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Microsoft warns that attackers are injecting malware into ViewState, which manages state in ASP.NET web forms, using static machine keys found online (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Microsoft warns that attackers are injecting malware into...

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Microsoft warns that attackers are injecting malware...

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WBD lost $300M on gaming in 2024; current and former staffers blame a lack of a strong, cohesive vision during former games chief David Haddad's tenure (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

WBD lost $300M on gaming in 2024; current and former staffers...

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: WBD lost $300M on gaming in 2024; current and former...

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Sources: SoftBank is set to invest $40B in OpenAI at a $260B pre-money valuation; OpenAI was last valued at $157B by private investors in October 2024 (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Sources: SoftBank is set to invest $40B in OpenAI at a...

Hayden Field / CNBC: Sources: SoftBank is set to invest $40B in OpenAI at a $260B...

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Amazon expects to boost its capex to $100B in 2025, largely driven by AI and up from 2024's ~$83B, in what Andy Jassy calls a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Amazon expects to boost its capex to $100B in 2025, largely...

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon expects to boost its capex to $100B in 2025, largely...

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Kelly Stonelake, a former Meta director who was at the company from 2009 to 2024, sues Meta, alleging sexual harassment, sex discrimination, and retaliation (TechCrunch)

Kelly Stonelake, a former Meta director who was at the...

TechCrunch: Kelly Stonelake, a former Meta director who was at the company from...

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France and the UAE agree to develop an up to 1 GW data center in France, representing €30B to €50B in investments for French and Emirati AI, chips, and more (Daphné Leprince-Ringuet/Sifted)

France and the UAE agree to develop an up to 1 GW data...

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet / Sifted: France and the UAE agree to develop an up to 1...

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Smartphones: A lifeline or a dangerous distraction?

Smartphones: A lifeline or a dangerous distraction?

On World No Mobile Phone Day, we take a look at how this event started and was named...

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France announces creation of 35 new data centres as AI summit kicks off

France announces creation of 35 new data centres as AI...

France's digital minister has announced that 35 sites were ready to host data centres...

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AI Action Summit: Can Europe catch up with the US and China?

AI Action Summit: Can Europe catch up with the US and China?

Political leaders, tech executives, scientists and experts are gathering to Paris...

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Trump's de minimis cancellation is likely to hit Shein harder than online dollar-store Temu, which has shifted to an Amazon-like bulk overseas shipment strategy (Casey Hall/Reuters)

Trump's de minimis cancellation is likely to hit Shein...

Casey Hall / Reuters: Trump's de minimis cancellation is likely to hit Shein harder...

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Roblox reports Q4 revenue up 32% YoY to $988.2M, bookings up 21% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.37B est., and DAUs up 19% YoY to 85.3M, vs. 88.4M est.; RBLX falls 15%+ (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Roblox reports Q4 revenue up 32% YoY to $988.2M, bookings...

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox reports Q4 revenue up 32% YoY to $988.2M,...

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TrueFoundry, which helps enterprises deploy AI systems at scale, raised $19M led by Intel Capital, taking its total funding to $21M, and claims 30 customers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

TrueFoundry, which helps enterprises deploy AI systems...

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: TrueFoundry, which helps enterprises deploy AI systems...

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France hosts global AI summit as Chinese rivals disrupt tech sector

France hosts global AI summit as Chinese rivals disrupt...

The Artificial Intelligence Action Summit kicks off in Paris with scientific and...

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France's 2025 budget finally set to become law as PM survives no-confidence vote

France's 2025 budget finally set to become law as PM survives...

After running on an extension of the 2024 budget for more than a month, France is...

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Kaspersky researchers found apps in Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store that use OCR to steal crypto wallet recovery phrases from images on users' devices (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Kaspersky researchers found apps in Google's Play Store...

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Kaspersky researchers found apps in Google's Play...

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WH crypto czar David Sacks says stablecoin legislation could be done in the next six months, after lawmakers introduced a bill to create a regulatory framework (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

WH crypto czar David Sacks says stablecoin legislation...

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: WH crypto czar David Sacks says stablecoin legislation...

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Semgrep, which offers an autonomous code security platform for developers, raised a $100M Series D led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to $204M (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)

Semgrep, which offers an autonomous code security platform...

Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: Semgrep, which offers an autonomous code security...

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Uber opens a waitlist to request a driverless Waymo vehicle in Austin ahead of a planned 2025 launch; rides will be limited to 37 square miles (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Uber opens a waitlist to request a driverless Waymo vehicle...

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber opens a waitlist to request a driverless Waymo vehicle...

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The USPS resumes accepting China and Hong Kong mail hours after suspension due to Trump's EO, disrupting e-commerce, and is implementing "the new China tariffs" (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

The USPS resumes accepting China and Hong Kong mail hours...

Annie Palmer / CNBC: The USPS resumes accepting China and Hong Kong mail hours after...

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AWS aims to use "automated reasoning", which uses mathematical logic to encode knowledge in AI systems in a structured way, to prevent AI models' hallucinations (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

AWS aims to use "automated reasoning", which uses mathematical...

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: AWS aims to use “automated reasoning”, which uses...

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US Postal Service halts shipments of Chinese parcels after Trump closes loophole

US Postal Service halts shipments of Chinese parcels after...

The US Postal Service has suspended the shipments of parcels from China and Hong...

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Why is the WTO's dispute settlement system in crisis?

Why is the WTO's dispute settlement system in crisis?

After Donald Trump's 10 percent tariff against all Chinese imports took effect,...

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Sources: Sonos will release an Android-based streaming box in the coming months, priced between $200 and $400, that combines content from Netflix, Max, and more (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Sources: Sonos will release an Android-based streaming...

Chris Welch / The Verge: Sources: Sonos will release an Android-based streaming...

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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman poaches three Google DeepMind former colleagues, including two who built NotebookLM's Audio Overviews and worked on Astra (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman poaches three Google...

Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman poaches three...

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Bengaluru-based payments startup Cashfree raised a $53M Series C led by Krafton, bringing its total funding to nearly $100M, a source says at a $700M valuation (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Bengaluru-based payments startup Cashfree raised a $53M...

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based payments startup Cashfree raised a $53M...

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China-US trade war erupts again after Beijing slaps retaliatory tariffs on US goods

China-US trade war erupts again after Beijing slaps retaliatory...

The Trump administration's 10 percent tariffs on Chinese imports came into effect...

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WHY IS THE WTO'S DISPUTE SETTLEMENT SYSTEM IN CRISIS?

WHY IS THE WTO'S DISPUTE SETTLEMENT SYSTEM IN CRISIS?

After Donald Trump's 10% tariff against all Chinese imports took effect, China immediately...

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The Rise of AI in Journalism: Revolution or Threat to Free Press?

The Rise of AI in Journalism: Revolution or Threat to Free...

AI is transforming journalism, automating news production and enhancing efficiency....

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Sources: China is looking at launching a formal probe into Intel; a source says whether such a probe is officially launched could depend on US-China relations (Financial Times)

Sources: China is looking at launching a formal probe into...

Financial Times: Sources: China is looking at launching a formal probe into Intel;...

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Toronto-based programmatic ad startup StackAdapt raised $235M led by Teachers' Venture Growth, after raising $300M from Summit Partners in June 2022 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Toronto-based programmatic ad startup StackAdapt raised...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Toronto-based programmatic ad startup StackAdapt raised...

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Opera launches Opera Air, a free browser focused on mindfulness and mental well-being, including break reminders and ambient soundscapes, for Windows and macOS (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

Opera launches Opera Air, a free browser focused on mindfulness...

Dominic Preston / The Verge: Opera launches Opera Air, a free browser focused on...

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China hits back against Trump tariffs with retaliatory measures, renewing trade war

China hits back against Trump tariffs with retaliatory...

China on Tuesday countered US President Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese products...

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Dick Kramlich, who co-founded NEA in 1977, died on February 1 at age 89; he was an early investor in Apple and led investments in Juniper Networks and others (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

Dick Kramlich, who co-founded NEA in 1977, died on February...

Ben Bergman / Business Insider: Dick Kramlich, who co-founded NEA in 1977, died...

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Ampere Analysis: the US streaming market will reach $17B in advertising revenue in 2025; 24% of US-based Netflix subscribers are on the Standard with Ads tier (Adrian Pennington/StreamTV Insider)

Ampere Analysis: the US streaming market will reach $17B...

Adrian Pennington / StreamTV Insider: Ampere Analysis: the US streaming market will...

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Sources: the Trump admin plans to nominate Arielle Roth, a critic of Biden's $42.5B broadband infrastructure plan, to lead the NTIA, which oversees the project (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)

Sources: the Trump admin plans to nominate Arielle Roth,...

Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: Sources: the Trump admin plans to nominate Arielle Roth,...

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What role do Mexico, Canada and China play in the flow of fentanyl into the United States?

What role do Mexico, Canada and China play in the flow...

President Donald Trump’s plan to impose tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and...

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French startup Riot, which educates staff about cybersecurity risks, raised a $30M Series B, a source says at a $170M valuation, and had $10M in 2024 revenue (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

French startup Riot, which educates staff about cybersecurity...

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: French startup Riot, which educates staff about cybersecurity...

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The Beatles' Now and Then, created using AI and an original 1970s lo-fi demo, won Best Rock Performance at the Grammys; McCartney and Starr completed it in 2021 (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

The Beatles' Now and Then, created using AI and an original...

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: The Beatles' Now and Then, created using AI and an...

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MicroStrategy says it didn't buy any bitcoin in the prior week, ending a run of 12 consecutive weekly purchases worth $20B+ starting in October 2024 (Monique Mulima/Bloomberg)

MicroStrategy says it didn't buy any bitcoin in the prior...

Monique Mulima / Bloomberg: MicroStrategy says it didn't buy any bitcoin in the...

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EU braces for new US tariffs as Trump launches trade war

EU braces for new US tariffs as Trump launches trade war

EU leaders say they're prepared to respond if and when US President Donald Trump...

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A look at six engineers with Elon Musk and Peter Thiel ties, between 19 and 24 years old, playing key DOGE roles, as Musk seizes control of US infrastructure (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)

A look at six engineers with Elon Musk and Peter Thiel...

Vittoria Elliott / Wired: A look at six engineers with Elon Musk and Peter Thiel...

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Google's X spins out Heritable Agriculture, which aims to use AI to improve crop yield, as the incubator aggressively spins off companies under CEO Astro Teller (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Google's X spins out Heritable Agriculture, which aims...

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Google's X spins out Heritable Agriculture, which aims...

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OpenAI unveils Deep Research, an AI agent for creating in-depth reports, available to subscribers of the $200 ChatGPT Pro tier and limited to 100 queries/month (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

OpenAI unveils Deep Research, an AI agent for creating...

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: OpenAI unveils Deep Research, an AI agent for creating...

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In its current form, OpenAI's Operator is more of an intriguing demo than a product useful for most people, but it points to a future of powerful AI agents (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

In its current form, OpenAI's Operator is more of an intriguing...

Kevin Roose / New York Times: In its current form, OpenAI's Operator is more of...

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A US man pleads guilty to a cyberstalking campaign against a professor, including by creating chatbots on Crushon.ai and JanitorAI using her personal info (Katie McQue/The Guardian)

A US man pleads guilty to a cyberstalking campaign against...

Katie McQue / The Guardian: A US man pleads guilty to a cyberstalking campaign against...

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A look at Future You, an AI-based research tool that lets users interact with a virtual older self and is currently being used by 60,000 people from 190 nations (Heidi Mitchell/Wall Street Journal)

A look at Future You, an AI-based research tool that lets...

Heidi Mitchell / Wall Street Journal: A look at Future You, an AI-based research...

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Google says APT groups from 20+ countries are using Gemini primarily for productivity gains rather than to develop or conduct novel AI-enabled cyberattacks (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Google says APT groups from 20+ countries are using Gemini...

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Google says APT groups from 20+ countries are using...

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Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf and other experts say startups like DeepSeek and the rise of AI agents may erode the value of LLMs from OpenAI and Big Tech companies (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf and other experts say startups...

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf and other experts say startups like...

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How Israeli startups like Xtend are helping the country's war effort, with ~50% of anti-drone tech used since the October 7 attacks coming from startups (Emily Rose/Reuters)

How Israeli startups like Xtend are helping the country's...

Emily Rose / Reuters: How Israeli startups like Xtend are helping the country's...

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DeepSeek is supercharging the debate over how much US companies should share about their AI breakthroughs, many of which have been detailed in scientific papers (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

DeepSeek is supercharging the debate over how much US companies...

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: DeepSeek is supercharging the debate over...

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A look at the online scam industry in Southeast Asia and how Indians became its targets; 2,358 Indians were rescued from scam compounds between 2022 and 2024 (Ayush Tiwari/Scroll.in)

A look at the online scam industry in Southeast Asia and...

Ayush Tiwari / Scroll.in: A look at the online scam industry in Southeast Asia and...

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In a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman admitted that DeepSeek has lessened OpenAI's lead and said OpenAI has been "on the wrong side of history" concerning open sourcing (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

In a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman admitted that DeepSeek has...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: In a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman admitted that DeepSeek has...

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OpenAI told some shareholders ChatGPT had 15.5M paid subscribers in 2024, up from 5.8M in 2023, and usage of OpenAI's API increased seven times (The Information)

OpenAI told some shareholders ChatGPT had 15.5M paid subscribers...

The Information: OpenAI told some shareholders ChatGPT had 15.5M paid subscribers...

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When asked in an AMA if OpenAI would release model weights and research, Sam Altman said "we are discussing" and "it's also not our current highest priority" (Deepa Seetharaman/Wall Street Journal)

When asked in an AMA if OpenAI would release model weights...

Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: When asked in an AMA if OpenAI would release...

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Coinbase acquires Spindl, the on-chain advertising platform founded by Antonio Garcia-Martinez, an ex-Facebook staffer and the author of the book Chaos Monkeys (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

Coinbase acquires Spindl, the on-chain advertising platform...

Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Coinbase acquires Spindl, the on-chain advertising platform...

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TikTok limbo: US Congress stays quiet as Trump breaks its law

TikTok limbo: US Congress stays quiet as Trump breaks its...

It’s becoming less clear by the day who is supposed to be buying TikTok. One of...

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TikTok refugees, 'cat tax' and the US-China tech rivalry

TikTok refugees, 'cat tax' and the US-China tech rivalry

Shortly after taking office, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order...

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Davos 2025: Nigeria seeks diversification in trade

Davos 2025: Nigeria seeks diversification in trade

In this special edition from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Charles...

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Kraken says its revenue hit $1.5B in 2024, up from $671M in 2023, and it finished the year with 2.6M funded accounts, with $42.8B in assets held on the platform (Bloomberg)

Kraken says its revenue hit $1.5B in 2024, up from $671M...

Bloomberg: Kraken says its revenue hit $1.5B in 2024, up from $671M in 2023, and...

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Finout, which makes cloud cost management software, raised a $40M Series C, following a $26M Series B in March, bringing its total raised to $85M (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Finout, which makes cloud cost management software, raised...

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Finout, which makes cloud cost management software,...

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Apple agrees to a $20M settlement to resolve claims that some Watch batteries swelled over time, potentially damaging other key components, such as the display (Samantha Kelly/CNET)

Apple agrees to a $20M settlement to resolve claims that...

Samantha Kelly / CNET: Apple agrees to a $20M settlement to resolve claims that...

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Amazon sues Washington state to limit the release of public records to The Washington Post about Jeff Bezos' Amazon Project Kuiper satellite facility in Seattle (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Amazon sues Washington state to limit the release of public...

Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon sues Washington state to limit the release of public...

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Elastos, a decentralized infrastructure provider building a Bitcoin DeFi protocol called BeL2, raised $20M from private investment company Rollman Management (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

Elastos, a decentralized infrastructure provider building...

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: Elastos, a decentralized infrastructure provider building...

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Tether plans to bring USDT to the Bitcoin base layer again and to the Layer 2 protocol Lightning Network, following USDT expansions to Celo and other networks (MK Manoylov/The Block)

Tether plans to bring USDT to the Bitcoin base layer again...

MK Manoylov / The Block: Tether plans to bring USDT to the Bitcoin base layer again...

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Italy blocks DeepSeek over data privacy concerns

Italy blocks DeepSeek over data privacy concerns

Italy's data protection agency has moved to block the Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek...

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US Federal Reserve pauses rate cuts, angering Trump

US Federal Reserve pauses rate cuts, angering Trump

America's central bank has held its main interest rate steady as President Donald...

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EU unveils 'Competitiveness Compass' to cut red tape and spur investment

EU unveils 'Competitiveness Compass' to cut red tape and...

The European Commission has unveiled its long-awaited roadmap to revamp the sluggish...

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The Argonne National Laboratory says its Aurora supercomputer is now fully operational and available to researchers, offering over 1 FP64 exaFLOPS performance (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

The Argonne National Laboratory says its Aurora supercomputer...

Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: The Argonne National Laboratory says its Aurora supercomputer...

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Europol and German law enforcement arrest two suspects and seize 17 servers to take down Cracked and Nulled, two of the largest hacking forums with 10M+ users (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Europol and German law enforcement arrest two suspects...

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Europol and German law enforcement arrest two...

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Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review: excellent screen, performance, and battery life, slimmer bezels, and new 50MP UW sensor, but no S Pen Air actions and pricey (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)

Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review: excellent screen, performance,...

Sam Rutherford / Engadget: Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra review: excellent screen, performance,...

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Microsoft reports Q2 LinkedIn revenue up 9% YoY, and Satya Nadella says that LinkedIn passed a record $2B in Premium subscriptions revenue in the last 12 months (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Microsoft reports Q2 LinkedIn revenue up 9% YoY, and Satya...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Microsoft reports Q2 LinkedIn revenue up 9% YoY, and...

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Microsoft says Q2 capital expenditures hit $22.6B, vs. $20.95B estimated, and forecasts Q3 Azure growth between 31% and 32%, vs. 33% expected (Reuters)

Microsoft says Q2 capital expenditures hit $22.6B, vs....

Reuters: Microsoft says Q2 capital expenditures hit $22.6B, vs. $20.95B estimated,...

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Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest $15B-$25B in OpenAI on top of its $15B+ commitment to Stargate; the deal would make it OpenAI's biggest financial backer (Financial Times)

Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest $15B-$25B in OpenAI...

Financial Times: Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest $15B-$25B in OpenAI on...

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EU unveils "Competitiveness Compass" to cut red tape and spur investment

EU unveils "Competitiveness Compass" to cut red tape and...

The European Commission has unveiled its long-awaited roadmap to revamp the sluggish...

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Sources detail Elon Musk's time in government, bringing his friends and employees, as he races to cut staff; Musk's plane has not left DC since the inauguration (New York Times)

Sources detail Elon Musk's time in government, bringing...

New York Times: Sources detail Elon Musk's time in government, bringing his friends...

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 review: slim, lightweight, reasonable power draw, and DLSS 4, but mild generational performance uplift and spotty availability at launch (Ben Wilson/Windows Central)

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 review: slim, lightweight, reasonable...

Ben Wilson / Windows Central: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 review: slim, lightweight,...

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DeepSeek's app is unavailable on Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store in Italy, after its data protection regulator says it questioned DeepSeek (Stefano Bernabei/Reuters)

DeepSeek's app is unavailable on Apple's App Store and...

Stefano Bernabei / Reuters: DeepSeek's app is unavailable on Apple's App Store and...

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Boeing posts second-largest annual loss in its history

Boeing posts second-largest annual loss in its history

US aerospace giant Boeing posted a nearly $12 billion annual net loss for 2024,...

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Panic in Silicon Valley? China's DeepSeek challenges US supremacy over AI

Panic in Silicon Valley? China's DeepSeek challenges US...

On his first full day back in power, US President Donald Trump trumpeted a $500...

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LVMH sales beat expectations as CEO Bernard Arnault shifts focus to US

LVMH sales beat expectations as CEO Bernard Arnault shifts...

Luxury group LVMH says 2025 is off to a good start as it reports an increase in...

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Sony names CFO Hiroki Totoki as CEO, succeeding Kenichiro Yoshida, and PlayStation co-CEO Hideaki Nishino as CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, from April 1 (Cynthia Littleton/Variety)

Sony names CFO Hiroki Totoki as CEO, succeeding Kenichiro...

Cynthia Littleton / Variety: Sony names CFO Hiroki Totoki as CEO, succeeding Kenichiro...

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Sources: Apple has been working with SpaceX and T-Mobile to add Starlink support in iOS 18.3; T-Mobile is testing with some users, only for texting initially (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple has been working with SpaceX and T-Mobile...

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple has been working with SpaceX and T-Mobile...

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In an internal memo, Andrew Bosworth says Meta's Reality Labs beat nearly all its sales and user targets for 2024, growing sales ">40% YoY overall" (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)

In an internal memo, Andrew Bosworth says Meta's Reality...

Jyoti Mann / Business Insider: In an internal memo, Andrew Bosworth says Meta's...

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Off-grid solar energy holds key to narrowing energy access gap in Africa

Off-grid solar energy holds key to narrowing energy access...

As a major energy summit kicks off in Tanzania towards the goal of delivering affordable...

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Boeing posts sedond-biggest annual loss in its history

Boeing posts sedond-biggest annual loss in its history

US aerospace giant Boeing posted nearly 12 billion dollars in annual net loss for...

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DeepSeek's sudden rise sends shockwaves through AI sector

DeepSeek's sudden rise sends shockwaves through AI sector

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is rewriting the narrative that the AI industry needs...

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Paris-based Alice&Bob, a cat qubit quantum architecture pioneer, raised a €100M Series B for a "fault tolerant" quantum computer, after a €27M Series A in 2022 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Paris-based Alice&Bob, a cat qubit quantum architecture...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Paris-based Alice&Bob, a cat qubit quantum architecture...

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The "DeepSeek moment" is like in 2004 when Google detailed using distributed algorithms to build a supercomputer, and unlike Sputnik, when Russia shared little (@yishan)

The "DeepSeek moment" is like in 2004 when Google detailed...

@yishan: The “DeepSeek moment” is like in 2004 when Google detailed using distributed...

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Spotify says it paid out $10B to the music industry in 2024, up from a record $9B in 2023, taking its total to $60B paid out since its 2006 founding (Jem Aswad/Variety)

Spotify says it paid out $10B to the music industry in...

Jem Aswad / Variety: Spotify says it paid out $10B to the music industry in 2024,...

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Tech sell-off subsides after China's DeepSeek jolts AI industry

Tech sell-off subsides after China's DeepSeek jolts AI...

Stock markets and the tech industry were still reeling Tuesday after the emergence...

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DeepSeek's sudden rise sends shockwaves through the AI sector

DeepSeek's sudden rise sends shockwaves through the AI...

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is rewriting the narrative that the AI industry needs...

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Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Maps after "official government sources" are updated, after Trump signed an EO changing the name (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)

Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America...

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America...

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Hands-on with DeepSeek's chatbot: R1 model is free and powerful, but suffers from rampant hallucinations and lacks some ChatGPT tools like the memory feature (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Hands-on with DeepSeek's chatbot: R1 model is free and...

Reece Rogers / Wired: Hands-on with DeepSeek's chatbot: R1 model is free and powerful,...

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When asked if Microsoft is in discussions to purchase TikTok, Donald Trump told reporters "I would say yes" (Bloomberg)

When asked if Microsoft is in discussions to purchase TikTok,...

Bloomberg: When asked if Microsoft is in discussions to purchase TikTok, Donald...

What to Know About China's DeepSeek AI

The Chinese upstart says it has trained high-performing AI models cheaply, without...

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Davos 2025: How can Europe find the money to achieve its goals?

Davos 2025: How can Europe find the money to achieve its...

With public coffers depleted and an ageing population putting pressure on social...

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Off-grid solar energy holds key to narrowing energy access gap in Afica

Off-grid solar energy holds key to narrowing energy access...

As a major energy summit kicked off in Tanzania towards the goal of delivering affordable...

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Chinese chatbot DeepSeek leaps to top spot on App Store, overtaking ChatGPT

Chinese chatbot DeepSeek leaps to top spot on App Store,...

DeepSeek not only has a cute whale as its logo, but is fast becoming a whale of...

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At Davos, AI leaders clashed over safety concerns and the $100B Stargate project; Demis Hassabis and Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei reiterated stark warnings (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)

At Davos, AI leaders clashed over safety concerns and the...

Stephen Morris / Financial Times: At Davos, AI leaders clashed over safety concerns...

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Cancer research startup Manas AI, founded by Reid Hoffman and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, raised $24.6M to focus on breast and prostate cancer and lymphoma (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)

Cancer research startup Manas AI, founded by Reid Hoffman...

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: Cancer research startup Manas AI, founded by Reid...

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An in-depth look at DeepSeek: DeepSeekMoE and DeepSeekMLA, cheap V3 training, the US chip ban, "distillation" from other models, Nvidia impact, AGI, and more (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

An in-depth look at DeepSeek: DeepSeekMoE and DeepSeekMLA,...

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: An in-depth look at DeepSeek: DeepSeekMoE and DeepSeekMLA,...

Reid Hoffman Raises $24.6 Million for AI Cancer Research...

The LinkedIn co-founder is starting Manas AI with “The Emperor of All Maladies”...

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DeepSeek's iOS app is now #1 on the "Top Free Apps" chart in Apple's App Store in the US, just ahead of ChatGPT (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

DeepSeek's iOS app is now #1 on the "Top Free Apps" chart...

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: DeepSeek's iOS app is now #1 on the “Top Free Apps” chart...

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Brazil's data protection authority ruled that Tools for Humanity, cofounded by Sam Altman, must stop offering compensation for iris scans in the country (Reuters)

Brazil's data protection authority ruled that Tools for...

Reuters: Brazil's data protection authority ruled that Tools for Humanity, cofounded...

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Source: Perplexity AI revises its TikTok US merger proposal, which now allows for the US government to own up to 50% of the new company upon a future IPO (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Source: Perplexity AI revises its TikTok US merger proposal,...

Hayden Field / CNBC: Source: Perplexity AI revises its TikTok US merger proposal,...

Can an App Replace a Personal Trainer? I Tested Nearly...

Apps can add flexibility and freshness to your routine. Just try not to get injured.

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Sources: US State Dept.'s freeze on foreign aid applies to a bureau that uses cyber diplomacy to fight threats and pursues international norms for emerging tech (Martin Matishak/The Record)

Sources: US State Dept.'s freeze on foreign aid applies...

Martin Matishak / The Record: Sources: US State Dept.'s freeze on foreign aid applies...

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Major Chinese social media apps have mastered the "shoppertainment" experience, blending social media with shopping, that Western competitors struggle to match (Rest of World)

Major Chinese social media apps have mastered the "shoppertainment"...

Rest of World: Major Chinese social media apps have mastered the “shoppertainment”...

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Chinese esports companies, including Tencent and Huya, face growth challenges in China, the world's biggest esports market; the industry earned ~$3.8B in 2024 (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)

Chinese esports companies, including Tencent and Huya,...

Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: Chinese esports companies, including Tencent and Huya,...

Silicon Valley Is Raving About a Made-in-China AI Model

DeepSeek is called ‘amazing and impressive’ despite working with less-advanced chips.

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DeepSeek, which started as a deep-learning research branch of Chinese quant hedge fund High-Flyer, is now giving US AI giants a run for their money (Zeyi Yang/Wired)

DeepSeek, which started as a deep-learning research branch...

Zeyi Yang / Wired: DeepSeek, which started as a deep-learning research branch of...

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Siri with Apple Intelligence is a massive regression from the old Siri, which recognized its limitations and provided a list of search links to answer a query (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)

Siri with Apple Intelligence is a massive regression from...

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Siri with Apple Intelligence is a massive regression...

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Sources: the Trump admin is in talks for Oracle and a group of US investors to take over TikTok's global operations, with ByteDance retaining a minority stake (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

Sources: the Trump admin is in talks for Oracle and a group...

Bobby Allyn / NPR: Sources: the Trump admin is in talks for Oracle and a group of...

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Elon Musk's first moves suggest DOGE will be closer to an IT project than the sweeping operation to slash $2T+ from the federal budget that he once predicted (New York Times)

Elon Musk's first moves suggest DOGE will be closer to...

New York Times: Elon Musk's first moves suggest DOGE will be closer to an IT project...

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Supporters and skeptics of the TikTok ban in Congress say Trump's US ownership proposal bewilders them, claiming it doesn't comply with the divest-or-ban law (Politico)

Supporters and skeptics of the TikTok ban in Congress say...

Politico: Supporters and skeptics of the TikTok ban in Congress say Trump's US ownership...

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Hands-on with the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses live translation feature: adept at translating a basic conversation, but struggles with slang and faster speech (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Hands-on with the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses live translation...

Victoria Song / The Verge: Hands-on with the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses live translation...

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Yann LeCun says DeepSeek "profited from open research and open source" like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Yann LeCun says DeepSeek "profited from open research and...

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research...

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Source: Lightspeed has invested a total of $2.2B in AI deals, excluding the $2B Anthropic funding round it is leading, and is close to raising a $7B fund (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)

Source: Lightspeed has invested a total of $2.2B in AI...

Kate Clark / Bloomberg: Source: Lightspeed has invested a total of $2.2B in AI deals,...

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OpenAI updates ChatGPT's Canvas feature with o1 model support and HTML and React code rendering, making it a direct competitor to Claude's Artifacts (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

OpenAI updates ChatGPT's Canvas feature with o1 model support...

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: OpenAI updates ChatGPT's Canvas feature...

Meta Spending to Soar on AI, Massive Data Center

The social-media giant plans to spend between $60 billion and $65 billion, the latest...

Bill Gates on His Meeting With Trump, Musk's DOGE, His...

The billionaire spoke with The Wall Street Journal ahead of his coming book, “Source...

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Why does Donald Trump see China as a threat on AI, but not on TikTok?

Why does Donald Trump see China as a threat on AI, but...

“This is money that normally would have gone to China,” Trump proclaimed on Tuesday...

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The CMA says Google has agreed to curb UK businesses using fake reviews to boost star ratings and must report to the CMA on its efforts for the next three years (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

The CMA says Google has agreed to curb UK businesses using...

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: The CMA says Google has agreed to curb UK businesses...

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The EC says it will question Meta, X, Snap, Google, TikTok, and LinkedIn on January 31 about their plans to counter disinformation ahead of elections in Germany (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

The EC says it will question Meta, X, Snap, Google, TikTok,...

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: The EC says it will question Meta, X, Snap, Google,...

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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is planning to invest $60B to $65B in capex in 2025, will end the year with 1.3M+ GPUs, and plans to grow its AI teams "significantly" (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is planning to invest $60B to...

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is planning to invest $60B to...

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Sources: Stargate lacks a fully developed plan, hasn't secured funding yet, will get no government support, and will exclusively serve OpenAI once operational (Financial Times)

Sources: Stargate lacks a fully developed plan, hasn't...

Financial Times: Sources: Stargate lacks a fully developed plan, hasn't secured...

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The US DOJ charges the former CEO of AI chatbot startup GameOn and his wife for allegedly defrauding investors of more than $60M between 2018 and 2024 (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

The US DOJ charges the former CEO of AI chatbot startup...

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: The US DOJ charges the former CEO of AI chatbot startup...

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Sources: Mukesh Ambani's Reliance is buying Nvidia's AI chips and plans to build a 3-gigawatt data center in Jamnagar, India, set to be the largest in the world (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

Sources: Mukesh Ambani's Reliance is buying Nvidia's AI...

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: Sources: Mukesh Ambani's Reliance is buying Nvidia's AI...

Canada to Review Amazon Contracts After Quebec Layoffs

Canada has warned Amazon.com that it is reviewing business ties with the company’s...

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Syria plans privatisation of state-owned ports, factories

Syria plans privatisation of state-owned ports, factories

Syria's new interim government wants to privatise parts of its previously state-run...

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Davos 2025: The risks of a change in global order under Trump

Davos 2025: The risks of a change in global order under...

This week we're in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, where global...

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French and German leaders emphasise Europe's unity against Trump tariff threats

French and German leaders emphasise Europe's unity against...

After Donald Trump accused the European Union of "treating the US very, very badly"...

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Davos 2025: Trump tells businesses to build in America or face tariffs

Davos 2025: Trump tells businesses to build in America...

US President Donald Trump addressed business leaders in Davos, with a clear message:...

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Researchers detail Subaru's now-fixed web vulnerabilities that let them track millions of Subarus via its Starlink features in the US, Canada, and Japan (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Researchers detail Subaru's now-fixed web vulnerabilities...

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Researchers detail Subaru's now-fixed web vulnerabilities...

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ByteDance board member Bill Ford says ByteDance is exploring alternatives to selling TikTok US, including a change of control to comply with US legislation (Bloomberg)

ByteDance board member Bill Ford says ByteDance is exploring...

Bloomberg: ByteDance board member Bill Ford says ByteDance is exploring alternatives...

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Changpeng Zhao announces that Binance's VC arm Binance Labs, which oversees about $10B of crypto-related assets, will become a family office called YZi Labs (Bloomberg)

Changpeng Zhao announces that Binance's VC arm Binance...

Bloomberg: Changpeng Zhao announces that Binance's VC arm Binance Labs, which oversees...

Nvidia Supplier SK Hynix Posts Record Profit on AI Boom

The South Korean memory-chip maker reported record quarterly and annual results...

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Davos 2025: AI will push 70% of job skills to change by 2030, LinkedIn report says

Davos 2025: AI will push 70% of job skills to change by...

After Donald Trump announced a $500 million private investment project into AI infrastructure,...

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Sources: Sam Altman told some colleagues that OpenAI and SoftBank will each commit $19B to Stargate, and OpenAI would effectively hold a 40% interest in the JV (The Information)

Sources: Sam Altman told some colleagues that OpenAI and...

The Information: Sources: Sam Altman told some colleagues that OpenAI and SoftBank...

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A US district judge rules that the FBI's warrantless "backdoor" searches of FISA's Section 702 databases violate the Fourth Amendment (Patrick G. Eddington/Cato Institute)

A US district judge rules that the FBI's warrantless "backdoor"...

Patrick G. Eddington / Cato Institute: A US district judge rules that the FBI's...

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SK Hynix reports Q4 revenue up 75% YoY to a record ~$13.7B, a ~$5.6B net profit, and a ~$5.6B operating profit, in line with estimates, as HBM chip demand soars (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)

SK Hynix reports Q4 revenue up 75% YoY to a record ~$13.7B,...

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: SK Hynix reports Q4 revenue up 75% YoY to a record ~$13.7B,...

SK Hynix Posts Strong Fourth-Quarter Net Profit on AI Boom

The South Korean memory-chip maker posted stronger-than-expected earnings for the...

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Davos 2025: AI will push 70% of job skills to change by 2030, according to LinkedIn report

Davos 2025: AI will push 70% of job skills to change by...

As Donald Trump announced a 500 million dollar private investment project into AI...

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Trump tariffs: French and German leaders emphasise Europe's unity against threats

Trump tariffs: French and German leaders emphasise Europe's...

As Donald Trump accused the European Union of "treating the US very very badly"...

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Google unveils classroom and accessibility ChromeOS features, including rolling out a tool to let users control a device with their head and facial expressions (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)

Google unveils classroom and accessibility ChromeOS features,...

Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: Google unveils classroom and accessibility...

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London-based Vertice, which offers an AI-powered SaaS spend platform, raised a $50M Series C led by Lakestar, taking its total funding to ~$100M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

London-based Vertice, which offers an AI-powered SaaS spend...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Vertice, which offers an AI-powered SaaS...

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Data analytics startup Databricks closed its $10B Series J, announced in December 2024 and including investment from Meta, and raised $5.25B in debt (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Data analytics startup Databricks closed its $10B Series...

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Data analytics startup Databricks closed its $10B Series...

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Panama Canal: What the 1999 deal stipulates and how the waterway is run today

Panama Canal: What the 1999 deal stipulates and how the...

During his inaugural speech, US President Donald Trump threatened to "take back"...

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Davos 2025: Hitachi Energy CEO calls for boosting of power grid investments

Davos 2025: Hitachi Energy CEO calls for boosting of power...

Energy demand is skyrocketing, fuelled by the demand for artificial intelligence....

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Davos 2025: Ukraine's economy in the spotlight at World Economic Forum

Davos 2025: Ukraine's economy in the spotlight at World...

With global business and finance leaders gathered in Davos, the focus on day three...

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Render, which offers developers cloud services for building, deploying, and running apps and websites, raised an $80M Series C led by Georgian (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Render, which offers developers cloud services for building,...

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Render, which offers developers cloud services for...

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Sources: ByteDance plans to spend ~$5.5B to acquire AI chips in China in 2025, double the amount spent in 2024, with ~60% going to Chinese suppliers like Huawei (Financial Times)

Sources: ByteDance plans to spend ~$5.5B to acquire AI...

Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance plans to spend ~$5.5B to acquire AI chips in...

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Sources: a deep philosophical rift over how DOGE should operate helped spur Vivek Ramaswamy's exit, with Donald Trump's Jan. 20 EO embodying Elon Musk's vision (Washington Post)

Sources: a deep philosophical rift over how DOGE should...

Washington Post: Sources: a deep philosophical rift over how DOGE should operate...

Tech Leaders Pledge Up to $500 Billion in AI Investment...

OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank unveiled AI infrastructure plans at White House.

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Panama Canal: What the 1999 deal stipulates and how business is run today

Panama Canal: What the 1999 deal stipulates and how business...

During his inaugural speech, US President Donald Trump threatened to "take back"...

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2025 World Economic Forum in Davos : Hitachi Energy CEO calls for boosting power grid investments

2025 World Economic Forum in Davos : Hitachi Energy CEO...

Energy demand is skyrocketing, fueled by the demand for artificial intelligence,...

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Amazon's IMDb says founder Col Needham will step down as CEO and move to executive chair, and appoints COO Nikki Santoro as CEO; Needham launched IMDb in 1990 (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Amazon's IMDb says founder Col Needham will step down as...

Todd Spangler / Variety: Amazon's IMDb says founder Col Needham will step down as...

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Grindr debuts two of six features set for 2025, including an opt-in AI chat summary, and says 10K US users are testing its AI-based "Wingman", ahead of schedule (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Grindr debuts two of six features set for 2025, including...

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Grindr debuts two of six features set for 2025, including...

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The UK debuts digital driving licenses and veteran ID cards, launching in 2025 via the GOV.UK Wallet, and AI tools, nicknamed "Humphrey", to help civil servants (Anna Gross/Financial Times)

The UK debuts digital driving licenses and veteran ID cards,...

Anna Gross / Financial Times: The UK debuts digital driving licenses and veteran...

China Signals It Is Open to a Deal Keeping TikTok in U.S.

The founder of the app’s parent, Beijing-based ByteDance, met with Elon Musk last...

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Davos participants prepare for a Trump 2.0 world

Davos participants prepare for a Trump 2.0 world

On day two of the World Economic Forum in Davos, discussions are revolving around...

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Trump signs an EO to end "federal censorship" of online platforms, and directs the AG to probe if the Biden admin engaged in censorship of Americans' views (Cat Zakrzewski/Washington Post)

Trump signs an EO to end "federal censorship" of online...

Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: Trump signs an EO to end “federal censorship”...

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Source: Meta is offering creators with large TikTok followings bonuses ranging from $10K to $50K/month to post videos on Instagram Reels before other platforms (The Information)

Source: Meta is offering creators with large TikTok followings...

The Information: Source: Meta is offering creators with large TikTok followings...

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Trump signs an EO that pauses the TikTok ban for 75 days to give ByteDance more time to reach a deal and provides a "liability shield" to TikTok's providers (Bobby Allyn/NPR)

Trump signs an EO that pauses the TikTok ban for 75 days...

Bobby Allyn / NPR: Trump signs an EO that pauses the TikTok ban for 75 days to give...

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China suggests it is willing to work with Donald Trump to keep TikTok operating in the US, after previously saying that it would block any forced sale of TikTok (Wall Street Journal)

China suggests it is willing to work with Donald Trump...

Wall Street Journal: China suggests it is willing to work with Donald Trump to keep...

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The European Commission says Facebook, X, YouTube, and others agreed to an updated code of conduct, first set up in May 2016, over hate speech under the DSA (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

The European Commission says Facebook, X, YouTube, and...

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The European Commission says Facebook, X, YouTube, and others...

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Meta says it will continue to use its fact checkers outside of the US "for now", and plans to see how its Community Notes system works in the US before deciding (Jillian Deutsch/Bloomberg)

Meta says it will continue to use its fact checkers outside...

Jillian Deutsch / Bloomberg: Meta says it will continue to use its fact checkers...

China Signals It Won't Block a Deal to Keep TikTok in the...

The founder of the app’s parent, Beijing-based ByteDance, met with Elon Musk last...

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Billionaire wealth growing at 'unimaginable' rate as poverty persists, Oxfam says

Billionaire wealth growing at 'unimaginable' rate as poverty...

Oxfam's annual inequality report shows the rapid acceleration of wealth accumulation...

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Researchers say the recent surge in SMS phishing spam, warning US recipients about unpaid tolls, coincides with new features in a popular Chinese phishing kit (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

Researchers say the recent surge in SMS phishing spam,...

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Researchers say the recent surge in SMS phishing...

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Q&A with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer and blogger whose ideas are increasingly popular with tech elites, on why democracy is bad, dictators, and more (David Marchese/New York Times)

Q&A with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer and blogger...

David Marchese / New York Times: Q&A with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer and...

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Google Play and Apple's App Store still aren't offering TikTok in the US; Sen. Cotton warns of "ruinous liability", as Trump says there's "no liability" (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Google Play and Apple's App Store still aren't offering...

Emma Roth / The Verge: Google Play and Apple's App Store still aren't offering TikTok...

TikTok Restoring Service for U.S. Users, After Trump Signals...

The app started halting service Saturday night for 170 million users in its most...

How People Actually Make a Living on TikTok

The platform has provided a surge in discovery and revenue for companies that may...

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US officials have struck binding deals for 85% of the CHIPS Act funding; sources: Gina Raimondo said her successor, Howard Lutnick, is committed to the program (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)

US officials have struck binding deals for 85% of the CHIPS...

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: US officials have struck binding deals for 85% of...

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Collate, which is developing tech to automate paperwork for life science companies, emerges from stealth with a $30M seed led by Redpoint at a $100M+ valuation (Forbes)

Collate, which is developing tech to automate paperwork...

Forbes: Collate, which is developing tech to automate paperwork for life science...

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Apple CFO Kevan Parekh tells a London court it is impossible to accurately determine the App Store's standalone profitability and disputes claims of 75% margins (Financial Times)

Apple CFO Kevan Parekh tells a London court it is impossible...

Financial Times: Apple CFO Kevan Parekh tells a London court it is impossible to...

TikTok Goes Dark for U.S. Users, While Trump Signals He...

The app started halting service Saturday night for 170 million users in its most...

What Happens Now That TikTok's Gone Dark?

The company told users the app isn’t available and told them to stay tuned. Trump...

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As the TikTok eulogies pour in from some creators, very few Americans seem concerned that one of the nation's most popular social media apps will disappear (Kevin Roose/New York Times)

As the TikTok eulogies pour in from some creators, very...

Kevin Roose / New York Times: As the TikTok eulogies pour in from some creators,...

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A close look at some privacy implications of AI interfacing with messaging apps and other E2EE systems, Apple's approach to "Private Cloud Compute", and more (Matthew Green/A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering)

A close look at some privacy implications of AI interfacing...

Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering: A close look at some...

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TikTok bans in countries around the world have played out quite differently; Instagram Reels largely replaced TikTok in India, following TikTok's ban in 2020 (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

TikTok bans in countries around the world have played out...

Will Oremus / Washington Post: TikTok bans in countries around the world have played...

They Built Thriving Businesses on TikTok. The Ban Could...

The platform has provided a surge in discovery and revenue for companies that may...

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Adam Mosseri says Instagram profile grids will display content as rectangles instead of squares as part of a change rolling out "over the weekend" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Adam Mosseri says Instagram profile grids will display...

Jay Peters / The Verge: Adam Mosseri says Instagram profile grids will display content...

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At least four UK teenagers have been arrested in connection with 764, a "Satanist" terror network targeting children online for sexual blackmail and violence (BBC)

At least four UK teenagers have been arrested in connection...

BBC: At least four UK teenagers have been arrested in connection with 764, a “Satanist”...

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Character.AI is testing games on its desktop and mobile web apps to boost engagement, available to paid subscribers and a limited set of users on its free plan (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Character.AI is testing games on its desktop and mobile...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Character.AI is testing games on its desktop and mobile...

How a Little-Known Finnish Company Became One of the World's...

Oura’s smart ring measures heart health and can predict when you may be getting...

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TikTok says it will go dark in the US on Sunday unless the Biden admin provides a "definitive statement" to critical service providers assuring non-enforcement (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)

TikTok says it will go dark in the US on Sunday unless...

Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: TikTok says it will go dark in the US on Sunday unless...

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OpenAI worked with Retro Biosciences to develop GPT-4b micro, an AI model that it says can engineer proteins capable of turning regular cells into stem cells (Antonio Regalado/MIT Technology Review)

OpenAI worked with Retro Biosciences to develop GPT-4b...

Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review: OpenAI worked with Retro Biosciences to...

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Leading crypto firms have given at least $10M to the Trump inaugural fund; Ripple, a major target of SEC enforcement action, donated $5M in digital tokens (Jasper Goodman/Politico)

Leading crypto firms have given at least $10M to the Trump...

Jasper Goodman / Politico: Leading crypto firms have given at least $10M to the...

What Happens to TikTok Now That the Supreme Court Upheld...

The company says it plans to go dark after the Supreme Court upheld a sell-or-ban...

EU Steps Up Probe of Elon Musk's X Ahead of Trump Inauguration

The European Commission has ramped up its investigation into Elon Musk’s X social...

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Top AI companies score badly on risk and safety assessments, ahead of Paris summit

Top AI companies score badly on risk and safety assessments,...

Are leading artificial intelligence companies doing enough to keep us safe from...

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Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd will return to the company as CEO in mid-March, replacing current CEO Lidiane Jones, who is departing for "personal reasons" (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)

Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd will return to the company...

Dana Wollman / Bloomberg: Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd will return to the company...

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Lenovo acquires enterprise storage startup Infinidat and plans to turn it into its Israel development center; Infinidat raised $350M from TPG and others (Assaf Gilead/Globes Online)

Lenovo acquires enterprise storage startup Infinidat and...

Assaf Gilead / Globes Online: Lenovo acquires enterprise storage startup Infinidat...

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Sources: Chinese hackers breached US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's computer and accessed fewer than 50 unclassified files; two deputies were also hacked (Bloomberg)

Sources: Chinese hackers breached US Treasury Secretary...

Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese hackers breached US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's...

Nintendo Shares Slump as Switch 2 Announcement Underwhelms

The Japanese company’s much-anticipated successor to its Switch console disappointed...

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'Nonsensical' to single out one single app, expert says, as TikTok ban looms

'Nonsensical' to single out one single app, expert says,...

TikTok plans to shut US operations of its social media app used by 170 million Americans...

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How an AI Brad Pitt conned a woman out of €830,000, triggering online mockery

How an AI Brad Pitt conned a woman out of €830,000, triggering...

Hollywood A-lister Brad Pitt has put out a statement after a French woman was swindled...

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A US official says the Biden administration won't force TikTok to go dark in the country on January 19 and will leave it up to Trump to implement the law (ABC News)

A US official says the Biden administration won't force...

ABC News: A US official says the Biden administration won't force TikTok to go dark...

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The US FTC refers a complaint against Snap to the DOJ, alleging Snapchat's My AI chatbot poses "risks and harms to young users"; SNAP closed down 5% (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

The US FTC refers a complaint against Snap to the DOJ,...

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: The US FTC refers a complaint against Snap to the DOJ, alleging...

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Sources: Meta's Community Notes won't apply to paid ads, but will be enabled for organic content, which includes brands' and influencers' unpromoted posts (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Meta's Community Notes won't apply to paid ads,...

Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Meta's Community Notes won't apply...

EU Competition Chief Denies Reassessment of Big Tech Probes

The European Commission’s new chief competition enforcer pushed back against concerns...

SpaceX Starship Spacecraft Explodes During Test Flight

Elon Musk’s space company was conducting the seventh flight of its Starship rocket....

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The economic cost of rebuilding Gaza after devastating war

The economic cost of rebuilding Gaza after devastating...

Estimates of the cost to reconstruct the devastated Gaza Strip after more than a...

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Trump will save TikTok if viable deal is on table, top adviser says

Trump will save TikTok if viable deal is on table, top...

Donald Trump's incoming national security adviser, Mike Waltz, says the incoming...

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Sober buzz: The rise of the healthy drinker

Sober buzz: The rise of the healthy drinker

In the middle of Dry January, many people are trying to keep the festive cheer alive,...

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Coinbase adds bitcoin-backed loans in the US through Morpho, a lending platform on its Base network; borrowers will post collateral and not rely on credit score (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Coinbase adds bitcoin-backed loans in the US through Morpho,...

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: Coinbase adds bitcoin-backed loans in the US through Morpho,...

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US school districts hit by PowerSchool's December breach say hackers accessed "all" historical student and teacher data; PowerSchool has 50M+ US student records (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

US school districts hit by PowerSchool's December breach...

Carly Page / TechCrunch: US school districts hit by PowerSchool's December breach...

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Letter: Google told EU it will not add fact checks to search results and YouTube videos or use them in ranking or removing content, despite new EU requirements (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Letter: Google told EU it will not add fact checks to search...

Sara Fischer / Axios: Letter: Google told EU it will not add fact checks to search...

Google Thinks It Has the Best AI Tech. Now It Needs More...

Tired of trailing OpenAI, CEO Sundar Pichai wants his Gemini chatbot to be used...

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During oral arguments, SCOTUS seemed open to a Texas law requiring age checks to view online porn, but could send the case back to a lower court (Lindsay Whitehurst/Associated Press)

During oral arguments, SCOTUS seemed open to a Texas law...

Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press: During oral arguments, SCOTUS seemed open...

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AI researcher François Chollet and Zapier co-founder Mike Knoop launch Ndea, an AI research and science lab focused on "developing and operationalizing AGI" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

AI researcher François Chollet and Zapier co-founder...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: AI researcher François Chollet and Zapier co-founder...

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The US Commerce Department adds 25 China-based companies, including Alibaba-backed LLM developer Zhipu AI and chip designer Sophgo, to its restricted trade list (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)

The US Commerce Department adds 25 China-based companies,...

Karen Freifeld / Reuters: The US Commerce Department adds 25 China-based companies,...

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The economic fallout of the Gaza War

The economic fallout of the Gaza War

As a ceasefire deal has been reached between Israel and Hamas, Yuka Royer takes...

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US markets watchdog sues Musk over disclosure of Twitter stake

US markets watchdog sues Musk over disclosure of Twitter...

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk...

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Google makes all its Gemini features for Workspace apps free, after charging $20 or $30 per user per month, but increases the prices of all its Workspace plans (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google makes all its Gemini features for Workspace apps...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google makes all its Gemini features for Workspace apps free,...

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LinkedIn launches free AI tools built on top of its own AI tech and data: a Jobs Match tool for job seekers and a recruitment AI agent for small businesses (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

LinkedIn launches free AI tools built on top of its own...

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: LinkedIn launches free AI tools built on top of its...

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How gamers are turning gaming PCs into fashion statements: iBuypower customers spend an average of ~$2.4K on custom-built gaming PCs and $1.6K on prebuilt ones (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

How gamers are turning gaming PCs into fashion statements:...

Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: How gamers are turning gaming PCs into fashion...

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St. Helena: 'The world's most remote EV charging point'

St. Helena: 'The world's most remote EV charging point'

The tiny British overseas territory of St. Helena, where Napoleon was sent into...

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Sources and docs: Meta has dismantled its system that identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach, and told content-ranking teams to stop penalizing misinfo (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Sources and docs: Meta has dismantled its system that identified...

Casey Newton / Platformer: Sources and docs: Meta has dismantled its system that...

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Report: UK startups raised €16.4B in 2024, Germany raised €9.4B, France raised €7.1B; investment in French AI startups grew from €1B in 2023 to €1.9B in 2024 (Sifted)

Report: UK startups raised €16.4B in 2024, Germany...

Sifted: Report: UK startups raised €16.4B in 2024, Germany raised €9.4B, France...

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Apple and Amazon fight off a UK lawsuit filed on behalf of ~36M consumers alleging they colluded to bar most resellers of Apple and Beats products on Amazon (Reuters)

Apple and Amazon fight off a UK lawsuit filed on behalf...

Reuters: Apple and Amazon fight off a UK lawsuit filed on behalf of ~36M consumers...

Meta to Cut 5% of Staff as Zuckerberg Says He Will 'Raise...

CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the job cuts are necessary as the company builds “the most...

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Spain floats 100 percent tax for non-EU real estate buyers

Spain floats 100 percent tax for non-EU real estate buyers

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has announced a plan to tax non-residents from...

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St. Helena: "The world's most remote EV charging point"

St. Helena: "The world's most remote EV charging point"

The tiny British overseas territory of Saint Helena, where Napoleon was sent into...

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Understanding social media changes and how to protect children

Understanding social media changes and how to protect children

Many of the social media platforms used by our children and young people are undergoing...

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Klarna partners with Stripe to make its BNPL service available as an option to merchants using Stripe's payment tools in 26 countries, ahead of Klarna's US IPO (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Klarna partners with Stripe to make its BNPL service available...

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Klarna partners with Stripe to make its BNPL service available...

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Israel-based Orchid Security, which uses LLMs to identify clients' security requirements, emerges from stealth with a $36M seed led by Team 8 and Intel Capital (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Israel-based Orchid Security, which uses LLMs to identify...

Sam Sabin / Axios: Israel-based Orchid Security, which uses LLMs to identify clients'...

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The TON Foundation names board member Manuel Stotz as president, as its blockchain with close ties to Telegram plans to expand in the US (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)

The TON Foundation names board member Manuel Stotz as president,...

Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: The TON Foundation names board member Manuel Stotz as president,...

TikTok Refugees Find an Alternative---in China

Chinese users of Xiaohongshu, or Little Red Book, welcome Americans fleeing a feared...

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Sources: Databricks secures $5B+ in its largest debt raise to date, from lenders including Blackstone and Apollo, after raising $10B in equity in December 2024 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Databricks secures $5B+ in its largest debt raise...

Bloomberg: Sources: Databricks secures $5B+ in its largest debt raise to date, from...

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A look at European tech firms Idemia, SITA, Travizory, and WCC, that offer AI tools to help governments surveil cross-border travelers and predict threats (Caitlin Chandler/Wired)

A look at European tech firms Idemia, SITA, Travizory,...

Caitlin Chandler / Wired: A look at European tech firms Idemia, SITA, Travizory,...

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Bellevue, WA-based Truveta, which aggregates medical data from 30 partner institutions, raised $320M from Regeneron, Illumina, and others at a $1B+ valuation (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Bellevue, WA-based Truveta, which aggregates medical data...

Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Bellevue, WA-based Truveta, which aggregates medical data...

Zuckerberg Debuts 'Real Mark' in Push to Woo Trump

Meta is pursuing a MAGA makeover, in the latest political pivot for a company that...

Apple Faces $1.8 Billion Lawsuit in U.K. Court Over App...

Lawyers representing the class action said that Apple excluded potential rivals...

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Biden administration announces new rules to govern AI's global spread

Biden administration announces new rules to govern AI's...

As it embarked on its final week, the Biden administration has announced sweeping...

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Donald Trump Jr. is joining prediction-market startup Kalshi as a strategic adviser; CFTC called Kalshi "an online casino" in a December filing (Wall Street Journal)

Donald Trump Jr. is joining prediction-market startup Kalshi...

Wall Street Journal: Donald Trump Jr. is joining prediction-market startup Kalshi...

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Sources: Microsoft, Meta, AWS, and Google recently cut some orders of Nvidia's Blackwell GB200 racks, as overheating and connection glitches lead to delays (The Information)

Sources: Microsoft, Meta, AWS, and Google recently cut...

The Information: Sources: Microsoft, Meta, AWS, and Google recently cut some orders...

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Nvidia announces partnerships with Illumina, the Mayo Clinic, and other companies as part of its push to encourage AI adoption by the health care industry (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Nvidia announces partnerships with Illumina, the Mayo Clinic,...

Ian King / Bloomberg: Nvidia announces partnerships with Illumina, the Mayo Clinic,...

U.S. Targets China With New AI Curbs, Overriding Nvidia's...

The U.S. is imposing some of its strongest measures yet to limit Chinese advances...

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California wildfires could be most expensive in US history

California wildfires could be most expensive in US history

The wildfires that have devastated the Los Angeles area are projected to carry an...

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Meta's changes to its content policies will appease vocal political critics only for the short term, and they signal a retreat from responsibility to users (Renée DiResta)

Meta's changes to its content policies will appease vocal...

Renée DiResta: Meta's changes to its content policies will appease vocal political...

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On Monday the UK will announce a five-year investment in government-owned AI computing capacity; a UK-commissioned report suggests building a ~100K GPU cluster (Financial Times)

On Monday the UK will announce a five-year investment in...

Financial Times: On Monday the UK will announce a five-year investment in government-owned...

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Microsoft notifies customers in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand of upcoming ~30% to ~45% price hikes for Microsoft 365 plans (Simon Sharwood/The Register)

Microsoft notifies customers in Australia, New Zealand,...

Simon Sharwood / The Register: Microsoft notifies customers in Australia, New Zealand,...

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How aligning with Trump's new administration lets Meta and X pivot from futile cooperation with the EU and other jurisdictions to confrontation and coercion (David Allen Green/Financial Times)

How aligning with Trump's new administration lets Meta...

David Allen Green / Financial Times: How aligning with Trump's new administration...

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As researchers talk about the arrival of supersmart AI, far fewer voices are trying to envision and articulate what a world awash in AI might actually look like (Ethan Mollick/One Useful Thing)

As researchers talk about the arrival of supersmart AI,...

Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: As researchers talk about the arrival of supersmart...

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Some advertisers raise brand safety concerns over Meta's content moderation changes, fearing a surge in harmful content and misinformation on its platforms (Financial Times)

Some advertisers raise brand safety concerns over Meta's...

Financial Times: Some advertisers raise brand safety concerns over Meta's content...

Your iPhone Storage Is Full Again. Do This to Reclaim Space.

How to deal with photos and software updates that are eating up gigabytes.

Kids Turn to a Mental-Health Chatbot to Share Their Anxieties

Part counselor and part friend, Troodi talks with children about their worries and...

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A look at Watch Duty, a free app that has become a crucial lifeline for LA during the wildfires by showing active fires, evacuation zones, and other vital info (Abigail Bassett/The Verge)

A look at Watch Duty, a free app that has become a crucial...

Abigail Bassett / The Verge: A look at Watch Duty, a free app that has become a...

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As Amazon Prime Video wraps up its third season streaming NFL games, a look at its use of AI and "Prime Vision with Next Gen Stats" during broadcasts (Joe Reedy/Associated Press)

As Amazon Prime Video wraps up its third season streaming...

Joe Reedy / Associated Press: As Amazon Prime Video wraps up its third season streaming...

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Tim Sweeney says Big Tech leaders, who used to pretend to be Democrats, are now pretending to be Republicans to skirt antitrust laws and "crush competitors" (Tyler Wilde/PC Gamer)

Tim Sweeney says Big Tech leaders, who used to pretend...

Tyler Wilde / PC Gamer: Tim Sweeney says Big Tech leaders, who used to pretend to...

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Huge recent fundraising deals for Databricks, SpaceX, and OpenAI may delay their IPOs; Forge Global says the seven largest US private firms are worth $695B (George Hammond/Financial Times)

Huge recent fundraising deals for Databricks, SpaceX, and...

George Hammond / Financial Times: Huge recent fundraising deals for Databricks,...

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Bengaluru traffic police booked 17K+ cases against delivery personnel in a single week of November 2024, as Swiggy and others rolled out rapid delivery services (The News Minute)

Bengaluru traffic police booked 17K+ cases against delivery...

The News Minute: Bengaluru traffic police booked 17K+ cases against delivery personnel...

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A scammer details how voice phishing groups are abusing Apple's support line to generate "account confirmation" message prompts from Apple to their customers (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

A scammer details how voice phishing groups are abusing...

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: A scammer details how voice phishing groups are...

The Parents Letting Their Kids Talk to a Mental-Health...

Part counselor and part friend, Troodi talks with children about their worries and...

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Biden assailed Meta over its move to end third-party fact-checking on its social media platforms in the US, saying "it's really shameful" (Josh Wingrove/Bloomberg)

Biden assailed Meta over its move to end third-party fact-checking...

Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg: Biden assailed Meta over its move to end third-party...

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The EU approves Synopsys' $35B Ansys acquisition, after the companies offered to divest parts of their businesses; US and China approvals are still pending (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

The EU approves Synopsys' $35B Ansys acquisition, after...

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: The EU approves Synopsys' $35B Ansys acquisition, after...

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Roy Austin, Meta's VP of Civil Rights and Deputy General Counsel, announces he is leaving the company at the end of March 2025, after joining in January 2021 (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Roy Austin, Meta's VP of Civil Rights and Deputy General...

Alex Heath / The Verge: Roy Austin, Meta's VP of Civil Rights and Deputy General...

TikTok's Founder Has a Formula for Everything. Can It Crack...

As the Supreme Court weighs a ban on the video-sharing site, no one has more to...

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From Trump to AI & climate change: What does 2025 have in store for the world economy?

From Trump to AI & climate change: What does 2025 have...

The re-election of Donald Trump as US president has generated a climate of uncertainty...

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In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more (Politico)

In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a...

Politico: In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the...

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Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have agreed to discontinue their Venu Sports streaming joint venture and will focus on existing products and distribution channels (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)

Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have agreed to discontinue...

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have agreed...

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The CFPB proposes a new rule to give consumers the same protection rights when they use virtual currencies in some video games like Roblox as when they use USD (Makena Kelly/Wired)

The CFPB proposes a new rule to give consumers the same...

Makena Kelly / Wired: The CFPB proposes a new rule to give consumers the same protection...

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Internal data: Spotify had about 55M US subscribers as of Q3 2024, of which only around 607,000 were on the cheaper "basic" plan that doesn't include audiobooks (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Internal data: Spotify had about 55M US subscribers as...

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Internal data: Spotify had about 55M US subscribers as...

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Court docs: Mark Zuckerberg gave the Meta team training Llama AI models approval to use data from LibGen, which offers access to pirated, copyrighted material (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Court docs: Mark Zuckerberg gave the Meta team training...

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Court docs: Mark Zuckerberg gave the Meta team training...

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The Linux Foundation launches an initiative to fund developing Chromium projects in a "neutral space", with support from Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera (Kevin Purdy/Ars Technica)

The Linux Foundation launches an initiative to fund developing...

Kevin Purdy / Ars Technica: The Linux Foundation launches an initiative to fund...

Elon Musk's xAI Launches Stand-Alone Grok App

The AI startup launched its first stand-alone consumer app, as the company tries...

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Amazon launches Amazon Retail Ad Service to let companies show ads in search results, product pages, and other areas of their own websites, initially in the US (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Amazon launches Amazon Retail Ad Service to let companies...

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon launches Amazon Retail Ad Service to let companies show...

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Analysis: Elon Musk's UK obsession is driven by a few X accounts; an ex-Twitter exec says Musk may be the first tech leader to be radicalized by his own product (Financial Times)

Analysis: Elon Musk's UK obsession is driven by a few X...

Financial Times: Analysis: Elon Musk's UK obsession is driven by a few X accounts;...

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Google donates $1M to Trump's inauguration, says the donation, a YouTube livestream, and a home page link to the event are in line with previous inaugurations (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Google donates $1M to Trump's inauguration, says the donation,...

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Google donates $1M to Trump's inauguration, says the donation,...

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Social media platforms are in 'race to the bottom', campaigner says as Meta ends fact-checking

Social media platforms are in 'race to the bottom', campaigner...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday announced changes to content moderation on Facebook...

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Deflation fears rise in China as consumer prices slow down for four straight months

Deflation fears rise in China as consumer prices slow down...

Consumer prices in China grew barely 0.1% in December compared to a year before,...

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Google rolls out Daily Listen, which uses AI to generate a five-minute personalized audio overview of stories and topics that a user follows, to its mobile app (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Google rolls out Daily Listen, which uses AI to generate...

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google rolls out Daily Listen, which uses AI to generate...

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Infinite Reality, which is building an engine for creating immersive web content, says it has raised $3B from an unnamed private investor at a $12.25B valuation (Ben Lang/Road to VR)

Infinite Reality, which is building an engine for creating...

Ben Lang / Road to VR: Infinite Reality, which is building an engine for creating...

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Japan says Chinese hacking group MirrorFace is linked to 200+ cyberattacks from 2019 to 2024 targeting the country's national security and advanced tech data (Mari Yamaguchi/Associated Press)

Japan says Chinese hacking group MirrorFace is linked to...

Mari Yamaguchi / Associated Press: Japan says Chinese hacking group MirrorFace is...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Denies Sexual-Abuse Claims Made by...

Ann Altman’s lawsuit says the alleged abuse occurred at the family’s home in Missouri...

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Meta's fact-checking overhaul is set to deepen a growing schism between how platforms do content moderation in the US and in stricter regions like Europe (Cristiano Lima-Strong/Washington Post)

Meta's fact-checking overhaul is set to deepen a growing...

Cristiano Lima-Strong / Washington Post: Meta's fact-checking overhaul is set to...

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Google says Nest hubs, Chromecasts, Google TV devices on Android 14, and more can now control Matter devices locally, and opens its Home APIs to all developers (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Google says Nest hubs, Chromecasts, Google TV devices on...

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Google says Nest hubs, Chromecasts, Google...

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Sources: TSMC's Arizona plant is now producing Systems-in-Package for the Apple Watch, in addition to the A16 processor for iPhones (Tim Culpan/Culpium,)

Sources: TSMC's Arizona plant is now producing Systems-in-Package...

Tim Culpan / Culpium,: Sources: TSMC's Arizona plant is now producing Systems-in-Package...

Social-Media Companies Decide Content Moderation Is Trending...

Meta follows in X’s footsteps by letting users fact-check each other with “Community...

Samsung Expects Further Profit Growth Slowdown, Missing...

The world’s largest maker of memory chips and smartphones said sluggish demand for...

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Trump 2.0 tariffs loom large over 2025 CES in Las Vegas

Trump 2.0 tariffs loom large over 2025 CES in Las Vegas

Tech companies showing off their latest innovations at CES 2025 in Las Vegas, one...

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Meta to drop fact-checking and switch to X-style 'community notes'

Meta to drop fact-checking and switch to X-style 'community...

Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, has abruptly announced it will get rid...

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Meta scraps fact-checking: What are 'community notes' and what could this mean?

Meta scraps fact-checking: What are 'community notes' and...

Social media giant Meta – home to Facebook, Instagram and Threads – is scrapping...

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Sam Altman, in a statement with his family, denies the sexual abuse allegations made by his sister in a lawsuit and says she faces "mental health challenges" (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Sam Altman, in a statement with his family, denies the...

Hayden Field / CNBC: Sam Altman, in a statement with his family, denies the sexual...

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Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations over Meta's surrender to the right on speech issues; one called the changes "a precursor to genocide" (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations...

Casey Newton / Platformer: Ten current and former Meta employees share frustrations...

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Meta's fact-checking partners PolitiFact and FactCheck.org say they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)

Meta's fact-checking partners PolitiFact and FactCheck.org...

Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: Meta's fact-checking partners PolitiFact and...

Samsung Expects Further Slowdown in Operating Profit Growth

Samsung Electronics forecast a two-fold increase in its fourth-quarter operating...

AI Startup Anthropic Raising Funds Valuing It at $60 Billion

The Amazon-backed OpenAI rival was valued at $18 billion last year.

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Pentagon says Chinese tech firms Tencent, CATL affiliated with Beijing's military

Pentagon says Chinese tech firms Tencent, CATL affiliated...

The US Department of Defense has added Chinese social media giant Tencent and battery...

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Meta to drop fact-checking and switch to X-style "community notes"

Meta to drop fact-checking and switch to X-style "community...

Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, abruptly announced it will get rid of...

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Razer unveils Project Ava, an "AI gaming copilot" that helps gamers by taking thousands of pictures of their screen and telling them how to play in real time (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Razer unveils Project Ava, an "AI gaming copilot" that...

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Razer unveils Project Ava, an “AI gaming copilot” that...

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The UK plans to make it a crime to create and share sexually explicit deepfakes; the UK criminalized revenge porn in 2015, but that law doesn't cover deepfakes (Catarina Demony/Reuters)

The UK plans to make it a crime to create and share sexually...

Catarina Demony / Reuters: The UK plans to make it a crime to create and share sexually...

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TikTok's sister app Lemon8 is sponsoring TikTok posts that encourage US users to migrate to Lemon8 as a TikTok ban looms; Lemon8 has TikTok account integrations (Axios)

TikTok's sister app Lemon8 is sponsoring TikTok posts that...

Axios: TikTok's sister app Lemon8 is sponsoring TikTok posts that encourage US users...

Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech...

CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who has been building ties with the incoming Trump administration,...

Nvidia CEO Pitches Robotics, Cars as Growth Areas to Consumer-Electronics...

Jensen Huang’s address at the CES followed a trading session that sent Nvidia’s...

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Nippon Steel, US Steel sue Biden administration over blocked merger deal

Nippon Steel, US Steel sue Biden administration over blocked...

US Steel and Nippon Steel have filed lawsuits in Washington in a bid to overturn...

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Meta says it's testing an "Imagine Yourself" feature announced in September that automatically generates AI images of a user and puts them into that user's feed (Jason Koebler/404 Media)

Meta says it's testing an "Imagine Yourself" feature announced...

Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Meta says it's testing an “Imagine Yourself” feature...

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Sources: Chinese state-sponsored hackers targeted the Philippine president's office and stole sensitive data as part of a yearslong, broad espionage campaign (Jamie Tarabay/Bloomberg)

Sources: Chinese state-sponsored hackers targeted the Philippine...

Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese state-sponsored hackers targeted the...

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After complaints from the BBC, Apple plans an Apple Intelligence update "in the coming weeks" that "will further clarify" when it is summarizing notifications (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)

After complaints from the BBC, Apple plans an Apple Intelligence...

Zoe Kleinman / BBC: After complaints from the BBC, Apple plans an Apple Intelligence...

Meta Adds UFC's Dana White to Board

Meta said UFC President Dana White, Exor CEO John Elkann and technology investor...

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Ring announces a new partnership with fire safety brand Kidde to launch smart smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, launching for $54.97 and $74.97 in April 2025 (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

Ring announces a new partnership with fire safety brand...

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: Ring announces a new partnership with fire...

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Intel launches Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX laptop CPUs; none of the CPUs meet the AI performance requirements for Microsoft's Copilot+ (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

Intel launches Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX...

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: Intel launches Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200U, 200H,...

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Chinese VCs are targeting failed founders' personal assets and blacklisting them as debtors when they don't pay, throwing China's funding ecosystem into crisis (Financial Times)

Chinese VCs are targeting failed founders' personal assets...

Financial Times: Chinese VCs are targeting failed founders' personal assets and...

How Uber and Lyft Are Gearing Up for the Robotaxi Revolution

After ending their own driverless plans, the ride-sharing companies are embracing...

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French government launches budget talks over growing deficit

French government launches budget talks over growing deficit

France's new ministers for finance and public accounts are meeting with top MPs...

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Malaysia's environment minister says global tech companies should expect to pay a premium for access to energy and water to serve data centers in the country (Financial Times)

Malaysia's environment minister says global tech companies...

Financial Times: Malaysia's environment minister says global tech companies should...

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Sources: Italy is in advanced talks for a €1.5B, five-year SpaceX deal to provide the government with secure telecom services, Europe's largest such project (Bloomberg)

Sources: Italy is in advanced talks for a €1.5B, five-year...

Bloomberg: Sources: Italy is in advanced talks for a €1.5B, five-year SpaceX deal...

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Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's and ChatGPT's first few years, his removal as CEO, OpenAI's structure, AGI, AI safety, nuclear fusion, Trump, Musk, and more (Josh Tyrangiel/Bloomberg)

Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's and ChatGPT's first few...

Josh Tyrangiel / Bloomberg: Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's and ChatGPT's first...

Foxconn Posts Record Fourth-Quarter Revenue on AI Demand

The Taiwan-listed assembler of Apple and Nvidia products posted record revenue for...

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How Huawei is flourishing despite harsh US sanctions, demonstrating the resilience of a company at the center of a worsening cold war between the US and China (Eva Dou/Washington Post)

How Huawei is flourishing despite harsh US sanctions, demonstrating...

Eva Dou / Washington Post: How Huawei is flourishing despite harsh US sanctions,...

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The UK CMA is testing an AI tool to help catch companies that collude when bidding for public contracts, amid a "significant risk of bid-rigging" by contractors (Suzi Ring/Financial Times)

The UK CMA is testing an AI tool to help catch companies...

Suzi Ring / Financial Times: The UK CMA is testing an AI tool to help catch companies...

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PitchBook: AI startups developing medical note-taking apps raised $800M in 2024, compared to $390M in 2023, as Microsoft and others compete for market share (Madhumita Murgia/Financial Times)

PitchBook: AI startups developing medical note-taking apps...

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: PitchBook: AI startups developing medical note-taking...

Time to Finally Organize Your Digital Photos. First You...

Don’t forget about old hard drives and neglected Facebook accounts.

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Analysis of social media posts, AI art, Spaces comments, biographical details, and more suggests Adrian Dittmann is a German fan of Elon Musk living in Fiji (Jacqueline Sweet/The Spectator World)

Analysis of social media posts, AI art, Spaces comments,...

Jacqueline Sweet / The Spectator World: Analysis of social media posts, AI art,...

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Amit Yoran, the CEO of cybersecurity company Tenable, passed away after a battle with cancer; he previously held a number of roles, including president of RSA (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Amit Yoran, the CEO of cybersecurity company Tenable, passed...

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: Amit Yoran, the CEO of cybersecurity company Tenable, passed...

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How China-linked Volt Typhoon hackers breached local utilities and the US DOD's sensitive networks in Guam, a US territory vital for defending Taiwan militarily (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)

How China-linked Volt Typhoon hackers breached local utilities...

Katrina Manson / Bloomberg: How China-linked Volt Typhoon hackers breached local...

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An interview with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on rolling out AI tools without upsetting creators, and more; YouTube has paid $70B to partners in the past three years (Stephen Morris/Financial Times)

An interview with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on rolling out...

Stephen Morris / Financial Times: An interview with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on rolling...

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Religious leaders are experimenting with AI, spurring an industry of faith-based tech companies that offer AI tools to do theological research and write sermons (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Religious leaders are experimenting with AI, spurring an...

Eli Tan / New York Times: Religious leaders are experimenting with AI, spurring...

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Inside the fall and last-minute revival of accounting startup Bench, which struggled with implementing automation tools and faced tumult in its executive suite (Charles Rollet/TechCrunch)

Inside the fall and last-minute revival of accounting startup...

Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: Inside the fall and last-minute revival of accounting...

Intel's Problems Are Even Worse Than You've Heard

There is fresh evidence the once-mighty innovator is losing market share in more...

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Memo: Sameer Singh, TikTok's general manager for North America's ads team, is leaving the company at the end of February, as the company faces a ban in the US (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

Memo: Sameer Singh, TikTok's general manager for North...

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: Memo: Sameer Singh, TikTok's general manager for North...

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Samsung and Google plan to bring Eclipsa Audio, a new open-source 3D audio standard, to some YouTube videos later this year on Samsung's 2025 TVs and soundbars (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Samsung and Google plan to bring Eclipsa Audio, a new open-source...

Emma Roth / The Verge: Samsung and Google plan to bring Eclipsa Audio, a new open-source...

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Belgium-based Swave Photonics, which is developing its Holographic eXtended Reality platform for smart glasses and heads-up displays, raised a $28.27M Series A (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Belgium-based Swave Photonics, which is developing its...

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Belgium-based Swave Photonics, which is developing...

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The Future of AI: Transforming Industries and Empowering Innovation

The Future of AI: Transforming Industries and Empowering...

Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing healthcare, finance, education, and entertainment,...

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Foreign smartphone shipments, including iPhones, to China fell 47.4% YoY in November, following a 44.25% YoY drop in October, marking four months of decline (Reuters)

Foreign smartphone shipments, including iPhones, to China...

Reuters: Foreign smartphone shipments, including iPhones, to China fell 47.4% YoY...

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Apple and Strava partner to feature Strava athletes in Apple Fitness+ programming, add more detailed Fitness+ workout summaries in the Strava app, and more (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Apple and Strava partner to feature Strava athletes in...

Victoria Song / The Verge: Apple and Strava partner to feature Strava athletes in...

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Influencer marketing company Later acquires Mavely, which pays commissions to social-media creators for the sales they generate, for $250M in cash and stock (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)

Influencer marketing company Later acquires Mavely, which...

Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: Influencer marketing company Later acquires...

How Elon Musk Made the Las Vegas Bombing About His 'Badass...

The confusing hours after the Tesla vehicle was apparently used as a makeshift bomb...

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Sources: China-backed hackers accessed the computers of senior US Treasury officials; the department's email system and classified data were not breached (Bloomberg)

Sources: China-backed hackers accessed the computers of...

Bloomberg: Sources: China-backed hackers accessed the computers of senior US Treasury...

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Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon pleads not guilty before a US federal judge in New York to nine counts, including wire fraud, over the $40B TerraUSD collapse (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon pleads not guilty before...

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Paris is vying with London as Europe's top AI hotspot, with 34 of the 40 best-performing startups at the Station F incubator in 2024 focused on AI (John Thornhill/Financial Times)

Paris is vying with London as Europe's top AI hotspot,...

John Thornhill / Financial Times: Paris is vying with London as Europe's top AI...

Federal Court Strikes a Final Blow to FCC's Net-Neutrality...

Appeals-court decision ends effort to regulate internet providers like utilities,...

Meta Taps Republican as New Head of Global Policy

Joel Kaplan is replacing former U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as Silicon...

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While the crypto industry anticipates lighter regulation and wider adoption under Trump, some critics worry about systemic risks, particularly from stablecoins (Financial Times)

While the crypto industry anticipates lighter regulation...

Financial Times: While the crypto industry anticipates lighter regulation and wider...

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Asus, Samsung, and MSI separately unveil the world's first 27-inch QD-OLED gaming monitors, offering 4K OLED at 240Hz, without giving release dates or pricing (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Asus, Samsung, and MSI separately unveil the world's first...

Tom Warren / The Verge: Asus, Samsung, and MSI separately unveil the world's first...

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Telegram rolls out a new account verification method powered by third-parties, new message search filters, and the ability to turn gifts into NFTs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Telegram rolls out a new account verification method powered...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Telegram rolls out a new account verification method powered...

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Top 10 AI Tools That Will Transform Your Content Creation in 2025

Top 10 AI Tools That Will Transform Your Content Creation...

Looking to level up your content creation game in 2025? You're in the right place!...

A TikTok Ban Looms. Creators Say They'll Believe It When...

Status-quo videos are still proliferating on the Chinese-owned app. Madison Avenue...

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Huawei Rotating Chair Meng Wanzhou says the company is helping train 300,000+ tech students per year, in cooperation with 3,000+ universities in 110 countries (Nikkei Asia)

Huawei Rotating Chair Meng Wanzhou says the company is...

Nikkei Asia: Huawei Rotating Chair Meng Wanzhou says the company is helping train...

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Pornhub now blocks users in 17 US states, including almost all of the South, after blocking Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina due to age verification laws (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

Pornhub now blocks users in 17 US states, including almost...

Samantha Cole / 404 Media: Pornhub now blocks users in 17 US states, including almost...

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Sources: Chinese government hackers breached the US Treasury Department's OFAC, which administers economic sanctions, and two other Treasury offices (Washington Post)

Sources: Chinese government hackers breached the US Treasury...

Washington Post: Sources: Chinese government hackers breached the US Treasury Department's...

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Link-Busters, an anti-piracy company working for big publishers, passed 2B URL takedown requests sent to Google and is behind 50%+ of Google takedown requests (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

Link-Busters, an anti-piracy company working for big publishers,...

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: Link-Busters, an anti-piracy company working...

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Alibaba sells Sun Art Retail stake to PE firm DCP for ~$1.6B, after paying ~$3.6B in 2020 to double the stake to 70%+, as it focuses on its core online business (Bloomberg)

Alibaba sells Sun Art Retail stake to PE firm DCP for ~$1.6B,...

Bloomberg: Alibaba sells Sun Art Retail stake to PE firm DCP for ~$1.6B, after paying...

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PitchBook: the number of VCs investing in US startups fell from a peak of 8,315 in 2021 to 6,175 in 2024; 9 firms raised 50%+ of the $71B raised by VCs in 2024 (George Hammond/Financial Times)

PitchBook: the number of VCs investing in US startups fell...

George Hammond / Financial Times: PitchBook: the number of VCs investing in US startups...

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St. Louis-based tech services company World Wide Technology agrees to acquire Canadian IT provider Softchoice in an all-cash deal valuing the latter at ~CA$1.8B (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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The US Treasury sanctions Iranian and Russian entities over attempted election interference, including a Moscow entity that directed the creation of deepfakes (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)

The US Treasury sanctions Iranian and Russian entities...

Raquel Coronell Uribe / NBC News: The US Treasury sanctions Iranian and Russian...

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Report: users on Douyin, WeChat, and other short video apps in China dropped for the first time, reaching 1.05B in June 2024, ~300M fewer than in December 2023 (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

Report: users on Douyin, WeChat, and other short video...

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: Report: users on Douyin, WeChat, and other...

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Alibaba cuts prices on its visual language model Qwen-VL by up to 85%, after cutting Qwen prices by as much as 97% in May, amid growing AI competition in China (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Alibaba cuts prices on its visual language model Qwen-VL...

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Alibaba cuts prices on its visual language model Qwen-VL by...

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Sources: Mobvista explores selling mobile ad platform Mintegral after getting interest from buyers like Bain Capital; Mobvista stock in HK surged ~190% in 2024 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Mobvista explores selling mobile ad platform Mintegral...

Bloomberg: Sources: Mobvista explores selling mobile ad platform Mintegral after...

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Ant Group's payment app Alipay adds an AI-powered image search feature as it tries to become a super app like rival Tencent's WeChat (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

Ant Group's payment app Alipay adds an AI-powered image...

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: Ant Group's payment app Alipay adds an AI-powered...

Getting Cheated in a Videogame Led Him to a World of Online...

At 16, Ricky Handschumacher was a high-school baseball star. A decade later, he...

Beijing Pushes to Use China-Made Chips in Its EVs

China wants the chips inside EVs to be Chinese-made, while the U.S. is objecting...

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A US judge delays the CFTC v. Gemini trial to January 21, after Trump's inauguration; CFTC alleged Gemini misled the agency in its 2017 bid to debut BTC futures (Turner Wright/Cointelegraph)

A US judge delays the CFTC v. Gemini trial to January 21,...

Turner Wright / Cointelegraph: A US judge delays the CFTC v. Gemini trial to January...

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Letter: the US Treasury says China-backed hackers gained access to some Treasury workstations and unclassified docs; a vendor notified it of the hack on Dec. 8 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Letter: the US Treasury says China-backed hackers gained...

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Letter: the US Treasury says China-backed hackers gained...

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Venezuela's top court fines TikTok $10M over viral challenge deaths, citing a failure to take necessary measures, and orders it to open an office in the country (Agence France-Presse)

Venezuela's top court fines TikTok $10M over viral challenge...

Agence France-Presse: Venezuela's top court fines TikTok $10M over viral challenge...

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Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon's stock jumped 383% in 2024, giving the company a $37B market cap, driven by the localization of AI chips in the country (Bloomberg)

Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon's stock jumped 383%...

Bloomberg: Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon's stock jumped 383% in 2024, giving...

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Nvidia completes its $700M acquisition of Israel-based Run:ai, which helps orchestrate GPU clouds, and plans to open source its software (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Nvidia completes its $700M acquisition of Israel-based...

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Nvidia completes its $700M acquisition of Israel-based...

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Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile operator, signs a deal with Starlink to roll out text messaging in Q4 2025, and plans to add voice and data in later stages (Cagan Koc/Bloomberg)

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Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile operator, signs a deal...

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Mexico plans to launch an app in January 2025 that will let Mexican migrants warn relatives and alert the nearest consulate if US immigration agents detain them (Russell Contreras/Axios)

Mexico plans to launch an app in January 2025 that will...

Russell Contreras / Axios: Mexico plans to launch an app in January 2025 that will...

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Netflix's foray into live sports caps off a strong year, with its share price up 90%+ in 2024, but the stock's rich valuation sets a high bar for follow-up act (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)

Netflix's foray into live sports caps off a strong year,...

Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: Netflix's foray into live sports caps off a...

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The bitcoin rally fueled by Trump's reelection has lost steam near the end of 2024; BTC hovers around $93.5K, ~$15,000 below the record high set in mid-December (Sunil Jagtiani/Bloomberg)

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Sunil Jagtiani / Bloomberg: The bitcoin rally fueled by Trump's reelection has lost...

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How Donald Trump went from backing a TikTok ban in 2020 to backing off in 2024, as he became a political star on the platform with more than 14.7M followers (New York Times)

How Donald Trump went from backing a TikTok ban in 2020...

New York Times: How Donald Trump went from backing a TikTok ban in 2020 to backing...

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Sources and documents detail OnlyFans' journey from an obscure, porn-free site to an adults-only platform fueled by erotic performers and celebrity influencers (Reuters)

Sources and documents detail OnlyFans' journey from an...

Reuters: Sources and documents detail OnlyFans' journey from an obscure, porn-free...

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US politicians fully embraced influencers in 2024, blurring lines between punditry and journalism and paving the way for lawmakers to become creators themselves (Makena Kelly/Wired)

US politicians fully embraced influencers in 2024, blurring...

Makena Kelly / Wired: US politicians fully embraced influencers in 2024, blurring...

Things to Try: Our 9 Top Tech Tips for You

Here’s the best hands-on advice from Joanna Stern’s Tech Things newsletter this...

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Trump supports H-1B visas, saying "I have many H-1B visas on my properties. I've been a believer in H-1B", siding with Musk in the MAGA debate on the issue (Jon Levine/New York Post)

Trump supports H-1B visas, saying "I have many H-1B visas...

Jon Levine / New York Post: Trump supports H-1B visas, saying “I have many H-1B...

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The US plans to update HIPAA with new cybersecurity rules to protect patients' private data, including mandatory encryption and multifactor authentication (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)

The US plans to update HIPAA with new cybersecurity rules...

A.J. Vicens / Reuters: The US plans to update HIPAA with new cybersecurity rules...

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AT&T says China targeted a few "individuals of foreign intelligence interest" in the Salt Typhoon hack and its networks are now clear from the intrusion (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)

AT&T says China targeted a few "individuals of foreign...

Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: AT&T says China targeted a few “individuals of foreign...

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Analysis: 50%+ of the US households showing highly-distorted power readings from February to October were within 20 miles of significant data center activity (Bloomberg)

Analysis: 50%+ of the US households showing highly-distorted...

Bloomberg: Analysis: 50%+ of the US households showing highly-distorted power readings...

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What to expect in 2025: increased hype around AI agents, new generative AI-powered gadgets, better weather forecasts due to Google DeepMind's GenCast, and more (Wall Street Journal)

What to expect in 2025: increased hype around AI agents,...

Wall Street Journal: What to expect in 2025: increased hype around AI agents, new...

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Analysis: mentions of deepfakes or AI-made content in X's Community Notes were more correlated with new image generation model releases than elections in 2024 (Clara Murray/Financial Times)

Analysis: mentions of deepfakes or AI-made content in X's...

Clara Murray / Financial Times: Analysis: mentions of deepfakes or AI-made content...

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Some conservative critics of Elon Musk allege censorship and claim they were stripped of their X verification badges after challenging his views on H-1B visas (Angrej Singh/Axios)

Some conservative critics of Elon Musk allege censorship...

Angrej Singh / Axios: Some conservative critics of Elon Musk allege censorship and...

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A profile of Tron founder Justin Sun, who wants to be the "Elon Musk of the crypto world" and advises the Trump-backed crypto project World Liberty Financial (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)

A profile of Tron founder Justin Sun, who wants to be the...

Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: A profile of Tron founder Justin Sun, who...

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A look at the EU's common charging regulations, which come into force on Dec. 28 and cover USB-C ports, fast charging, unbundling of charging bricks, and more (Callum Booth/The Verge)

A look at the EU's common charging regulations, which come...

Callum Booth / The Verge: A look at the EU's common charging regulations, which...

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Pause TikTok Shutdown

The president-elect says the potential ban of the social-media giant can be avoided...

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OpenAI says its board of directors is evaluating its corporate structure, including a plan to turn its for-profit arm into a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation (OpenAI)

OpenAI says its board of directors is evaluating its corporate...

OpenAI: OpenAI says its board of directors is evaluating its corporate structure,...

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OpenAI says its non-profit arm would receive shares in the new public benefit corporation at a valuation determined by independent financial advisors (Cade Metz/New York Times)

OpenAI says its non-profit arm would receive shares in...

Cade Metz / New York Times: OpenAI says its non-profit arm would receive shares...

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OpenAI says the PBC will oversee commercial operations, and the nonprofit will hire staff to pursue charitable activities in health care, education, and science (Hayden Field/CNBC)

OpenAI says the PBC will oversee commercial operations,...

Hayden Field / CNBC: OpenAI says the PBC will oversee commercial operations, and...

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Tech lobbyists see new opportunities to expand access to high-skilled H-1B visas and green cards by leveraging the sway of Elon Musk over the GOP (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

Tech lobbyists see new opportunities to expand access to...

Brendan Bordelon / Politico: Tech lobbyists see new opportunities to expand access...

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Advantest CEO Doug Lefever, whose company is the largest provider of chip testing machines, on AI chip demand, China, and more; Advantest's stock is up 95%+ YTD (Financial Times)

Advantest CEO Doug Lefever, whose company is the largest...

Financial Times: Advantest CEO Doug Lefever, whose company is the largest provider...

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A profile of Boring Company President and key Elon Musk deputy Steve Davis, who has spent 20+ years helping Musk cut costs and now helps recruit staff at DOGE (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)

A profile of Boring Company President and key Elon Musk...

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg: A profile of Boring Company President and key Elon Musk...

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Bluesky launches a Trending Topics feature in beta on its desktop and mobile apps in English, and says users' muted words will transfer to Trending (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Bluesky launches a Trending Topics feature in beta on its...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Bluesky launches a Trending Topics feature in beta on its...

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How some doctors are using AI tools, like DAX Copilot from Microsoft's Nuance, to automate administrative tasks like taking and summarizing notes (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)

How some doctors are using AI tools, like DAX Copilot from...

Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: How some doctors are using AI tools, like...

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Finland says it suspects an oil tanker in Russia's shadow fleet of damaging three undersea internet cables on December 25, the latest Baltic Sea cable damaged (Richard Milne/Financial Times)

Finland says it suspects an oil tanker in Russia's shadow...

Richard Milne / Financial Times: Finland says it suspects an oil tanker in Russia's...

Microsoft Is Forcing Its AI Assistant on People---And Making...

The tech company has made Copilot part of its 365 subscription service in several...

Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2025

Weather forecasts will get smarter, EVs could get pricier, crypto will be for everyday...

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Alibaba's Qwen unveils QvQ-72B-Preview, an experimental research model focused on "enhancing visual reasoning capabilities", built upon Qwen2-VL-72B (Qwen)

Alibaba's Qwen unveils QvQ-72B-Preview, an experimental...

Qwen: Alibaba's Qwen unveils QvQ-72B-Preview, an experimental research model focused...

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Examining Biden's tech legacy and the CHIPS Act, as the White House says $446B has been announced for chips and electronics manufacturing since he took office (Politico)

Examining Biden's tech legacy and the CHIPS Act, as the...

Politico: Examining Biden's tech legacy and the CHIPS Act, as the White House says...

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A look at Toontown Rewritten, an unofficial recreation of Disney's Toontown Online game that shut down in 2013; Toontown Rewritten now has 10K DAUs and 50K MAUs (J. Clara Chan/Wired)

A look at Toontown Rewritten, an unofficial recreation...

J. Clara Chan / Wired: A look at Toontown Rewritten, an unofficial recreation of...

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Benchmarking AMD's MI300X and Nvidia's H100 and H200; in theory, AMD's GPU has advantages in specs and Total Cost of Ownership, but software bugs hold it back (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis)

Benchmarking AMD's MI300X and Nvidia's H100 and H200; in...

Dylan Patel / SemiAnalysis: Benchmarking AMD's MI300X and Nvidia's H100 and H200;...

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Taiwan's FTC blocks Uber's $950M acquisition of Delivery Hero's Foodpanda, arguing it would decrease competition as their combined market share would be 90%+ (Bloomberg)

Taiwan's FTC blocks Uber's $950M acquisition of Delivery...

Bloomberg: Taiwan's FTC blocks Uber's $950M acquisition of Delivery Hero's Foodpanda,...

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A look at the more challenging AI evaluations emerging in response to the rapid progress of models, including FrontierMath, Humanity's Last Exam, and RE-Bench (Tharin Pillay/Time)

A look at the more challenging AI evaluations emerging...

Tharin Pillay / Time: A look at the more challenging AI evaluations emerging in...

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Sources: Founders Fund seeks ~$3B for its third growth equity fund; it raised $3.4B for its second growth fund and $1.8B for its eighth early-stage fund in 2022 (Dan Primack/Axios)

Sources: Founders Fund seeks ~$3B for its third growth...

Dan Primack / Axios: Sources: Founders Fund seeks ~$3B for its third growth equity...

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A look at OpenAI's interest in robotics, from investing in startups like Figure and Physical Intelligence to, sources say, considering making a humanoid robot (The Information)

A look at OpenAI's interest in robotics, from investing...

The Information: A look at OpenAI's interest in robotics, from investing in startups...

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President Biden signs the $895B 2025 defense policy bill, including $3B for the FCC's "rip and replace" program to get rid of Chinese networking equipment (Martin Matishak/The Record)

President Biden signs the $895B 2025 defense policy bill,...

Martin Matishak / The Record: President Biden signs the $895B 2025 defense policy...

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Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 2028, as the state races to increase electricity production (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest...

Pranshu Verma / Washington Post: Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second...

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US and Japanese law enforcement say North Korean hackers were responsible for stealing 4,502.9 bitcoin, worth $308M, from Japanese exchange DMM in May 2024 (Sheldon Reback/CoinDesk)

US and Japanese law enforcement say North Korean hackers...

Sheldon Reback / CoinDesk: US and Japanese law enforcement say North Korean hackers...