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Estonia partners with OpenAI and Anthropic to launch an AI skills drive in schools for 20,000 students aged 16 and 17, aiming to help develop critical thinking (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Estonia partners with OpenAI and Anthropic to launch an AI skills drive in [...]

Activision confirms on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's Steam page that it "uses generative AI tools to help develop some in game assets", after fan speculation (Brad Norton/Dexerto)

Brad Norton / Dexerto: Activision confirms on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s Steam page [...]

MongoDB buys Voyage AI for $220M and plans to integrate Voyage's retrieval tools for higher-quality AI outputs with real-time operational data for businesses (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: MongoDB buys Voyage AI for $220M and plans to integrate Voyage’s [...]

A look at India's Svamitva Scheme, which has digitally mapped out landholdings using drones in 300K+ villages as of January 2025, as concerns mount over errors (Scroll.in)

Scroll.in: A look at India’s Svamitva Scheme, which has digitally mapped out landholdings using drones [...]

Some physicists are skeptical about Microsoft's claims of achieving a quantum computing breakthrough with Majorana 1, citing the lack of detailed evidence (Davide Castelvecchi/Scientific American)

Davide Castelvecchi / Scientific American: Some physicists are skeptical about Microsoft’s claims of achieving a [...]

How Breeze Liu, an advocate for digital abuse victims, got Microsoft to scrub 142 nonconsensual explicit images of her hosted on Azure after months of struggle (Wired)

Wired: How Breeze Liu, an advocate for digital abuse victims, got Microsoft to scrub 142 [...]

Labour MP Graeme Downie, the chair of the UK's cross-party coalition on secure technology, warns that Chinese components in smart devices pose a sabotage threat (Lucy Fisher/Financial Times)

Lucy Fisher / Financial Times: Labour MP Graeme Downie, the chair of the UK’s cross-party [...]

Internal documents, emails, and federal data suggest Indian IT giant TCS has used L-1A manager visas in ways that raise concerns about undercutting US workers (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Internal documents, emails, and federal data suggest Indian IT giant TCS has used L-1A [...]

Sources: Sam Altman and OpenAI's board weigh governance changes, including special voting rights for its nonprofit board, to deter hostile bids like Musk's (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Sam Altman and OpenAI’s board weigh governance changes, including special voting rights [...]

A look at the OpenEuroLLM project, a partnership among 20 EU organizations to develop open-source LLMs that support all EU languages, with a budget of €37.4M (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: A look at the OpenEuroLLM project, a partnership among 20 EU [...]

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