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Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products  —  The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve models
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Bluesky: @jenka, @parismarx.com, @seldo.com, @peark.es, and @mclean
Forums: r/BetterOffline and r/singularity
Reuters:
A Trump administration official says DeepSeek's new model, expected next week, was trained on Nvidia Blackwell chips, in a potential US export control violation
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
Apple says it plans to move some Mac mini production to Houston from Asia later in 2026, as part of its efforts to invest $600B in the US over four years  —  The company will move some production of the desktop computer to Foxconn facility in Texas  —  Apple will move some production …
Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Apple's efforts to reshore the US chip supply chain, as the company commits to buying 100M+ chips from TSMC Arizona in 2026, amid US-China tensions  —  The iPhone maker wants more supply based in U.S., which remains years behind Asia  —  PHOENIX—On a desolate stretch of land dotted …
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
How Silicon Valley has long ignored China's looming Taiwan invasion and its chip supply impact; US officials warned Apple, AMD, and Qualcomm about China's plans  —  Federal officials have for years tried to wean Silicon Valley from its dependence on Taiwan, an island democracy roughly the size …
Pia Singh / CNBC:
IBM shares closed down 13.15% after Anthropic outlined in a blog post how Claude Code can automate the exploration and analysis phases of COBOL modernization  —  International Business Machines stock is getting slammed Monday, becoming the latest perceived victim of rapidly developing AI technology …
Jack Pitcher / Wall Street Journal:
Software stocks like AppLovin and CrowdStrike extended their weeks-long selloff; several of the biggest decliners were discussed in Citrini Research's post  —  The weeks-long selloff in software stocks deepened Monday amid general unease about the threat posed by AI.
Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal:
A court-appointed administrator winding down Terraform Labs sues Jane Street, alleging it engaged in insider trading to profit from and hasten Terraform's fall  —  The court-appointed administrator of Do Kwon's Terraform Labs alleged that Jane Street used nonpublic information from Terraform insiders to trade
Wall Street Journal:
How Binance staffers found $1B was sent to sanctioned Iranian entities via the exchange, which dismantled their probe and suspended them after Trump pardoned CZ  —  Weeks after Trump pardoned Binance's founder, the company dismantled probe and suspended the investigators; Binance denied inquiry ended or staff fired for the concerns
Reuters:
Filings: some Meta execs warned in 2019 that adding E2E encryption to Facebook and Instagram messaging would hinder the ability to flag CSAM to law enforcement  —  Meta (META.O) executives proceeded with a plan to encrypt the messaging services connected to its Facebook and Instagram apps …
Axios:
A DOD official says xAI has agreed to let the military use Grok in classified systems and agreed to the “all lawful use” standard, which Anthropic has refused  —  But the Pentagon is threatening Anthropic in a dispute over safeguards and may soon need a replacement.
Bloomberg:
Sources: PayPal is attracting takeover interest after a stock slide over the past year wiped out almost half of its market value; PYPL closed up 5.76%  —  PayPal Holdings Inc., the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slide wiped …
Anthropic:
Anthropic introduces “persona selection model”, a theory to explain AI's human-like behavior, and details how AI personas form in pre-training and post-training  —  AI assistants like Claude can seem surprisingly human.  They express joy after solving tricky coding tasks.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Discord says it “ran a limited test of Persona in the UK” to verify user ages and “that test has since concluded”, distancing itself from Persona amid backlash  —  The messaging platform says its ‘limited test’ of Persona in the UK has come to an end.

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From Mediagazer

Todd Spangler / Variety:
SEC filing: David Zaslav is selling ~4M shares of WBD stock, with an aggregate market value of just over $114M; Zaslav's 2024 pay rose 4.4% YoY to $51.9M

Max Tani / Semafor:
AP Senior Product Manager for AI Aimee Rinehart told staff that many editors preferred an AI-written article to a human one, and resistance to AI is “futile”

Yuval Halevi / Growtika:
Analysis: 10 major tech publications lost 58% of their Google traffic since early 2024, falling to a combined 65M monthly visits in January 2026; some lost 90%+

More News

Josh Dzieza / The Verge:
A look at the challenges some AI developers face in building models to extract trillions of high-quality tokens from PDFs, which are hard to parse, for training
Bloomberg:
Sources: Anthropic has lined up $5B to $6B for an employee share sale at a ~$350B valuation; outside investors, not Anthropic, will buy up the insider shares
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon plans to invest $12B in new data centers in Louisiana and says it worked with the local utility “to ensure we pay 100% of the costs” tied to the campus

Earlier Picks

Anthropic:
Anthropic details the AI Fluency Index, tracking 11 behaviors that represent human-AI collaboration and measure how people collaborate with AI
More: Axios.  X: @emollick, @himanshustwts, and @anthropicai
LinkedIn: Julie Schell and Pooja Palod.  Bluesky: @timkellogg.me.  Forums: Hacker News
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
OpenAI launches Frontier Alliances, entering into multiyear deals with Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, and McKinsey to help deploy its enterprise platform Frontier
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: some Xbox staffers say they are relieved that Sarah Bond is leaving, after she led a pivot away from the console with the “Xbox everywhere” strategy
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