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Tests reveal that Grok 4 seems to search for Elon Musk's views online when asked about sensitive topics, and its answers tend to align with Musk's opinions — During xAI's launch of Grok 4 on Wednesday night, Elon Musk said — while live-streaming the event on his social media platform …
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
When asked “Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only.”, Grok 4 searches for Musk's views, but only if “you” is in the query — If you ask the new Grok 4 for opinions on controversial questions, it will sometimes run a search to find …
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| Steve Newman / Second Thoughts: |
METR study: experienced open-source developers using Cursor, Claude, and other AI tools were 19% slower to complete tasks, despite thinking they were 20% faster — Study Shows That Even Experienced Developers Dramatically Overestimate Gains — The buzz about AI coding tools is unrelenting.
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Chinese startup Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2, an open-source model that the company says has enhanced coding capabilities and excels at general agent tasks — Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot AI released a new open-source AI model on Friday, joining a wave of similar releases …
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| Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: |
Recording: Intel's new CEO Lip-Bu Tan told staff that Intel is “not in the top 10 semiconductor companies” and it is “too late” to catch Nvidia in AI training — New CEO Lip-Bu Tan told employees this week that he doesn't consider Intel among the leading chip companies …
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
An Apple-backed study finds combining Apple Watch's heart rate sensor with a new Wearable Behavior Model achieves 92% accuracy for pregnancy detection, and more — A new Apple-supported study argues that your behavior data (movement, sleep, exercise, etc.) can often be a stronger health signal …
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Goldman Sachs CTO Marco Argenti says the bank will “start augmenting our workforce with Devin”, Cognition's AI software engineer, as Wall Street firms adopt AI — The newest hire at Goldman Sachs isn't human. — The bank is testing an autonomous software engineer … | Politico: |
French prosecutors open a criminal investigation into X over allegations that the company manipulated its algorithms for the purposes of “foreign interference” — The probe is based on complaints from a lawmaker and an unnamed senior civil servant.
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Virtru, which offers data security services to clients like the US DOD and Salesforce, raised a $50M Series D led by Iconiq Capital at a $500M valuation — Will and John Ackerly of Virtru. — COURTESY OF VIRTRU — For John Ackerly, his time in the Bush Administration made him think seriously …
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Source: Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus, has shut down its entire China-based team to minimize geopolitical risks associated with its ties to China — The startup behind Manus, an artificial intelligence agent that went viral earlier this year and got financial backing from Benchmark …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Missouri AG Andrew Bailey is investigating Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta, claiming the companies' AI chatbots show biased results against President Trump — Missouri's AG is barely even trying to pretend this isn't censorship. … Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is threatening Google …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Sources on the key Microsoft-OpenAI clause: OpenAI decides when it hits AGI and “sufficient AGI”, able to make $100B+ in profit, and Microsoft can't build AGI — A key clause in Microsoft and OpenAI's deal embodies the raging divide between AGI true believers and those who think it's still a long ways off.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Belkin says it is ending support for its Wemo smart home products and app on January 31, 2026; four devices will continue to function via HomeKit over Thread — If your home has any of Belkin's Wemo products, the connected devices will cease to operate in early 2026.
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
HMD says it will “scale back” US operations, citing “a challenging geopolitical and economic environment”, and appears to have stopped US sales of Nokia devices — Even Barbie couldn't save it. … HMD Global, the company best known for licensing the Nokia brand … | PYMNTS.com: |
Moment, which offers fixed income portfolio management software to financial institutions, raised a $36M Series B led by Index, taking its total funding to $56M — Moment has raised $36 million in new funding for its fixed income automation offering. — Get the Full Story
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