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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple may have delayed AI glasses launch partly over privacy concerns that Meta's glasses created for the category, as it works to address the issues — Company debated whether glasses will be able to record video. — Apple's upcoming smart glasses have a major challenge in front of them …
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| 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 is developing in Ohio — Project would be one of the largest AI computing hubs and involve power controlled by the U.S. government — Nvidia is in talks to provide …
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| 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 — Open-weight models are becoming the foundation for the next AI ecosystem. The US should compete in it, not wall itself off.
More: The Wire China, Wall Street Journal, and SiliconANGLE
| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
US tech giants have shifted their stance to publicly backing open AI models, with Anthropic and Amazon remaining notable holdouts alongside the US government — The open letter on open weights feels familiar yet different... Everyone remembers Steve Jobs' ‘Thoughts on Flash’ open letter …
More: Axios
| New York Times: |
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Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/LocalLLaMA, r/artificielle, and r/technology
| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Crypto exchange BitMart says it plans to wind down its trading platform on January 31, 2027, ending 9 years of operation, and has stopped accepting new orders — Cryptocurrency exchange BitMart said Sunday it will wind down its trading platform, ending 9 years of operation …
More: Decrypt, The Block, Yahoo Finance, Blockonomi, Bitcoin News, CryptoNinjas, The Coin Republic, PYMNTS, Tech in Asia, and CryptoPotato. X: @bitmartexchange
| Ashley Stewart / Business Insider: |
Once hailed as an AI visionary, Satya Nadella faces pressure as a compute crunch forces Microsoft to prioritize its own AI products over Azure cloud customers — Microsoft went all in on AI. Is its North Star now a noose? — Three years ago, Satya Nadella catapulted Microsoft to the front … | Jenny Lee / CNBC: |
CXMT shares jumped as much as 470% in its Shanghai debut, giving the 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, making CXMT the most valuable China-listed company.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How US companies flipped from “tokenmaxxing” to “thrift-maxxing”, mixing cheaper Chinese models with OpenAI and Anthropic, threatening the labs' IPO valuations — Companies big and small are mixing models and it's changing the economics and power players of the industry
More: The Daily Upside. X: @kevin2kelly, @jeffreyleefunk, @marinadgal, @ajtweet, @katiemiller, @wsj, and @firstadopter
LinkedIn: Kevin Heald, Eric James, and Freya Petersen
Bluesky: @malwarejake, @erikahall, @carnage4life, @carlquintanilla, @dannygroner, and @jessefelder.com. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
Forums: Hacker News and r/NoFilterNews
| Natalie Kaufman / Wall Street Journal: |
How some young adults are using AI to navigate social situations, from drafting pickup lines and texts to formulating responses in face-to-face conversations — People are leaning on AI for a task more dreaded than homework: navigating social situations with their fellow humans| 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 — We now have more details of what happened. Every time we learn more details, it somehow makes things seem worse.| Amelia Isaacs / Pathfounders: |
Spain-based Multiverse Computing, which shrinks LLMs to reduce energy and compute costs, raised a $570M Series C at a $1.7B valuation — The Spanish startup says its quantum-inspired compression technology can shrink LLMs by up to 95% — Multiverse Computing, whose technology … | Leo Marchandon / Reuters: |
European satellite operators Eutelsat and SES stand to receive ~$6.1B in combined payments for clearing satellite spectrum for US wireless services — European satellite operators SES (SESFg.LU) and Eutelsat (ETL.PA) stand to receive roughly $6.1 billion in combined payments …
More: Reuters, Advanced Television, Telecompaper, and Mobile Europe
| Jamie John / Financial Times: |
How AI companies are targeting the education market, including making free or cut-price tailored learning tools in partnership with schools and edtech startups — Anthropic and OpenAI are among groups providing free and cut-price tailored solutions for educators and students| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
India eases foreign investment rules for e-commerce companies, a win for Amazon, which lobbied to buy goods directly from Indian sellers and sell them overseas — India's government on Thursday eased foreign investment rules to allow e-commerce companies to buy products directly from Indian sellers …
More: Moneycontrol and Business Today
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