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In email to X staff, Musk says “user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even”; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X — Banks are hoping to sell the X debt at around 90 to 95 cents on the dollar — Wall Street banks are getting ready …
More: The Verge, Futurism, Bloomberg, Reuters, Benzinga, and The Wrap
Bluesky: @anthropicscholar, @razastwart, @pecunium, @ammy, @cachiporra, @raisinguptown, @ecostarr, @popolvuzh, @wukko.me, @pabably, @ldldn, @robchilver, @sarcasticdad, @valkyrie.hacker.gf, @hereforfun, @ketameanie, @rufus-hickok, @leftsedfred …, @ilikesportsmostly, @revjulieh, @thurstoncounty, @kevinwglass, @thetypist, @thegrimrecapper, @cannibalpinata, @crunk1977, @tttomblue, @whizzo, @peark.es, @bft.wtf, @bankuei, @gonzarro, @cavskermit, @maxkennerly, @docnickie, @bdplayer81, @ratelimitexceeder, @ironbound, @schoenen, @pithypacky, @harrisj, @grantmooney, @sspence3, @johnxuandou, @reckless, @mtelm, @rss.coffee, @wattasecond, @ccxkingxcc, @asherlangton, @prietschka, @barrybergman, @1stamericanhoodlum, @mercygrimm, @saileshpatel, @mattrigg, @maxkennerly, @seanokane, @usspcrichardandson, @margarita, @bartsmith, @nypinta, @benloggedon, @brendelbored, @chrismsf, @studuncan, @koleross, @borisbadenov, @alwayserked, @labuzamovies.com, @esghound.com, @neiltypewriter, @ailurouge, @joelhs, @celicilorena, @tyleraking.com, @skeetownhobbit, @mrshiddeddoodoo, @mstefan, @behrbones, @petergratton, @m3talgearz, @southsidetrekkie, @1stamericanhoodlum, @juditpetho, @gwollman, @lukethomas, @dougdirt24, @davidjwbailey, @garyrockrose, @turnerjoy, @pelops, @robairone, @brianhough.com, @bigbeandotgov, @grudgie, @thetwinewinder, @imnotahrhitter, @nystateofmind, @matthiasplappert.com, @ironsquirrel, @noahseligman, @chrisdoll, @nowhere, @sportzagato, @thereallari, @dcharlie, @litigaytor, @keithdonovan, @salfranzaya, @gregred, and @phoul. Mastodon: @joy@mastodon.social
Threads: @vishwanathsarangkeller, @chrismaydev, @parkert, and @documentingmeta
X: @parismarx, @wholemarsblog, and @asharma
Forums: r/Twitter, r/economicCollapse, r/technology, and r/news
| Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is planning to invest $60B to $65B in capex in 2025, will end the year with 1.3M+ GPUs, and plans to grow its AI teams “significantly” — Meta Platforms (META.O) will invest $60 billion to $65 billion in capital expenditure in 2025, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post on Friday.
More: The Verge, TechCrunch, New York Times, PYMNTS.com, TweakTown, South China Morning Post, Fox Business, The Register, The News International, Maginative, Sherwood News, PCMag, NBC News, iPhone in Canada Blog, The National Pulse, The Information, The Real Deal, Fortune, Yahoo Finance, Constellation Research, and Wall Street Journal
Bluesky: @loblaws-balrog, @carlquintanilla, @peark.es, @tkb24, @texasrunaway, @kurtwagner, and @kurtwagner
Threads: @supremebagholder, @benedictevans, @lessin, @kurtwag8, @benedictevans, @jensscherbl, @sung.kim.mw, and @tomgara
X: @natolambert, @matthewstoller, @matthewstoller, @mikeisaac, @kevinroose, @nabeelqu, @morqon, @nabeelqu, @morqon, @supbagholder, @nearcyan, @richlightshed, @munster_gene, @nabeelqu, @morqon, @nabeelqu, @object_zero_, @ai_for_success, @supbagholder, and @mikeisaac. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg
Forums: r/artificial, r/worldnews, and Slashdot
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Zuckerberg says Meta is building an AI engineer that will “start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts” and is planning a 2GW+ data center — Social-media giant to spend between $60 billion and $65 billion, Zuckerberg says| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones — If you hadn't heard, there's a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis …
More: Latent Space. Threads: @documentingmeta, @vishvanands, @bilawal.ai, @sgulsach, @luokai, @sfscottp, and @benedictevans
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LinkedIn: Yann LeCun, Omar Tawakol, and Matt Marshall
Forums: Blind, r/OpenAI, and r/singularity
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta begins a “limited, early test” of ads in Threads in the US and Japan, with the goal of making the ads “as interesting as organic content” — Meta's X rival Threads said Friday that it is now testing ads with select brands in the U.S. and Japan.
More: Facebook, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, Business Insider, Ad Age, Engadget, Pocket-lint, Android Headlines, TipRanks Financial, Search Engine Journal, Bloomberg, CNBC, Thurrott, PhoneArena, calgaryherald, Neowin, and Search Engine Land
Threads: @mosseri, @kurtwag8, @noahkalina, @jampacksam, @cult_papa, @parkerortolani, @stevepsyd, @crumbler, and @zaccomode. X: @mikeisaac
LinkedIn: Samantha Stetson, Simon Whitcombe, and Nick Baughan
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple moved Kim Vorrath, a company veteran known for fixing troubled products, to its AI group to help improve Siri and Apple Intelligence — - Kim Vorrath previously worked on Vision Pro, iPhone software — The company is racing to catch up in artificial intelligence
More: The Verge, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, PYMNTS.com, Tom's Guide, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, Seeking Alpha, iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, BGR, and iClarified
Forums: r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
UnitedHealth says the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit in February 2024 affected ~190M people, nearly double its previous estimate of 100M — UnitedHealth has confirmed the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit last February affected around 190 million people in America — nearly double previous estimates.| Rolling Stone: |
Sources: Trump's team members don't buy Zuckerberg's right-wing conversion as entirely genuine; one senior official says he has a “lot more ass-kissing” to do — Trump's aides and allies aren't ready to buy the Facebook chief's right-wing conversion. “He can't just snap his fingers and make the past not happen”
More: Raw Story and Wired
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
The US SEC revokes SAB 121, a controversial accounting rule added in 2022 that forced banks to treat BTC and other tokens as a liability on their balance sheets — After years of lobbying by the crypto industry, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has rescinded an accounting rule …
More: US Securities …, Axios, Bitcoin Insider, Blockworks, NewsBTC, Barron's Online, ZyCrypto, and The Information
Bluesky: @midwest2, @jimobx, @cdouglaslay, @val415, @darrencohen.me, and @saltcreekbrews
X: @senlummis, @saylor, @scottiepippen, and @davidfbailey
LinkedIn: Amy Zhang and Samuel Leichman
| Catherine McGrath / Fortune: |
White House crypto czar David Sacks says NFTs and memecoins are neither securities nor commodities, but collectibles that people buy to “commemorate something” — Non-fungible tokens and memecoins are neither securities nor commodities, according to White House crypto czar David Sacks.
More: Fox Business on YouTube and CryptoPotato
Bluesky: @janusroberts, @kellblog, @frydawolff, @seanwince, and @paleofuture
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
OpenAI updates ChatGPT's Canvas feature with o1 model support and HTML and React code rendering, making it a direct competitor to Claude's Artifacts — OpenAI Canvas gets a huge upgrade. Canvas is the ChatGPT feature where ChatGPT can open up a shared editing environment and collaborate …
More: Seeking Alpha. X: @openai, @leeerob, @romainhuet, @kevinweil, @karinanguyen_, @ai_for_success, @edwinarbus, @omarsar0, @karinanguyen_, @simonw, @openai, @latentmoss, @simonw, @sulmanrc, and @openai
| New York Times: |
The TikTok ban forced a dilemma on US tech companies: risk alienating a mercurial president or risk breaking federal law and face up to billions in penalties — The federal law banning TikTok has revealed a major schism among American tech companies: Some are willing to flout the law — and some, including Apple and Google, are not.| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
An interview with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on why he doesn't believe we will have AGI in 2025, putting Google's assistants in smart glasses, and more — Q&A with the Google AI head and Nobel laureate on the state of artificial intelligence today, and where it's heading.| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
The FBI warns that North Korean IT workers are abusing their access to steal source code and extort US companies that have been tricked into hiring them — The FBI warned today that North Korean IT workers are abusing their access to steal source code and extort U.S. companies that have been tricked into hiring them.
More: US Department of Justice, CSO, Computerworld, IC3.gov News, Dark Reading, Hackread, and Axios
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Similarweb: RedNote's DAUs in the US fell by 54% on January 20 when the TikTok ban was put on hold, after reaching a high of 32.5M DAUs on the day of the ban — In the days leading up to the TikTok ban in the U.S. on Sunday, U.S. users flooded the Chinese app RedNote, which offered …
More: Dexerto
| Kate Clark / Bloomberg: |
Source: Lightspeed has invested a total of $2.2B in AI deals, excluding the $2B Anthropic funding round it is leading, and is close to raising a $7B fund — The 25-year-old venture capital firm is embracing tech's new era of enormous artificial intelligence deals
More: Crunchbase News
| Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese self-driving company WeRide aims to make more inroads overseas in 2025; WeRide operates in nine countries and secured new deals in Switzerland and Japan — WeRide already operates driverless vehicles in 30 cities across nine countries — Chinese autonomous-driving company WeRide …
Forums: r/SelfDrivingCars
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Flip, which lets shoppers share video reviews and earn cash based on engagement, launches a creator fund that grants up to $100M of equity over 5+ years — Flip is a social commerce app that lets shoppers become creators. They can share honest reviews and earn cash based on engagement on the platform.
More: Tubefilter. Bluesky: @jackietoale. LinkedIn: Chase Dillon, Abdulla AlBanna, Idan Netser, and Yuval Rechter
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Character AI says 1A protects it from liability in a lawsuit that claims a teen committed suicide after becoming emotionally attached to a chatbot — Character AI, a platform that lets users engage in roleplay with AI chatbots, has filed a motion to dismiss a case brought … Sponsor Posts
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