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Admin official: Pentagon may sever Anthropic relationship over AI safeguards; Anthropic says only mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons are off limits — The Pentagon is considering severing its relationship with Anthropic over the AI firm's insistence on maintaining some limitations …
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| Scott Shambaugh / The Shamblog: |
A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath — Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code …
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Bluesky: @davidcrespo, @shannonvallor, @antisomniac, @karlbode.com, @ironyuppie.com, @dancow, @kendraserra, @tyleraking.com, @themckenziest.gay, and @druce.ai
Mastodon: @acdha@code4lib.social, @munin@infosec.exchange, and @michael@mstdn.thms.uk
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, Hacker News, r/technology, r/Futurology, r/slatestarcodex, r/technews, r/technology, r/Cyberpunk, Beehaw, Lobsters, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| New York Times: |
Sources: the US DHS recently sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas, which do not need a judge's approval, to tech firms to identify people critical of ICE — The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment …
More: Engadget, Mashable, The Information, The UnPopulist, WinBuzzer, TechCrunch, Robert Reich, Newser, and Raw Story
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Bluesky: @jcollins, @sethandrews.com, @doctoralex, @evelyndouek, @jbarab, @litzz11, @futurexander, @gilesyb, @charliearchy, and @saltydiggitydawg. Mastodon: @talzag@sfba.social
| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
ByteDance launches Doubao 2.0, an “agent era” upgrade of China's most widely used AI app capable of executing multi-step tasks, ahead of the Lunar New Year — China's ByteDance has rolled out its Doubao 2.0 model, an upgrade of the country's most widely used artificial-intelligence app, the company said on Saturday.
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| Jessica Brice / Bloomberg: |
A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups — A vast ecosystem supported by the gig economy has sprung up to clean all that cash. — The pitch was simple: Crypto for “cold hard cash.”
LinkedIn: Tamer Yalav, Poppy Alexander, CAT Labs, Scott Greytak, and Nicola White
| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
India approves a $1.1B state-backed VC fund to finance high-risk areas like AI and advanced manufacturing, doubling down on an effort that debuted in 2016 — India has cleared a $1.1 billion state-backed venture capital program that will channel government money into startups through private investors … | Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Current and former senior employees say AWS is undergoing a strategic shake-up amid fears it is losing ground to competitors in securing corporate AI contracts — Shake-up follows fears tech giant missed early AI boom as Microsoft and Google challenge cloud business
More: Bloomberg, Implicator.ai, and Yahoo Finance
| Meaghan Tobin / New York Times: |
Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, China is expected to produce 2% of global AI chips in 2026 and 70x less memory storage than foreign chipmakers — More than a decade into Beijing's push for self sufficiency, Chinese firms are producing fewer, lower-performing chips than their foreign competitors.
Forums: r/hardware
| Rani Molla / Sherwood News: |
Amazon stock fell for the ninth straight day on Friday, its longest losing streak since 2006, opening at $244.98 on Feb. 3 and closing at $198.79 on Feb. 13 — Amazon shares marked their ninth straight day of losses — the company's longest losing streak since 2006.| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming it infringed on Disney's works to train its Seedance 2.0 video generation model without pay — The Walt Disney Company on Friday sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging the Chinese tech giant has been infringing …
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| Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media: |
Dealroom and NATO Innovation Fund: European defense, security, and resilience startup funding rose 55% YoY to a record $8.7B in 2025, with AI accounting for 44% — Ahead of the big Munich Security Conference later this week, the analysts at Dealroom teamed up with the NATO Innovation Fund …
More: Dealroom and NATO Innovation Fund
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
BNP Paribas analysis: Anthropic saw visits to its site jump 6.5% after its Super Bowl ad and DAUs jump 11% post-game, outperforming other AI companies — The Seahawks may have won the Super Bowl, but Anthropic also walked away with bragging rights, according to data analyzed by BNP Paribas.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says 74% of iPhones launched in the last four years and 66% of all iPhones are running iOS 26; 68% of iPhones were running iOS 18 as of Jan. 21, 2025 — Apple has shared updated iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 adoption figures, revealing how many iPhones and iPads are running those software versions.
More: Apple, Pixel Envy, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac, Forbes, Livemint, Moneycontrol, Redmond Pie, The Mac Observer, iClarified, AppleInsider, MacTech.com, and MacDailyNews
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Blockchain-based lending company Figure confirms a data breach; ShinyHunters hacking group published 2.5GB of data, saying Figure refused to pay a ransom — Figure Technology, a blockchain-based lending company, confirmed it experienced a data breach. — On Friday, Figure spokesperson … Sponsor Posts
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