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Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
Alibaba Chair Joe Tsai says Apple will use the Chinese tech giant's AI tech on iPhones sold in China, speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai  —  - Chairman Joe Tsai confirms Apple will use its AI technology  — Alibaba is staging a comeback after years of turbulence
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors:
Apple resumes advertising on X for the first time since November 2023, when it halted ads due to Elon Musk's comments; @Apple is running a Safari privacy promo  —  Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in more than a year.  The company had stopped advertising …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Tim Cook teases an announcement of “the newest member of the family” on February 19; Mark Gurman reported Apple would update the iPhone SE  —  Apple will reveal its next device on February 19th.  —  Apple will reveal its next device on February 19th.
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
PlayStation's State of Play event showed that Microsoft might publish more PS5 games in 2025 than Sony does, even as Xbox hardware sales continue to decline  —  Sony had its semi-regular State of Play showcase yesterday, and PlayStation gamers hoping for a roadmap received a lot of third-party multiplatform titles instead.
Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle:
Sony reports PlayStation 5 sales in Q3 were 9.5M, the best quarter since its launch, and hits 75M total PS5 sales; MAUs across its platform rose 43% YoY to 129M  —  PS5 SHIPMENTS ARE NOW NECK-AND-NECK WITH PS4  —  PlayStation 5 enjoyed its best-ever holiday period in 2024 …
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Recorded Future: Salt Typhoon breached five more telcos and ISPs, including two US telcos, and 12+ universities in December-January by exploiting Cisco routers  —  Despite high-profile attention and even US sanctions, the group hasn't stopped or even slowed its operation, including the breach of two more US telecoms.
Reuters:
Germany's Bundeskartellamt charges Apple with abusing its market power via App Tracking Transparency, giving itself preferential treatment, and requires changes  —  The German antitrust authority has charged Apple (AAPL.O) with abusing its market power through its app tracking tool …
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Andy Biggs write to National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard asking her to demand the UK retract its back door request to Apple  —  Letter urges new intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard to take resolute action to stymie a top ally's controversial and confidential order.
The Markup:
Investigation: Match Group, which runs 12+ dating apps, has known for years about abusive and violent users, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark  —  The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms …
More: Engadget, Mashable, and Block Club Chicago
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Malathi Nayak / Bloomberg:
Filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's $97.4B bid contradicts his attacks in his lawsuit against OpenAI that its assets can't be “transferred away” for “private gain”  —  The public showdown between Elon Musk and OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman over Musk's $97.4 billion bid …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Court filing: Elon Musk will withdraw his $97.4B bid if OpenAI's board of directors “preserve the charity's mission” and halt its conversion to a for-profit
Beatrice Nolan / Fortune:
After Meta laid off 3,600 of its “lowest performers” on February 10, some say they had good performance reviews, and experts say the label is highly subjective  —  - <strong>Meta said it was cutting low performers in its most recent round of cuts.  However, some staffers and experts have questioned the company's methods.
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
YouTube updates Shorts to integrate Google DeepMind's latest video model Veo 2, letting creators generate AI video clips to add to any of their Shorts  —  YouTube Shorts is integrating with Google DeepMind's latest video model, Veo 2, allowing creators to generate AI video clips for their posts.
Ken Bensinger / New York Times:
Elon Musk and right-wing influencers redefine “doxxing” to include reporting on government employees; free speech advocates say they aim to intimidate the press  —  Right-wing influencers are criticizing journalists who have published public information about government employees.
Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic, Politico, Vox and others sue Cohere, alleging it used copyrighted works to train its LLM and shared versions of entire articles without permission  —  Lawsuit accuses Canadian company of sharing versions of entire articles without permission  —  The Atlantic, Politico …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google plans to begin testing an ML-based model in the US in 2025 that estimates whether a user is under 18 to help provide more “age-appropriate experiences”  —  Google says the technology will help it provide ‘age-appropriate experiences.’  —  Google says the technology …

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From Mediagazer

Mike Allen / Axios:
Source: the White House plans to impose its own seating chart for briefing room reporters, taking over a function long managed by the reporters through the WHCA

Thomas Buckley / Bloomberg:
Sources: David Zaslav has started meeting with candidates who could replace film studio heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy, whose contracts expire in 2026

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Reach CEO Jim Mullen steps down with immediate effect after six years, replaced by Chief Revenue Officer Piers North; Mullen will join a horse racing company

More News

Dan Primack / Axios:
Texas-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised a $350M Series A co-led by B Capital and Capital Factory and plans a series of pilot programs in 2025
Hsiuwen Liu / Rest of World:
Experts say Southeast Asian students in Taiwan's work-study programs often end up as low-paid labor in the chip industry under the guise of “practical training”

Earlier Picks

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
London- and SF-based Latent Labs, which is building AI foundation models to “make biology programmable”, emerges from stealth with $50M across seed and Series A
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
OpenAI plans to give free ChatGPT users unlimited GPT-5 access at “the standard intelligence setting”; Plus and Pro users will get to run GPT-5 at higher levels
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: X agrees to pay ~$10M to settle Trump's 2021 lawsuit against Twitter and then-CEO Jack Dorsey over the ban on his accounts after the January 6 riot
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Reddit reports Q4 revenue up 71% YoY to $428M, vs. $405M est., and daily active uniques up 39% YoY to 101.7M, vs. 103.1M est.; RDDT drops 5%+
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