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OpenAI releases a “research preview” of its Operator AI agent that can automate web-based tasks, launching in the US to subscribers of the $200/month Pro tier — OpenAI is releasing a “research preview” of an AI agent called Operator that can “go to the web to perform tasks for you,” according to a blog post.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI partners with DoorDash, Instacart, Priceline, StubHub, and Uber to ensure that Operator respects these businesses' terms of service agreements — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman kicked off this year by saying in a blog post that 2025 would be big for AI agents, tools that can automate tasks and take actions on your behalf.
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Hands-on with Operator: limited in what it can browse, can perform repetitive workflows, and can do lengthy tasks on its own with minimal prompting — Operator (Could you help me do this task?) … Today, OpenAI announced Operator, a new research preview of ChatGPT that acts as an agent for your repetitive tasks.
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Trump signs an EO to create a crypto working group led by David Sacks to consider a national digital asset stockpile “potentially derived” from seized crypto — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to promote the advancement of cryptocurrencies in the U.S …
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| Associated Press: |
Trump signs an EO to develop AI systems “free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas”, revoking Biden policies that “act as barriers” to innovation — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Thursday …
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| Donald Judd / CNN: |
Trump shrugs off Musk's criticism of Stargate, saying Musk “hates one of the people in the deal” and his comments are not an indictment of the deal's viability — President Donald Trump on Thursday shrugged off an ugly back-and-forth between tech CEOs Elon Musk and Sam Altman …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers detail Subaru's now-fixed web vulnerabilities that would've let them unlock and start millions of Subarus via Starlink in the US, Canada, and Japan — Now-fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access …
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Epic launches a free games program on mobile and promises to pay the Apple Core Technology Fee for participants in the program on iOS for one year — Epic Games is adding nearly 20 third-party games onto its mobile app store worldwide on Android and in the European Union on iOS and launching …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Perplexity launches Perplexity Assistant in its Android app, which can take “multi-app actions” like hailing a ride, initially free for users in 15 languages — AI-powered search engine Perplexity has launched an “agent,” of sorts, called Perplexity Assistant …
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| Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: |
DeepSeek's latest AI model R1 sticks to Chinese government restrictions on sensitive topics like Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, and the treatment of Uyghurs in China — Those who train the AI models get to decide what the truth is. — 5H — The AI world was abuzz this week with the release …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Google rolls out the first public beta of Android 16 for Pixel devices, introducing Live Updates, a limited version of Apple's Live Activities, and more — Android 16's first public beta will start rolling out later today, bringing with it dynamic lockscreen notifications for ride-sharing and food delivery …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic debuts Citations, a new API feature letting developers “ground” answers in source documents, available for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku — In an announcement perhaps timed to divert attention away from OpenAI's Operator, Anthropic Thursday unveiled a new feature …
More: Anthropic and Maginative
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
CAIS and Scale AI release “Humanity's Last Exam”, which they claim is the hardest AI test yet, consisting of ~3,000 multiple-choice and short answer questions — If you're looking for a new reason to be nervous about artificial intelligence, try this: Some of the smartest humans … | Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Substack launches a $20M Creator Accelerator Fund to lure US creators who have $2K+ per month in recurring revenue away from other subscription-based platforms — Substack on Thursday announced the launch of its Creator Accelerator Fund, which provides a $20 million funding guarantee aimed …
More: Substack Reads, The Verge, Bloomberg, and Tubefilter
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
PE firm Everstone acquires Delhi-based Wingify, whose flagship product Visual Website Optimizer helps business improve their online conversion rates, for $200M — Private equity firm Everstone has reached a deal to acquire a majority stake in Wingify, one of India's earliest bootstrapped software … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Mukesh Ambani's Reliance is buying Nvidia's AI chips and plans to build a 3-gigawatt data center in Jamnagar, India, set to be the largest in the world — - Reliance joins rush of tech companies building data centers … Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Group is building what may become …
More: The Economic Times, TechCrunch, Hindustan Times, Business Standard, and Reuters
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Brave Search rolls out Rerank to let users boost or downgrade domains from their search results through thumbs up or thumbs down buttons — Brave Search has introduced a new feature called Rerank, which allows users to define search results ordering preferences and set specific sites rank higher.
More: Brave, CNBC, Search Engine Land, Windows Central, and Thurrott
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
The UK CMA opens investigations into Apple's and Google's mobile ecosystems, including OSes, app stores, and browsers, to see the impact on users and businesses — LONDON — Britain's competition regulator on Thursday launched an investigation into Apple and Google's huge mobile ecosystems … | Bloomberg: |
At Davos, Trump blasts EU for targeting Apple, Google, and Meta, describing regulatory cases as “a form of taxation”, and references Apple's €13B Irish tax bill — - Comments mark start of clash between Trump, EU over tech — Apple lost case last year over $14.4 billion Irish tax bill
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
The US DOJ charges the former CEO of AI chatbot startup GameOn and his wife for allegedly defrauding investors of more than $60M between 2018 and 2024 — The founder of GameOn, a San Francisco artificial intelligence startup, has been indicted for running a “brazen and wide-ranging” …
More: US Department of Justice, Forbes, and Bloomberg Law
| Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
France says David Balland, a co-founder of French crypto wallet startup Ledger, was kidnapped on January 21 and freed on January 22 after a police operation — - A crypto ransom has been partly paid, traced and seized — Balland's partner was also kidnapped and released on Thursday| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Q&A with former CISA Director Jen Easterly, appointed in 2021, on leaving the agency, Donald Trump, China's Salt Typhoon, Russia, unfinished business, and more — Chinese hacks, rampant ransomware, and Donald Trump's budget cuts all threaten US security.
More: Pixel Envy. Mastodon: @chrismerkel@infosec.exchange and @lhn@mastodon.online
Forums: r/cybersecurity and r/politics
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Daniel Guarnera, a DOJ lawyer who helped file US antitrust lawsuits against Google and Apple, has been picked to lead the FTC's Bureau of Competition — - Daniel Guarnera picked to lead FTC's Bureau of Competition — Chris Mufarrige tapped to head Bureau of Consumer Protection
Bluesky: @schock.cc
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Twilio says its adjusted operating margin will reach 21%-22% in 2027, exceeding est. and up from 16.1% in the most recent quarter; TWLO jumps 11%+ after hours — Cloud communications software maker Twilio on Thursday issued a hopeful profit forecast for the next few years.Sponsor Posts
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