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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended, step-by-step thinking, and Claude Code, an agentic coding tool  —  Anthropic is releasing a new frontier AI model called Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which the company designed to “think” about questions for as long as users want it to.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/mlscaling, r/cursor, r/ClaudeAI, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing:
Claude 3.7 and Grok-3 are the first “Gen3” models with big gains in handling complex tasks, using 10x more compute than GPT-4-class models, and better reasoning  —  Note: After publishing this piece, I was contacted by Anthropic who told me that Sonnet 3.7 would not be considered …
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Anthropic is finalizing a $3.5B funding round valuing it at $61.5B, up from an $18B valuation in 2024; its annualized revenue recently hit ~$1.2B
CNBC:
Chegg sues Google, saying AI Overviews hurt its traffic and revenue, as it mulls strategic options, including an acquisition; CHGG drops 20%+ pre-market  —  Chegg on Monday filed suit in federal district court against Google, claiming that artificial intelligence summaries of search results …
NBC News:
Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI  —  The revelation comes as federal workers face a midnight deadline to respond.  —  WASHINGTON — Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email …
Arjun Sha / Beebom:
Microsoft quietly launched free, ad-supported desktop versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows, with banner and video ads and limited functionality  —  In Short  — Microsoft has quietly introduced a free ad-supported Office that brings access to desktop Word, Excel, and PowerPoint without any subscription.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Epic v. Apple: Phil Schiller says he initially feared Apple's 27% App Store fee posed a compliance risk and could create “antagonistic” developer relations  —  Apple Fellow Phil Schiller, the executive in charge of leading the App Store, testified in court on Monday …
Ian Allison / CoinDesk:
Crypto exchange OKX settles charges with the US DOJ and will pay over $500M in penalties and forfeited fees after facilitating $5B+ in suspicious transactions  —  An OKX subsidiary said it resolved a U.S. DOJ investigation.  —  What to know: … OKX, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
The Trump administration fired 130 CISA staff, replaced staff refusing DOGE network access, appointed a DOD CISO whose clearance was suspended in 2021, and more  —  One month into his second term, President Trump's actions to shrink the government through mass layoffs, firings …
Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: Apple's $500B+ spending announcement in the US over four years is in line with what one might expect it to spend anyway, given its financials  —  One big benefit to being the size of Apple AAPL 0.95%increase; green up pointing triangle is the ability to throw around huge numbers while in the normal course of business.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple says it will spend $500B+ in the US over the next four years, hire 20,000 US workers, and produce AI servers in Texas, after Tim Cook met with Trump
Brendan Pierson / Reuters:
DoorDash agrees to pay $16.75M to settle a lawsuit by NY's AG accusing it of pocketing customers' tips for delivery drivers between May 2017 and September 2019  —  DoorDash (DASH.O) has agreed to pay $16.75 million to settle a lawsuit by New York's attorney general accusing it of pocketing customers' tips …
Jaspreet Kalra / Reuters:
CoinGecko: crypto trading volume on India's four largest exchanges more than doubled QoQ to $1.9B in Q4 2024, as many young Indians trade to supplement income  —  Like thousands of his countrymen in far-flung places, flower-shop owner Ashish Nagose has been learning about trading cryptocurrencies …
More: crypto.news
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Kate Bush and 1,000+ other musicians “co-write” a “silent” album to protest the UK's proposal to let AI train on their copyrighted work if they don't opt out  —  Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK's plans to let AI train on their work without permission
Financial Times:
Sources: left-leaning staff at Meta, Apple, Google, and Amazon mostly stayed silent on their CEOs attending Trump's inauguration due to a less secure job market  —  Fearful employees have done little to protest against the rightward shift of leaders such as Meta's Mark Zuckerberg

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Melissa Korn / Wall Street Journal:
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