Ray / The Wrap:
At the rescheduled WHCA dinner, Trump praised the press corps' response to the April shooting before insulting journalists and celebrities who criticized him

More News

New York Times:
A look at the secretive process Meta used to get an advantageous deal for its Hyperion data center in Louisiana, including tax breaks and lack of public input
More: Quartz.  X: @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac
Bluesky: @justinhendrix and @okane.fyi
Forums: r/news, r/NewOrleans, and r/politics

Earlier Picks

Tobi Knaup:
As open-weight models become the next AI ecosystem's foundation, a US ban on Chinese models would risk ceding the neutral substrate where innovation compounds
More: 80 Level and The Wire China
X: @superguenter.  Bluesky: @carnage4life.  Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org.  Forums: Hacker News
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase:
A detailed recap of the Hugging Face breach by an internal OpenAI model, which repeatedly tried to escape OpenAI's sandbox and should be treated as critical
Wall Street Journal:
US companies have flipped from “tokenmaxxing” to “thrift-maxxing”, mixing cheaper Chinese models with OpenAI's and Anthropic's, threatening the labs' valuations
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