Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.5 is “harder to trick with prompt injection than any other frontier model in the industry” but isn't “immune” to such attacks
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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5, saying it is “the best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use” and “meaningfully better at everyday tasks”
Our newest model, Claude Opus 4.5, is available today. It's intelligent, efficient …
Anthropic says it will train its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts and coding sessions, unless users opt out by September 28
You can choose to opt out. … Anthropic will start training its AI models on user data, including new chat transcripts and coding sessions, unless users choose to opt out.
Memo: OpenAI's Mark Chen responds to Meta offers, says it feels like “someone has broken into our home and stolen something” and OpenAI is “recalibrating comp”
As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they're ‘recalibrating comp,’ according to an internal memo.
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says consumer electronics exempt from tariffs may be included in semiconductor tariffs likely coming in “a month or two”
www.ft.com/content/9038... @drdoofenschmirtz : Only 45 more months of this uncertainty, assuming we have elections in 2026 &. 2028. — Good job Wall Street!!! You got your guy G...
Sources: Apple asked suppliers in India, Vietnam, and Thailand to ramp up production earlier in 2025; Indian factory utilization rates are already at the limit
TAIPEI — Apple is ramping up production of key products in India and Vietnam to take advantage of a 90-day grace period on U.S. tariffs …
The Trump administration exempts smartphones, laptops, hard drives, processors, memory chips, and machines used to make semiconductors from “reciprocal tariffs”
President Donald Trump's administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs …
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says consumer electronics exempt from tariffs may be included in semiconductor tariffs likely coming in “a month or two”
Commerce secretary says products included in reprieve may be subject to separate regime
Sources: many new Chinese AI data centers sit unused due to weak demand and DeepSeek-driven shifts; local reports: up to 80% of new computing resources are idle
A year or so ago, Xiao Li was seeing floods of Nvidia chip deals on WeChat. A real estate contractor turned data center project manager …
Skype was an early harbinger of technology as culture, and its demise is a good lesson in how ineffective middle management can destroy good acquisitions
Microsoft is shutting down Skype. It will go offline in May 2025. … It makes me incredibly sad, but I am not surprised.
Sources: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the US Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia …
CoinGecko: $TRUMP rose more than 600% overnight and was trading at just over $32 as of 11AM ET, giving it a fully diluted market capitalization of $32B+
www.axios.com/2025/01/18/t... Ian Bassin / @ianbassin : A system in which someone can do something of zero intrinsic value and make $25 billion overnight is a system broken beyond ...
Coinbase and Binance plan to list the TRUMP token, with Binance opening trading on Jan. 19; CoinGecko: $TRUMP is trading on Bitget, Kraken, and other exchanges
The ‘official’ memecoin of the second Donald Trump administration will be listed on major cryptocurrency exchanges including Coinbase …
Congressional leaders seem flummoxed by the growing popularity of Chinese-owned apps Xiaohongshu and Lemon8, an unintended consequence of the TikTok ban
The Chinese apps RedNote and Lemon8 have exploded in popularity as TikTok faces an imminent ban and the Supreme Court upheld the law forcing its sale. Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com ...
Congressional leaders seem flummoxed by the growing popularity of Chinese-owned apps Xiaohongshu and Lemon8, an unintended consequence of the TikTok ban
The Chinese apps RedNote and Lemon8 have exploded in popularity as TikTok faces an imminent ban and the Supreme Court upheld the law forcing its sale. Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com ...
Donald Trump is promoting a Solana memecoin called TRUMP from his social media accounts, with 200M $TRUMP available now and growing to 1B “over three years”
Talk about a Friday night surprise. President-elect Donald Trump's social media accounts shared what appears …
TikTok says it will go dark in the US on Sunday unless the Biden admin provides a “definitive statement” to critical service providers assuring non-enforcement
TikTok said its services will go dark on Sunday without a guarantee from the Biden administration that it won't punish Apple …
Some US congressional leaders who championed the TikTok law now want to delay the ban from going into effect, showing how much politics has shifted on the issue
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a bipartisan law that aims to ban TikTok nationwide beginning … Alan Friedman / PhoneArena : TikTok admits things look bleak with the app likely “...
CoinGecko: $TRUMP rose more than 600% overnight and was trading just over $32 as of 11AM ET, giving it a fully diluted market capitalization of $32B+
- It also speaks to the nature of the crypto industry that someone could have $25 billion worth of something that literally did not exist 24 hours previously.