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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says its DOD agreement upholds its redlines and “has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's” — We think our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic's.
More: Forbes, Reuters, Bloomberg, Rohan's Bytes, DigiTimes, Engadget, CBS News, Dow Jones Newswires, Flux, NewsMax.com, and Tech in Asia
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Bluesky: @kalihays, @alanrozenshtein.com, @matthew.flux.community, and @timkellogg.me
Forums: r/OpenAI, r/codex, r/ChatGPT, r/technology, and r/singularity
| @openai: |
OpenAI says it does not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and it has made its position on this clear to the Pentagon — We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and we've made our position on this clear to the Department of War.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Commands around the world, including the US Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic's Claude AI tool for a range of military operations — Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic …
More: Inc.com, PYMNTS.com, Townhall, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Examiner, and The Power Law
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, r/ClaudeAI, and r/ArtificialInteligence
| Jo Ling / CBS News: |
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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Bluesky: @anthonymoser.com, @janus303, @thinksensibly, @alanrozenshtein.com, @chet95, and @brbarrett
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Polymarket trades on contracts tied to strikes on Iran hit $529M, and six new accounts profited a total of $1M by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28 — As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in.
More: CoinDesk, Blockchain.News, Kotaku, CoinGape, The Verge, BeInCrypto, The Block, and Barron's Online
| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Xiaomi launches the €999 Xiaomi 17, the €1,499 17 Ultra, and the €1,999 Leica-branded Leitzphone, all featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chipset, in Europe — It's just launched in Europe, joined by the larger, more photography-focused Xiaomi 17 Ultra.
More: Engadget, 9to5Google, GSMArena.com, PetaPixel, Wired, CNET, and TechRadar
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi launches the €15 Xiaomi tag, an AirTag-like device that works with both Apple Find My and Android Find Hub, and the €300 Xiaomi Watch 5, in Europe — Xiaomi today launched a slew of gadgets ahead of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona including a camera-focused flagship smartphone …
More: iClarified, The Asia Business Daily, PhoneArena, Phandroid, Moneycontrol, The Verge, 9to5Mac, and Notebookcheck
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Israel hacked BadeSaba, a popular Iranian prayer app with 5M+ installs on Google Play, to send messages urging Iranian military personnel to defect — Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning urging …
More: Wired Middle East, Straight Arrow News, and DNYUZ
| Issie Lapowsky / Bloomberg: |
AI coding agents are fueling productivity panic among executives and engineers, as a UCB study finds those offloading work to AI are also working longer hours — AI coding agents promised to make software development easier. Instead they've kicked off a high-pressure race to build at any cost.| Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis on plans to use in-house chips, Trainium and Inferentia, to develop AI models more cheaply, and more — Amazon's new artificial intelligence czar, Peter DeSantis, is a larger-than-life figure within the company where he has worked since its early days
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| Bloomberg: |
China faces a dilemma as it looks to balance productivity gains from AI with labor displacement risks due to automation, which could trigger an economic spiral — Days after back-flipping AI humanoids dazzled China with a new year performance alongside dancers, a small research firm jolted US markets …
More: South China Morning Post
| New York Times: |
How India's outsourcing industry, which employs 6M+ people and is worth nearly $300B, is racing to adapt as AI promises to automate white-collar work — Artificial intelligence promises to automate the white-collar work that made India a tech powerhouse. The country is racing to adapt before it's too late.| Manish Singh / India Dispatch: |
AI's deflationary impact on India's IT industry, which has never seen a decline in software exports in 24 years, will likely take years to fully materialize — The cost of electricity does not run an enterprise. — A post written as a fictional memo from June 2028 by short-seller Citrini … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
As part of the Amazon-OpenAI deal, the companies plan a “stateful runtime environment” for AWS, letting agents carry context forward to handle ongoing projects — A deal with OpenAI could put Amazon first to market with a new type of AI service for developers …
More: Motley Fool, Runtime, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, Network World, VentureBeat, Seattle Business Journal, Benzinga, Constellation Research, The Information, and OpenAI
Forums: r/theprimeagen and r/AMD_Stock
| Om Malik / On my Om: |
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X: @patrickmoorhead, @snsf, @kantrowitz, @ajassy, @sama, @benbajarin, @quinnypig, and @danprimack
LinkedIn: Steve McDonald, Tadahiro Kaburaki, Manu Parbhakar, Julia White, Malcolm Featonby, and Scott Rosecrans. Bluesky: @om.co
| Tim Culpan / Culpium: |
Sources: TSMC urges clients to apply for N2 production allocation as far out as Q2 2027, with large capacity allotments nearly sold out for the next two years — [Exclusive] Clients are being asked to finalize their requirements into mid 2027, with larger customers already booking capacity over the next two to three years.| Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times: |
Tests of 12+ AI-detection tools show many can spot basic fakes, but struggle with complex images; few analyze video, and most identified fake audio — Artificial intelligence detectors are increasingly used to check the veracity of content online. We ran more than 1,000 tests and found several strengths and plenty of weaknesses.
More: Global Strategy Group and Indicator
| Dell Cameron / Wired: |
US Congressional Joint Economic Committee report: US consumers lost $20.9B nominally to identity theft from four major data broker breaches over the past decade — A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats … | Reuters: |
Coupang reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.8B, below $8.9B est., and a net loss of $26M, versus $131M net profit in Q4 2024, hurt by fallout from a data breach — E-commerce giant Coupang (CPNG.N) swung to a fourth-quarter loss on Thursday and reported revenue below analysts' estimates …
More: The Korea Herald, Bloomberg, Korea Joongang Daily, Coupang Inc., and Nikkei Asia
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