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Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
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In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator
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Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface
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Ford CEO Jim Farley says "the customer has spoken" after its EV business lost nearly $5 billion in 2025
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Meta says it won't chop the bottom 5% performers this year
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Swarms of AI bots can sway people’s beliefs – threatening democracy
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TikTok post tells children ‘bring weapons’ for mass fight, Message divides up eight schools in Hackney, east London, and urges them to go ‘to war’
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In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
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Binance fires top investigators who claim to have uncovered evidence of Iranian sanctions violations
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Verizon imposes new roadblock on users trying to unlock paid-off phones
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Heineken to slash up to 6,000 jobs in AI 'productivity savings' amid slump in beer sales
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Anthropic got an 11% user boost from its OpenAI-bashing Super Bowl ad, data shows
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Disney sends cease and desist letter to ByteDance over Seedance 2.0
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
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Your AI assistant isn't confused, it just wants to agree with you
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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
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Given the toxicity of social media, a moral question now faces all of us: is it still ethical to use it? | With so many platforms rife with racism, misogyny and far-right rhetoric, there must be a point where decent people walk away
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Google reports that state hackers from China, Russia and Iran are using Gemini in 'all stages' of attacks — phishing lures, coding and vulnerability testing get AI underpinnings from hostile actors
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Sex toys maker Tenga says hacker stole customer information
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UpScrolled crosses 2.5M users after TikTok’s U.S. shakeup
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Analysis: despite investing $150B+ in 10+ years, China is expected to produce 2% of global AI chips in 2026 and 70x less memory storage than foreign chipmakers (Meaghan Tobin/New York Times)
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A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups (Jessica Brice/Bloomberg)
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Current and former senior employees say AWS is undergoing a strategic shake-up amid fears it is losing ground to competitors in securing corporate AI contracts (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)
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ByteDance launches Doubao 2.0, an "agent era" upgrade of China's most widely used AI app capable of executing multi-step tasks, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
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Dealroom and NATO Innovation Fund: European defense, security, and resilience startup funding rose 55% YoY to a record $8.7B in 2025, with AI accounting for 44% (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)
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BNP Paribas analysis: Anthropic saw visits to its site jump 6.5% after its Super Bowl ad and DAUs jump 11% post-game, outperforming other AI companies (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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Sources: TSMC plans to invest another $100B to build four more US fabs to ensure tariff-free chip sales; analysis: its Arizona site has land for four more fabs (Financial Times)
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India partners with Alibaba.com to help Indian startups and small businesses reach overseas buyers, highlighting its selective engagement with Chinese platforms (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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Sources: OpenAI is charging $60 per 1,000 impressions for ads in ChatGPT, a high price similar to Netflix's rate when it introduced ads (Financial Times)
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SoftBank-owned Japanese payments app PayPay files for a US IPO, and reports a $675.47M profit on ~$1.82B revenue for the nine months ending December 31, 2025 (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)
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Sources: the US DHS recently sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas, which do not need a judge's approval, to tech firms to identify people critical of ICE (New York Times)
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A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath (Scott Shambaugh/The Shamblog)
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Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming it infringed on Disney's works to train its Seedance 2.0 video generation model without pay (Sara Fischer/Axios)
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Sources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools, is in talks to raise at a $9B valuation, up from $6.6B in 2024; its ARR hit $400M in Sept. (The Information)
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Blockchain-based lending company Figure confirms a data breach; ShinyHunters hacking group published 2.5GB of data, saying Figure refused to pay a ransom (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)