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How the explicit deepfake ecosystem evolved from images to high-quality video; an analysis shows 1.4M+ Telegram accounts signed up to 39 deepfake creation bots (www.wired.com)
9 days ago

Richard Stallman Was Asked: Is Software Piracy Wrong? (news.slashdot.org)
9 days ago

TSMC's conservative capex approach is resulting in supply-demand imbalances and foregone revenue, and hyperscalers must build up Samsung or Intel as its rivals (stratechery.com)
9 days ago Intel Samsung

Interviews with 100+ therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago AI chatbot

Sources: NY-based Tandem, which uses AI to automate the paperwork for writing and receiving medical prescriptions, raised a $100M Series B at a $1B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago AI

OpenAI says nearly 1.3M weekly users are discussing “advanced topics in hard science” in January, with an average of 8.4M ChatGPT messages on those topics (www.axios.com)
9 days ago

Ricursive, founded by ex-Google researchers to automate advanced chip design, raised $335M from Sequoia, Radical, Lightspeed, and others at a $4B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago Google

Documents: China's military is focused on harnessing AI to deploy swarms of drones, robot dogs, and other autonomous systems, learning from hawks and coyotes (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago China AI Robot Drone

Morgan Stanley: UK companies reported that AI led to 8% net job losses over the past 12 months, above Japan's 7%, Germany's 4%, Australia's 2%; the US added 2% (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Germany Australia Japan AI Morgan Stanley

Digital Realty, QTS, and NTT Data warn the data center industry is doing a poor job of combating local opposition; 24+ US projects were blocked in January alone (www.ft.com)
9 days ago

Chinese autonomous trucking company DeepWay raised ~$173M ahead of its planned Hong Kong IPO, filed in November 2025; DeepWay reported ~$215M in H1 2025 revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago China Hong Kong IPO

The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into xAI over Grok generating sexualized images of women and children; xAI faces fines of up to 6% of global revenue (www.ft.com)
9 days ago

Claude Code can feel daunting, and most people's problems are not software-shaped, but it is clearly autonomous and the home-cooked app renaissance is great (jasmi.news)
9 days ago

Quantum computing company IonQ acquires US chipmaker SkyWater for ~$1.8B, paying $35/share, in IonQ's biggest deal yet; SkyWater will operate as a subsidiary (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago Quantum

Sources: SoftBank halts talks about a ~$50B acquisition of US data center operator Switch, a setback to Masayoshi Son's goal to roll out Stargate infrastructure (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago

Is Google Prioritizing YouTube and X Over News Publishers on Discover? (news.slashdot.org)
9 days ago Google YouTube

London-based enterprise AI video startup Synthesia raised a $200M Series E led by GV at a $4B valuation, up from $2.1B after raising $180M in January 2025 (www.thedeepview.com)
9 days ago Startup AI London

Manufacturers say that AI is fundamentally changing how some new products are created, finding unexpected solutions and reducing R&D time from weeks to days (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago AI

Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that raised a $25M seed led by a16z in June 2022, is shutting down after “several pivots, and two rounds of layoffs” (www.theblock.co)
9 days ago Layoffs Decentralize

Startup Uses SpaceX Tech to Cool Data Centers With Less Power and No Water (hardware.slashdot.org)
9 days ago Startup SpaceX

Sources: Samsung enters the final qualification phase to supply its HBM4 chips to Nvidia, and targets mass production in February; Samsung's shares jumped 3.2% (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Samsung Nvidia

New Linux/Android 2-in-1 Tablet 'Open Slate' Announced by Brax Technologies (news.slashdot.org)
9 days ago Android Linux

ChatGPT Temporary chat feature is getting a much-needed upgrade (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 days ago

KDE's 'Plasma Login Manager' Stops Supporting FreeBSD - Because Systemd (bsd.slashdot.org)
9 days ago

Gallup: 12% of employed US adults reported using AI daily in their job in Q4 2025, compared to 10% in Q3 and 8% in Q2; 49% say they never use AI in their role (www.gallup.com)
9 days ago AI 4Q

Washington State May Mandate 'Firearm Blueprint Detection Algorithms' For 3D Printers (hardware.slashdot.org)
9 days ago Algorithm

Google Discover Replaces News Headlines With Sometimes Inaccurate AI-Generated Alternatives (news.slashdot.org)
9 days ago Google AI

Many AI founders now find it necessary to raise at valuations requiring absolute domination of the field; Brex, once valued at $12B, shows the downsides of this (www.saastr.com)
9 days ago AI

Gasoline Out of Thin Air? It's a Reality! (hardware.slashdot.org)
9 days ago

A profile of Mercor, which pays about $2M daily to ~30K experts training AI models at $95/hour on average, with roles like radiologists earning up to $375/hour (www.ft.com)
9 days ago AI

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