Thinking Machines Ousts CTO Barret Zoph. Hours Later, OpenAI Welcomed Him Home.

Coinbase CEO Pulls Support for Senate Crypto Bill Over Tokenized Equities Ban

7 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Coinbase pulls support for major crypto bill. Here's what it means for the industry

7 wks / coindesk / Helene Braun

Coinbase Withdraws Support for Crypto Bill on Eve of Key Senate Vote

7 wks / decrypt / Sander Lutz

Coinbase says it won’t back Senate crypto bill ahead of banking committee vote

Coinbase pulls support from crypto market structure bill

7 wks / coindesk / Nikhilesh De

Market & Analyst Impact - Analysts predict cascading effects as crypto bill stalls in Congress.

The big crypto bill isn't dead, may return next month as Wall Street fight still looms

7 wks / coindesk / Jesse Hamilton

Bitcoin slides below $96,000 as key crypto bill stalls in Congress

7 wks / coindesk / Krisztian Sandor

Crypto bill delay 'may ultimately be constructive' for final product, Benchmark says

7 wks / coindesk / Will Canny

Bank of America CEO: Interest-Bearing Stablecoins Could Take $6T Out of Bank Deposits

7 wks / decrypt / Will McCurdy

Senate Markup Turmoil - Senate panel halts crucial crypto markup amid fierce debates.

Crypto Leaders Call for Negotiations as Senate Postpones Markup of Crypto Bill

7 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Senate committee delays vote on crypto bill amid pushback

7 wks / semafor / Eleanor Mueller

Senate Banking Committee Delays Markup of Key Crypto Bill as Industry Support Frays

7 wks / decrypt / Vince Dioquino

Sweeping crypto legislation hits major snag as Senate Banking Committee postpones markup

Senate Banking Committee cancels crypto market structure markup

7 wks / coindesk / Nikhilesh De

Senate crypto bill nears crunch time as amendments pile up, lobbying intensifies ahead of Senate Banking Committee hearing

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev reaffirms support for crypto market structure bill amid delay

Support Among Peers - Robinhood CEO supports bill despite Coinbase exit and policy rifts.

7 wks / theblock / Danny Park

Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public

BeauHD / slashdot - Digg is officially back under the ownership of its original founder, Kevin Rose, along with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. "Similar to Reddit, the new Digg offers a website and mobile app where you can browse feeds featuring posts from across a selecti…

#startups #business #internet #reddit #ux #community #media #technology #contentmoderation

Digg Makes a Comeback: Why the Original Reddit Rival is Trending Again

7 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Digg launches public open beta as toxicity-free Reddit rival

Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/14/233241/digg-launches-its-new-reddit-rival-to-the-public?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

7 wks / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

Digg, an Early Social and News Site, Officially Relaunches

7 wks / cnet / Corin Cesaric

Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public

7 wks / slashdot / BeauHD

Digg is back from the grave (again) and taking on Reddit: How to try the Digg beta

7 wks / mashable

Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public

7 wks / reddit / /u/holyfruits

Bitcoin hits 8-week high above $97,000 as shorts unwind and $100K odds rise

Naga Avan-Nomayo / theblock - Bitcoin has climbed to an eight-week high near $97,000 as this week's rally continues and speculators eye $100,000 in January.

#blockchain #fintech #crypto #stockmarket #business #finance #bitcoin #economy

Bitcoin rally and squeeze drama (6)
Market sentiment turns bullish amid easing global tensions (4)
Whales, miners, and ETFs drive institutional moves (6)

Parents can now set limits on YouTube Shorts for teen accounts

mashable - YouTube launches new safety features for teen accounts, including screen time controls for Shorts and age-appropriate algorithm for recommendations.

#mobile #social #youtube #ux #mentalhealth #media #contentmoderation #safety #digitalprivacy

YouTube Adds Parental Controls To Limit Shorts For Teen Accounts

7 wks / medianama / Aakriti Bansal

Your teen’s YouTube Shorts scrolling can now have a hard cap

7 wks / digitaltrends

YouTube launches strict Shorts limits to curb teen screen addiction

YouTube adds more parental controls including blocking Shorts

7 wks / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Parents can now set limits on YouTube Shorts for teen accounts

7 wks / mashable

Parents can put a time limit on YouTube Shorts scrolling

7 wks / theverge / Stevie Bonifield

YouTube adds more parental controls, including a way to block teens from watching Shorts

7 wks / engadget / Kris Holt

Verizon Outage Knocks Out US Mobile Service, Including Some 911 Calls

Lily Hay Newman / wired - A major Verizon outage appeared to impact customers across the United States starting around noon ET on Wednesday. Calls to Verizon customers from other carriers may also be impacted.

#mobiletech #networking #techpolicy #broadband #internet #us #wireless #technology #emergencyservices #fcc

Competitor, Investor Response: Rival jabs and stock resilience (2)
Customer Compensation: Apologies, credits, and restoration promises (6)
Widespread Outage Impact: Disruptions, SOS, and 911 call issues (7)
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Competitor, Investor Response: Rival jabs and stock resilience

Verizon’s outage may have annoyed users, but it didn’t bother investors

7 wks / x / @MarketWatch

T-Mobile takes jab at Verizon outage in service update

7 wks / mashable

Customer Compensation: Apologies, credits, and restoration promises

Claim It Now: Verizon Is Offering A $20 Credit As An Apology Of Sorts For Its Network Outage

7 wks / wccftech / Rohail Saleem

How to claim your free $20 from Verizon

7 wks / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

Verizon offers $20 account credit following daylong cellular outage

7 wks / appleinsider

Verizon outage today: Verizon reveals how to fix ongoing issues, offers $20 credit

7 wks / mashable

Verizon Explains How to Receive $20 Bill Credit Following Major Outage

iPhone SOS: Verizon Apologizes for Outage, Promises Customer Credits

Verizon outage update: Cause, credits, and what to know about the SOS snafu heard around the country

Widespread Outage Impact: Disruptions, SOS, and 911 call issues

7 wks / fastcompany / Michael Grothaus

Verizon outage disrupts calling and data services for wireless customers across the US

7 wks / techxplore

Verizon outage may be impacting 911 calls

7 wks / mashable

Verizon Outage Knocks Out US Mobile Service, Including Some 911 Calls

7 wks / wired / Lily Hay Newman

Verizon outage: Voice and data services down for many customers

7 wks / engadget / Ian Carlos Campbell

Verizon’s wireless network is down for many people nationwide

7 wks / theverge / Richard Lawler

Verizon Wireless outage puts phones in SOS mode without cell service

7 wks / bleepingcomputer / Lawrence Abrams

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Verizon Explains How to Receive $20 Bill Credit Following Major Outage

7 wks / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Bandcamp bans music that heavily features generative AI

Bradly Shankar / mobilesyrup - Bandcamp is taking a big stand against AI in music. In a blog post, the company confirmed that it will ban music that is “generated wholly or in substantial part by AI.” It also prohibits the use of AI tools to impersonate artists or music styles. Bandcam…

#ai #streaming #aiethics #genai #culture #music #community #media #contentmoderation #copyright

Bandcamp Bans AI Music

7 wks / slashdot / BeauHD

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

7 wks / reddit / /u/swe129

not a lot of incentive to avoid pissing off google when google is choking off all of the internet in the interest of keeping people on google.com via gemini text! www.theverge.com/news/861897/...

7 wks / bsky / @aegies.bsky.social / aegies.bsky.social

arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/b... Bandcamp announced that it no longer permits AI-generated music. “Music & audio that is generated wholly or substantially by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp,” they wrote. The new policy also prohibits “any use of AI to

7 wks / bsky / @nick-stevens.com / nick-stevens.com

Bandcamp bans music that heavily features generative AI

7 wks / mobilesyrup / Bradly Shankar

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform | Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans

7 wks / reddit / /u/Hrmbee

Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content

7 wks / reddit / /u/ornithobiography

The Atlantic, Penske, and Vox Media have all sued Google for antitrust violations

7 wks / theverge / Lauren Feiner

Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

7 wks / arstechnica / Benj Edwards

Apple's Foldable iPhone to Use Improved Titanium and Liquid Metal Hinge to Cut Weight [Rumor]

iclarified - Apple is turning to advanced metallurgy to solve the weight problem on its first foldable iPhone. New supply chain details suggest the company will use upgraded titanium and liquid metal alloys to keep the device durable without making it too heavy to hol…

#hardware #mobiletech #apple #iphone #engineering #manufacturing #gadgets #durability #smartphone #foldable

Apple's Foldable iPhone to Use Improved Titanium and Liquid Metal Hinge to Cut Weight [Rumor]

7 wks / iclarified

Apple May Use Liquid Metal in iPhone Fold

7 wks / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

iPhone Fold's titanium & Liquid Metal rumors just won't go away

7 wks / appleinsider

Apple iPhone Fold To Feature A Liquid Metal Hinge And A Titanium Body For An Improved Weight Distribution

7 wks / wccftech / Rohail Saleem

Apple's Foldable iPhone Rumored to Be Built With Liquid Metal and Improved Titanium

7 wks / macrumors / Hartley Charlton

Verizon breaks silence on massive outage. Heres what they said.

mashable - In a statement, Verizon acknowledged that its customers were impacted by a major disruption on Wednesday afternoon.

#mobiletech #networking #techpolicy #iphone #ios #us #wireless #repair #fcc

Competitor reactions and grid vulnerability insights (2)
iPhone SOS alerts and fixes (4)
Nationwide outage reports and official alerts (6)
Restoration efforts and customer compensation updates (6)

Competitor reactions and grid vulnerability insights

After widespread outage, a look at the vulnerabilities in the U.S. wireless grid

7 wks / npr / A Martínez

Verizon’s Cell Network Is Down, and AT&T and T-Mobile Are Sassing Them About It

7 wks / techradar / John Gruber

iPhone SOS alerts and fixes

Today's Verizon Outage Could Leave Your iPhone Stuck in SOS Mode. Here's the Fix

7 wks / cnet / Nelson Aguilar

Verizon wireless outage leaves iPhones stuck in SOS across the U.S.

7 wks / appleinsider

Verizon is Down: iPhones Show 'SOS' Mode Due to Network Outage

Verizon outage: Why your phone says SOS, what we know so far

7 wks / mashable

Nationwide outage reports and official alerts

Verizon Outage Hits Around 175,000 Customers

7 wks / cnet / Corin Cesaric

Verizon outage map: How to check your area

7 wks / mashable

It's not just you, Verizon is down

7 wks / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

Widespread Verizon Outage Prompts Emergency Alerts in Washington, New York City

7 wks / slashdot / msmash

Verizon breaks silence on massive outage. Heres what they said.

7 wks / mashable

Verizon Users Report Service Outage Affecting 176,000 Customers

7 wks / bloomberg / Molly Schuetz

Restoration efforts and customer compensation updates

Verizon will pay you $20 following its nationwide outage — here’s how to get it

7 wks / theverge / Emma Roth

Verizon says a major outage is resolved and promises account credits for those affected

7 wks / qz / Chris Morris

10-hour long Verizon outage is finally resolved

7 wks / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Verizon says network back up after massive outage

7 wks / mashable

Verizon outage cause: What we know, what we dont

7 wks / mashable

Verizon support hints at phone bill discount for outage

7 wks / mashable

OpenAI Forges $10 Billion Deal With Cerebras for AI Computing

Ian KingShirin Ghaffary / bloomberg - OpenAI signed a multiyear deal to use hardware from Cerebras Systems Inc. for 750 megawatts’ worth of computing power, an alliance that will support the company’s rapid build-out of AI infrastructure.

#ai #cloud #semiconductors #chips #openai #genai #business #datacenter #supercomputers

Boosted AI speeds via enhanced compute (2)
Detailed deal terms announced (13)
IPO implications and financial shifts (3)
Other miscellaneous mentions (2)
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Boosted AI speeds via enhanced compute

OpenAI’s $10B Cerebras Deal Promises 15x Faster AI Speed

7 wks / eweek / eWEEK Staff

OpenAI Says New Compute From Cerebras Will Accelerate AI Models’ Response Time

7 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Detailed deal terms announced

OpenAI signs $10 billion deal with Cerebras Systems

7 wks / the-decoder / Maximilian Schreiner

OpenAI announces $10B Cerebras deal for 750MW compute

OpenAI inks AI chips deal with Nvidia challenger Cerebras

7 wks / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

OpenAI purchases large-scale computing power from startup Cerebras

7 wks / techzine / Mels Dees

OpenAI commits to buying over $10B worth of AI compute capacity from Cerebras Systems

7 wks / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Cerebras and OpenAI join forces to deliver 750MW of breakthrough AI compute power in a new multi-year expansion

7 wks / parameter / Yasmin Werner

OpenAI signs deal, worth $10 billion, for compute from Cerebras

7 wks / techcrunch / Lucas Ropek

OpenAI Signs Another Deal With a Computer Chip Maker

7 wks / nytimes / Cade Metz

OpenAI Signs Another Deal With a Computer Chip Maker

7 wks / nytimes / Cade Metz

OpenAI agrees $10bn AI infrastructure deal with start-up Cerebras

7 wks / ft

OpenAI enters $10 billion partnership with Cerebras

7 wks / reddit / /u/nimzobogo

OpenAI Forges $10 Billion Deal With Cerebras for AI Computing

7 wks / bloomberg / Ian KingShirin Ghaffary

OpenAI Forges Multibillion-Dollar Computing Partnership With Cerebras

7 wks / wsj / Kate Clark

IPO implications and financial shifts

Cerebras Scores OpenAI Deal Worth Over $10 Billion

7 wks / slashdot / BeauHD

OpenAI Just Handed Cerebras a $10 Billion Lifeline. The Timing Tells You Everything.

7 wks / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

Cerebras scores OpenAI deal worth over $10 billion ahead of AI chipmaker's IPO

7 wks / cnbc

Other miscellaneous mentions

One-Minute Daily AI News 1/14/2026

7 wks / reddit / /u/Excellent-Target-847

How are you going to pay them Sammy https://openai.com/index/cerebras-partnership/

7 wks / bsky / @edzitron.com

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The collaboration will help OpenAI models deliver faster response times for more difficult or time consuming tasks, the companies said.

7 wks / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

California Investigates Elon Musk’s xAI Over Sexualized Images Generated by Grok

Kate Conger / nytimes - The state will examine whether xAI, which owns the social media platform X and created the A.I. chatbot Grok, violated state law.

#ai #techpolicy #aiethics #genai #law #contentmoderation #xai #elonmusk #grokai #california

California probes (10)
Global regulatory & advocacy (9)
Platform policy clampdown (16)
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California probes

California Opens xAI Investigation Over Grok's Deepfake Flood

7 wks / implicator / Maria Garcia

California to investigate xAI over Grok chatbot images, officials say

7 wks / reddit / /u/ddx-me

California Attorney General Investigating xAI Over Grok’s Deepfakes

7 wks / wsj / Georgia Wells

Musk denies awareness of Grok sexual underage images as California AG launches probe

7 wks / techcrunch / Rebecca Bellan

California Launches Investigation Into Grok’s Nonconsensual Sexual Images

7 wks / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

California investigating Grok AI over lewd fake images

7 wks / techxplore

California is investigating Grok over AI-generated CSAM and nonconsensual deepfakes

7 wks / engadget / Karissa Bell

California Investigates Elon Musk’s xAI Over Sexualized Images Generated by Grok

7 wks / nytimes / Kate Conger

California Investigates Elon Musk’s xAI Over Sexualized Images Generated by Grok

7 wks / nytimes / Kate Conger

Elon Musk's xAI probed by California DOJ over Grok's deepfake explicit images

7 wks / cnbc

Global regulatory & advocacy

‘Get Grok Gone’: Advocacy groups demand Apple and Google block X from app stores

7 wks / theverge / Robert Hart

It’s not over, Europe’s regulators tell X

7 wks / politico / Eliza Gkritsi

Philippines to Join Indonesia, Malaysia in Blocking Musk’s Grok

7 wks / bloomberg / Cliff Harvey Venzon

Advocacy groups slam Apple and Google for hosting Grok and X apps

28 advocacy groups call on Apple and Google to ban Grok, X over nonconsensual deepfakes

7 wks / engadget / Will Shanklin

Musk bows to pressure over Grok creating sexualised AI images

7 wks / ft

Musk claims Grok made “literally zero” naked child sex images as probes begin

7 wks / arstechnica / Ashley Belanger

Grok Generated 6,700 Nudifying Images Per Hour. Musk Says He Saw 'Literally Zero.

7 wks / implicator / Maria Garcia

Senate passes bill letting victims sue over Grok AI explicit images

7 wks / reddit / /u/sksarkpoes3

Platform policy clampdown

Elon Musk’s X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok

7 wks / nytimes / Ali Watkins

Elon Musk’s X Restricts Ability to Create Explicit Images With Grok

7 wks / nytimes / Ali Watkins

X says it has blocked Grok from editing images of real people into revealing clothing

7 wks / techspot

Grok now bans all undressing images -- where it's forced to

7 wks / appleinsider

Musk’s xAI bows to pressure and blocks Grok from ‘nudifying’ images

7 wks / siliconrepublic / Ann O’Dea

Musk rushes to fix disgusting Grok replies

7 wks / news.com.au

X Announces Grok Can No Longer Edit Real People’s Images, But Website Still Allows It

7 wks / medianama / Prabhanu Kumar Das

X says Grok, Musk's AI chatbot, is blocked from undressing images in places where it's illegal

7 wks / go

Grok blocks X users from creating images of real people in ‘revealing clothing’

7 wks / mashable

X Tightens Grok Image Generation Following International Backlash

7 wks / decrypt / Jason Nelson

Musk’s Grok barred from undressing AI images after global backlash

7 wks / scmp

Musk's xAI limits Grok's ability to create sexualized images of real people on X after backlash

7 wks / cnbc

X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t

7 wks / theverge / Jay Peters

X to stop Grok AI from undressing images of real people after backlash

7 wks / bbc

XAI Blocks Grok From Creating Sexualized Images of Real People

7 wks / bloomberg / Kurt Wagner

X says Grok will no longer edit images of real people into bikinis

7 wks / engadget / Karissa Bell

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X is claiming it’s restricted the ability to generate explicit deepfakes with Grok, and plenty of media outlets are parroting it without checking. But it’s still easy to get Grok to generate the very same “undressing” photos causing this scandal in the f

7 wks / bsky / @parismarx.com / parismarx.com

Le Monde publie de fausses nouvelles. www.theverge.com/news/862372/...

7 wks / bsky / @clauderioux.bsky.social / clauderioux.bsky.social

California DOJ is the latest to initiate a formal investigation of xAI and its Grok issues - the AI chatbot and image generator enabled widespread creation and publication of deepfake NCII & CSAM (nonconsensual intimate images, and child sexual abuse

7 wks / bsky / @lorak.bsky.social / lorak.bsky.social

Civilization VII Coming to Apple Arcade on February 5

iclarified - Sid Meier's Civilization VII is officially coming to Apple Arcade on February 5, bringing the legendary strategy franchise to iPhone, iPad, and Mac without ads or in-app purchases. The launch headlines a fresh wave of additions to the service that also in…

#gaming #mobile #apple #entertainment #iphone #ios #apps #ipad #macos #videogames

Apple secures Civilization VII for Arcade mobile and Mac subscribers

7 wks / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

Civilization VII comes to Apple Arcade in February

7 wks / engadget / Will Shanklin

Civilization VII Is Coming to Apple Arcade

7 wks / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

Civilization VII is headed to iPhone and iPad with “Arcade Edition”

7 wks / arstechnica / Samuel Axon

Apple Arcade Just Landed Its Biggest Game Ever: What’s New in February

7 wks / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

Civilization VII Coming to Apple Arcade on February 5

7 wks / iclarified

Civilization VII is coming to Apple Arcade

7 wks / theverge / Emma Roth

Apple Arcade Adding These Four Games in February

Civilization VII is the latest PC game coming to Apple Arcade

7 wks / mobilesyrup / Jonathan Lamont

iPhone 18 Pro may kill the Dynamic Island and join the punch-hole party instead

digitaltrends - Apple may be preparing its biggest front-display shake-up in years, with the iPhone 18 Pro rumored to hide Face ID under the screen and abandon the Dynamic Island.The post iPhone 18 Pro may kill the Dynamic Island and join the punch-hole party instead app…

#mobiletech #apple #iphone #ios #ux #gadgets #oled #smartphone

iPhone 18 May Sport Under-Display Face ID

7 wks / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

iPhone 18 Pro may kill the Dynamic Island and join the punch-hole party instead

7 wks / digitaltrends

iPhone 18 Pro Leak: Apple Is Finally Testing Under-Display Face ID - Android Headlines

7 wks / androidheadlines

Leaked iPhone 18 Specs Point to Under-Display Design and iPhone Air 2

7 wks / iclarified

iPhone 18 Series and iPhone Air 2 Display Sizes Leak, Pro Models May Ditch Dynamic Island - dealntech.com

7 wks / dealntech

iPhone 18 design won't change much, except for Dynamic Island

7 wks / appleinsider

When is iPhone 18 expected to launch? Display size leak! - Latest news from Azerbaijan

7 wks / news.com.au

iPhone 18 Pro Rumors: Redesign, Bigger Battery, New Camera - RS Web Solutions

7 wks / rswebsols

British Police Used Microsoft Copilot for Faulty Report That Led to Ban on Soccer Team Fans

Ece Yildirim / gizmodo - Microsoft's AI assistant hallucinated a soccer match.

#ai #techpolicy #microsoft #aiethics #genai #uk #soccer #police #copilot

UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake

7 wks / reddit / /u/ScootSchloingo

Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans | Police finally come clean about botched use of AI tools

7 wks / reddit / /u/Hrmbee

British Police Used Microsoft Copilot for Faulty Report That Led to Ban on Soccer Team Fans

7 wks / gizmodo / Ece Yildirim

Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans

7 wks / arstechnica / Nate Anderson

UK Police Blame Microsoft Copilot for Intelligence Mistake

7 wks / slashdot / msmash

UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake

7 wks / theverge / Tom Warren

Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube

Jay Peters / theverge - Google's Gemini AI is getting what could prove to be a very big upgrade: To help answers from Gemini be more personalized, the company is going to let you connect the chatbot to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and your YouTube history to provide what Google…

#ai #dataprivacy #google #aiethics #genai #youtube #alphabet #assistant #digitalprivacy #gemini

Apple Integration: Gemini powers Siri advancements (7)
Gemini Personalization: AI learns from your data (24)
Other: Diverse Gemini ecosystem developments (5)
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Apple Integration: Gemini powers Siri advancements

Apple Picking Google Gemini to Power Siri Was About Buying Time

7 wks / cnet / Imad Khan

3 Rumored Features Exclusive To Gemini-Powered Siri That Android Desperately Needs

7 wks / bgr

Google launches Personal Intelligence feature in Gemini app, challenging Apple Intelligence

7 wks / cnbc

Apple May Use Customized Google Gemini

7 wks / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Will Siri Really Be ‘Powered by Gemini’?

7 wks / idropnews / Jesse Hollington

Don't give Gemini your personal data, wait for Apple Intelligence-powered Siri

7 wks / appleinsider

Gemini just got scarily smart for you where Apple’s Siri dream failed

7 wks / digitaltrends

Gemini Personalization: AI learns from your data

Google Wants Gemini to Know You Better Than You Know Yourself

7 wks / implicator / Marcus Schuler

Google's Personal Intelligence links Gmail, Photos and Search to Gemini

7 wks / bleepingcomputer / Mayank Parmar

Google launches Gemini Personal Intelligence in the U.S.

7 wks / mobilesyrup / Dean Daley

Google introduces Personal Intelligence personalization tool for Gemini

7 wks / siliconangle / Maria Deutscher

Google Integrates Gmail, YouTube, and Search Into Gemini

7 wks / eweek / David Curry

Gemini can now access your photos and read your Gmail messages

7 wks / pocket-lint / Craig Donaldson

Google Launches Beta of ‘Personal Intelligence’, Connecting Gemini to Google Apps

7 wks / blog / John Gruber

Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers

7 wks / theregister / Thomas Claburn

For AI to be truly useful, it needs to understand you. With Personal Intelligence, we’re beginning to solve this. With your permission, Gemini can now securely reason across your own data to answer questions that generic models simply can't - like suggest

7 wks / x / @demishassabis

Alphabet(GOOG) Stock: Pushes Forward as Gemini Gains New Personal Intelligence Features Across Core Google Apps

7 wks / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Google Enables AI Assistant Gemini to Draw Information From Emails and Photos

7 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers | The feature will start with paid users only, and it’s off by default.

7 wks / reddit / /u/ControlCAD

Google Gemini’s ‘Personal Intelligence’ Pulls from Your Search and YouTube History

7 wks / gizmodo / AJ Dellinger

Google Gemini Can Now Be Personalized Using Data From Google Apps

7 wks / thurrott / Laurent Giret

Google taps its massive data advantage with new Gemini feature

7 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Google Gemini’s Most Useful Update Ever: It Finally Knows Who You Are

7 wks / iphoneincanada / Austin Blake

Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers

7 wks / arstechnica / Ryan Whitwam

Gemini's New Personal Intelligence Gives Android The Assistant iPhone Keeps Promising

7 wks / bgr

Gemini's New 'Personalized Intelligence' Uses Your Photos and Gmail to Customize Responses

7 wks / cnet / Katelyn Chedraoui

Gemini can now pull context the rest of your Google apps, if you let it

7 wks / engadget / Andre Revilla

Google Gemini Can Proactively Analyze Users’ Gmail, Photos, Searches

7 wks / bloomberg / Chris Welch

Google taps emails and YouTube history in push for personalised AI

7 wks / ft

Gemini’s new beta feature provides proactive responses based on your photos, emails, and more

7 wks / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube

7 wks / theverge / Jay Peters

Other: Diverse Gemini ecosystem developments

Google plans to make Chrome for Android an agentic browser with Gemini

7 wks / bleepingcomputer / Mayank Parmar

Gemini is winning

7 wks / reddit / /u/Alone-Competition-77

The Model Matters: I Tried Vibe Coding a Project With Different Gemini Models

7 wks / cnet / Blake Stimac

Google’s Trends Explore page gets new Gemini capabilities

7 wks / techcrunch / Lauren Forristal

Gemini is winning

7 wks / theverge / David Pierce

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Important announcement on the path towards Jarvis -> Google launches Gemini Personal Intelligence, linking to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to provide context-aware responses, for paid users

7 wks / bsky / @glenngabe.bsky.social / glenngabe.bsky.social

Google Gemini is now asking users to let it train on their personal email and photos, and offering up bizarre reasons why this is meant to be good. It is not, and the timing of the news is suspicious.

7 wks / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

This is very much the interconnected extension of a Gemini Live aspiration for glasses etc. So it knows, sees, contextualizes. By getting all the data www.theverge.com/news/861576/...

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Every day a new way for AI to be more intrusive and unwanted.

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Personal Intelligence is off by default, as users have the option to choose if and when they want to connect their Google apps to Gemini.

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depthfirst raises $40m To Advance AI-Native Software Security

Clinton / ventureburn - depthfirst Expands Its AI Security Platform With New Capital depthfirst has secured $40 million in a Series A round. The raise was led by Accel. Other investors include Alt Capital,The post depthfirst raises $40m To Advance AI-Native Software Security app…

#ai #vc #cybersecurity #ml #enterprise #infosec #business #california

Depthfirst secures $40M to expand agentic approach to software security

7 wks / siliconangle / Duncan Riley

The company used an AI-native platform to help companies fight threats.

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AI security firm, depthfirst, announces $40 million series A

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depthfirst raises $40m To Advance AI-Native Software Security

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depthfirst Raises $40M in Series A Funding

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NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Support Rolls Out To All NVIDIA App Users, New Features Also Added

Hassan Mujtaba / wccftech - NVIDIA's DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution technology is now available to all NVIDIA App users alongwith a new list of features. NVIDIA App Officially Adds DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution Support, Increasing Image Fidelity Greatly With The Newest RTX Super Resolution M…

#ai #software #hardware #ml #nvidia #apps #performance #videogames #updates #developertools

Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution leaves beta, available now to Nvidia app users — update includes support for over 400 titles with new presets

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Nvidia Proves It Still Has the Best Software for Better-Looking Games https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-proves-it-still-has-the-best-software-for-better-looking-games-2000710251

7 wks / bsky / @gizmodo.com / gizmodo.com

Nvidia Proves It Still Has the Best Software for Better-Looking Games

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Nvidia DLSS 4.5 is now available to all, with improved image quality and higher GPU demands

7 wks / techspot

NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Comes to All GeForce RTX GPUs Today

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NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Support Rolls Out To All NVIDIA App Users, New Features Also Added

7 wks / wccftech / Hassan Mujtaba

Developers Can Now Add NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 To Their Games Through DLSS Streamline Plugin, RTX Neural Texture Compression SDK Available Too

7 wks / wccftech / Hassan Mujtaba

NVIDIA rolls out DLSS 4.5 to all RTX GPUs

7 wks / engadget / Kris Holt

Nvidia DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution leaves beta, available now to Nvidia app users — update includes support for over 400 titles with new presets

7 wks / tomshardware

Nvidia’s new app update includes DLSS 4.5 and more Control Panel features

7 wks / theverge / Tom Warren

Tesla to stop selling FSD as a standalone package and switch to subscription only

Andrew J. Hawkins / theverge - As its sales continue to slip and its robotaxi strategy seems to falter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said today that the company would stop selling its Full Self-Driving feature as a standalone package. Instead, starting on February 14th, the Level 2 driver-assis…

#selfdriving #cars #tesla #business #pricing #technology #elonmusk #automotive #ev

FSD Subscription Announcement (12)
Subtle Shift Analysis (2)

FSD Subscription Announcement

Tesla puts full self-driving behind a monthly paywall

7 wks / fastcompany / Taylor Hatmaker

Tesla stops standalone FSD package, switches to subscription platform

7 wks / mobilesyrup / Matthew Mountjoy

The $11,000 Sunset and Why Tesla Is Killing FSD Purchases Next Month

7 wks / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

Soon you'll only be able to rent Tesla's FSD

7 wks / qz / Alex Daniel

Elon Musk confirms major shake-up for Tesla’s Full Self-Driving package

7 wks / digitaltrends

Tesla is shifting to a subscription model for its ‘FSD’ feature

7 wks / x / @MarketWatch

Musk says Tesla is moving Full Self-Driving to a monthly subscription

7 wks / cnbc

Tesla will only offer subscriptions for Full Self-Driving (Supervised) going forward

7 wks / techcrunch / Sean O'Kane

Tesla to stop selling FSD as a standalone package and switch to subscription only

7 wks / theverge / Andrew J. Hawkins

Tesla ends one-off Full Self-Driving purchases, shifts to subscription-only next month

7 wks / techspot

Tesla's Full Self-Driving is switching to a subscription-only service

7 wks / engadget / Steve Dent

Tesla Driver-Assist System FSD Will Switch to Subscription-Only, Musk Says

7 wks / bloomberg / Danny Lee

Subtle Shift Analysis

Tesla is making a subtle change that could have big implications for the company

7 wks / x / @MarketWatch

Tesla is making a subtle change that could have big implications

7 wks / x / @MarketWatch

Saks Seeks Bankruptcy Protection and Names New CEO

PYMNTS / pymnts - Luxury retail company Saks Global has declared bankruptcy amid mounting debts. The company, which owns Saks Fifth Avenue stores as well as department stores Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus, entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Texas, it said in a Wednesday…

#ecommerce #banking #stockmarket #business #fashion #economy #law

Amazon Blasts Saks Funding Deal, Says Its Equity Is ‘Worthless’

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The fashion brands and tech companies holding the bag as Saks files Chapter 11

7 wks / x / @MarketWatch

Saks Global bankruptcy: Store closure update and what’s next for Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus

7 wks / fastcompany / Michael Grothaus

Luxury retail giant behind Saks, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf collapses under massive debt, declares bankruptcy

7 wks / siliconcanals / James Brennan

Saks Global files for bankruptcy amid mounting debt reports - Jang

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Saks Seeks Bankruptcy Protection and Names New CEO

7 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Luxury Retail Giant Behind Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman Files for Bankruptcy - People.com

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Luxury retailer Saks Global declares bankruptcy - ConsumerAffairs

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As debt, mergers, and shifting luxury demand reshape retail, Saks Global files for bankruptcy. - vocal.media

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Saks Global files for bankruptcy amid luxury downturn

7 wks / semafor / Tom Chivers

Saks Global files for bankruptcy. How that could ripple across luxury retail.

7 wks / x / @MarketWatch

Saks Global files for bankruptcy. Here’s how luxury retail went out of style

7 wks / x / @MarketWatch

Visa Partners With BVNK to Enable Stablecoin Payouts on Visa Direct

Vismaya V / decrypt - The integration will enable businesses to fund and receive Visa Direct payouts using stablecoins in select markets.

#blockchain #crypto #digitaltransformation #banking #business #payments #wallet

Visa Says Stablecoin-Linked Payments Cards Drive Demand for Settlement Platform

7 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Tether-backed mobile wallet Oobit adds native Phantom support, expanding Solana’s ties to Visa

7 wks / theblock / Daniel Kuhn

Visa Partners with BVNK for Stablecoin Payouts: Revolutionizing Crypto Payments in 2026 - EGW.News

7 wks / egw

Visa Stablecoin Payouts 2026: Global BVNK Integration - Coin Gabbar

7 wks / coingabbar

Visa Partners With BVNK to Enable Stablecoin Payouts on Visa Direct

7 wks / decrypt / Vismaya V

Visa adds stablecoin payouts to global payments network in BVNK deal - Cryptopolitan

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Visa (V) Stock: Slides 4.46% as Stablecoin Payouts Go Live via BVNK

7 wks / parameter / Yasmin Werner

Visa Turns to BVNK to Power Stablecoin Payments

7 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Chinese customs told to block H200 imports, report claims — directive would effectively ban the Nvidia AI chip from China

tomshardware - Chinese customs officers were allegedly told to disallow the entry of Nvidia H200 chips, effectively banning the entry of these AI processors into the country. The command comes as other sources say that Beijing will only allow the import of these AI GPUs…

#ai #semiconductors #techpolicy #china #chips #nvidia #gpu #government #supplychain #regulation

Chinese Customs Block NVIDIA H200 Shipments Hours After US Approval, Freezing $54B in Orders

7 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Chinese customs told to block H200 imports, report claims — directive would effectively ban the Nvidia AI chip from China

7 wks / tomshardware

Confusion mounts as China issues vague rules on Nvidia H200 imports