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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Sesame's AI speech model demo has many users expressing astonishment at its realism, with some testers reporting emotional connections to the voice assistant — In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants.
More: Sesame, PCWorld, WinBuzzer, TechIssuesToday.com, eWeek, TestingCatalog, and TechRadar
Bluesky: @emollick. X: @tobi, @sesame, @omooretweets, @justlv, @brian_lovin, @freemanjiangg, @can, @anjneymidha, @linuz90, @morganb, @brendaniribe, @tpgoebel, @gavinpurcell, @_benjaminparry, @steventey, @kyleshannon, @antrod, @martinshkreli, @emollick, @daniel_mac8, @wesrothmoney, and @brendaniribe
Forums: Hacker News, brendaniribe on Hacker News, Beehaw, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
A US judge denies Elon Musk's effort to halt OpenAI's for-profit shift, saying he failed to meet the burden of proof, but lets other aspects of the suit proceed — A federal judge in California denied Elon Musk's effort to halt OpenAI's transformation into a for-profit entity, according to a filing on Tuesday.| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
While addressing Congress, President Trump calls to “get rid” of the $52B CHIPS Act and use the leftover amount to “reduce debt or any other reason” — President Donald Trump called for an end to a landmark $52 billion semiconductor subsidy program that's spurred …
More: Tech Monitor, TechSpot, South China Morning Post, The Information, The Indian Express, WSYX, Reuters, USA Today, Verdict, Wall Street Journal, Politico, National Review, and Tech in Asia
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Forums: r/Destiny and r/politics
| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
The US CFPB drops its lawsuit against Zelle operator EWS, JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, after suing them in December 2024 over fraud allegations — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday dismissed its lawsuit against the operator of the Zelle payments network …
More: NBC News, Wall Street Journal, Accountable US, The Daily Hodl, Finextra, The Verge, Washington Examiner, Axios, Payments Dive, New York Times, Breitbart, Engadget, ABA Banking Journal, NPR, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Quartz, Benzinga, and Bank Automation News
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Forums: r/technology, r/law, r/JoeRogan, and r/economicCollapse
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win the 2024 Turing Award; their work played a vital role in the rise of AI, including ChatGPT — Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.| Financial Times: |
Turing winners Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton warn over unsafe AI deployment, saying releasing models “without safeguards is not good engineering practice” — Two pioneers of reinforcement learning have won the $1mn prize from the Association for Computing Machinery
More: New Scientist, BetaKit, Axios, Associated Press, Wired, and The Logic
| Corbin Bolies / The Daily Beast: |
The Los Angeles Times removes its AI-powered “Insights” feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan, just a day after its debut — An AI-generated summary tried to offer “different views” on the hate group.
More: The Wrap, SFGATE, Pivot to AI, and Futurism
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| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
More: Gizmodo, Raw Story, and The Guardian
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over the UK's demand for a backdoor to access users' encrypted data, even of non-UK users — iPhone maker has filed a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over demand to access encrypted data
More: Ars Technica, The Verge, TechCrunch, BBC, Silicon UK, The Overspill, Benzinga, Daily Mail, Pixel Envy, Tech in Asia, mobilenewscwp.co.uk, Telegraph, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, and 9to5Mac
X: @tim and @mr_james_c
Forums: r/apple, r/unitedkingdom, r/ukpolitics, Slashdot, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Sebastian Sinclair / Decrypt: |
Yuga Labs, creator of BAYC NFTs, says the US SEC closed its investigation into the company without taking enforcement action, adding “NFTs are not securities” — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has closed its investigation into Yuga Labs, the creator of the Bored Ape Yacht Club … | Ezra Klein / New York Times: |
Q&A with ex-White House AI adviser Ben Buchanan on the Biden administration, AGI, OpenAI's Deep Research, the US labor market, China, hacks, AI labs, and more — This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by following … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google representatives asked DOJ officials in a meeting last week to back away from a push to break up the company, citing national security concerns — Google is urging officials at President Donald Trump's Justice Department to back away from a push to break up the search engine company …
More: Reuters, Android Headlines, PhoneArena, PYMNTS.com, Wall Street Pit, TipRanks Financial, The Information, The Japan Times, and Tech in Asia. Bluesky: @marypcbuk
| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Internal email: Amazon forms a new group focused on agentic AI, led by AWS executive Swami Sivasubramanian, who will report directly to AWS CEO Matt Garman — Amazon.com (AMZN.O) has formed a new group focused on agentic artificial intelligence, according to an internal email viewed by Reuters on Tuesday.
More: Fortune, The Information, TechRadar, Verdict, PYMNTS.com, Analytics India Magazine, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Business Insider, and Tech in Asia. Forums: r/artificial
| Financial Times: |
Taiwan's government says it will assist with TSMC's $100B investment in the US, but will also do “gatekeeping” to keep the most advanced tech in Taiwan — Trump-Zelenskyy clash crystallises fears about whether a more volatile White House will back Taipei
More: Wired, The Guardian, Fast Company, TrendForce News, Bloomberg, The Decoder, Tech in Asia, WinBuzzer, The Next Platform, Motley Fool, Tom's Hardware, Lawyer Monthly, Stratechery, and Axios
Forums: r/hardware, r/technology, and r/intelstock
| The Information: |
CoreWeave acquires Weights & Biases, whose tools help developers build AI apps, sources say for ~$1.7B; Weights & Biases was valued at $1.25B in 2023 — CoreWeave, which provides cloud servers to large companies developing artificial intelligence, is in talks to acquire Weights & Biases …
More: CoreWeave, Reuters, W&B, TipRanks Financial, TechCrunch, Verdict, Analytics India Magazine, and SiliconANGLE
X: @amir and @weights_biases
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Meta brings its anti-scam facial recognition test to the UK “after engaging with regulators”, letting celebrities opt-in “to receive the celeb-bait protection” — Last October, Meta dipped its toe into the world of facial recognition with an international test of two new tools …
More: Meta, Macau Business, Tech in Asia, The Independent, and The Standard
| Anna Heim / TechCrunch: |
Netherlands-based QuantWare, which offers its VIO chip architecture to help solve scaling bottlenecks in quantum processors, raised a €20M Series A — Big Tech companies aren't sleeping on quantum chips: Amazon Web Services introduced Ocelot; Microsoft, Majorana; and Google, Willow.
More: eeNews Europe, Forbes, QuantWare, Tech.eu, EU-Startups, TNW, Silicon Canals, The Quantum Insider, and Tech Funding News
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google unveils AI-based Scam Detection in Google Messages in English, Android features like live location sharing in the Find My app, and new Pixel features — There are new features for Android and Pixel phones, including live location sharing in the Find My app.
More: The Keyword, The Keyword, Google Online Security Blog, Moneycontrol, TechCrunch, Android Police, Android Police, MEDIANAMA, Gadgets & Wearables, Mashable India, Financial Express, Digit, 9to5Google, Phandroid, Business Standard, Neowin, WebProNews, Pocket-lint, iPhone in Canada Blog, Phone Scoop, Thurrott, BleepingComputer, Android Authority, Android Headlines, 9to5Google, ZDNET, Engadget, Engadget, Gizmodo, 9to5Google, 9to5Google, Droid Life, The Keyword, and Android Faithful
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Digg founder Kevin Rose and Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian buy Digg for an undisclosed sum from Money Group, aiming to focus on “connection and humanity” online — Two decades after creating Digg, a community-focused social message board, Kevin Rose is reviving the site and teaming up with a founder of Reddit.
More: The Verge, Bloomberg, Associated Press, The Hollywood Reporter, Cryptopolitan, and Digiday
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
After Qualcomm unveiled its X85 modem, CEO Cristiano Amon says it creates a “huge delta” in performance over Apple and is “the first modem that has so much AI” — Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon told CNBC its latest modem will create a big distance in performance versus Apple … | Kamila Wojciechowska / Android Authority: |
Source: Google plans to launch its rumored “Pixie” AI assistant on the Pixel 10 as “Pixel Sense”, using data from Google apps to provide contextual suggestions — Google might finally be realizing its vision of truly smart contextual assistant. — • — •
More: Ars Technica, Mashable India, SammyGuru, Digit, Moneycontrol, Phandroid, Digital Trends, BGR, Android Central, Droid Life, and Chrome Unboxed
Forums: r/Android, r/Bard, r/GooglePixel, and Ars OpenForum
| Nikkei Asia: |
The demand for software engineers in Japan's car industry, facing a shortage of 33,000 software engineers in 2025, intensifies amid the EV and self-driving push — TOKYO — Japanese legacy carmakers, which have long been vaunted as kings of manufacturing that have no trouble recruiting mechanical engineers … | Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: |
Sea reports Q4 revenue up 37% YoY to ~$4.95B, above est., and forecasts 2025 GMV to rise ~20% to ~$120.6B at online retail arm Shopee, above $116.6B est. — Southeast Asia e-commerce leader Sea Ltd. predicted sales volumes for this year above analysts' estimates, a signal it's succeeding …
More: Forbes, The Straits Times, Tech in Asia, and TNGlobal
| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US Commerce Department plans changes to Biden's $42.5B broadband grant to let states award more funds to satellite internet providers like Starlink — Agency plans changes that will make Elon Musk's satellite-internet service eligible for more rural broadband funding
More: Fierce Network and Benzinga
Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @nemoblue, @michaelsderby, and @peark.es. Mastodon: @wendysiegelman@mastodon …
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