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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
The OpenAI-led Stargate announcement mentioned Microsoft as the only tech partner, but Microsoft is poised to benefit from the JV by offloading computing costs — - OpenAI-led venture lets Microsoft offload AI computing costs — Software giant could still decide to invest more in future
More: Reuters, OpenAI, Microsoft, CNBC, TNGlobal, Motley Fool, The Verge, and TechCrunch
| M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: |
A look at The Stargate Project: lots of unanswered questions, PR wins, SoftBank only has ~$30B in cash, many projects are old, and Musk trolled the announcement — If John ‘Hannibal’ Smith loves it when a plan comes together, I love it when a plan comes together hastily.
More: CNN, Barron's Online, OpenAI, SemiAnalysis, VentureBeat, The Verge, Fortune, Axios, CryptoPotato, Daily Mail, Cryptopolitan, TechCrunch, Unite.AI, Tech Brew, The Next Platform, Business Insider, Quartz, TechRepublic, eeNews Europe, TV Tech, The Verge, and TechCrunch
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman denies Musk's Stargate claim that “they don't” have the money, adding “what is great for the country isn't always what's optimal for your companies” — Billionaire Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate, the enormous infrastructure project …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI were arguing over Microsoft's ability to fulfill OpenAI's computing needs, in the months leading up to the Stargate announcement — The partnership that launched the AI boom has been strained by disagreements over computing resources| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Samsung announces the $800+ Galaxy S25 with a 6.2" screen and the $1,000+ 6.7" Galaxy S25 Plus with 12GB of RAM, Snapdragon 8 Elite, “Qi2 Ready”, and more — If the Galaxy S24 series heralded the triumphant arrival of Galaxy AI, then the S25 and S25 Plus may be a bit of a comedown …
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Forums: r/u_Samsung_Mobile and MacRumors Forums
| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Samsung unveils the $1,300+ Galaxy S25 Ultra with a 6.9" QHD+ AMOLED screen, up from 6.8", 50MP sensor for the ultra-wide camera, and a small S Pen downgrade — Samsung's latest fad is the introduction of AI agents. — Senior Writer, Reviews — Last year Samsung embraced artificial intelligence …
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Threads: @chriswelch and @mattmoniz123
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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Forums: r/Android and r/GalaxyRing
| Reuters: |
ByteDance launches Doubao-1.5-pro, an upgraded AI model, claiming it outperforms OpenAI's o1 in AIME benchmarks, joining DeepSeek in China's AI reasoning push — TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday released an update to its flagship AI model aimed at challenging Microsoft-backed OpenAI's …
More: Doubao Team, The Rundown AI, TestingCatalog, Ars Technica, and DeepSeek on GitHub
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google's Gemini will be the default on-device assistant for the new Galaxy S25 series, and gets the ability to work across multiple apps in a single prompt — Google's AI assistant Gemini is now able to carry out tasks across multiple apps in a single interaction, in an update announced today alongside …
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| Mishaal Rahman / Android Faithful: |
More: The Keyword, Sammy Fans, 9to5Google, Search Engine Journal, Droid Life, Android Authority, and TechCrunch. Bluesky: @dylanljmartin
| Mishaal Rahman / Android Police: |
More: The Verge, Samsung Newsroom, en.ain.ua, THE INVESTOR, Moneycontrol, AndroidGuys, Business Standard, TechRadar, and Android Authority. Threads: @mishaal_rahman
| New York Times: |
How Ross Ulbricht's allies, including crypto investors, libertarian politicians, and his mother Lyn Ulbricht, persuaded Trump to pardon the Silk Road founder — Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road website … | David DiMolfetta / Defense One: |
Sources: the Trump admin dismissed the members of the CSRB, which investigates major cybersecurity incidents, likely disrupting the Salt Typhoon hacks probe — The Department of Homeland Security advisory committee was investigating a Chinese hack into U.S. telecommunications.
More: TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Reuters, Nextgov/FCW, CSO, CBS News, CyberScoop, Cybersecurity Dive, Gizmodo, The Hacker News, TechRadar, The Record, Metacurity, and Dark Reading
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Forums: Hacker News, r/law, r/cybersecurity, r/cybersecurity, and Ars OpenForum
| Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: |
Moderators for 50+ subreddits announce bans of X links in new posts and comments, with several citing Elon Musk's recent gesture that many saw as a Nazi salute — The cascade of link bans came after Musk made a hand gesture at a Monday rally that many compared to a Nazi salute, which many cited in their protests, among other things.
More: The Verge, Newsweek, SKWAWKBOX, Awful Announcing, The Independent, DNyuz, and Inc
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com and @kattenbarge
Forums: r/ChildfreeIndia, r/childfree, and r/Twitter
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: consumer spending in 2024 on AI apps like ChatGPT, Gemini, and ByteDance's Doubao grew more than 200% YoY to nearly $1.1B — Demand for generative AI help drive consumer spending on apps to $150 billion globally in 2024, up 13% from the prior year.
More: Adweek, Sensor Tower, Yahoo Finance, Sensor Tower, and Light Reading
| Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: |
A GDC survey of 3,000+ developers: 80% are currently making PC games, up from 66% in 2024, compared to 38% for the PlayStation 5 and 34% for the Xbox Series X/S — Interest in PC game development is higher than ever. — It's kind of funny to look back on all the times PC gaming has been declared dead …
More: Game Developers Conference, VICE, The Verge, Game World Observer, Game Developer, GDC, and VentureBeat
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
EA expects net bookings of $7B to $7.15B for the FY ending March 31, below guidance of $7.5B to $7.8B, citing underperforming games; stock falls 5%+ — Electronic Arts slashed its full-year bookings guidance on Wednesday, blaming the shortfall on underperforming games, notably its soccer franchise, EA Sports FC.| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
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 — - Its shares slide in Seoul after a 30% run-up this year — Demand for high-end memory soaring on datacenter rollouts| Patrick G. Eddington / Cato Institute: |
A US district judge rules that the FBI's warrantless “backdoor” searches of FISA's Section 702 databases violate the Fourth Amendment — Generated with ElevenLabs AI technology. — Sometimes when “secret law” is involved—and that is always the case with the Foreign Intelligence …
More: Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU, and Medill on the Hill
| The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI is working on an advanced AI coding assistant that can replicate a Level 6 engineer and relies in part on the company's o1 reasoning model — OpenAI's artificial intelligence for writing software code has fueled a multibillion-dollar revenue business, with human programmers using … | Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
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