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Nvidia Allegedly Sought 'High-Speed Access' To Pirated Book Library for AI Training (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-23 AI Nvidia

Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-1-23 Startup Robot Intelligence Paris

Circana: the Switch 2 ended December and 2025 as the US' best-selling video game hardware, offsetting declines among rivals to lift overall hardware spend by 9% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23

A look at Craig Federighi's approach to AI at Apple; sources say he led a push to use other companies' models to help launch a revamped Siri later in 2026 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-23 AI Apple

'No Reasons To Own': Software Stocks Sink on Fear of New AI Tool (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-23 AI

Half of Fossil Fuel Carbon Emissions In 2024 Came From 32 Companies (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-23

Austin-based Neurophos, which develops a photon-based “Optical Processing Unit” to replace GPUs in AI training, raised $110M led by Bill Gates' Gates Frontier (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 AI Bill Gates

Q&A with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters on Netflix's stock roller coaster, viewer engagement, ads, the WBD acquisition, regulation, competition, Hollywood, and more (stratechery.com)
2026-1-23 Netflix

Sources: the US and China approve a deal to sell TikTok's US business to a group of mostly US investors led by Oracle and Silverlake, set to close this week (www.semafor.com)
2026-1-23 China Oracle

Hackers exploit 29 zero-days on second day of Pwn2Own Automotive (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-22

A lifetime subscription to the Mondly language app is now only $8 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-22

Hackers breach Fortinet FortiGate devices, steal firewall configs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-22

Source: Google DeepMind signs a licensing deal with Hume AI, which builds emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, to hire CEO Alan Cowen and ~7 top engineers (www.wired.com)
2026-1-22 Google AI

Snap updates its Family Center tool to let parents view daily screen time averages and a breakdown of time spent by specific app segment like Snap Map (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-22

Vinted CEO Thomas Plantenga says the Lithuania-based secondhand retailer plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to expand in the US in the coming months (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-22

How Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Nvidia, as well as startups and university research teams, spent millions of dollars to develop AI weather forecasting tools (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 Google Microsoft Startup AI Nvidia

NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M+ sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-22 Elon Musk

An analysis of 5,290 AI research papers at NeurIPS: 141, or ~3%, had US-China AI lab collaboration, up from 134 in 2024; Llama featured in 106 Chinese papers (www.wired.com)
2026-1-22 China AI

Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and 800+ creatives launch “Stealing Isn't Innovation” to protest unauthorized AI training, backed by RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, and others (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-22 AI

Wikipedia's Guide to Spotting AI Is Now Being Used To Hide AI (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-22 AI

Israeli startup Claroty, which makes security tech for hospitals, manufacturing, and industrial systems, raised a $150M Series F, sources say at a $3B valuation (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-1-22 Israel Startup Manufacturing

South Korea's Kospi stock index breaks through the record 5,000 level, driven by chip stocks, led by Samsung, up ~3X, and SK Hynix, up ~4x, in the past year (t.co)
2026-1-22 Korea Samsung

Filing: PhonePe reports H1 FY 2026 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$427.5M, a ~$157M loss, and 657.6M users; the payments company plans to sell 50.7M shares in its IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 IPO

South Korea enacts the AI Basic Act, which it says includes the world's first comprehensive set of laws regulating AI, as startups warn of compliance burdens (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-22 Korea Startup AI

Q&A with recently departed OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek, who claims OpenAI's shift toward more conservative ways made high-risk, pioneering work harder (www.corememory.com)
2026-1-22

A look at the entry-level hiring squeeze in marketing, communications, and customer service as executives increasingly argue AI can absorb much of the workload (www.ft.com)
2026-1-22 AI

Blue Origin's Satellite Internet Network TeraWave Will Move Data At 6 Tbps (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-22

Survey: over 40% of executives said AI saved them more than eight hours per week, while two-thirds of non-management staff said they saved less than two hours (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-22 AI

Sources: the US Senate's crypto market structure bill is likely to be delayed by several weeks as key lawmakers shift focus to potential housing legislation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 Real Estate Senate

A year after the DeepSeek shock following R1's release, US tech companies still lead in AI chips, model quality, and sales, with no change in investment trends (www.barrons.com)
2026-1-22 AI

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