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-The International Data Corporation further cut its forecasts for the PC market in 2026, anticipating that global shipments would fall 11.6 percent. -The Teamsters are primarily concerned with how merging the two companies will consolidate power, and eliminate jobs in the process. -The TTP said that X's blatant disregard for U.S. sanctions law is concerning due to the fact that Elon Musk's companies have a contract with the Pentagon while X is actively profiting from U.S. adversaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It has also established the Anthropic Institute, an AI research initiative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-According to a new study from the Center for Countering Digital Hate, in partnership with CNN, 8 of the 10 most popular AI chatbots were willing to help plan violent attacks when tested by researchers. -Superhuman has taken its writing assistant Grammarly on quite the merry-go-round ride regarding its approach to AI tools. -Google Play has introduced a new feature called Game Trials, which will let you play a portion of paid games for free before you commit to buying them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Gemini-powered tools will handle routine tasks on unclassified networks, with classified access in the works. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-A whistleblower has claimed that a former software engineer from DOGE said he possessed two databases from the SSA and asked for help transferring the databases from a thumb drive "to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data. -Meta is snapping up Moltbook, a Reddit-like social network for AI agents that has been around since January and remains completely ridiculous. -Josh Wardle is back with a new game called Parseword. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Anthropic's CEO indicated last week it would fight back against the government's claims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The Oversight Board is once again urging Meta to overhaul its rules around AI-generated content. This time, the board says Meta should create a separate rule for AI content that's independent of its misinformation policy, invest in more reliable detection tools and make better use of digital watermarks among other changes. -The Netherlands’ military intelligence service and domestic intelligence agency have issued a join warning claiming that Russian hackers have launched "a large-scale global cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to dignitaries, military personnel and civil servants." -Uber has expanded it...

-The Oversight Board is once again urging Meta to overhaul its rules around AI-generated content. This time, the board says Meta should create a separate rule for AI content that's independent of its misinformation policy, invest in more reliable detection tools and make better use of digital watermarks among other changes. -The Netherlands’ military intelligence service and domestic intelligence agency have issued a join warning claiming that Russian hackers have launched "a large-scale global cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to dignitaries, military personnel and civil servants." -Uber has expanded it...

The government is trying to decide whether copyrighted material can be used to train AI algorithms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said that this "marks the first time a human-made object has measurably altered the path of a celestial body around the Sun." -Qualcomm, which purchased microcontroller board manufacturer Arduino last year, just announced a new single-board computer that marries AI with robotics. -OpenAI's robotics hardware lead is out. Caitlin Kalinowski, who oversaw hardware within the robotics division of OpenAI, posted on X that she was resigning from her role, while criticizing the company's haste in partnering with the Department of Defense without investigating proper guardrails. Learn more...

New 'Transparency Tags' allow record labels to show that music was made with the help of AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

-The UK government is working on a controversial data bill that would allow AI companies like Google and OpenAI to train their models on copyrighted materials without consent. -Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the company received a letter from the Defense Department, officially labeling it a supply chain risk. He said he doesn’t “believe this action is legally sound,” and that his company sees “no choice” but to challenge it in court. -Meta is facing a class action lawsuit for false advertising related to its AI glasses following reports about the company's use of human cont...

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-Anthropic is reportedly trying to reach a new deal with the US Defense Department, which could prevent the government from labeling it a supply chain risk. -The White House announced that several major players in tech and AI have agreed to steps that will keep electricity costs from rising due to data centers. Under this Ratepayer Protection Pledge, companies are agreeing to practices that are intended to protect residents from seeing higher electricity costs as more and more businesses create power-hungry data centers. -Apple Music has now introduced "Transparency Tags" designed to show listeners if...

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-Over five days in December 2025, more than 200 simulated "grid events" tested a London data center’s ability to adjust its energy use on the fly. In each simulated grid event, the data center successfully adjusted its energy use to the requested level, reducing power draw by up to 40% -Meta has signed an AI licensing deal with News Corp that will allow the Meta AI maker to use content from The Wall Street Journal and other brands in its chatbot responses and for training of its AI models. -TikTok said that implementing the technology would prevent it...

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-OpenAI’s Sam Altman said the company will amend its deal with the Defense Department to explicitly prohibit the use of its AI system on mass surveillance against Americans. -On Monday, the US Supreme Court declined to hear a case about whether an artwork generated with the help of AI can be copyrighted. The refusal means that a lower court's decision to reject the copyright request will stand. -Starlink is getting ready to launch its second generation of satellites, and it's expected to match the speeds of a traditional terrestrial network. During a keynote at Mo...

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