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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)

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1 February 2026

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)

Jin Yu Young / New York Times:
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  —  Indonesia joined Malaysia and the Philippines in reversing its restrictions, weeks after it blocked the chatbot …

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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)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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  —  Apple's blockbuster holiday quarter was impressive — but it shouldn't give cover to avoid an AI reckoning.

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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)

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India to exempt foreign companies from being taxed when providing equipment to their contract manufacturers in the country, a rule change Apple lobbied for  —  India's government on Sunday handed a major win to Apple (AAPL.O) by allowing foreign companies to provide machines …

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Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B+ (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotic foundation models and has raised $1B+  —  From the street, the only indication I've found Physical Intelligence's headquarters in San Francisco is a pi symbol that's …

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A look at iOS 26's call-screening feature, which some say is like having an assistant to filter out unwanted calls, as some complain it makes them miss calls (Andrew Zucker/Wall Street Journal)

Andrew Zucker / Wall Street Journal:
A look at iOS 26's call-screening feature, which some say is like having an assistant to filter out unwanted calls, as some complain it makes them miss calls  —  Thanks to a new iPhone feature, everyone now has an executive assistant in their pocket to filter unwanted calls

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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)

Nicole Fan / Rest of World:
Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more  —  With backing from the Chinese government, TCM practitioners are integrating AI tools to reach new consumers at home and abroad.

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A look at China's "genius class" system that selects ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni include many top tech founders (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

Zijing Wu / Financial Times:
A look at China's “genius class” system that selects ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni include many top tech founders  —  About three years ago, Stacey Tang, a manager in a pharmaceuticals company in Beijing, received a peculiar phone call.

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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)

Ann Cao / South China Morning Post:
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  —  The milestone underscores Alibaba's growing footprint in AI hardware, as Chinese firms accelerate efforts to build home-grown processors

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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)

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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  —  These are not the words you want to hear when it comes to human extinction, but I was hearing them: “Things are moving uncomfortably fast.”

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OpenAI says it is asking select advertisers to commit at least $200K as it rolls out beta ads on ChatGPT; two sources say their firms were pitched lower amounts (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
OpenAI says it is asking select advertisers to commit at least $200K as it rolls out beta ads on ChatGPT; two sources say their firms were pitched lower amounts  —  OpenAI is asking select advertisers to commit at least $200,000 as it rolls out beta ads on ChatGPT, the company confirmed to ADWEEK.

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