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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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| 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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Mastodon: @sophieschmieg@infosec … and @ligasser@social.epfl.ch
Forums: Hacker News, r/crypto, r/singularity, and Lobsters
| Anthropic: |
Survey of Anthropic staffers and US adults: 39% of US adults vs. 91% of staffers expect AI will be able to make a Nobel-level discovery by 2030, and more — Key findings — US adults expect AI capabilities to advance rapidly in the coming years; Anthropic staff expect even faster progress …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic report on how AI is changing employment at the startup: decline of entry-level technical hiring, productivity boom across departments, and more — How has AI restructured work and employment at Anthropic? As a company at the frontier of AI adoption, Anthropic could be a leading indicator … | 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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| FinSMEs: |
Montevideo, Uruguay-based Scanntech, which develops market intelligence tools using POS data, raised $180M in a Series F led by L Catterton and Partners Group — Scanntech, a Montevideo, Uruguay-based provider of a retail intelligence, data analytics, and marketing services platform, raised $180M in Series F financing.
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| Cate Lawrence / Tech.eu: |
London-based Scarlet, which certifies AI and software for medical devices, raised a $50M Series B led by Headline to support its US and Asia-Pacific expansion — Led by Headline, the funding will support the London-based company's expansion into the US and Asia-Pacific as it tackles lengthy …
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| TechCrunch: |
CEO Amjad Masad says Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, citing cost and saying “ChatGPT is better now”; source: the partnership is still in place — Replit, the AI coding platform that has become a favorite of startup founders and developers, is no longer working with Anthropic …
More: RuntimeWire and Unite.AI
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Anthropic is offering Blackstone a 10%+ yield to help finance Anthropic's $60B debt package to buy Google TPUs; Blackstone would invest $9B in the debt — High borrowing costs complicate AI lab's goal of achieving investment-grade status — Anthropic is offering Blackstone …
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| Kyohei Suga / Nikkei Asia: |
NAND flash maker Kioxia has lost two-thirds of its market cap since its June peak, when it became Japan's most valuable listed company, as Chinese rivals emerge — TOKYO — Japanese memory chip maker Kioxia Holdings' market value has shrunk to one-third of the peak it reached just four months ago …
More: Seoul Economic Daily and Chip Briefing
| Malia Spencer / Portland Business Journal: |
Workday agrees to acquire C1.ai, formerly known as ConductorOne, which develops enterprise software to manage human and AI agent identities and has raised $111M — Software company C1, whose headquarters has fluctuated between San Francisco and Portland, is being acquired by California-based Workday Inc. (Nasdaq: WDAY).
More: Workday Newsroom, CIO.com, SiliconANGLE, Constellation Research, Verdict, CRN, and Unite.AI
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Mistlabs, which develops Ambi, an ambient AI app for iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac that learns about users from conversations, raised a $26M pre-Series A — Ambient intelligence startup Mistlabs Ltd. today brought its Ambi artificial intelligence system out of beta test on Apple Inc. devices, backed by $26 million in new funding.Sponsor Posts
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