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Sifted:Report: UK startups raised €16.4B in 2024, Germany raised €9.4B, France raised €7.1B; investment in French AI startups grew from €1B in 2023 to €1.9B in 2024  —  Investment in French artificial intelligence companies almost doubled last…

Casey Newton / Platformer:Sources and docs: Meta has dismantled its system that identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach, and told content-ranking teams to stop penalizing misinfo  —  The company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake…

Sean Hollister / The Verge:DJI removes its geofence around US “No-Fly Zones”, replacing it with a warning, saying the update “aligns” with FAA rules and follows similar changes in the EU  —  For over a decade, you couldn't easily fly a DJI drone…

Josh Russell / Courthouse News Service:In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims  —  A coalition of news organizations led by The New…

Nicola M White / Bloomberg:The SEC sues Elon Musk, claiming he failed to timely disclose a major purchase of Twitter shares ahead of his takeover of the social media platform in 2022  —  - Agency alleges billionaire ignored disclosure deadline in 2022 …

Elliptic:Huione Guarantee, a Telegram marketplace that facilitates “pig butchering” and other scams, recently launched several crypto products, including a stablecoin  —  - Huione Guarantee is a Telegram-based marketplace serving fraudsters in South…

Chris Welch / The Verge:Email: Sonos CPO Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is leaving; some employees say he shares a significant amount of blame for the brand damage after the botched app revamp  —  A day after Sonos announced a CEO transition, the company is making…

Dan Primack / Axios:Intel Capital plans to split off from its parent into a standalone fund with a new name in H2 2025; Intel Capital has invested $20B+ into over 1,800 companies  —  - It was founded in 1991, and has invested more than $20 billion into…

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed debuts iOS and Android apps; its Android app is the top Social app on Google Play in some markets, including the US  —  Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched…

Laura Bratton / Yahoo Finance:Quantum computing stocks rebound after a big dip that followed skeptical comments from Nvidia's Huang; RGTI closes up 47.93%+ but is still down ~55% from Jan. 2  —  Quantum computing stocks rebounded Tuesday afternoon after a…

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:Apple joins UALink, an industry group working on a next generation AI accelerator architecture standard meant to challenge Nvidia's dominance with NVLink  —  Apple has officially gained a board seat on the Ultra Accelerator Link…

Carly Page / TechCrunch:The US says the FBI hacked ~4.2K devices in the US to delete PlugX, malware used by China-backed hackers since 2014, after obtaining warrants in August 2024  —  U.S. authorities have confirmed that they disrupted the operations of a…

Kylie Robison / The Verge:OpenAI launches Tasks, rolling out in beta to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro subscribers, to let users schedule reminders, with up to ten active at any given time  —  OpenAI is launching a new beta feature in ChatGPT called Tasks…

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:Parallels rolls out an “early technology preview” of x86 emulation on Parallels Desktop for Macs with Apple silicon, warning that performance is “really slow”  —  Virtualization software like Parallels and VMware…

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:OpenAI has appointed BlackRock exec Adebayo Ogunlesi to its board; last year, BlackRock acquired Ogunlesi's company Global Infrastructure Partners for ~$12B  —  The billionaire has experience focusing on infrastructure…