The Buzz ■ Microsoft confirmed to Forbes it handed FBI agents BitLocker encryption keys under warrant for a fraud investigation…
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ICE Seeks Ad Tech Surveillance Tools in Federal Filing
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is shopping for commercial ad tech and big data tools to power its investigations, according…
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AI Giants Clash at Davos as Bubble Fears Mount
The Buzz ■ Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called out Nvidia over Trump administration’s decision to allow chip exports to China,…
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Get ready for the AI ad-pocalypse
I’ll confess, with no shame whatsoever, that I really love ads. Artsy ones, funny ones, weird ones, emotional ones —…
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AI Labs Face New Test: Show Us Your Business Plan
The Buzz ■ TechCrunch debuts rating system measuring AI labs’ commercial ambition from Level 1 (pure research) to Level 5…
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Gemini with Personal Intelligence is awfully familiar
If that all sounds familiar, it’s because Gemini already offered the option to hook into your Workspace apps. But it…
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Sub-Millimeter Robot Swims Autonomously for Months
The Buzz ■ Researchers from Penn and Michigan developed a 0.3mm autonomous robot – the first to break the 1mm…
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Harvey acquires Hexus in legal AI consolidation play
The legal AI market just got tighter. Harvey, the $8 billion legal AI darling backed by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI,…
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AI labs wage a reputational knife fight at Davos
This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for…
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Google’s leaked docs reveal Chromebook plan to lock in kids
The Buzz ■ Internal Google presentations from 2020 state that getting kids into its ecosystem “leads to brand trust and…
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