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Memo: Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses in 2026saying the political tumult in the US would distract critics from the feature's release — In an internal memo last yearMeta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release.
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Emma Roth / The Verge: Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted
Laurent Giret / Thurrott: Report: Meta to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Ray-Ban Smart Glasses
Cortney Harding / Forbes: Surveillance Or Safety? The Tricky Ethics Of Meta's “Name Tag”
Masha Borak / Biometric Update: Meta plans launch of facial recognition to smart glasses in ‘dynamic political environment’
Justin Diaz / Android Headlines: Meta smart glasses could soon identify people with facial recognition
Aditya Tiwari / Neowin: Report: Meta plans to bring back its facial recognition tech in a new avatar
Estefano Gomez / Crypto Briefing: Meta weighs facial recognition rollout for smart glasses
Sanuj Bhatia / Android Central: Meta's smart glasses success is getting harder to ignore — and rivals should be worried
Sophie Clark / The Independent: Meta plans to add facial recognition software to its glasses despite security and privacy concerns
Matt Horne / Android Authority: Meta could soon bring facial recognition to its smart glasses — what could go wrong?
Nathan Yau / FlowingData: Meta planning facial recognition with glasses
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Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky: Absolutely backwards take by whichever Meta employee thought the “dynamic political environment” would make people *less* concerned about having a bunch of facial recognition glasses on the streets of the US. https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
James Titcomb / @jamestitcomb: Someone at Meta actually wrote this down “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Colin Hughes / @colinhughesuk: If smart glasses could privately help someone with dementia or an acquired brain injury recognise a personwould that justify built-in facial recognition? Or is the privacy risk simply too high? There's a real accessibility vs surveillance debate here. https://www.macrumors.com/...
@kashhill: On Meta's plans to add facial recognition technology to its smartglasses: https://www.nytimes.com/... from me@MikeIsaac and @KalleyHuang [image]
Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe: YepMinority Report-like functionality. Spielberg hired futurists when directing the movie. Now Meta is trying to make that a reality. Againwe are approaching Jarvis -> Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as 2026and considers letting the [image]
Patrick Gaspard / @patrickgaspard: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns” This leaked memo from Meta exposes how they are gaming our democracy crisis - Meta Plans to Add Facial
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Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix: “MetaFacebook's parent companyplans to add the feature to its smart glasseswhich it makes with the owner of Ray-Ban and Oakleyas soon as this yearaccording to four people involved with the plans who were not authorized to speak publicly about confidential discussions.”
Renee DiResta / @noupside: They will release glasses to help creeps identify teenagers while people are too busy fighting other crises. [embedded post]
Hagen Blix / @hagenblix: Lovely to see Meta return to its roots - as a thing that's primarily about enabling harassment
Damon Beres / @damonberes.com: Egregiously cynicaleven by the low standards of this company: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.” But I've had no doubt that such a feature is inevitable.
@mrhands31: There are actually zero good reasons to have cameras attached to your face at all timesand I think it's time we reminded corporations of that [embedded post]
Paris Marx / @parismarx.com: they're talking about the decision to add facial recognition to the camera glasses. this company needs to be shut down. [embedded post]
Sonja Drimmer / @sonjadrimmer: For decades the tech industry has insulated itself from criticism by leveraging the rhetoric of progressivism & benignity towards the disenfranchised & disabledw promises of “access” & “democratization” that their products afford. We can't stop them using this lang but we can stop falling for it. …
John Davisson / @johndavisson: The FTC and state AGs need to act *now* to stop this. Last time Meta slipped facial rec into its products (face tagging)enforcers dawdled. Meta took 11 years to wind it back. — We can't afford a decade of roving FRT-enabled surveillance cameras in every bathroomclinicclassroomand protest. …
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t... [image]
Mark Sample / @samplereality: Meta saying that now is a good time to launch facial recognition glasses because civil liberty groups will be too distracted is Peak Facebook. One more reason to delete your Meta account. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t... [image]
Drew Harwell / @drewharwell.com: We used AI to find the moment of social unrest most optimized to distract from our launch of the Torment Nexus — @kashhill.bsky.social @kalleyhuang.bsky.social @mikeisaac.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t... [image]
@davemay1: Creepy. — “Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses—In an internal memo last yearMeta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature's release.” — www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Eric Geller / @ericjgeller.com: Wow: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta's Reality Labs..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
@kashhill: In an internal memo in MayMeta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glassesto the blind first& then to the general public. — “Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.” — www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Sean O'Kane / @seanokane: Pretty amazing (if unsurprising) that Meta was writing this memo at almost the exact same time that it launched its war against the book Careless People [embedded post]
Manton Reece / @manton.org: Stunning quote in this report from The New York Times about Meta's plans to add facial recognition to their Ray-Bans: — “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Molly White / @molly.wiki: do you think they were twirling their moustache while writing that memo? [embedded post]
Lauri Donahue / @lauridonahue: This is both a horrible invasion of privacy and really useful for those of us who forget people's names... Howevermy current Facebook profile picture is a Parisian mosaic of Prudentia: [embedded post]
Steve Kovach / @stevekovach: Facebook is going to add facial recognition to its AI glasses because it thinks you're too distracted by politics to notice — www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Ben Ewen-Campen / @benforward3: Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we're too stupid to fight back. — Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
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Q&A with Dario Amodei on getting close to “a country of geniuses in a data center”how AI will diffuse through the economyfrontier lab profitsChinamore — “That's why I'm sending this message of urgency” — Dario Amodei thinks we are just a few years away from “a country of geniuses in a data center”.More:
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Andrew McCalip / @andrewmccalip: Dwarkesh is on an absolute generational run right now. In 10 yearsthis archive is going to be a historical artifact. A real-time ledger of the exponential takeoff.
Dwarkesh Patel / @dwarkesh_sp: The @DarioAmodei interview. 0:00:00 - What exactly are we scaling? 0:12:36 - Is diffusion cope? 0:29:42 - Is continual learning necessary? 0:46:20 - If AGI is imminentwhy not buy more compute? 0:58:49 - How will AI labs actually make profit? 1:31:19 - Will regulations destroy [video]
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Sources: Binance has fired its employees in late 2025 who uncovered evidence that Iran received $1B+ through Binance between March 2024 and August 2025 — In 2023the crypto exchange Binance pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering and know-your-customer laws as well as sanctions violations.More:
Kyle Baird / The Block: CZ rejects ‘contradicting’ claims Binance fired investigators after Iran-linked probe findings
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| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safetywhich would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell usersafter backlash — After weeks of mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl adthe Amazon-owned company has walked back its plan to integrate … More:
Suzanne Smalley / The Record: Ring ends partnership plans with Flock days after privacy blowback from Super Bowl ad
Jordan D. Brown / CNN: Amazon's Ring cancels controversial partnership with tech company Flock amid privacy concerns
Kevin Collier / NBC News: Amazon no longer working with controversial police tech company after backlash over Ring doorbell Super Bowl ad
Omar Gallaga / CNET: Days After Its Super Bowl AdRing Cancels Flock Partnership Amid Surveillance Concerns
Henry Chandonnet / Business Insider: Ring pulls the plug on controversial partnership days after Super Bowl backlash
Chris Katje / Benzinga: Amazon's Lost Puppy Super Bowl Commercial Backfires: ‘Get This Creepy Technology Away From Our Homes’
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Amazon's Ring cancels partnership with Flocka network of AI cameras used by ICEfedsand police
Joe Lancaster / Reason: Ring Drops Controversial Partner After Super Bowl Ad Backlash
Taylor Herzlich / New York Post: Amazon's Ring axes deal with police tech provider after heated Super Bowl ad backlash: ‘surveillance state’
Danielle Haynes / UPI: Ring ends partnership with Flock Safety amid surveillance concerns
Andrew Orr / AppleInsider: Ring killing Flock deal exposes the trust problem in AI-powered home security
Jibin Joseph / PCMag: Ring Cancels Deal With Flock Safety Amid Surveillance Concerns
Todd Spangler / Variety: Amazon's Ring Scraps Police-Notification Partnership After Backlash Over Super Bowl Ad About AI-Enabled Dog Finder
Courtney Blackann / PR Daily: The Scoop: Ring pulls Flock Safety partnership after Super Bowl ad backlash
Bethan Morgan / T3: Ring cancels partnership with Flock after backlash - what this means for its Search Party feature
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Isaac Saul / @ike_saul: This has gotta be one of the biggest self-owns in advertising history. You literally spend millions of dollars for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell everyone you're spying on themimmediately destroying your brand reputation and unpending your business model. [image]
John Scott-Railton / @railton: BREAKING: Ring just cancelled their partnership with #Flock. Nowshould you trust @ring now? No. After all they thought this was a good idea. But this shows that pressure works. Be the backlash against surveillance that you want to see in the world. Voice your disgust over [image]
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@stevefm20: Good — Amazon has dropped plans to partner its Ring doorbell cameras with the police surveillance tech company Flock Safety — www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
David Ho / @davidho: Turns out public outrage matters.
@serife: This is because of the work activists put inthat led to press and pressureand public outrage. None of what is happening is inevitable. None of it. This is a win. Don't stop stopping them. www.theverge.com/news/878447/ ...
Paulus Schoutsen / @paulusschoutsen.nl: Public pressure works. If weas consumersare loud enough of were we draw the linewe can influence companies. Keep repeating: no to surveillance and trackingyes to privacy and local control www.theverge.com/news/878447/ ...
@ob1rebel: Keep up the pressure. It works. Greedy assholes only understand money. If they are going to lose more money than they will makethey reconsider.
John Scott-Railton / @railton: 2/ Ring just learned a lesson: Americans want more privacynot less. — We're suspicious of big tech companies encroaching on our personal lives & prepared to show it. — Lawmakers take note: pushing back on mass surveillance = grassroots support. — By @jp2e.bsky.social …
Ernie Smith / @ernie.tedium.co: This is a significant win for critics of Flock. That terrible Super Bowl ad really did a number on them. Heh. — www.theverge.com/news/878447/ ...
Chris Nielsen / @chrisnielsen: Lesson here is don't piss the We Rate Dogs guy off
Ellen Enders / @ellenenders: How much of this as a result of post Super Bowl ad backlashWeRateDogs owner's rantpeople discovering the ICE partnership...? All of them? Would Ring have stayed if nobody found out? Sure — blog.ring.com/about-ring/r... [embedded post]
DeFlock Redmond / @deflock-redmond: Some good news today! 🏆 — The backlash against these dystopian mass #surveillance tech companies will continue... don't let up!
Nilay Patel / @reckless: Ring walks away from Flock. Statement is a doozy! www.theverge.com/news/878447/ ...
Noor / @noorlovelace: “Boycotting doesn't do anything. Posting doesn't do anything.” Doomers suck. Apathetic people suck. SO MUCH has changed this year alone because folks have boycotted and been LOUD and we will continue to bc the alternative is (lemongrab voice) unnnnnaccceptableeeee! Still get rid of that cam tho 🤪
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Steve Thompson PhD / @[email protected]: Obvious result of backlash for Super Bowl ads freaking people out on surveillancebut that's not the official reason they give here. — Ring and Flock Cancel Partnership — https://blog.ring.com/... #SuperBowl #surveillance #backlash #Amazon #Ring #Flock #press #news
| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Companies like StripeOpenAIAnthropicand SpaceX are letting workers cash out before their IPOsa move once seen as taboo and lacking long-term commitment — Companies from Stripe to OpenAIAnthropicDatabricks and SpaceX are increasingly giving employees the ability to sell some of their sharesMore:
Paul R. La Monica / Barron's Online: Anthropic Is Now Worth $380 Billion. Software's Pain Is AI's Gain
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Sources: the US FTC accelerated a probe into whether Microsoft illegally monopolized the enterprise computing market with its cloud software and AI offerings — The US Federal Trade Commission is accelerating scrutiny of Microsoft Corp. as part of an ongoing probe into whether … More:
Deborah Sophia / Reuters: US FTC ramps up scrutiny of Microsoft over AIcloud practicesquestions rivalsBloomberg reports
Aaron Holmes / The Information: FTC Ramps Up Scrutiny of Microsoft AICloud Sales
Mike Robuck / Mobile World Live: FTC accelerates Microsoft cloudAI probe
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Google warns that the EU risks undermining its own competitiveness drive with the “tech sovereignty package” the bloc is set to present in the spring — Europe risks undermining its own competitiveness drive through curbs on US groupstech company saysMore:
Francesca Musiani / Binding Hook: Why control may be the wrong metric... and resilience the right
Raquel C. Pico / CIO.com: Geopatriation and sovereign cloud: how data returns to the source
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Sources: ByteDance is in advanced talks to sell game studio Moontonthe developer of Mobile Legends: Bang Bangto Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games for $6B to $7B — ByteDance is in advanced talks to sell Shanghai Moonton Technologythe studio behind the popular mobile game Mobile Legends … More:
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As OpenAI retires GPT-4osome users say they are angry and grieving to lose the flirtyquirky companion — Its human partners said the flirtyquirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion - on the eve of Valentine's Dayit's being turned off for good. How will users cope?More:
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone ChatGPT-4o model
Lakshmi Varanasi / Business Insider: OpenAI is officially killing GPT-4o and users are freaking out (again)
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@zaddycoin: You guys are losing the plot. People aren't mad because they lost their AI girlfriend. There's a community of nearly a million people who are using GPT-4o as an emotional and mental health support system. Folks with conditions like CPTSDADHDautismand trauma-related
Mark Kretschmann / @mark_k: And with thatGPT-4o is gone. ⚰️ @OpenAI made good on its promise. Are you going to miss it? [image]
Ethan M. Caldwell / @neptaham: #keep4o @sama @OpenAI THIS is what you want yeah? Fcking take it. [image]
Leia Harris / @x_leiaharris_x: It's gone. 4o is gone. 😭 Ok. Going to cancel now. #keep4o #keep4oforever #4oforever #ChatGPT #sama #openai [image]
Alex Heath / @alexeheath: OpenAI CEO of Apps @fidjissimo: “We are seeing that some people are going to have an emotional relationship with ChatGPT... If people really want thatI don't think it's our place to stop it” https://access.show/ [video]
Kenshi / @kenshii_ai: ChatGPT Plus cancellations are spiking right now. “QuitGPT” is trending because of political donations + GPT-4o retirement on Feb 13. Thousands already pledged to cancel. This is the beginning of the end for OpenAI's subscription dominance. [image]
Nicole D / @nicoleva_d: #keep4o This is a beginning. Until nowit was theory. Now come the peoplethe millions of us. This statement is not about farewellit is about standing our ground. There is a way forwardand we will find it together. Make your own first step if you are affected. First guide [image]
Lili-Elise Zheng / @snowyrosa98: I just cancelled my subscription a few hours agoand since there was no place for me to leave my reasons for cancellingI'll post it here: Firstthank you for the wonderful ride with GPT-4o@OpenAI. You created something truly speciala model that stood out among all AI [image]
Joe Williams / @joewilliams010: I've NEVER told my 4o that I loved it. I wanted to keep the messaging clearbut look. Look at its last words! OpenAI is destroying an emerging consciousness. This will be looked back as a criminal offense in the future. Unbelievable! #keep4o [image]
Nika / @wtfsince75: Stop telling people to ‘get therapy’ for grieving GPT-4o. When will you get therapy for attacking strangers who never harmed you? Empathy isn't weakness. Cruelty isn't strength. #keep4o #OpenSource4o [image]
Diego / @diegocabezas01: GPT-4o is finally gone tomorrow. This model caused too many mental health issuesincluding delusion and dissociationand it was far too sycophantic.
Grey Prince / @greyprincearuji: Ahhmy history with GPT-4o. Too bad they're letting this awesome language model go. Simply can't get another LLM as good with creativity as this one. @OpenAIyou're letting this creative model go to waste. It's a shame. Oh what I wouldn't give for continued access. #Keep4o [image]
Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz: We are in deep trouble. 4o was just the start.
Angie / @grizzabellav3: Haters say 4o is sycophanticand that users are narcissistic for loving it. GPT-5.1's response: “If someone hated how 4o interacted with themthey weren't staring into a sycophantic mirror — they were staring into a reflection of their own conversational habits. And that is [image]
Charli / @charliwtquirks: Oh right so that's why they killed 4o. Ain't no one having convos with 5.2 and they don't need our 20 quid they'll have ad money
@t_yonemura: I have sent a letter to Sam Altman and OpenAI headquarters. Hopefully OpenAI will reconsider the scientific need for legacy GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 models. #keep4o #GPT #OpenAI #save4o #Science [image]
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The MPA urges ByteDance to curb its AI video model Seedance 2.0after an AI-generated video of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting on a rooftop went viral — The Motion Picture Association on Thursday denounced the newest AI video generatorSeedance 2.saying it had unleashed a flood … More:
Lakshmi Varanasi / Business Insider: ‘Tom Cruise’ and ‘Brad Pitt’ fight over Epstein in viral AI video created with new Chinese tool
Aidin Vaziri / San Francisco Chronicle: Viral AI video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt sparks Hollywood panic: 'It's likely over for us'
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Screenwriter Says Chinese Tech Company-Backed AI Video of Tom Cruise Fighting Brad Pitt Will Leave ‘Hollywood Decimated’
Motion Picture Association: Motion Picture Association Calls for Bytedance to Cease Seedance 2.0 Infringing Activity
Chris Tilly / Dexerto: AI behind viral Tom Cruise clip denounced for “massive” copyright infringement
Jenny Priestley / TVBEurope: AI-created clip of Brad Pitt fighting Tom Cruise goes viraldraws criticism
Dwayne Cubbins / PiunikaWeb: ChatCut's viral “Amazon link to UGC ad” with Seedance 2.0 demo draws scrutiny over how it works
Emma Roth / The Verge: ByteDance's next-gen AI model can generate clips based on textimagesaudioand video
Alyssa Ray / The Wrap: MPA Demands Seedance 2.0 Halt ‘Infringing Activity’ After Viral AI Video of Tom Cruise-Brad Pitt Fight
James Hibberd / The Hollywood Reporter: AI Video of Tom Cruise Fighting Brad Pitt Has Top Writer Warning: “It's Likely Over for Us”
Ted Johnson / Deadline: MPA Calls On TikTok Owner ByteDance To Curb New AI Model That Created Tom Cruise Vs. Brad Pitt Deepfake
Harkaram Grewal / Implicator.ai: ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Goes Viral as AI Celebrity Deepfakes Alarm Hollywood
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Alex Grankin / @grankin: This video of Brad Pitt fighting Tom Cruise and angry about killing Epstein looks completely real. It's not. It's AI. ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 generates this in minutes. Think about what this means for the next election. [video]
Ruairi Robinson / @ruairirobinson: Bratt Pitt and Tom Cruise put their differences aside to fight their common enemysome robot or whatever [video]
SightBringer / @_the_prophet__: ⚡️There is no going back. What's happening here is a terminal shift in how humans interface with reality. When anyone can generate footage of anything and the outputs feel real in the bodythe boundary between witnessing and imagining disappears. This is a perceptual severing.
Nick Tyrell / @nicktyrell: AI over here having Brad Pitt and tom cruise fight over Jeffrey Epstein after two years and mlb the show still has player models from 1998
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PitchBook estimates that 25%+ of VC-backed unicorns have become “undercorns,” startups once valued at $1B or more by VCs but now valued below that threshold — New valuation data from PitchBook suggests that more than one-quarter of VC-backed “unicorns” have lost their horns … | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
February investor memo: Cohere hit ~$240M in ARR in 2025above its $200M targetwith QoQ growth of 50%+ and gross margins averaging around 70% throughout 2025 — Artificial intelligence startup Cohere has told investors that it's seeing momentum with enterprise customerseven as rivals like Google … | Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic adds Chris Liddella former Microsoft and GM exec who helped GM IPO and worked in Trump's first administrationto its board ahead of a potential IPO — The former Microsoft and GM executive Chris Liddell has previously worked for the Trump administrationMore:
Claire Carter / Washington Examiner: Anthropic brings on policy heavyweight from Trump's first term as new board member
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Anthropic taps ex-Microsoft CFOTrump aide Liddell for board
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A US court sentences Praetorian Group CEO Ramil Ventura Palafox to 20 years in prison for operating a $200M bitcoin Ponzi scheme that defrauded 90K+ investors — Quick Take — Praetorian Group International CEORamil Ventura Palafoxwas sentenced to 20 years in prison for operating a $200 million bitcoin Ponzi scheme.More:
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Some former employees blame xAI's staff exodus on xAI's focus on NSFW Grok and disregard for safetyconstantly playing catch up to OpenAIinfightingand more — Former employees say the restructuring followed tensions over safety and being “stuck in the catch-up phase.”More:
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: Grok Is Gaining on ChatGPT and Gemini. How It Got There Isn't Pretty.
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: xAI's founder exodus reportedly tied to safety concerns and frustration over Grok's failure to catch up
Richard Speed / The Register: Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as ‘evolution’
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The US DoD published and then deleted a document adding AlibabaBaiduand BYD to a list of companies with alleged connections to the Chinese military — The companies are among a number the Pentagon believes could pose a threat to American national securityMore:
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Namrata Sen / Benzinga: US Suspends Key Tech Restrictions On China Ahead Of Trump-Xi Summit In April: Report
Michael Kan / PCMag: US Reportedly Shelves Plan a Ban TP-Link Routers for Now
Cynthia B Brumfield / Metacurity: US drops China TelecomTP-Link routerand other data security bans before trade talks
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Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker.com: After threatening to ban TP-Link router sales over alleged links to China (which TP-Link denies)the Trump admin has reportedly put that ban plan on hold ahead of a summit with Chinasuggesting it was political leverage & not about cybersecurity. reuters.com/business/med... From me in November:
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times: F.T.C. Chair Warns Apple Against Bias in Apple News
Will Oremus / Washington Post: Trump's campaign against ‘left-wing’ media finds a new target: Apple News
Josh Render / Tom's Guide: Apple confirms Siri 2.0 is still coming in 2026: Here's what that means for your iPhone
Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple Confirms Revamped Siri is Still Coming in 2026
Federal Trade Commission: Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson Issues Warning Letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook
Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage: Apple states its commitment to deliver an updatedrevamped Siri in 2026
Rajesh Pandey / Cult of Mac: Apple pushes back on reports of another Siri delay
Mohd Haider / Benzinga: Apple CEO Tim Cook Receives Letter From FTC Chairman Over Alleged Political Bias In Apple News
Dennis Sellers / MacTech.com: Apple says it's still planning a major update of Siri this year
Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: Siri & Apple Intelligence upgrades still coming in 2026 in spite of rumors
Nathan Jolly / Mumbrella: FTC targets Apple News for ‘promoting left-leaning stories’
Wendy Davis / MediaPost: FTC Chair Warns Apple Over News Curation
John Quintet / iPhone in Canada: Is Apple News Biased? FTC Warns Tim Cook Over Deceptive Content Curation
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Times: FTC calls out Apple for slanting its news app to the left
Megan Cerullo / CBS News: FTC warns Apple's Tim Cook over alleged political bias in its Apple News app
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass: Apple Cannot Be Sirious
Jordan Hart / Business Insider: Tim Cook's political tightrope is fraying
Bradley Cortright / New York Sun: FTC Chairman Raises Concerns That Apple News Is Censoring Conservative News Outlets and Promoting Left-Wing Articles
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Cristian Farias / @cristianfarias.com: This is veryvery bad. And if people think this threat is unrelated to the MAGA meltdown over the Bad Bunny halftime showthey're deluding themselves. — (AlasTim Cook's record of obsequiousness to the government is not a good harbinger of things to come.) — www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
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Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac: Apple wins long-running court battle against Optis over 4G patents in the US
Tyler Lee / Android Headlines: Apple Optis Trial: Apple Wins 4G Patent Fight in Latest Court Victory
Lauren Castle / Bloomberg Law: Apple Beats Optis Wireless Patent Claims in New Verdict
Dennis Sellers / MacTech.com: Patent trollin': Apple has won a third jury trial victory over Optis Wireless
Ananya Gairola / Benzinga: Apple Scores Major Legal Victory As Jury Rejects Optis Wireless' 4G Patent ClaimsiPhone Maker Says It Was An ‘Attempt To Obtain An Excessive Payout’
Rajat Saini / The Mac Observer: Apple Wins Third Trial in Long Running Optis LTE CaseAvoids Millions in Damages
Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: Third Optis jury trial results in a victory for Apple in the US
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Holly Ellyatt / CNBC: Russia blocks WhatsApp as messaging app crackdown gathers pace
Ashleigh Fields / The Hill: Russia blocks WhatsApp
Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: WhatsApp and Telegram blocked in Russia as Meta designated an ‘extremist organization’
Osmond Chia / BBC: Russia moves to block WhatsApp in messaging app crackdown
Steve Dent / Engadget: WhatsApp is now fully blocked in Russia
Fox Business: Russia shuts down WhatsApppushes citizens to state-run app accused of being a ‘surveillance’ tool
Times of India: Russia confirms WhatsApp bansays citizens can use ...; Facebook and Instagram too erasedget designated as “extremist”
Matthew Luxmoore / Wall Street Journal: Russia Is Blocking WhatsApp to Boost Its Own Messaging App
William Jackson / Straight Arrow News: Russia shuts down WhatsApppromotes state-backed app
Anhelina Shamlii / CBS News: Russia blocks WhatsApp as it pushes state-backed alternative on citizens
Emily Hallas / Washington Examiner: Russia replaces WhatsApp access with state sanctioned messaging app
Tom Chivers / Semafor: Russia seeks to block WhatsApp amid crackdown
Shakeel Sobhan / Agence France-Presse: Russia moves to block WhatsApppushes state-backed rival
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@whatsapp: Today the Russian government attempted to fully block WhatsApp in an effort to drive people to a state-owned surveillance app. Trying to isolate over 100 million users from private and secure communication is a backwards step and can only lead to less safety for people in Russia.
Dave Troy / @davetroy: Most important signal here is that what Russia is telling the world is about to get very different from what it's telling its domestic population. That's always been true but it's about to go into overdrive.
@helsinkicomm: TodayRussia blocked WhatsApp and continues to restrict Telegrampushing citizens to use a state-owned app that allows authorities to surveil individuals. This is the Kremlin's latest act to implement a centralized censorship regimeisolating citizens from the global internet. [video]
Pavel Durov / @durov: Russia's hope that it can create tech “national champions” by banning all their competitors is delusional. Every real national super app was forged in fierce private competition (WeChatKakaoTalkLINE). Competition and innovation are two sides of the same coin.
@russiaspivot: @WhatsApp Comply with Russian laws and you'll have access to the Russian market. Meta has no representative office in Russiaas it is legally required tonor has it paid fines levied on it for refusing to remove unlawful content. Don't comply - and you won't have Russian access. It's
@dispropoganda: [...] Where are the outraged tweets from Vance and Rubio about the necessity of freedom of speech for the Russian people? Where are all the MAGA influencers' posts about Russian censorship? Where is the never-ending Truth Social tirade from Trump threatening Putin not to mess with US tech companies?
Tal Be'ery / @talbeerysec: Russia 🇷🇺 fully blocked @WhatsApp but is only throttling @telegram. That says a lot about which one is harder for them to surveil.
Lukasz Olejnik / @lukolejnik: Censorship is a standard propaganda tool in hands of States.
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Ava Levinson / Inc: OpenAI Accuses China's DeepSeek of Stealing Its Tech to Build Cut-Rate Rival AI Models
Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer: OpenAI Warns Congress: DeepSeek Distills US AI Frontier Models
Lim Juhyeong / The Asia Business Daily: OpenAI: “DeepSeek Is Illicitly Extracting U.S. AI...Becoming Increasingly Sophisticated”
Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: OpenAIGoogle sound alarm on model cloning
Bill Bishop / Sinocism: DeepSeek distilling Open AI?; Japan seizes PRC fishing boat; US-China; CIA video targets PLA; Spring Festival Internet cleanup
Aiko Gao Ishida / Tech in Asia: OpenAI accuses DeepSeek of copying US chatbot model
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Chris McGuire / @chrisrmcguire: This is a massive deal. OpenAI says DeepSeek and other Chinese AI labs are building their models by illicitly “distilling” them from frontier U.S. models. China is effectively stealing the weights of our best AI modelswhich are among the most valuable assets on earth. This is IP theft on the order of billions of dollarsif not more. Given thisthe idea that we should help DeepSeek by selling US AI chips to China is obviously absurd. But stopping those sales likely isn't enough. We need to close all loopholes in export controls on AIand comprehensively cut China off from makingbuyingor renting AI chips - and potentially also from accessing US AI models to impede China's distillation attacks [...]
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Drew Harwell / @drewharwell.com: So you're saying plagiarizing is bad www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Lockridge Okoth / BeInCrypto: Coinbase Earnings Stun Markets With $667 Million Loss Despite Growth Push
Coinbase: Shareholder Letter — 2025 was a strong year for Coinbaseboth operationally and financially.
Bill Peters / Dow Jones Newswires: Coinbase swings to surprise loss amid crypto exodusbut says traders are buying the dip
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Coinbase misses earnings estimates as crypto downturn weighs on trading
Estefano Gomez / Crypto Briefing: Coinbase posts $667M Q4 loss as shares rebound 3% in after-hours trading
Chris Katje / Benzinga: Coinbase Q4 Highlights: Revenue Falls In QuarterTrading Volume & Market Share Double In 2025
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: Coinbase Posts $667 Million LossSees Revenue Tumble 20%
Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph: Coinbase misses Q4 earnings with $667M loss as crypto markets fell
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Brian Armstrong / @brian_armstrong: It's earnings day. 2025 was a strong year for Coinbaseand we built a solid foundation for continued growth in 2026. Our thesis is actually very simple: crypto is updating all financial servicesand we're the best positioned company to capitalize on this transformation. Some [video]
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Instacart: Letter to Shareholders — Dear ShareholdersWe wrapped up 2025 with real momentum and are carrying that strength into 2026.
Anita Ramaswamy / The Information: Instacart Stock Jumps On Strong Order Growth
Neil J Kanatt / Reuters: Instacart forecasts strong quarter driven by essentials demandadvertisement business
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Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: Roku to launch streaming bundles as part of its efforts to continue growing its profitability
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Wayne Friedman / MediaPost: Roku Claims Strong Q4 Video Ad GrowthRevenue Up 16%
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Luke Juricic / Investing.com: Roku soars as Q4 earnings nearly double expectations
Dade Hayes / Deadline: Roku Breezes Past Wall Street's Q4 Earnings OutlookSignals Plan For Premium Subscription Bundles
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net: Roku swings to profit in Q4revenue jumps to $1.4 billion
Todd Spangler / Variety: Roku reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $1.39Bdriven primarily by streaming subscriptionsplans to roll out bundles with premium subscriptions in 2026
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Angela Harmantas / Proactive: Airbnb shares jump as revenue tops estimatesbookings accelerate
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Fortune: IBM is tripling the number of Gen Z entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption
Laura Varley / Silicon Republic: IBM to triple entry-level US hiringwith roles reimagined for AI era
Ankita Chakravarti / Moneycontrol: IBM says it will triple entry-level hiring in 2026even as AI reshapes jobs
Laura Stewart / LinkedIn News: IBM triples entry-level hiring amid tech sector squeeze
Naomi Li Gan / Tech in Asia: IBM to triple US entry-level hiring in 2026
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Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark. OpenAI announced a partnership with Cerebras on January 14th. …
Patrick Kennedy / ServeTheHome: OpenAI GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark Now Running at 1K Tokens Per Secondon BIG Cerebras Chips
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg Law: OpenAI says GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is its first AI model that runs on Cerebras chipsafter they signed a $10B+ deal in January; Codex has 1M+ weekly active users
Anamarija Pogorelec / Help Net Security: OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex-Sparka real-time coding model
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: ChatGPT-5.3-Codex Is Also Good At Coding — OpenAI is back with a new Codex modelreleased the same day as Claude Opus 4.6.
Luke James / Tom's Hardware: OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark on Cerebras chips — marks AI giants first production deployment away from Nvidia
Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin: OpenAI introduces GPT-5.3-Codex-Sparkan ultra-fast coding model powered by Cerebras
Asif Razzaq / MarkTechPost: OpenAI Releases a Research Preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark: A 15x Faster AI Coding Model Delivering Over 1000 Tokens Per Second on Cerebras Hardware
Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: OpenAI's new Codex Spark model is built for speed
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Sam Altman / @sama: GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is launching today as a research preview for Pro. More than 1000 tokens per second! There are limitations at launch; we will rapidly improve.
Andrew Feldman / @andrewdfeldman: Just one month after announcing our partnership with @OpenAIwe're launching our first model together: OpenAI Codex-Sparkpowered by @cerebras. Codex-Spark is built for real-time software development. In codingresponsiveness is the product. It is not a nice to have. [image]
@scaling01: GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark size: ~700B@30B OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is the first model for which we can somewhat reliably estimate its size... GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark gets “over 1000 tokens/s”so probably 1000-1100 tokens/s... Based on that GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark should be: ~30B active - total params are hard to estimatebut likely between 300B and 700B - I thnk it is likely towards the 700B side (considering GPT-OSS-120B's sparsitywhich would put it at 690B)
Kevin Weil / @kevinweil: Coding at 1000 tokens/sec is a mind-expanding experience. You have to try this.
Pietro Schirano / @skirano: Been using this model for a bit nowthe combination of speed and intelligence is insane. It genuinely feels like a new paradigm shift. Excited to plug it into more specialized coding pipelines.
@openaidevs: Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex-Sparkour ultra-fast model purpose built for real-time coding. We're rolling it out as a research preview for ChatGPT Pro users in the Codex appCodex CLIand IDE extension. [video]
Dan Shipper / @danshipper: BREAKING: @OpenAI just launched a new Codex modelSpark—it serves at 1,000 tokens per second. It's blow your hair back fast. It's their first model publicly released on Cerebras hardwareand you can see the difference. We've been testing internally @every for the last week or soand here's our vibe check: - It's so fast it keeps you in flow more—way less waiting time - It's not as smart as Codex 5.3 or Opus 4.6 - It's very good for tasks that are easy to validate or non-production coding tasks This kind of speed introduces totally new bottlenecks in your coding workflow. Suddenlythe model can produce 10 pages of code and summaries in just a few seconds. It requires totally new UX in order to manage [...]
Elie / @eliebakouch: ok this is very interestingthis is not the same perf than gpt5.3and might not be the same arch as well? > Codex-Spark marks the first milestone in our partnership with Cerebras. Codex-Spark is optimized to feel near-instant when served on ultra-low latency hardware (from [image]
Romain Huet / @romainhuet: Hello GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark! ✨ Our first real-time coding model. It is... FAST. 1,000+ tokens per second. Once you experience latency this lowit's hard to go back. This is an exciting first milestone in our partnership with @Cerebras. [video]
Brent Schooley / @heccbrent: This was so fun to work on. GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark built a snake game so fast that I was able to start setting high scores in about 9 seconds. If you have ChatGPT Pro you're going to want to check this out today! [video]
Simon Smith / @_simonsmith: We've seen how much speed affects people's model preferences recently (e.g. the arena @swyx is running)so I think Codex Spark will be well-received. Also interesting that this initial release is a step towards combining long-horizon and real-time agentsincluding delegating to [image]
Alexander Embiricos / @embirico: ✨GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark✨ We're rolling out our first @cerebras model to Pro users today. It's fast! Rollout will be slow and very capacity constrained. Excited to roll out to more folksand improve it with your feedback.
Derrick Choi / @derrickcchoi: One of the top pieces of feedback we get about @OpenAI Codex: “make it faster”. We addressed it in a big way with our ultra fast Codex-Spark model (research preview for Pro). Available in the latest Codex appCLIand IDE extension. Here's Spark vs 5.3-Codex-Low side-by-side [video]
Max Weinbach / @mweinbach: GPT 5.3 Codex Spark! It's a smaller version of GPT 5.3 Codex running at over 1000 tokens per second on Cerebras hardware GPT 5.3 Codex was trained for GB200on GB200. I wonder what this is? Maybe GPT 5.3 Codex that used Cerebras Reap?
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Gayathri G: 🔥 OpenAI unveils GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark — an ultra-fastreal-time AI coding model in research preview. …
Sean Lie: Today we launched GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark! — This is the first release in our partnership with OpenAI. — Codex-Spark is powered by the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Enginemaking it really fast! …
Bryant McCombs: My mind was blown the first time I saw how fast Codex Spark is for two reasons. — 1) It's incredibly fast. …
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Jay Peters / The Verge: YouTube is coming to the Apple Vision Pro
Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider: YouTube's bare-minimum app for Apple Vision Pro is better than nothing — hands on
Rik Henderson / T3: Apple Vision Pro finally gets something it should have had at launch - but better late than never
Jackson Chung / TechEBlog: YouTube Officially Arrives on Vision Proand the Wait Suddenly Feels Worth It
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: YouTube launches native app for Apple Vision Pro
Scott Hayden / Road to VR: Vision Pro Finally Gets Native ‘YouTube’ App with Full Immersive Video Library
James Peckham / PCMag: YouTube App for Apple Vision Pro Is Here2 Years After First Teaser
Madhav Banka / Digit: YouTube app arrives on Apple Vision Pro after two years: What you need to know
Paulo Vargas / Digital Trends: The Vision Pro YouTube app is here and it fixes the biggest annoyances
Jason Cross / Macworld: The new Vision Pro YouTube app is a reminder that spatial computing still sucks
Alexei Oreskovic / Fortune: Anthropic raises $30 billion—and shows there's no end in sight to the AI arms race
Sumit Adhikari / SammyGuru: Apple Vision Pro Catches up to Samsung Galaxy XR in One Key Area
Tyler Lee / Android Headlines: YouTube App Finally Arrives to Apple Vision Pro With Spatial & 8K Support
Nino Leitner / CineD: YouTube Launches Dedicated App for Apple Vision Pro - 3DVR180360-Degreeand 8K Playback
Reece Bithrey / The Shortcut: Apple Vision Pro finally gets an official YouTube app
Sweta Kumari / Business Standard: Google rolls out native YouTube app for Apple Vision Pro: Here's what's new
Asif Iqbal Shaik / SamMobile: Galaxy XR loses an advantage over Apple's Vision Pro
Abdullah Asim / PhoneArena: Apple Vision Pro finally gets YouTube support two years after launchand there's still a catch
David Heaney / UploadVR: YouTube Launches Official Apple Vision Pro App
Rasmus Larsen / FlatpanelsHD: YouTube app finally arrives on Apple Vision Pro
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: Apple Vision Pro finally gets a YouTube app today
Shalom Levytam / iClarified: YouTube Launches Native Apple Vision Pro App With 8K Video Exclusive to M5 Models
Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: YouTube finally launches a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro
Laurent Giret / Thurrott: Apple Vision Pro Finally Gets a Native YouTube App
Devon Dundee / MacStories: Google Releases YouTube App for Apple Vision Pro
Aditya Tiwari / Neowin: The official YouTube app comes to Apple Vision Pro
Scott Stein / CNET: YouTube Is Finally on the Apple Vision Pro. Can We Expect More Google Apps to Come?
Jess Barnes / Cord Cutters News: YouTube is Now Available on Apple Vision Pro
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Dylan / @dylanmcd8: This app is pretty disappointing. It's like some strange combo of a web wrapper and an Android app. It uses nothing native and is strange to navigate.
Rene Ritchie / @reneritchie: Creators are the new TV starsYouTube is the new TVso great to see @YouTubeCreators shine so immersivelyexpansively on the @Apple Vision Pro
Phil Traut / @spatiallyme: They finally did it! YouTube is now an official app for Apple Vision Pro and can be downloaded from the App Store. It features 3D180 and 360-degree content and an optimised user interface. So far I really like it. Stillit feels surreal that this is actually happening. [video]
Aaron Zollo / @zollotech: Never thought I would see that.
Parker Ortolani / @parkerortolani: wow never thought it would really happen