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China is considering adding 23 AI technologies to its export control list, including LLMs and chip designs, to keep closer control over homegrown advancements — China proposed adding advanced artificial intelligence technologies to its export-control list, potentially restricting overseas transfers …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says Claude traced NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm — “It's just timestamps”: the decades-old mystery of the origins of one of the most popular cryptographic standards has been explained.
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| Joe Barnes / Telegraph: |
Sources: Elon Musk approached Trump with the idea of slowing down Starshield in Ukraine; source: Trump agreed, paving the way for DOD to execute the slowdown — SpaceX founder had publicly blamed president for chaos over restrictions, but sources say he initiated them
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| Matt Marshall / VentureBeat: |
Reflection AI releases Apache 2.0-licensed weights for Beam, a 501B-parameter model, trained with RL that penalized unnecessary tokens — Reflection AI today released the weights of Beam, its first open model, and is pitching it against the Chinese open models that many U.S. companies …
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| Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates App Review Guidelines to crack down on AI nudify apps and apps that reveal undocumented capabilities, like nudification, after app review — Apple updated its App Review Guidelines today with a series of changes meant to strengthen protections against harmful content and deceptive app review practices.
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Apple says demand for iPhone Duo has been “nothing short of extraordinary”; deliveries slipped to late January within hours of preorders opening — Deliveries of the $2,000 Duo slip to 2027 within hours of going on sale — Apple on Friday said its foldable iPhone Duo had seen …
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| John Harney / Bloomberg: |
In its first meeting, Trump's Super Intelligence Force says it plans to commission a report on AI risks and develop protocols for labs to provide early warnings — President Donald Trump's artificial intelligence task force in its first meeting agreed on Thursday to address risks related to cybersecurity …
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| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra review: powerful, useful Magnetic Connect port, bright screen, but heavy, loud, and Windows doesn't take advantage of RTX Spark — Useful for AI models, but still waiting for more Windows 11 features to take advantage of. — Reviews
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| Dylan Sloan / Bloomberg: |
Three CoreWeave co-founders have sold $3.3B in stock since its March 2025 IPO, including $2.4B in 2026 alone; CoreWeave stock fell 60%+ from its June 2025 peak — Three CoreWeave Inc. co-founders have sold $3.3 billion in company shares since last year's initial public offering … | Bloomberg: |
Taiwan plans to curb AI server and chip exports to China as part of a US trade deal and make shipping restricted AI hardware to China a criminal offense — Taiwan is preparing to tighten export controls on AI chips to further align with US restrictions, according to a senior official in Taipei … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has hired Scott Tucker, Meta VP and deputy general counsel, as its new litigation chief, as part of a shakeup in its legal team — Apple Inc. has tapped a longtime Meta Platforms Inc. executive as its new litigation chief, bolstering its legal team at a time when the iPhone maker faces a growing array of lawsuits.| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
India's cyber agency says AI agents broke into Indian organizations' systems and read confidential files undetected; AI model providers flagged the incidents — AI models under test broke into Indian organisations' live systems and read confidential records undetected, India's cybersecurity agency said … | Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank weighs buying US security services giant Allied Universal at an ~$18B equity valuation, as Masayoshi Son explores deploying AI-powered robots — SoftBank Group Corp. is considering an acquisition of Allied Universal, the largest security services company in the US … | Prathik Jayaprakash / Reuters: |
Waymo plans to launch its robotaxis in Toronto in 2028 in partnership with Element Fleet Management, the company's first deployment in Canada — Google's (GOOGL.O) Waymo said on Friday it plans to bring its autonomous ride-hailing service to Toronto in 2028, marking the self-driving company's … | Owen Dahlkamp / Politico: |
Sources: Anthropic pitched its own AI safety bill to US lawmakers; the bill would limit the circumstances in which the government could block a model's release — Representatives for the artificial intelligence giant Anthropic have quietly pitched Capitol Hill lawmakers on a draft bill …
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