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China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run

Google DeepMind CEO says 2025's the year we start popping pills AI helped invent

Apple Intelligence turned on by default in upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3

OpenAI to blow through $500B on AI infrastructure for itself with help from pals

PowerSchool theft latest: Decades of Canadian student records, data from 40-plus US states feared stolen

PowerSchool thieves net decades of Canadian students' records, hit 40-plus US states

Indian fintech Jar turns cash flow positive

Vertice raises $50M for its AI-powered SaaS spend platform

Truecaller brings real-time caller ID to iPhone users

Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht

MrBeast is reportedly now among those trying to buy TikTok

Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg sanctioned by judge for allegedly deleting emails

DHS removes all members of cyber security advisory boards, halts investigations

Arm releases Chiplet System Architecture spec beta version

The Arduous Luxembourg Visa Process

Flame: A small language model for spreadsheet formulas (2023)

What are these bumps on the top of a pull-tab can?

Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need

The first release of OpenVox, the OSS implementation of Puppet

White House Executive Order on AI Has Been Rescinded

Why is zero plural? (2024)

Isolating complexity is the essence of successful abstractions

Open-source browser port of Pitfall from the Atari 2600

Evo: Version control that works the way you think

Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon

Days before TikTok briefly went dark, Instagram and Facebook made design tweaks, released new features, and ran ads promoting its apps as TikTok alternatives (Louise Matsakis/Wired)

Quant trading firm XTX, managing $250B+ in daily trades, plans to invest €1B+ on five data centers in Finland to support its growing use of machine learning (Bloomberg)

Some crypto executives fear investor backlash over $TRUMP and $MELANIA memecoins; CoinMarketCap reports most $TRUMP trading is concentrated on Asian exchanges (Financial Times)

Truecaller rolls out real-time caller ID to its ~750K iOS subscribers, who account for 40% of its revenue; Truecaller has 2.6M+ paying subscribers in total (TechCrunch)

Microsoft to buy 3.5M carbon credits, estimated to be worth about $200M, from Re.green over 25 years to restore parts of Brazil's Amazon and Atlantic forests (Kenza Bryan/Financial Times)

The Trump administration removed all advisory committee members within the DHS, including those in CISA and CSRB, which was investigating Salt Typhoon (Becky Bracken/Dark Reading)

Sources: Google is investing over $1B more in Anthropic, which is also nearing a further $2B funding round from Lightspeed and other VCs at a ~$60B valuation (Financial Times)

DealStreetAsia: Southeast Asian startups raised $4.56B in 2024, down 42% YoY and falling to a fifth of a 2021 peak, as the number of deals fell 10% YoY to 633 (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)

An internal probe into SoftBank-backed eFishery, one of Indonesia's most prominent startups, finds the agritech company allegedly faked most of its 2024 sales (Bloomberg)

Documents: Google gave Israel access to its latest AI tools from the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas war, directly assisting the Defense Ministry and the IDF (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

Filing: OpenAI spent $1.76M on lobbying in 2024, up from 2023's $260K, with focus on the AI Advancement and Reliability Act and the Future of AI Innovation Act (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)

Sources: a deep philosophical rift over how DOGE should operate helped spur Vivek Ramaswamy's exit, with Donald Trump's Jan. 20 EO embodying Elon Musk's vision (Washington Post)

Sources: ByteDance plans to spend ~$5.5B to acquire AI chips in China in 2025, double the amount spent in 2024, with ~60% going to Chinese suppliers like Huawei (Financial Times)

Render, which offers developers cloud services for building, deploying, and running apps and websites, raised an $80M Series C led by Georgian (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

StackBlitz, which offers an AI tool to create websites using text prompts, says it's finalizing raising $83.5M at a $700M valuation, following a $22M Series A (Bloomberg)

Trump grants a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road and a cryptocurrency cult hero, serving a life sentence on money laundering and drug charges (New York Times)

Highnote, which offers businesses a card-issuing software, raised a $90M Series B led by Adams Street Partners, a source says at a $750M+ valuation (Stephen Pastis/Forbes)

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Six short video demos of LLM and Datasette projects

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TikTok comes back from the dead

Here’s what Bambu will — and won’t — promise after its controversial 3D printer update

Trump pardons Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht

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Simon Willison on new Datasette Enrichments

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OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold