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Trump signs an EO to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a Digital Asset Stockpile using BTC and other digital assets forfeited in criminal or civil cases — US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve “just a few minutes ago,” says crypto tsar David Sacks.
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Source: Microsoft has completed training a family of models, codenamed MAI, and is experimenting with swapping out OpenAI's models in Copilot for the MAI models — Mustafa Suleyman wasn't getting the answers he wanted. — Last fall, during a video call with senior leaders at OpenAI and Microsoft … | Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Source: Microsoft is testing out ways to replace OpenAI's models in Copilot with models from other AI labs including xAI, Meta, and DeepSeek — Staff in Microsoft's artificial intelligence unit recently finished training a new family of AI models, internally dubbed MAI …
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the White House is weighing measures to restrict DeepSeek, including banning its app from US app stores, because of national security concerns — Trump administration also considers broader measures against the AI model over national-security concerns
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| NewsGuard's Reality Check: |
NewsGuard audit: the 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time — An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow's disinformation goals by repeating false claims …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple confirms that it is delaying the “more personalized Siri” Apple Intelligence feature and anticipates rolling it out “in the coming year” — Here's a statement I got this morning from Apple spokeswoman Jacqueline Roy, verbatim:
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
Reflection AI, which wants to achieve superintelligence through autonomous coding agents, emerges from stealth with a $105M Series A and $25M in seed funding — Reflection AI is building coding agents that can function autonomously. — Two top researchers from Google's artificial intelligence lab DeepMind …
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| Financial Times: |
Analysis: the $TRUMP memecoin generated $314M from token sales and $36M in fees within three weeks of its launch, likely fueling conflict of interest concerns — Donald Trump's crypto project made at least $350mn from the launch of his memecoin, a windfall that is likely to fuel concerns …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
A Brazilian judge gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS in Brazil, saying the “limitations” imposed by Apple on developers could deter new competitors — After the EU forced Apple to implement major changes to how iOS and the App Store work for European users …
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| Kate Clark / Bloomberg: |
VCs are increasingly pouring money into “AI wrappers”, startups that leverage other developers' LLMs to build tools for coders, clinicians, lawyers, and others — Forget LLMs. Silicon Valley investors have a new favorite AI play. — Not long ago, Silicon Valley was dismissive of startups like Harvey.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Former OpenAI policy researcher Miles Brundage criticizes an OpenAI post on safety and alignment, saying it “rewrites the history of GPT-2 in a concerning way” — A high-profile ex-OpenAI policy researcher, Miles Brundage, took to social media on Wednesday to criticize OpenAI for … | Financial Times: |
Sources: Meta plans to include improved voice features in Llama 4, expected in weeks, betting that future AI agents will be conversational rather than text-led — Social media giant is introducing improved features as it bets on the technology driving the growth of so-called AI agents| Peggy Hollinger / Financial Times: |
Europe is in talks with SES, Viasat, and others as it rushes to provide Ukraine with alternatives to Starlink, whose service became patchy near the frontline — Four satellite operators in talks over back-up for Kyiv if Elon Musk switches off broadband service
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple plans to start mass producing a $2,000+ book-style foldable iPhone in Q4 2026, with a ~7.8" “crease-free” inner display and a ~5.5" outer display — Apple's first foldable iPhone should arrive around the end of 2026 or early 2027 with a book-style design and a premium price tag …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
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