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Open models will largely lose if they keep chasing closed frontier AI models; instead, open models should serve as complementary tools to closed agents (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects AI)
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How AI may disrupt venture capital, from making it easier and cheaper to start software companies, to agentic investors analyzing startup pitch decks and teams (Arielle Pardes/Wired)
Arielle Pardes / Wired: How AI may disrupt venture capital, from making it easier and cheaper to start software companies, to agentic investors analyzing startup pitch decks and teams — VCs are betting that artificial intelligence will disrupt nearly every industry in the world. Are they prepared for it to disrupt their own? Source link
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Sam Altman says the DOD affirmed that OpenAI’s tools wouldn’t be used by agencies like the NSA, and services to them would need a further contract modification (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
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Bengaluru-based Xflow, which facilitates B2B cross-border payments, raised a $16.6M Series A led by GC at an $85M valuation, bringing its total raised to $32M+ (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Xflow, which facilitates B2B cross-border payments, raised a $16.6M Series A led by GC at an $85M valuation, bringing its total raised to $32M+ — Xflow, an Indian fintech startup, has secured backing from both Stripe and PayPal Ventures in a $16.6 million funding round. Source link
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Micron, which has undertaken a $200B US expansion, says it can currently meet about 50%-66% of demand for some key customers, as AI drives memory chip demand (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
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A court filing in the iyO-OpenAI trademark case reveals OpenAI won’t use the name “io” for its AI device, which isn’t expected to ship before February 2027 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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Sources: Telefónica and Liberty Global, co-owners of Virgin Media O2, are set to lead a ~£2B acquisition of UK's fourth-largest broadband network, Netomnia (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
Kieran Smith / Financial Times: Sources: Telefónica and Liberty Global, co-owners of Virgin Media O2, are set to lead a ~£2B acquisition of UK’s fourth-largest broadband network, Netomnia — Telefónica and Liberty Global are leading a takeover of Netomnia in a deal to close gap with BT’s Openreach Source link
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Micron plans to invest $24B over the next decade to build a 700,000 square foot memory chip facility in Singapore, with wafer output starting in H2 2028 (Reuters)
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xAI has faced a growing outcry from global regulators over Grok’s generation of non-consensual explicit photos, but has faced little regulatory action in the US (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
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The NYC token, launched by ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$100M after suspicious liquidity activity (Decrypt)
Decrypt: The NYC token, launched by ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$100M after suspicious liquidity activity — On-chain data shows unexplained liquidity withdrawals as Eric Adam’s NYC token’s market cap continues to bleed. — In brief Source link
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