DOGE accessing Treasury systems and classified data breaks a fundamental security principle and could help the US' adversaries steal data and install backdoors
The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.
Apple now lets users migrate apps, music, books, shows, and movies between Apple accounts, but the feature isn't available to users in the EU, the UK, or India
If you have two Apple Accounts with multiple digital purchases between them, Apple now has a way for you to consolidate the accounts …
Internal message: Shopify's general council said the company closed Ye's store since the swastika shirt listed for sale “brought with it the real risk of fraud”
TORONTO — Shopify's general counsel said the company took down musician Kanye West's online store because of the potential …
Thomson Reuters wins the first major US AI copyright ruling against fair use, in a case filed in May 2020 against legal research AI startup Ross Intelligence
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rights holders.
Apple partners with Brigham and Women's Hospital to launch a voluntary, virtual five-year Apple Health Study in its Research app, open to iPhone users in the US
I got the inside scoop on Apple Health's new five-year research study. All Apple users can participate starting today.
A letter to Sen. Ron Wyden claimed Datastream, which sold US military location data, got the data from Lithuanian ad tech company Eskimi, but Eskimi denies this
In a letter to a US senator, a Florida-based data broker says it obtained sensitive data on US military members in Germany …
After the AI Action Summit, the EU Commission says it will withdraw the AI Liability Directive, a strategic move to show goodwill to the Trump administration
The Commission justified its removal by saying it could see “no foreseeable agreement” on the directive. — This article is exceptionally available for free!
Adobe launches Generate Video in public beta via its redesigned Firefly web app, alongside new image generation, translation, and AI credit subscription tiers
Generate Video is now in public beta, allowing anyone to generate five-second video clips at 1080p.
Researcher Johann Rehberger shows a hack to override Gemini's prompt injection defenses, letting an attacker plant long-term memories for all future sessions
In the nascent field of AI hacking, indirect prompt injection has become a basic building block for inducing chatbots …
Google schedules I/O 2025 for May 20 to 21 in Mountain View, with the main keynote on May 20 at 10am PT; Gemini, Android 16, and more announcements are expected
Following the “Prism Shift” puzzle this morning, Google has announced that I/O 2025 is taking place Tuesday, May 20
Central African Republic, the first African country to adopt BTC as legal tender, launches CAR MEME on Solana, trading at $0.03 on February 11, down nearly 90%
- CAR Meme is second cryptocurrency launched by the country — Nation first in Africa to adopt Bitcoin as tender in 2022
Source: the Trump administration is releasing cybercriminal Alexander Vinnik to Russia in exchange for the US retrieving the American schoolteacher Marc Fogel
Where Things Stand — Final hurdle for Gabbard: The Senate on Wednesday is expected to vote on the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard …
White House document: President Trump plans to nominate Brian Quintenz, a16z Crypto's head of policy and a former GOP commissioner at the CFTC, to lead the CFTC
- Trump to tap Jonathan Gould as Comptroller of the Currency — Trump also set to nominate Jonathan McKernan as CFPB director
At the AI Action Summit, Eric Schmidt urged the West to build open-source AI models or risk losing to China while calling for AI safety collaboration with China
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Over the past few weeks, the Trump administration replaced the CIOs of the OMB, OPM, and Department of Energy with Elon Musk- and Peter Thiel-aligned executives
The chief information officers of at least three major government agencies have been replaced by Silicon Valley executives, including from Palantir and Elon Musk's SpaceX. Bluesky: @dell , @brbarrett ...
Google Threat Intelligence: the US' adversaries, especially Russia, are increasingly turning to cybercriminals and free or public malware to advance their goals
A Google Threat Intelligence Group report notes that Russia in particular has been doing this since the Ukraine war began. — Learn more.
SoftBank posts a surprise Q3 net loss of ~$2.4B on ~$12.04B revenue, vs. $12.1B est., as the Vision Fund, after two profitable quarters, reports a ~$2.04B loss
SoftBank Group posted a surprise quarterly loss Wednesday as investments under its Vision Funds fell into red.
A survey of attendees at the WSJ's CIO Network Summit: 61% are experimenting with AI agents, but 21% are not using them at all, citing a lack of reliability
Tech vendors like OpenAI and Microsoft are banking on business readiness to use the autonomous AI bots, but companies aren't so sure
Source: Apple and Alibaba submitted their co-developed AI features for approval by China's cyberspace regulator; Apple considered but rejected DeepSeek's models
Apple has recently started working with Chinese internet and e-commerce giant Alibaba Group to roll out artificial intelligence features …
Sam Altman says OpenAI plans to give 10 Deep Research queries per month to its $20/month ChatGPT Plus users and two per month to its ChatGPT free users
Earlier this month, OpenAI debuted a new AI agent powered by its upcoming full o3 reasoning AI model called “Deep Research.”
Google CEO Sundar Pichai says “practically useful” quantum computers are five to 10 years away, and “the quantum moment reminds me of where AI was in the 2010s”
Quantum computers that are “practically useful” are 5-to-10 years away, Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai …
Trump nominates Apple exec Jonathan Morrison to NHTSA; Morrison was NHTSA's chief counsel in Trump's first term and told Tesla it made inaccurate safety claims
President Donald Trump has nominated an Apple (AAPL.O) employee to serve as the nation's top auto safety regulator overseeing …
Groq says Saudi Arabia has committed $1.5B over the course of 2025, to expand the delivery of the US startup's AI inference chips for LLMs to the country
U.S. semiconductor startup Groq said on Monday it has secured a $1.5 billion commitment from Saudi Arabia to expand the delivery of its advanced AI chips to the country.
Analysis of credit and debit card data: Shein's US sales fell 16% to 41% for five days from February 5 and Temu fell up to 32% after Trump targets China trade
Online shopping giants Temu and Shein have seen a sustained drop in sales in the week after US President Donald Trump scrapped …
Google rolls out AI image remixing tool Whisk to 100+ countries, letting users upload three images for subject, scene, and style to remix, powered by Imagen 3
Google keeps releasing experimental products built with its AI models to give users a taste of its capabilities.
Snowflake and Anthropic partner to integrate Claude 3.5 Sonnet into Snowflake's new Cortex Agents platform, embedding AI agents into corporate data environments
Snowflake and Anthropic unveiled a major partnership today to embed AI agents directly into corporate data environments …
White House document: Trump plans to nominate former RNC COO Sean Cairncross as national cyber director, his administration's first major cybersecurity pick
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Meta and nonprofit Childhelp create a free curriculum that will teach middle schoolers how to recognize forms of online exploitation; Meta funded the curriculum
Emma Roth / The Verge :
Bengaluru-based Lucidity, which helps enterprises optimize their cloud storage, raised a $21M Series A led by WestBridge, after a $5.3M seed in September 2022
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
Riyadh-based BNPL startup Tabby raised a $160M Series E led by Blue Pool Capital at a $3.3B valuation; CEO Hosam Arab is looking at an IPO in the next 18 months
Federico Maccioni / Reuters :
A profile of Oura CEO Tom Hale, who joined the Finnish smart ring maker in 2022, as it broadens its appeal and reaches ~$500M in 2024 revenue and is profitable
Brent Crane / Bloomberg :
Super Micro forecasts FY 2026 revenue above est. and is “confident” it will file its delayed annual report by the Feb. 25 deadline; SMCI jumps 7%+
Samantha Subin / CNBC :
Q&A with Binance CEO Richard Teng on Changpeng Zhao being the exchange's biggest shareholder, cleaning up Binance, external oversight, finding an HQ, and more
Joel Khalili / Wired :
A look at ACTS 17 Collective, a nonprofit devoted to introducing Christianity to technologists by asking Peter Thiel and other executives to discuss their faith
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b... @rinkytone : “We were always taught as Christians to serve the meek, the lowly, the marginalized. I think we've realized that the rich, the wealthy, the powerful need ...
Reno, Nevada-based Positron, which sells AI chips intended for inference and manufactured in Arizona, raised a $23.5M seed from Flume, Valor Equity, and others
Anna Tong / Reuters :
Andesite, which combines human expertise and AI in its security operations center platform, raised an additional $23M seed, taking its total funding to $38.25M
David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW :
Snap says 375K+ creators have built 4M+ AR lenses for Snapchat; CTO Bobby Murphy says Indian creators are now the top source of AR lenses, up 50%+ in two years
Vikas SN / Moneycontrol :
Ola's Bhavish Aggarwal says Krutrim has deployed DeepSeek R1 671B on Nvidia's H100 and is offering the model to Indian developers starting at ₹1/million tokens
The Economic Times :
Miami-based Moderne, which analyzes software stacks and remediates technical debt, raised a $30M Series B led by Acrew Capital, taking its funding to ~$50M
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
NATO Innovation Fund and Dealroom: investments in EU defense tech and related startups rose 24% in 2024 to $5.2B, outpacing AI VC growth over the past two years
Financial Times :
In Q4, Meta tweaked its depreciation accounting for AI infrastructure, extending it from 4-5 to 5.5 years, cutting expenses by $2.9B in 2025 and boosting profit
Jeran Wittenstein / Bloomberg :
The Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the top 30 Hong Kong-listed tech groups, is up 25% since January 13, entering a bull market after DeepSeek's breakthrough
Arjun Neil Alim / Financial Times :
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