Claude 3.7 and Grok-3 are the first “Gen3” models with big gains in handling complex tasks, using 10x more compute than GPT-4-class models, and better reasoning
Note: After publishing this piece, I was contacted by Anthropic who told me that Sonnet 3.7 would not be considered …
Kate Bush and 1,000+ other musicians “co-write” a “silent” album to protest the UK's proposal to let AI train on their copyrighted work if they don't opt out
Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK's plans to let AI train on their work without permission
Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model that can produce fast responses or extended, step-by-step thinking, and Claude Code, an agentic coding tool
and it could be a game changer Ghacks : Anthropic Unveils Claude 3.7: First Hybrid Reasoning AI Model Rowan Cheung / The Rundown AI : Claude enters the reasoning era Siddharth Jindal / Analytics India...
Activision confirms on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's Steam page that it “uses generative AI tools to help develop some in game assets”, after fan speculation
Activision has finally admitted to using AI-generated content in its games and Call of Duty players aren't the least bit surprised.
Google releases its free Gemini Code Assist globally in public preview for solo developers, with 180K code completions per month; GitHub Copilot offers 2,000
And provides 90 times more monthly code completions than GitHub Copilot's free tier. … A free version of Gemini Code Assist …
Adobe launches an updated Photoshop app for iOS, including many design, editing, and AI tools from the desktop app; an Android app is coming “later this year”
It's free and available on iOS first, with an Android version coming later this year.
Microsoft quietly launched free, ad-supported desktop versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Windows, with banner and video ads and limited functionality
In Short — Microsoft has quietly introduced a free ad-supported Office that brings access to desktop Word, Excel, and PowerPoint without any subscription.
Sources: Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies are ramping up orders for Nvidia's H20 AI chip due to booming demand for DeepSeek's models
Chinese companies are ramping up orders for Nvidia's (NVDA.O) H20 artificial intelligence chip due to booming demand …
Chegg sues Google, saying AI Overviews hurt its traffic and revenue, as it mulls strategic options, including an acquisition; CHGG drops 30%+
Chegg on Monday filed suit in federal district court against Google, claiming that artificial intelligence summaries of search results have hurt …
Sources: Huawei has increased its AI chip yield to nearly 40%, up from 20% about a year ago, meaning its Ascend chips are now profitable for the first time
Chinese company improves ‘yield’ of latest semiconductor, despite US efforts to prevent manufacturing advances
Bitcoin falls below $90K, its lowest level since mid-November 2024, as the rally that followed Trump's election fades; ETH, XRP, SOL, and more also fell sharply
- Biggest token is now down almost 20% since Trump inauguration — Macro factors and crypto blowups combine to erode confidence
Sources: Indonesia and Apple agree a deal to lift the iPhone 16 ban, with Apple set to invest $1B; a memorandum of agreement may be signed this week
- Tech giant has promised to invest $1 billion in Indonesia — Deal would be win for Prabowo after series of policy setbacks
Employee screening company DISA confirms a data breach in February 2024, found in April 2024, affecting 3.3M+ people and including Social Security numbers
DISA Global Solutions, a U.S.-based provider of employee screening services, has said it suffered a data breach that affects more than 3.3 million people.
Sources: SpaceX seeks to deploy Starlink terminals for the FAA, raising questions about Elon Musk's conflicts of interest and Verizon's $2B FAA contract in 2023
Elon Musk's SpaceX is seeking to deploy Starlink satellite internet terminals to help accelerate an upgrade …
Sources: Anthropic is finalizing a $3.5B funding round valuing it at $61.5B, up from an $18B valuation in 2024; its annualized revenue recently hit ~$1.2B
but is Canada even playing? Kate Rooney / CNBC : Anthropic closes in on $3.5 billion funding round as investor interest soars Bluesky: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The cost of AI buildouts is hard ...
Epic v. Apple: Phil Schiller says he initially feared Apple's 27% App Store fee posed a compliance risk and could create “antagonistic” developer relations
Apple Fellow Phil Schiller, the executive in charge of leading the App Store, testified in court on Monday …
Apple investors reject outside shareholder proposals asking the company to cease its DEI efforts and write a report assessing the risks of its work on AI
Apple Inc. investors rejected outside shareholder proposals that asked the iPhone maker to cease its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts …
Sources: the Elon Musk-directed OPM email asking federal staff about recent work requested no links or attachments as part of a plan to feed responses into AI
www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... Matthew Facciani / @matthewfacciani : Potentially firing thousands of people based on AI's analysis of a single brief email is reckless and cruel. — www.nbcnews.com/p...
Israeli startup Quantum Machines, which offers hardware tools to other quantum computing companies, raised a $170M Series C led by PSG Equity
Quantum computing remains a holy grail in the world of technology, but with some important breakthroughs in the last several months …
Sources: left-leaning staff at Meta, Apple, Google, and Amazon mostly stayed silent on their CEOs attending Trump's inauguration due to a less secure job market
Fearful employees have done little to protest against the rightward shift of leaders such as Meta's Mark Zuckerberg Bluesky: @hypervisible . Forums: r/technology and r/neoliberal Bluesky: @hypervisibl...
DeepSeek reopens API top-ups after suspending them on February 6 due to demand, as Alibaba previews its QwQ-Max model and the Chinese AI rivalry escalates
- It resumed service the same day Alibaba previewed a new model — AI development has quickened since DeepSeek's emergence
DoorDash agrees to pay $16.75M to settle a lawsuit by NY's AG accusing it of pocketing customers' tips for delivery drivers between May 2017 and September 2019
Brendan Pierson / Reuters :
Sources: Trump's team plans tougher US chip curbs and have met with Dutch and Japanese counterparts, urging them to tighten restrictions on China's chip sector
Bloomberg :
Analysis: Apple's $500B+ spending announcement in the US over four years is in line with what one might expect it to spend anyway, given its financials
Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal :
Sources: Italy wants to replace STMicro CEO Jean-Marc Chéry for poor performance, as the Franco-Italian chipmaker struggles to navigate a slump in chip demand
Italy's government wants to replace Jean-Marc Chéry, the man at the helm of Franco-Italian chipmaking joint-venture STMicroelectronics NV, for poor performance.
Baidu acquires the YY Live streaming platform from Joyy for $2.1B, completing a deal started in 2020; a previous $3.6B deal was rejected by Chinese regulators
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg :
Utah, South Carolina, and at least seven other US states recently proposed bills to require app store operators to check user ages, a move supported by Meta
Wall Street Journal :
The ECMWF says its new weather model broke ground by making global predictions freely available; testing shows it outperforms other models up to 15 days ahead
Clive Cookson / Financial Times :
Tesla starts rolling out a software update enabling driver-assistance features, similar to Full Self-Driving in the US, for Chinese customers who paid $8,800
Bloomberg :
New York's law requiring ISPs to offer $15 or $20/month broadband has inspired Vermont, Massachusetts, and California to guarantee affordable internet access
We recommend targeting these affordability laws on the largest and most profitable ISPs, not small and rapidly growing ones. Mastodon: @ax6761@freeradical.zone : don't threaten me with a good time ......
Crypto exchange OKX settles charges with the US DOJ and will pay over $500M in penalties and forfeited fees after facilitating $5B+ in suspicious transactions
Ian Allison / CoinDesk :
Thoma Bravo closed a €1.8B fund for European software deals, after opening a London office in 2023; the US PE firm has deployed €14B in Europe since 2010
Financial Times :
CoinGecko: crypto trading volume on India's four largest exchanges more than doubled QoQ to $1.9B in Q4 2024, as many young Indians trade to supplement income
Jaspreet Kalra / Reuters :
The EU's Court of Justice says Google's refusal to let Italian energy company Enel host an EV charging app on Android Auto might break EU competition rules
Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal :
Nasscom expects India's tech sector revenue to grow 5.1% to $282.6B in fiscal 2025, up from 4% growth in 2024, with software exports set to rise 4.6% to $224.4B
Q&A with Vimeo CEO Philip Moyer on going back to its roots as a YouTube rival, TikTok, algorithmic video platform incentives, AI video not taking off, and more
Nilay Patel / The Verge :
Zoom reports Q4 revenue up 3.3% YoY to $1.18B, Enterprise revenue up 5.9% YoY to $707M, a $368M net income, up from $298.8M, sales forecast slightly under est.
Juby Babu / Reuters :
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