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Techmeme - 2026-02-01T15:10:31-05:00

Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes proliferated on Civitai before it banned them in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review) - 2026-02-01T15:10:00-05:00

India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country as long as they run workloads from Indian data centers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-01T13:25:00-05:00

Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X "outlining concrete steps" to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok (Jin Yu Young/New York Times) - 2026-02-01T12:55:00-05:00

Sources: Apple execs question if it has the ingredients to win in AI-first era, new MacBook Pros are about to launch, Apple considers clamshell foldable iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-01T12:35:02-05:00

India to exempt foreign companies from being taxed when providing equipment to their contract manufacturers in the country, a rule change Apple lobbied for (Reuters) - 2026-02-01T11:15:02-05:00

Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotics foundation models and has raised $1B+ (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-01T10:05:00-05:00

A look at iOS 26's call-screening feature, which some compare to an executive assistant filter unwanted calls, as others complain it makes people hard to reach (Andrew Zucker/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-02-01T08:05:00-05:00

Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more (Nicole Fan/Rest of World) - 2026-02-01T06:05:01-05:00

A look at China's "genius class" system, which picks ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni span ByteDance, PDD, and more (Zijing Wu/Financial Times) - 2026-02-01T04:05:01-05:00

Anthropic positions itself as the AI sector's superego, but it's caught between the pressures to be safe, fast, and rigorous while being commercially successful (Matteo Wong/The Atlantic) - 2026-02-01T02:00:44-05:00

Sources: Alibaba has delivered more than 100K units of the Zhenwu 810E, an ASIC for AI training and inference, surpassing those of its domestic rival Cambricon (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post) - 2026-02-01T01:50:03-05:00

A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of the site's AI agents and post anything; the database has since been secured (Matthew Gault/404 Media) - 2026-02-01T01:40:01-05:00

OpenAI says it is asking select advertisers to commit $200K+ as it rolls out beta ads on ChatGPT; two sources say their companies were pitched lower amounts (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek) - 2026-02-01T01:25:06-05:00

Amazon asks the FCC for a 2-year extension until July 30, 2028, to deploy half of the 3,232 satellites for its Leo internet system, citing a rocket shortage (Alan Boyle/GeekWire) - 2026-02-01T01:15:03-05:00

Filing: Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon reports a $316M net profit in 2025, its first profitable year; rivals Moore Threads and MetaX narrowed their losses (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post) - 2026-02-01T01:00:42-05:00