Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI were arguing over Microsoft's ability to fulfill OpenAI's computing needs, in the months leading up to the Stargate announcement
The partnership that launched the AI boom has been strained by disagreements over computing resources
Q&A with former CISA Director Jen Easterly, appointed in 2021, on leaving the agency, Donald Trump, China's Salt Typhoon, Russia, unfinished business, and more
Chinese hacks, rampant ransomware, and Donald Trump's budget cuts all threaten US security. Mastodon: @lhn@mastodon.online . Forums: r/cybersecurity Mastodon: Lily Hay Newman / @lhn@mastodon.online : ...
Sources: the Trump admin dismissed the members of the CSRB, which investigates major cybersecurity incidents, likely disrupting the Salt Typhoon hacks probe
This includes several cyber committees, like CISA's advisory panel and the Cyber Safety Review Board, which was investigating Salt Typhoon. — That review is “dead,” person familiar says. — www.doc...
The UK CMA opens investigations into Apple's and Google's mobile ecosystems, including OSes, app stores, and browsers, to see the impact on users and businesses
LONDON — Britain's competition regulator on Thursday launched an investigation into Apple and Google's huge mobile ecosystems …
How Ross Ulbricht's allies, including crypto investors, libertarian politicians, and his mother Lyn Ulbricht, persuaded Trump to pardon the Silk Road founder
Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road website …
ByteDance board member Bill Ford says ByteDance is exploring alternatives to selling TikTok US, including a change to local control to comply with the US law
- Firm's options with Trump team include change of control — Bill Ford runs General Atlantic, which owns stake in ByteDance
Source: Donald Trump had a lengthy phone conversation with Sam Altman last week about AI's potential and the need to develop the tech in the US instead of China
24 hours of Elon Musk and Sam Altman's public exchanges since Trump announced Stargate Beatrice Nolan / Fortune : Sam Altman has ‘changed his perspective’ on Trump and wishes he hadn't been a ‘non pla...
The OpenAI-led Stargate announcement only mentioned Microsoft as a tech partner, but Microsoft is poised to benefit from the JV by offloading AI computing costs
Despite OpenAI Backing Ryan Browne / CNBC : From Musk to Nadella: Trump's $500 billion AI project stirs drama among the biggest names in tech Eleanor Pringle / Fortune : Satya Nadella says he's ‘good ...
Sources: Sam Altman told some colleagues that OpenAI and SoftBank will each commit $19B to Stargate, and OpenAI would effectively hold a 40% interest in the JV
OpenAI and Japanese conglomerate SoftBank will each commit $19 billion to fund a joint venture to develop data centers …
Fox News interview: Donald Trump downplays TikTok's national security risk, saying China makes smartphones, PCs, and more, and “isn't that a bigger threat?”
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Researchers detail Subaru's now-fixed web vulnerabilities that would've let them unlock and start millions of Subarus via Starlink in the US, Canada, and Japan
Now-fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access …
Google acquihires “some of the HTC VIVE engineering team” in Taiwan with “a proven track record in VR” for $250M in cash, to “accelerate” Android XR development
To “accelerate” Android XR development, Google announced this evening that it …
France says David Balland, a co-founder of French crypto wallet startup Ledger, was kidnapped on January 21 and freed on January 22 after a police operation
A co-founder of French crypto wallet startup Ledger SAS who was kidnapped in central France has been released, the Paris prosecutor's office said in a statement.
SK Hynix reports Q4 revenue up 75% YoY to a record ~$13.7B, a ~$5.6B net profit, and a ~$5.6B operating profit, in line with estimates, as HBM chip demand soars
- Its shares slide in Seoul after a 30% run-up this year — Demand for high-end memory soaring on datacenter rollouts
A GDC survey of 3,000+ developers: 80% are currently making PC games, up from 66% in 2024, compared to 38% for the PlayStation 5 and 34% for the Xbox Series X/S
Interest in PC game development is higher than ever. — It's kind of funny to look back on all the times PC gaming has been declared dead …
EA says it expects net bookings of $7B to $7.15B for the FY ending March 31, below prior guidance of $7.5B to $7.8B, citing underperforming games; EA falls 15%+
Electronic Arts slashed its full-year bookings guidance on Wednesday, blaming the shortfall on underperforming games, notably its soccer franchise, EA Sports FC.
State of Mobile 2025: in 2024, iOS and Google Play app downloads dropped ~1% YoY to 136B, while IAP and paid apps and games revenue rose 13% YoY to $150B
The mobile market is stronger than ever as we enter 2025, with a recovering mobile gaming market adding to the rapid growth seen in non-gaming.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 review: fastest Blender benchmark score ever, DLSS4 frame generation works well, and good cooling but very expensive and power hungry
It's the fastest video card I've ever seen, but it's not meant for mere mortals. — A $2,000 video card for consumers shouldn't exist.
Moderators for 50+ subreddits announce bans of X links in new posts and comments, with several citing Elon Musk's recent gesture that many saw as a Nazi salute
The cascade of link bans came after Musk made a hand gesture at a Monday rally that many compared to a Nazi salute, which many cited in their protests, among other things.
Sources: India's technology ministry asked Apple, Google, and other smartphone makers to provide Indians direct access to the state-backed GOV.in app store
India is trying to pry open the doors of the world's biggest app stores, setting up a likely clash with Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc …
OpenAI fixes issues that caused a major ChatGPT outage and downtime for its API on January 23, after disruptions in December 2024
OpenAI's AI chatbot platform, ChatGPT, suffered a major outage Thursday. — Early this morning, ChatGPT users started reporting issues accessing ChatGPT on the web and other platforms.
SK Hynix's Q4 operating profit grew over 20x YoY to ~$5.6B, beating Samsung's for the first time, with HBM chips making up 40% of its total DRAM chip revenue
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ByteDance debuts Doubao-1.5-pro, claiming its latest flagship AI model outperforms OpenAI's o1 in AIME benchmarks, joining DeepSeek in China's AI reasoning push
TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday released an update to its flagship AI model aimed at challenging Microsoft-backed OpenAI's …
CAIS and Scale AI release “Humanity's Last Exam”, which they claim is the hardest- AI test yet, consisting of ~3,000 multiple-choice and short answer questions
If you're looking for a new reason to be nervous about artificial intelligence, try this: Some of the smartest humans …
Sensor Tower: consumer spending in 2024 on AI apps like ChatGPT, Gemini, and ByteDance's Doubao grew more than 200% YoY to nearly $1.1B
Connecting Mobile to In-Person … Sarina Trangle / Yahoo Finance : You Spent Less Time Using Apps Last Year—But You Also Spent More Using Them Sensor Tower : Sensor Tower: Consumer Spending on Apps Soa...
A US district judge rules that the FBI's warrantless “backdoor” searches of FISA's Section 702 databases violate the Fourth Amendment
but nonetheless, today's decision that Section 702 data cannot be used to spy on US persons without a warrant was hard-fought and actually a pretty big deal. — www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... @eff.org :...
An analysis of two years of episodes by nine prominent podcasters shows how they became mainstream sources for young men and rallied support for Trump's agenda
In an effort to understand … John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine : The Trump Immigration Fire Hose David Aaron / Just Security : The Just Security Podcast: What Just Happened Series, Trump's Immigrat...
Pakistan's parliament passes a controversial bill giving the government sweeping controls on social media, including prison terms for spreading “disinformation”
Remember, he is NOT a diplomat. X: Usama Khilji / @usamakhilji : Writing to PM @CMShehbaz, @MoitOfficial minister, @PTAofficialpk chair, & IT Parliamentary committee chairs, @theGNI expresses deep con...
Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation back Etherealize, a NYC-based startup to market Ethereum to financial firms, as ether lags behind bitcoin's gains
Muyao Shen / Bloomberg :
Q&A with Stanford professor and IP lawyer Mark Lemley on deciding to quit representing Meta in AI copyright case Kadrey v. Meta, Trump, DEI, Elon Musk, and more
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, celebrated intellectual property lawyer Mark Lemley elaborates on why he quit and what he makes of the AI copyright battlefield. Bluesky: @wired.com Bluesky: @wir...
Ramp launches Ramp Treasury, letting businesses store cash in a business account and earn 2.5% or in a money market fund for potentially higher yields
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Changpeng Zhao announces that Binance's VC arm Binance Labs, which oversees about $10B of crypto-related assets, will become a family office called YZi Labs
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An Indian tribunal suspends restrictions preventing WhatsApp from sharing user data with Meta for ads, temporarily lifting a five-year ban imposed by the CCI
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Sources: Trump's aides and Elon Musk became annoyed with Vivek Ramaswamy's outspokenness and some were angered by his H-1B comments, leading to his DOGE ouster
or did it leave him? Andrew Hayward / Decrypt : Dogecoin Dumps as Elon Musk's DOGE Agency Website Removes Meme Imagery Dasha Burns / Politico : Bannon berates Musk over his attacks on Trump's AI infra...
Hugging Face releases SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, claiming they can analyze images, short videos, and text on “constrained devices” with under ~1GB of RAM
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Neko Health, a startup co-founded by Daniel Ek that offers AI-based full-body scans, raised a $260M Series B led by Lightspeed, sources say at a $1.7B valuation
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times :
Baya Systems, which says its multi-die systems overcome traditional semiconductors' bottlenecks, raised a $36M Series B led by Maverick Silicon
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Saudi digital security firm Elm Company agrees to acquire business services firm Thiqah from Saudi Arabia's PIF, which is also Elm's majority owner, for $906M
A profile of Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, which says its new open-source DeepSeek-V3 model rivals US models while using fewer AI chips to train, costing just $6M
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An interview with Pinterest CEO Bill Ready on why his company is backing US state laws to restrict cellphone use in classrooms
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Some TikTok users say the app has changed, expressing trepidation and paranoia over its complimentary mentions of Trump in its goodbye and welcome back messages
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China and Southeast Asian nations pledge to deal with cybercrime centers, extending efforts that China's Global Times says has led to the arrest of 70K+ people
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