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Sources: some OpenAI execs were surprised by WSJ's report that the company was targeting a Q4 2026 IPO; OpenAI hopes to triple its ~$13B 2025 revenue in 2026 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-12 IPO 4Q

Some of the biggest VC firms are backing both OpenAI and Anthropic, breaking a taboo by investing in competing startups, as the AI race reshapes venture capital (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-12 Startup AI

Google says hackers are abusing Gemini AI for all attacks stages (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-12 Google AI

Google unveils WAXAL, a new open speech dataset for 21 African languages to ease speech technology development; African institutions own the dataset (restofworld.org)
2026-2-12 Google Africa

Grab agrees to acquire US fintech company Stash Financial in a deal initially valued at $425M and forecasts FY 2026 revenue of $4.04B-$4.1B, below $4.13B est. (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-12 Fintech

Multiple responses from DeepSeek's namesake chatbot confirm that the startup has expanded the context window of its flagship AI model from 128K tokens to 1M+ (www.scmp.com)
2026-2-12 Startup AI chatbot

Siri's AI Overhaul Delayed Again (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-2-12 AI

Hong Kong-listed Zhipu AI surged 30% after releasing its GLM-5, an open-source LLM with enhanced coding capabilities and long-running agent tasks (www.cnbc.com)
2026-2-12 Hong Kong AI

Zhipu AI says it will raise prices by at least 30% for new GLM coding plan subscribers to accommodate surging demand for its AI coding tools (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-12 AI

Lenovo reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $22.2B on strong PC sales ahead of expected memory price hikes and rising AI server demand; net income fell 21% to $546M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-2-12 AI Lenovo

Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is pursuing “true self-sufficiency” in AI by building enterprise- and healthcare-focused models and reducing reliance on OpenAI (www.ft.com)
2026-2-12 Microsoft AI

The US DOJ says Peter Williams, former boss of L3Harris' Trenchant, stole and sold tools that can hack millions of computers worldwide to a Russian broker (techcrunch.com)
2026-2-12 Russia

The US CBP signs a one-year Clearview AI deal, granting access to its facial recognition tool for “tactical targeting” and “strategic counter-network analysis” (www.wired.com)
2026-2-12 AI Facial Recognition

Cartel Chaos Threatens Miners (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-2-12

YC's Garry Tan launches “Garry's List”, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting “moderate/pragmatic” political candidates and pro-growth policies in California (missionlocal.org)
2026-2-12 California

A turning point: US recognises agriculture as a domain of defence (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-2-12

Making hay while Trump shines: China's tactical step back (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-2-12 Trump China

Anthropic Safety Researcher Quits, Warning 'World is in Peril' (slashdot.org)
2026-2-12

Coinbase rolls out Agentic Wallets, a wallet infrastructure that lets AI agents make autonomous crypto transactions “without human intervention” (www.theblock.co)
2026-2-12 AI Coinbase

Applied Materials reaches a $252M settlement with the US Commerce Department, resolving allegations it illegally shipped chipmaking equipment to SMIC in China (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-12 China

Disney agrees to pay $2.75M to settle California AG Rob Bonta's 2024 lawsuit alleging Disney violated CCPA by failing to honor consumers' data opt-out requests (www.thewrap.com)
2026-2-12 California

Australia's social media ban is only half the solution for online radicalisation (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-2-12 Australia Ban

US FTC chair urges Tim Cook to review Apple News' terms and curation after a study claimed the app promoted “leftist outlets” and suppressed conservative ones (www.ft.com)
2026-2-12 Apple Tim Cook

Apple fixes zero-day flaw used in 'extremely sophisticated' attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-2-12 Apple

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-2-12 U.S.

Sources: the Pentagon is pushing OpenAI, Anthropic, and others to make their AI tools available on classified networks without the standard user restrictions (www.reuters.com)
2026-2-12 AI Pentagon

Indonesia's multi-alignment dilemma under Prabowo (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-2-12 Indonesia

Australia seeking criminal charges over aid workers slain by IDF in Gaza (www.rt.com)
2026-2-12 Australia

France plotting revanchist coups in its former African colonies – Lavrov (www.rt.com)
2026-2-12 France Africa

Pentagon prepares to send second aircraft carrier toward Iran – WSJ (www.rt.com)
2026-2-12 Iran Pentagon

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