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| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
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” — Meta Platforms (META.O) will invest $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditure in 2025, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post on Friday.
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Bluesky: @loblaws-balrog, @tkb24, @kurtwagner, @texasrunaway, and @kurtwagner
Threads: @tomgara and @benedictevans
X: @nearcyan, @morqon, @kevinroose, @munster_gene, @morqon, @natolambert, @mikeisaac, @richlightshed, and @mikeisaac. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Forums: Slashdot
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Zuckerberg says Meta is building an AI engineer that will “start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts” and is planning a 2GW+ data center — Social-media giant to spend between $60 billion and $65 billion, Zuckerberg says
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| Politico: |
While Trump downplayed Elon Musk's Stargate criticism, assuring reporters “they're putting up the money”, key White House sources say they're furious with Musk — “It's clear he has abused the proximity to the president,” said one ally of the president.
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Bluesky: @aricohn.com, @drjennings, @davebrown, @alwaysthinkhow, @themckenziest.gay, @chadbourn, and @carlquintanilla. Threads: @tomgara
X: @sama, @elonmusk, @marionawfal, @autismcapital, and @teddyschleifer
Forums: r/Foodforthought, r/inthenews, and r/politics
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Stargate lacks a fully developed plan, hasn't yet secured funding, will get no government financing, and will exclusively serve OpenAI once operational — Donald Trump has called the SoftBank-backed venture a 'resounding declaration of confidence in America's potential'
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Bluesky: @luigithirty, @dsmithweb, and @edzitron.com
X: @bgurley, @teroterotero, and @trengriffin
Forums: r/singularity and r/technology
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI warns that North Korean IT workers are abusing their access to steal source code and extort US companies that have been tricked into hiring them — The FBI warned today that North Korean IT workers are abusing their access to steal source code and extort U.S. companies that have been tricked into hiring them.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple moved Kim Vorrath, a company veteran known for fixing troubled products, to its AI group to help improve Siri and Apple Intelligence — - Kim Vorrath previously worked on Vision Pro, iPhone software — The company is racing to catch up in artificial intelligence| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
The US SEC revokes SAB 121, a controversial accounting rule added in 2022 that forced banks to treat BTC and other tokens as a liability on their balance sheets — After years of lobbying by the crypto industry, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has rescinded an accounting rule …
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Bluesky: @midwest2, @jimobx, @cdouglaslay, @val415, @darrencohen.me, and @saltcreekbrews. LinkedIn: Samuel Leichman
| Rolling Stone: |
Sources: Trump's team members don't buy Zuckerberg's right-wing conversion as entirely genuine; one senior official says he has a “lot more ass-kissing” to do — Trump's aides and allies aren't ready to buy the Facebook chief's right-wing conversion. “He can't just snap his fingers and make the past not happen”| Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: |
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
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 — Google will take firmer action against British businesses that use fake reviews to boost their star ratings on the search giant's reviews platform.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta begins a “limited, early test” of ads in Threads in the US and Japan, with the goal of making the ads “as interesting as organic content” — Meta's X rival Threads said Friday that it is now testing ads with select brands in the U.S. and Japan.
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X: @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac
| Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: |
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 — - X, Google, Snap and LinkedIn to be tested on disinformation — EU is working to combat false information around elections| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Trump signs an EO to create a crypto working group led by David Sacks to consider a national digital asset stockpile “potentially derived” from seized crypto — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to promote the advancement of cryptocurrencies in the U.S …
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| Associated Press: |
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| Financial Times: |
X refuses to remove a video of the stabbing of a Sydney bishop watched by Axel Rudakubana minutes before murdering three kids in UK's Southport last summer — Axel Rudakubana was able to view Australian clip before murdering three young children despite pleas from authorities
More: BBC and The Guardian
Bluesky: @dschatsky, @xinav, @martinsfp, @pickardje, and @annasophiegross
| Financial Times: |
Retro Biosciences, the Sam Altman-backed startup that wants to use AI to develop therapies for extending human lifespan by a decade, is raising a $1B Series A — The San Francisco-based start-up plans to get its first drug into trials this year — Retro Biosciences is raising a $1bn round … | Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: |
DeepSeek's latest AI model R1 sticks to Chinese government restrictions on sensitive topics like Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, and the treatment of Uyghurs in China — Those who train the AI models get to decide what the truth is. — 5H — The AI world was abuzz this week with the release …
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Bluesky: @jonkeegan.com. Mastodon: @jonkeegan@mastodon.social. Threads: @sgulsach, @vthallam, and @benedictevans
X: @kimmonismus and @benhylak
| New York Times: |
Instagram suspended the accounts of two abortion pill providers and Facebook removed their posts; Meta blamed “over-enforcement” and restored some accounts — Some posts related to obtaining abortion pills were recently hidden on Instagram and Facebook and some accounts were suspended, before being later restored.
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Bluesky: @kateconger.com, @abortionfront, @amandamarcotte, @songbird, and @peark.es
Threads: @mattnavarra, @jessicavalenti, @jessicavalenti, @renee.diresta, @anildash, @anildash, and @jessicavalenti. X: @nicoleperlroth. LinkedIn: Cristina Ljungberg
Forums: r/centrist, r/Fauxmoi, r/prochoice, and r/technology
| Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal: |
ShopMy, which lets brands run influencer marketing efforts, raised a $77.5M Series B led by Bessemer and Bain, sources say at a $410M valuation vs. $80M in 2024 — Tech firms that speed up and automate brands' partnerships with social-media influencers are becoming hot commodities as advertisers scramble to reach consumers online| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI releases a “research preview” of its Operator AI agent that can automate web-based tasks, launching to US subscribers of its $200/month ChatGPT Pro tier — OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” according to a blog post.
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Bluesky: @taumuyi. Mastodon: @glenngabe@mas.to. Threads: @benedictevans, @katienotopoulos, and @0xjessel
X: @emollick, @gdb, @benhylak, @maxwinebach, @kylebrussell, @swyx, @karpathy, @levie, @delrey, @gneubig, @levie, @gregpr07, @binarybits, @dorialexander, @fanahova, @0xkarmatic, @minimaxir, @gneubig, @woj_zaremba, @gneubig, @scobleizer, @aibreakfast, @altryne, @gneubig, @altryne, @altryne, @sierracatalina1, @sierracatalina1, @gneubig, @danshipper, @0xkarmatic, @altryne, @emollick, @sama, @rowancheung, @rowancheung, @rowancheung, @rowancheung, and @rowancheung
LinkedIn: Sofola, Venesha Brooks, Will Douglas Heaven, Diane Techer, David Richter, and Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov, Ph.D.
Forums: r/OpenAI and r/LocalLLaMA
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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