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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 … | 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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| 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.
More: Filippo Valsorda, CoinDesk, The Crypto Times, RuntimeWire, Blockchain.News, and Unite.AI
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Mastodon: @ligasser@social.epfl.ch and @sophieschmieg@infosec …
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/singularity, r/crypto, and Lobsters
| 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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| 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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Bluesky: @jm78mmm6 and @kevinrothrock.me
| 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.
More: Apple Developer, Apple Developer, iThinkDifferent, Daring Fireball, MacRumors, and The Verge. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
More: Reuters, Livemint, and Investor's Business Daily
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with YouTuber Benn Jordan, who recently testified in Congress against license plate readers, on Flock, privacy, the surveillance backlash, and more — Today, I'm talking with Benn Jordan, musician, YouTuber, researcher, and investigative journalist.
X: @verge
| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
A profile of Alexandr Wang, who sources say is “an operator”, had “all” of Zuckerberg's support during Meta's AI revamp, and is being touted as his successor — The 29-year-old in charge of the company's Superintelligence Labs is being touted as a potential successor to Mark Zuckerberg
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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.| 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
| Mike Butcher / Pathfounders: |
Duvo, which develops tech to automate business processes across enterprise systems, including ERPs and legacy apps, raised a $32M Series A led by Balderton — He didn't get very far. He discovered that much of the company's operational knowledge just wasn't documented anywhere.
More: Tech.eu, Tech Funding News, Duvo, Pulse 2.0, Retail Times, Ventureburn, RuntimeWire, and FinSMEs
| 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 …
More: Rest of World, Vercel, Forrester, SiliconANGLE, Unite.AI, Hugging Face, and eCampus News
X: @eliebakouch, @brandondamos, @reflection_ai, @artificialanlys, @changjonathanc, @jimmy_longbow_, @ragzoi, @defaiscope, @sugarmissa1, @stephzhan, @_ghorbani, @artificialanlys, @artificialanlys, @chetantekur, @hrantkostanyan, @1littlecoder, @iamgrigorev, @mikelecheve, @fgbelidji, @alvarobartt, @chahatusharma, and @bradshannon. Bluesky: @metacurity.com
| FinTech Global: |
Reach Security, which develops AI-powered exposure management tools for securing enterprise systems, raised a $50M+ Series B led by Top Tier Capital Partners — Reach Security has secured more than $50m in a Series B round led by Top Tier Capital Partners, while unveiling Reach Everywhere …
More: Reach Security, The SaaS News, and FinSMEs
| 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
| 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.
More: Scanntech, RuntimeWire, and The SaaS News
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