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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
MacBook Neo thoughts, as Apple also expands its superpremium tier via “Ultra” products; sources say Apple wants to use aluminum 3D-printing for Watch and iPhone — Apple has taken the wraps off its $599 MacBook Neo, entering new territory in a way that could shake up the computer market.
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| Harvard Business Review: |
A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause “AI brain fry”, a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity — On New Year's Day, programmer Steve Yegge launched Gas Town, an open-source platform that lets users orchestrate swarms …
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| Miles Kruppa / The Information: |
The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B+ on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies — The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend more than $300 billion on data centers, chips and other AI investments …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with unprecedented speed and precision in attacks, even as the cost of ill-informed decisions remains high — Intelligence, targeting and damage assessments are accelerating thanks to military versions of software now remaking business and daily life| Daniel Boffey / The Guardian: |
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| Sharon Goldman / Fortune: |
Caitlin Kalinowski, who led OpenAI's robotics team, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's US DOD contract — Caitlin Kalinowski, who had been leading hardware and robotic engineering teams at OpenAI since November 2024, announced she has left the company.
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| New York Times: |
How some candidates for the US midterms are using social media posts and niche buzzwords on their websites to signal for support from crypto and AI super PACs — The A.I. and crypto industries entered this year with nearly $250 million combined to spend on politics, and a battle plan to shape the regulatory landscape in their favor.| Nancy Scola / Politico: |
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it is “open to strategic co-operation” with more AI groups, having recently added Perplexity to its mobile OS — Korean giant's device chief says its future Galaxy devices will host multiple models as users mix and match AI tools
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Kalshi is trying to broaden its user base via targeted marketing, enlisting female influencers and others; 26% of users now are women, up from 13% in May 2025 — Kalshi wants to get more young women interested in the prediction-market platform, looking to expand beyond sports and its core male customer base.
More: Blockchain.News
| Aaron Levie / @levie: |
Advice to developers: make software that agents want, with API-first design, as AI agents, instead of humans, will become the primary users of future software — Building for trillions of agents — Over the past few months, something big has started to happen with agents.
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at the OpenClaw craze in China: AI labs launch tools to help users set up OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts policies to support AI agents, and more — Chinese software shares surged Monday after local government agencies joined tech leaders such as Tencent Holdings Ltd … | Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times: |
Lawsuit documents: two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants, worth $100M+, to be cut for being related to DEI — Documents show how A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the agency embraced President Trump's agenda.
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| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks — Ask about this article... Like Google's Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 1.5, Uni-1 is built on an autoregressive transformer …
X: @teortaxestex, @lumalabsai, and @nachos2d_
| Elizabeth Gibney / Nature: |
A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can facilitate academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv — - Elizabeth Gibney — Search author on: — PubMed Google Scholar — All major large language models (LLMs) …
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| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he takes a leading role in the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic — Emil Michael made his name in Silicon Valley a decade ago as an aggressive dealmaker for a startup — Uber Technologies Inc. … Sponsor Posts
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