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Product head Alex Benzer says Bluesky plans to add "communities" this year, smaller spaces to "go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff" (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Product head Alex Benzer says Bluesky plans to add...

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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty warn of an "Xbox reset" in the next 100 days, citing challenges like annual revenue down ~$500M over the past five years (The Verge)

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty warn of an...

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Canada introduces the Safe Social Media Act, a bill that would ban social media for children under 16 and establish safety standards for AI chatbots (Maria Cheng/Reuters)

Canada introduces the Safe Social Media Act, a bil...

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Instagram expands Your Algorithm to its main feed, letting users choose topics they want to see, and is working to support requests for people, moods, and more (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Instagram expands Your Algorithm to its main feed,...

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YouTube rolls out a new in-app messaging system for sharing videos and having 1:1 conversations; it discontinued its previous Messages feature in 2019 (Abner Li/9to5Google)

YouTube rolls out a new in-app messaging system fo...

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Amazon secures a $17.5B loan from Citigroup and other banks, after selling CA$14B in bonds on Monday, the largest corporate debt offering in Canadian dollars (Bloomberg)

Amazon secures a $17.5B loan from Citigroup and ot...

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CISA shortens the deadline for US agencies to fix the most critical vulnerabilities in their networks to three days, citing hackers' use of AI (Raphael Satter/Reuters)

CISA shortens the deadline for US agencies to fix ...

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Chinese companies are implementing "quiet" AI-driven layoffs to avoid labor laws that require government approval for job cuts exceeding 10% of a workforce (Laurie Chen/Reuters)

Chinese companies are implementing "quiet" AI-driv...

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Sources: Microsoft's Xbox division is planning major layoffs next month and significant budget cuts for marketing and some other areas (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

Sources: Microsoft's Xbox division is planning maj...

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Sources: Sea's Shopee is cutting hundreds of developer jobs globally; the reductions started this week and amount to about 8% of Shopee's developer workforce (Bloomberg)

Sources: Sea's Shopee is cutting hundreds of devel...

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OpenAI says it has banned China-linked accounts that used ChatGPT to draft social media influence campaigns targeting US debates over tariffs and data centers (Sam Sabin/Axios)

OpenAI says it has banned China-linked accounts th...

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Oracle reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $19.18B, vs. $19.1B est., and expects to raise ~$40B through a combination of debt and equity financing in FY 2027 (Juby Babu/Reuters)

Oracle reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $19.18B, v...

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Anthropic releases two policy proposals on how governments should address catastrophic risks and manage labor market disruption from advanced AI systems (Anthropic)

Anthropic releases two policy proposals on how gov...

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Dario Amodei says frontier models should face mandatory third-party testing for cyber, bio, and autonomy risks, in addition to overall transparency requirements (Dario Amodei/@darioamodei)

Dario Amodei says frontier models should face mand...

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Dario Amodei outlines policy responses to AI's exponential progress across regulation and public safety, macroeconomics and taxes, science, geopolitics, more (Dario Amodei)

Dario Amodei outlines policy responses to AI's exp...

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OpenAI and Visa partner to let AI agents make purchases online after users give their permission and to explore enterprise applications for AI-driven payments (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)

OpenAI and Visa partner to let AI agents make purc...

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Cybersecurity researchers complain that Claude Fable's guardrails are too strict, rejecting "innocuous tasks" like reading blog posts or performing code reviews (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Cybersecurity researchers complain that Claude Fab...

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Sources: Microsoft is restricting employees from using Claude Fable 5 because of Anthropic's new 30-day data retention requirements (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Sources: Microsoft is restricting employees from u...

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