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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 (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review : Researchers detail how AI tools for g…
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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 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch : India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers …
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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 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : Sources: Apple execs question if it has the ingredients t…
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Sources: Waymo nears a $16B round, valuing it at $110B; Alphabet will contribute $12B+, with a16z, Dragoneer, Mubadala, Sequoia, and DST Global participating (Financial Times)
Financial Times : Sources: Waymo nears a $16B round, valuing it at $110B; Alphabet …
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Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past week, and down ~37% since its ATH in Oct. 2025; Ethereum dropped ~18% in the past week (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past…
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How the music industry is split over AI; some labels signed licensing deals for AI that mirror revenue splits they use with YouTube for user-generated content (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times : How the music industry is split over AI; some lab…
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Filing: SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers (Reuters)
Reuters : Filing: SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space…
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Gurman: internal development at Apple "runs on Anthropic at this point", Apple wanted to rebuild Siri around Claude, but Anthropic's terms were too steep (@tbpn)
@tbpn : Gurman: internal development at Apple “runs on Anthropic at this point”, App…
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Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users rose 60% in 2025 to 41.2M, including AT Protocol accounts; moderation reports from users grew 54% to 9.97M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users ro…
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Appfigures: Sora's app downloads dropped 32% month-over-month in December and 45% in January to 1.2M; consumer spending on the app fell 32% MoM as of January (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Appfigures: Sora's app downloads dropped 32% month-o…
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Apple acquires Q.ai, whose tech can analyze facial expressions and could enable non-verbal discussions with AI assistants; sources: the deal values Q.ai at ~$2B (Financial Times)
Financial Times : Apple acquires Q.ai, whose tech can analyze facial expressions an…
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Google updates Gemini in Chrome with a new side panel, an auto browse feature that can navigate pages and take actions for AI Pro and AI Ultra users, and more (Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET)
Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET : Google updates Gemini in Chrome with a new side panel, an …
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Canada says it is talking to Meta to restore news to Facebook and Instagram as the Online News Act is put on the table as part of trade negotiations with the US (Marie Woolf/Globe and Mail)
Marie Woolf / Globe and Mail : Canada says it is talking to Meta to restore news to…
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DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgraded optical character recognition model that replaces OpenAI-developed CLIP framework with Alibaba's Qwen2-0.5b (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post : DeepSeek launches DeepSeek-OCR 2, an upgrade…
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UpScrolled, a platform for sharing photos, videos, and text that claims political impartiality, says user growth has surged since TikTok's US takeover (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge : UpScrolled, a platform for sharing photos, videos, and text…
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