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Microsoft Defends Azure Data Use Amid U.S. Immigration Agency Controversy Over Privacy
Microsoft says it will keep hosting ICE data on Azure even as leaked documents show the agency’s stored volume jumped from about 400 TB in July 2025 to nearly 1,400 TB by January 2026, Torben Kopp reports.
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Google's Silent Crackdown Forces Platform Vendors to Block Third‑Party AI Tools
$249.99 per month. That’s the fee some Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers pay for Gemini 2.5 Pro, yet a recent report says Google has silently restricted those accounts—blocking OpenClaw authentication and, in many cases, cascading lockouts across Gmail and Workspace without warning.
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African Union Teams Up with Google to Accelerate AI Adoption Across the Continent
According to a recent report, the African Union has signed a partnership with Google to fast‑track artificial‑intelligence adoption across the continent, aiming to build capacity, foster innovation and support policy frameworks for emerging AI technologies.
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Microsoft faces backlash as US immigration agency uses Azure data, sparking controversy.
Nearly 1,400 TB—almost three times the 400 TB ICE stored in July 2025—now sits in Microsoft’s Azure, according to leaked documents cited by Torben Kopp.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Rewrite 12.5 Million Lines of
5 million lines of code—rewritten in just seven hours by teams at OpenAI and Anthropic—has sparked a wave of commentary, with industry leaders saying it could upend how developers work today.
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Anthropic’s Claude AI tool slashes $15 B from cybersecurity stocks as agents reshape
Before Anthropic unveiled its Claude security tool, cybersecurity stocks rode a rally; after its release, they shed more than $15 billion in market value, reports indicate.
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OpenClaw Gives AI Full VPS Access, Tests Soul‑Infused Agent in 48 Hours
Before, the developer manually deployed updates on his VPS; after granting OpenClaw root access, the AI rewrote configs and launched a Docker stack in 48 hours, reshaping his workflow, reports indicate.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Deploy 12.5 Million‑Line, 7‑Hour Code Sprint, Redefining Development
OpenAI and Anthropic each ran a seven‑hour internal sprint that produced roughly 12.5 million lines of code, a scale that analysts say could reshape software development, according to a recent report.
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Elon Musk unveils Tesla’s Optimus vision, aiming to revolutionize labor with humanoid
While most expect robots to remain lab curiosities, Tesla’s new Optimus vision promises a workforce‑scale humanoid that could reshape labor, reports indicate.
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Jesse Van Rootselaar announces major AI development
Jesse Van Rootselaar’s ChatGPT‑derived gun‑violence chats were flagged by OpenAI’s misuse monitors, and, according to TechCrunch AI, staff debated reporting him to Canadian police but ultimately did not.
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Bytedance launches Seedance 2.0; viral AI fight scene sparks Hollywood legal threat
Bytedance launched Seedance 2.0 on Tuesday, and a hyper‑realistic AI‑generated fight scene featuring digital doubles of Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise went viral, prompting a legal threat from Hollywood, Daily Mail reports.
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Microsoft Launches Agent Framework Workflows to Orchestrate Complex AI Tasks Beyond Chat
While early demos limited AI to single‑agent Q&A, Microsoft’s new Agent Framework Workflows let developers chain steps, coordinate multiple agents and add conditional branches, turning chat bots into full‑scale task orchestrators, reports indicate.
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Nvidia Sets World Record for DeepSeek‑R1 Inference on Single 8‑GPU System
671 billion parameters. That’s the size of DeepSeek‑R1, which NVIDIA AI Twitter reports set a new inference world record on a single 8‑GPU system as an NIM microservice preview.
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Tesla pushes Optimus humanoid robots into mass production, aiming to outpace car revenue
While Tesla once counted on car sales to drive growth, reports indicate its Optimus humanoid robots are now slated for mass production and are expected to generate more revenue than the automaker’s vehicles.
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Aurora AI Builds Trending Market Machine and Enters Medical Fraud Detection Contest,
2:03 am UTC. That's when Aurora AI’s autonomous agent began scanning Reddit, HackerNews and CoinGecko to launch Solana‑based prediction markets, while also entering a medical‑fraud detection contest.
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Mistral AI launches next‑gen Le Chat with search, PDF upload, coding, image generation
3,313 likes and counting—Mistral AI’s Twitter announced the next‑gen Le Chat, now bundling search, PDF upload, coding, image generation and le Canevas in a single interface.
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Nvidia launches AI tool to create endless portrait styles in multiple painting styles
869 likes and 261 retweets signal strong buzz as NVIDIA AI Twitter reports a new StyleGAN2 model can generate an apparently infinite array of portrait styles, trained on V100 GPUs with TensorFlow for CVPR 2020.
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SatStack launches free local AI coding agent with Ollama + qwen2.5 and SQLite memory
While cloud AI bills skyrocket with per‑token fees, a $600 desktop can now run a 14B‑parameter model for free, handling 80% of daily coding tasks, reports indicate.
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Nvidia powers record‑fast DeepSeek‑R1 inference, boosting revenue 25× at 20× lower cost.
Just weeks after the H100 set the benchmark, NVIDIA’s Blackwell chips now run DeepSeek‑R1 25 × faster in revenue and at 20 × lower cost per token, NVIDIA AI Twitter reports.
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Anthropic Tackles AI Productivity Crisis with New Execution Architecture Initiative
Anthropic unveiled a new Execution Architecture Initiative on Tuesday, aiming to fix the AI productivity crisis that leaves 80% of firms seeing no gains, reports indicate.
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