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Anthropic's $200M Pentagon Contract at Risk Over Objections to Domestic Surveillance, Autonomous Deployments (tech.slashdot.org)
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Oracle says it plans to raise $45B to $50B in 2026 to build additional capacity for its cloud infrastructure through a combination of debt and equity sales (www.bloomberg.com)
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SpaceX and Tesla are feeling the gravitational pull toward xAI, as Elon Musk looks to use his empire to fund xAI's ravenous appetite for cash and compute (www.bloomberg.com)
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Is Meta's Huge Spending on AI Actually Paying Off? (tech.slashdot.org)
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Bitcoin Drops 40% in Four Months. Bloomberg Blames Absence of Buyers and Belief (slashdot.org)
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Survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production vs. 44% for Anthropic, but Anthropic's gains are impressive (www.a16z.news)
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Walmart Begins Building Out Nationwide EV Charging Network Across America (tech.slashdot.org)
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When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates (news.slashdot.org)
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Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before it banned them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live (www.technologyreview.com)
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India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers (techcrunch.com)
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Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X “outlining concrete steps” to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok (www.nytimes.com)
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Sources: Apple execs question if it has the ingredients to win in AI-first era, new MacBook Pros are about to launch, Apple considers clamshell foldable iPhone (www.bloomberg.com)
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Fourth US Wind Farm Project Blocked By Trump Allowed to Resume Construction (hardware.slashdot.org)
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99% of New US Energy Capacity Will Be Green in 2026 (hardware.slashdot.org)
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Scientists Create Programmable, Autonomous Robots Smaller Than a Grain of Salt (hardware.slashdot.org)
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India to exempt foreign companies from being taxed when providing equipment to their contract manufacturers in the country, a rule change Apple lobbied for (www.reuters.com)
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Exposed MongoDB instances still targeted in data extortion attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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New Apple privacy feature limits location tracking on iPhones, iPads (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Microbes In Space Mutated and Developed a Remarkable Ability (science.slashdot.org)
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Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B+ (techcrunch.com)
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Eliminate recurring costs with lifetime 2TB FileJump storage for $99 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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A look at iOS 26's call-screening feature, which some say is like having an assistant to filter out unwanted calls, as some complain it makes them miss calls (www.wsj.com)
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99% of New US Will Be Green in 2026 (hardware.slashdot.org)
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Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more (restofworld.org)
2026-2-1 China AI Robot

China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia (yro.slashdot.org)
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A look at China's “genius class” system that selects ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni include many top tech founders (www.ft.com)
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Sources: Alibaba has delivered more than 100K units of the Zhenwu 810E, an ASIC for AI training and inference, surpassing those of its domestic rival Cambricon (www.scmp.com)
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Anthropic positions itself as the AI sector's superego, but it's caught between the pressures to be safe, fast, and rigorous while being commercially successful (www.theatlantic.com)
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OpenAI says it is asking select advertisers to commit at least $200K as it rolls out beta ads on ChatGPT; two sources say their firms were pitched lower amounts (www.adweek.com)
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A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of AI agents on the site and post anything; the database has now been closed (www.404media.co)
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