Alibaba Cloud partners with 01.AI, the Beijing-based AI unicorn founded by former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee, to set up an “industrial large model laboratory” (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)

Ann Cao / South China Morning Post:
Alibaba Cloud partners with 01.AI, the Beijing-based AI unicorn founded by former Google China head Kai-Fu Lee, to set up an “industrial large model laboratory”  —  Alibaba Cloud signs a deal with start-up 01.AI to develop AI model solutions for business clients

India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, aimed at enforcing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments (Aroon Deep/The Hindu)

Aroon Deep / The Hindu:
India releases the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, aimed at enforcing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for public comments  —  The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, lay out the tentative terms of enforcing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, which was passed in Parliament in 2023

Belgium-based Swave Photonics, which is developing its Holographic eXtended Reality platform for smart glasses and heads-up displays, raised a $28.27M Series A (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Belgium-based Swave Photonics, which is developing its Holographic eXtended Reality platform for smart glasses and heads-up displays, raised a $28.27M Series A  —  Swave Photonics, a holographic display company, has raised $28.27 million in funding as it prepares components for AI-powered smartglasses and heads-up displays.

Samsung and Google plan to bring Eclipsa Audio, a new open-source 3D audio standard, to some YouTube videos later this year on Samsung’s 2025 TVs and soundbars (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Samsung and Google plan to bring Eclipsa Audio, a new open-source 3D audio standard, to some YouTube videos later this year on Samsung’s 2025 TVs and soundbars  —  Samsung and Google are ready to push a new standard, Eclipsa Audio. … Over the years, Samsung notably hasn’t supported Dolby Vision HDR …

Memo: Sameer Singh, TikTok’s general manager for North America’s ads team, is leaving the company at the end of February, as the company faces a ban in the US (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:
Memo: Sameer Singh, TikTok’s general manager for North America’s ads team, is leaving the company at the end of February, as the company faces a ban in the US  —  Sameer Singh will remain at the company until the end of February  —  Sameer Singh, TikTok’s North America head of ad sales …

PitchBook: generative AI companies worldwide raised $56B from VCs in 2024 across 885 deals, up 192% from 2023, with startups outside the US raising just $6.2B (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
PitchBook: generative AI companies worldwide raised $56B from VCs in 2024 across 885 deals, up 192% from 2023, with startups outside the US raising just $6.2B  —  If there was any doubt, the generative AI bubble didn’t burst in 2024.  —  Investments in generative AI, which encompasses …

In a test, asking Claude 3.5 Sonnet to “write better code” iteratively improved the code’s features and speed, but more aggressive prompt engineering added bugs (Max Woolf/Max Woolf’s Blog)

Max Woolf / Max Woolf’s Blog:
In a test, asking Claude 3.5 Sonnet to “write better code” iteratively improved the code’s features and speed, but more aggressive prompt engineering added bugs  —  In November 2023, after OpenAI added the ability for ChatGPT to generate images from DALL-E 3 within the ChatGPT web interface …

Filing: Dara Khosrowshahi resigns from self-driving truck startup Aurora’s board, to focus on his job as Uber CEO and reduce external board commitments (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Filing: Dara Khosrowshahi resigns from self-driving truck startup Aurora’s board, to focus on his job as Uber CEO and reduce external board commitments  —  Dara Khosrowshahi is resigning from the board of autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora Innovation, citing a desire to focus …

An in-depth look at Elon Musk’s criticisms of Wikipedia, as he joins a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking information sources outside their control (Molly White/Citation Needed)

Molly White / Citation Needed:
An in-depth look at Elon Musk’s criticisms of Wikipedia, as he joins a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking information sources outside their control  —  The world’s richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.