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| New York Times: |
Trump grants a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the Silk Road creator and a crypto cult hero serving a life sentence since 2015 on money laundering and drug charges — Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle announce The Stargate Project, a JV to invest in US AI infrastructure, committing $100B now and up to $500B in the next four years — OpenAI says that it will team up with both the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, along with others, to build multiple data centers for AI in the U.S.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Google is investing over $1B more in Anthropic, which is also nearing a further $2B funding round from Lightspeed and other VCs at a ~$60B valuation — Artificial intelligence group closes in on $60bn valuation — Google is making a fresh investment of more than $1bn into OpenAI rival Anthropic …
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: a deep philosophical rift over how DOGE should operate spurred Vivek Ramaswamy's exit, with Donald Trump's January 20 EO embodying Elon Musk's vision — A deep philosophical rift between the two billionaire leaders of the “Department of Government Efficiency” left Musk to run the group.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.2B and 301.6M global subs, adding 18.9M subs, more than doubling Wall Street estimates; NFLX jumps 14%+ — - Netflix is raising subscription prices in its biggest market — Report marks the end of regular quarterly customer updates
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Forums: r/technology, r/cordcutters, and r/television
| Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
Netflix raises prices in the US, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina; the standard US plan rises from $15.49 to $17.99 and standard with ads jumps a dollar to $7.99 — The company said those results were buoyed by programming in recent months that exceeded internal expectations.
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| Drew Lerner / Awful Announcing: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says it has a new deal with OpenAI that gives Microsoft “right of first refusal”, meaning it's no longer OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider — Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models. No longer.
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| Bloomberg: |
Trump says he would be open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok US as part of a joint venture that would give the US government 50% ownership — “I have the right to make a deal,” Trump said at an event alongside Ellison at the White House on Tuesday.
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| Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg: |
| Becky Bracken / Dark Reading: |
The Trump administration removed all advisory committee members within the DHS, including those in CISA and CSRB, which was investigating Salt Typhoon — In a letter sent today, the acting DHS secretary terminated membership to all advisory boards, including the Cyber Safety Review Board …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
A survey of 3,000+ game developers: 11% were laid off in the past year, 58% back unionization, 30% say GenAI has a negative impact on the industry, and more — The 2025 GDC survey revealed the impact of industry-wide layoffs in 2024 where one of every 11 game developers lost a job.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Meta aims to debut glasses with a built-in display and new Oakley-branded smart glasses for athletes in 2025, and resumes work on watches and earbuds — - Company resumes work on smartwatch and develops AirPods rival — First real AR glasses, dubbed ‘Artemis,’ are planned for 2027
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| Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: |
DeepSeek's new MIT-licensed AI models are accesible via DeepSeek's API at a fraction of the cost of comparable OpenAI models, but there are censorship concerns — Open-source artificial intelligence (AI) has reached another milestone — and the cost differences it represents could shake up the industry.
More: Ars Technica, DeepSeek on GitHub, Business Insider, Analytics India Magazine, and MEDIANAMA
Bluesky: @sungkim, @sungkim, @eugenevinitsky, and @emollick
| Danny Park / The Block: |
A Texas District Court rules against Tornado Cash sanctions, ordering a previous decision to be reversed; the US sanctioned Tornado Cash in August 2022 — - A U.S. District Court has ordered the sanctions on Tornado Cash to be reversed. — The price of TORN jumped over 140% following the news.
More: crypto.news, Cointelegraph, and CoinGape
X: @functi0nzer0, @l0lal33tz, @0xgeegee, and @cointelegraph
| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
Documents: Google gave Israel access to its latest AI tools from the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas war, directly assisting the Defense Ministry and the IDF — The company fulfilled requests from Israel's military for more access to AI tools, as it sought to compete with Amazon, documents obtained by The Post show.| James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review: |
Filing: OpenAI spent $1.76M on lobbying in 2024, up from 2023's $260K, with focus on the AI Advancement and Reliability Act and the Future of AI Innovation Act — OpenAI spent $1.76 million on government lobbying in 2024 and $510,000 in the last three months of the year alone … | TechCrunch: |
Truecaller rolls out real-time caller ID to its ~750K iOS subscribers, who account for 40% of its revenue; Truecaller has 2.6M+ paying subscribers in total — Popular caller ID app Truecaller has long left iPhone users at a disadvantage by not offering the caller information in real-time …
More: The Hindu, Business Today, MacRumors, Business Standard, BetaNews, BGR, Inc42 Media, Tech in Asia, Hindustan Times, Bloomberg, and Truecaller
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says installing macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3, or iPadOS 18.3 will turn on Apple Intelligence automatically on compatible devices; users can opt out later — When installing macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3, or iPadOS 18.3, Apple Intelligence will be turned on automatically on compatible devices …
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Bluesky: @snell.zone and @chancemiller.me
X: @betaprofiles, @samifathi_, and @rjonesy
Forums: r/technews, r/ios, r/apple, r/mac, r/MacOS, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk: |
Crypto exchange Deribit reports total trading volume, including options, futures, and more, rose 95% YoY to $1.19T in 2024; options volume rose 99% YoY to $743B — Need evidence of the crypto market's maturation? Look no further than Deribit, the crypto exchange that registered record trading volumes in 2024.
More: Coinspeaker, Cryptonews, and The Block
| MK Manoylov / The Block: |
Crypto.com launches its institutional exchange service for US customers, after closing the service in June 2023 due to “limited demand” — - Crypto.com Exchange gives users access to over 300 cryptocurrencies and 480 trading pairs, acting as a complement to the existing retail-focused Crypto.com App for U.S. customers.
More: Crypto.com, Blockworks, The Paypers, CoinGape, crypto.news, and Cryptonews
X: @kris, @hoffmang, @cryptocom, and @aarondbennett
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency, r/Crypto_com, and r/cro
| The Cloudflare Blog: |
In 2024, Cloudflare's autonomous DDoS defense systems blocked 21.3M DDoS attacks, up 53% YoY, and 420 DDoS attacks in Q4 2024 exceeded 1 Tbps, up 1,885% QoQ — This post is also available in .體中文, Deutsch, 한국어, Español (Espaňa) and Français.
More: Security Affairs, PCMag, Cyber Daily, MakeUseOf, and The Hacker News. Mastodon: @cloudflare@noc.social
| Financial Times: |
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 — Chinese company seeks growth from new technology as social media business comes under pressure in US
More: Music Business Worldwide, TechNode, Pandaily, and The Straits Times
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