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Snap blocked 415K+ Australian accounts as of January to comply with the under-16 social media ban and warns of “technical limitations” in the implementation (www.theguardian.com)
19 hours ago Australia Ban

China's desire to lead in cutting-edge AI is bumping against its aim to control it; Zhipu warned IPO investors about the burden of complying with 6+ AI rules (www.nytimes.com)
20 hours ago China IPO AI

A look at Polymarket's rise since the US DOJ dropped its probe: securing publisher deals and US licenses, insider trading concerns, and bet resolution disputes (www.wsj.com)
20 hours ago

Seoul plans to integrate AI chatbot Maeumi into its suicide prevention hotline, offering immediate emotional support before a human counselor connects (www.koreaherald.com)
20 hours ago AI chatbot

Alibaba plans to spend ~$431M in a Lunar New Year campaign starting February 6 to attract users to its Qwen AI app, above Tencent's ~$143.7M and Baidu's ~$71.8M (www.reuters.com)
20 hours ago Alibaba AI Tencent

Linux Kernel Developer Chris Mason's New Initiative: AI Prompts for Code Reviews (linux.slashdot.org)
21 hours ago Linux AI

SEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video (www.washingtonpost.com)
21 hours ago Israel Google AI Drone

Taiwan hits a 21.06% weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, surpassing China's 20.93%, the first time since July 2007, boosted by AI-linked local companies (www.bloomberg.com)
21 hours ago China Taiwan AI

Sources: a KKR-led consortium is nearing a deal to buy Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers for $10B+, as Asia sees a data center investment frenzy (www.wsj.com)
21 hours ago Asia Singapore

A look at DestinE, an EU-funded project to create Earth's digital twin using AI that has produced climate models with far higher resolution than current models (giftarticle.ft.com)
22 hours ago AI Climate

OpenSourceMalware: 230 malicious OpenClaw extensions, disguised as crypto trading automation tools to steal user info, were uploaded to ClawHub since January 27 (www.tomshardware.com)
22 hours ago

Q&A with D‑Wave CEO Alan Baratz on the Quantum Circuits acquisition, error-correcting quantum systems, its Davidson and Anduril defense collaboration, and more (sherwood.news)
23 hours ago Quantum

AI conferences have rushed to restrict the use of LLMs for writing and reviewing research papers in recent months after being flooded with AI-generated slop (www.ft.com)
23 hours ago AI

Is the TV Industry Finally Conceding That the Future May Not Be 8K? (entertainment.slashdot.org)
1 day ago

French IT company Capgemini plans to sell its US subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions, whose contract with the US ICE drew scrutiny from French lawmakers (www.reuters.com)
1 day ago France

Anthropic researchers detail “disempowerment patterns” in AI assistant interactions where AI potentially distorts a user's reality, beliefs, or actions (arstechnica.com)
1 day ago AI

EU Deploys New Government Satcom Program in Sovereignty Push (science.slashdot.org)
1 day ago

Apple, long dominant in the electronics supply chain, is starting to be outbid by AI companies for components like memory as suppliers gain leverage over Apple (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago AI Apple

TikTok US says it has resolved technical issues and glitches that have impacted core features, such as video likes and view counts, over the past week (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
1 day ago

What Go Programmers Think of AI (developers.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Programmer AI

Anthropic's $200M Pentagon Contract at Risk Over Objections to Domestic Surveillance, Autonomous Deployments (tech.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Pentagon

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)
1 day ago Oracle Equity

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)
1 day ago Tesla Elon Musk SpaceX

Is Meta's Huge Spending on AI Actually Paying Off? (tech.slashdot.org)
1 day ago AI

Bitcoin Drops 40% in Four Months. Bloomberg Blames Absence of Buyers and Belief (slashdot.org)
1 day ago Bitcoin

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)
1 day ago AI

Walmart Begins Building Out Nationwide EV Charging Network Across America (tech.slashdot.org)
1 day ago U.S. Walmart

When 20-Year-Old Bill Gates Fought the World's First Software Pirates (news.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Bill Gates

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)
1 day ago AI Ban

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)
1 day ago India Tax

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