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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Reinforcement learning pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win the 2024 Turing Award; their work contributed to the rise of AI, like AlphaGo and ChatGPT — Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.
More: ACM. Bluesky: @dabelcs and @gioramponi
X: @marloscmachado, @georgiachal, @avivtamar1, @werner, @pcastr, and @theofficialacm
Forums: Hacker News, r/MachineLearning, and lobste.rs
| Financial Times: |
Turing winners Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton warn over unsafe deployment of AI, 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: The Verge, Silicon Republic, BetaKit, New Scientist, Axios, Associated Press, Wired, and The Logic
| 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
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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 and Science 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: DatacenterDynamics, Barron's Online, Tech Monitor, South China Morning Post, Reuters, The Information, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Politico, Washington Examiner, Verdict, Tech in Asia, DigiTimes, and Benzinga
Bluesky: @fernandez.house.gov, @jbendery, @premthakker, @ddayen, @malcolmhq, @repgregstanton, and @imoutofit. Threads: @ryanobles
X: @senatorwarnock, @senatorlbr, @normornstein, @yassaminansari, @repgregstanton, @andrewdesiderio, @atrupar, @jakesherman, @reprichardneal, @statisticurban, @robbysoave, @itifdc, @dc_dewitt, @kylekulinski, @cenkuygur, @rubengallego, @govkathyhochul, @ian_mariani, @factpostnews, @amymcgrathky, @andrewcapasso_, and @ibew
Forums: r/Destiny and r/politics
| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
A look at the LA Times' AI “Insights”: much of the sourcing cited for counterpoints wouldn't pass scrutiny in a newsroom, and political labels can be confusing — The hope: The L.A. Times will appear more “objective” if it presents both sides of an issue, even if one side's written …
More: The Verge, Techdirt, Gizmodo, TechIssuesToday.com, and Raw Story
Bluesky: @laurahazardowen, @marissarothkopf, @davelee.me, @katebevan.com, @dabeard, and @rmac
| 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 Guardian, The Wrap, SFGATE, Pivot to AI, and Futurism
Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz, @sternbergh, @romitmehta.com, @hypervisible, @garymarcus, @theredterra, @cmonstah, @rmac, @karlbode.com, and @rmac. Threads: @technologizer
X: @elamin88 and @benmullin
Forums: r/technology and r/LosAngeles
| 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.
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Bluesky: @martinsfp and @mary.my.id
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| 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 …
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Forums: r/technology, r/law, r/JoeRogan, and r/economicCollapse
| 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 … | 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
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X: @tim and @mr_james_c
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| 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 …
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| 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 … | Upmanyu Trivedi / Bloomberg: |
The UK CMA clears Microsoft's $13B OpenAI investment in 2023, ending 14 months of uncertainty over the deal, but says “Microsoft did acquire material influence” — - The 2023 deal did not result in change of control over OpenAI — CMA's decision comes after 14 months of scrutiny of the tie-up
More: Reuters, TechCrunch, and GOV.UK
| 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 … | 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, WinBuzzer, BitcoinWorld, Macau Business, Tech in Asia, The Independent, and The Standard
| 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: Tech Advisor, Ars Technica, Mashable India, ZDNET, SammyGuru, Digit, Moneycontrol, 9to5Google, Phandroid, Digital Trends, BGR, Android Central, Droid Life, Chrome Unboxed, PhoneArena, Android Police, and Android Headlines
Forums: r/Android, r/Bard, r/GooglePixel, and Ars OpenForum
| 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, Analytics India Magazine, TechRadar, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, Verdict, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, and Business Insider. Forums: r/artificial
| Anisah Shukry / Bloomberg: |
Arm agrees to provide chip designs and tech to Malaysia for $250M over the next ten years, as the government targets semiconductor exports of $270B by 2030 — - Firm to provide chip technology to Malaysia over a decade — Malaysia aims to make its own chips within five to seven years
More: Reuters, TechCrunch, Tech Monitor, Agence France-Presse, Maginative, Verdict, TrendForce News, Fortune, Nikkei Asia, TNGlobal, Hürriyet Daily News, and Tech in Asia. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| 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: ChinaTalk, Wired, The Guardian, TrendForce News, Fast Company, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, The Next Platform, Motley Fool, Tom's Hardware, Lawyer Monthly, Stratechery, DigiTimes, Barron's Online, Türkiye Today, Instapundit, Hindustan Times, Patently Apple, Agence France-Presse, and Reuters
Forums: r/neoliberal, 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, W&B, Maginative, Reuters, TipRanks Financial, Verdict, Analytics India Magazine, TechCrunch, and SiliconANGLE
X: @amir and @weights_biases
| Angus Berwick / Wall Street Journal: |
Inside the Tether vs. Circle rivalry; sources: Circle executives regularly met US Treasury officials and others in 2024 to flag Tether's national security risks — Trump's call to bring crypto into the mainstream has raised the stakes in a kill-or-be-killed battle between … | 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: QuantWare, eeNews Europe, Tech.eu, EU-Startups, TNW, Silicon Canals, The Quantum Insider, Tech Funding News, and HPCwire
| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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