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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| The Information: |
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 — OpenAI and Japanese conglomerate SoftBank will each commit $19 billion to fund a joint venture to develop data centers …
More: DatacenterDynamics, New York Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, and The Economic Times
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
The OpenAI-led Stargate announcement only mentioned Microsoft as a tech partner, but Microsoft is poised to benefit from the JV by offloading AI computing costs — - OpenAI-led venture lets Microsoft offload AI computing costs — Software giant could still decide to invest more in future
More: Reuters, OpenAI, WinBuzzer, Financial Times, ITPro, TNGlobal, Microsoft, CNBC, Motley Fool, TechCrunch, and The Verge
| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Source: Donald Trump had a lengthy phone conversation with Sam Altman last week about AI's potential and the need to develop the tech in the US instead of China — Prior to officially becoming president, Donald Trump held a lengthy conversation with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Friday to discuss … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| 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, a 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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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 … | 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.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/Layoffs, r/moderatepolitics, r/law, r/cybersecurity, r/cybersecurity, and Ars OpenForum
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
The UK CMA opens investigations into Apple's and Google's mobile ecosystems, including OSes, app stores, and browsers, to see the impact on users and businesses — LONDON — Britain's competition regulator on Thursday launched an investigation into Apple and Google's huge mobile ecosystems … | Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
France says David Balland, co-founder of French crypto wallet startup Ledger, was kidnapped on January 21 and freed on January 22 after a police operation — A co-founder of French crypto wallet startup Ledger SAS who was kidnapped in central France has been released, the Paris prosecutor's office said in a statement.| 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 … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google signs an agreement to acquire a part of the HTC VIVE engineering team in Taiwan for $250M in cash, aiming to “accelerate” Android XR development — To “accelerate” Android XR development, Google announced this evening that it “signed an agreement to welcome some of the HTC VIVE engineering team to Google.”| 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; EA 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.| 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: 9to5Mac, The Verge, Newsweek, The Independent, SKWAWKBOX, Awful Announcing, and New York Times
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com and @kattenbarge
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| Jonathan Briskman / Sensor Tower: |
State of Mobile 2025: in 2024, app downloads on iOS and Google Play dropped ~1% YoY to 136B, while revenue from IAP, paid apps, and games rose 13% YoY to $150B — The mobile market is stronger than ever as we enter 2025, with a recovering mobile gaming market adding to the rapid growth seen in non-gaming.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More: Adweek, Sensor Tower, Yahoo Finance, Sensor Tower, and Light Reading
| 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
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: India's technology ministry asked Apple, Google, and other smartphone makers to provide Indians direct access to the state-backed GOV.in app store — India is trying to pry open the doors of the world's biggest app stores, setting up a likely clash with Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc …
More: PYMNTS.com, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The US Sun, Neowin, The Indian Express, Patently Apple, and NewsBytes. Threads: @bloombergbusiness
| 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, and Game World Observer
| 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 …
More: The Keyword, Business Standard, The Keyword, TechCrunch, The Indian Express, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, NewsBytes, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, TechSpot, ExtremeTech, Chrome Unboxed, Neowin, TechCrunch, Android Faithful, Android Police, Android Faithful, and Bloomberg
X: @android, @markgurman, @googledeepmind, @demishassabis, @samifathi_, @android, @jrobah, @bobodtech, @benbajarin, and @richontech. Forums: r/Android
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
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