South Korea arrests 215 people on suspicion of stealing $228M in crypto, the country’s biggest crypto investment scam with 28 types of tokens sold to 15K people (Cynthia Kim/Reuters)

Cynthia Kim / Reuters:
South Korea arrests 215 people on suspicion of stealing $228M in crypto, the country’s biggest crypto investment scam with 28 types of tokens sold to 15K people  —  South Korean police have arrested 215 people on suspicion of stealing 320 billion won ($228.4 million) in the biggest cryptocurrency investment scam in the country.

Google says it will test removing news articles from EU-based publishers from Search for 1% of users in France, Poland, Greece, Belgium, and other EU countries (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge:
Google says it will test removing news articles from EU-based publishers from Search for 1% of users in France, Poland, Greece, Belgium, and other EU countries  —  As Google continues to navigate its relationship with publishers, regulators, and news readers, the company is starting a pretty drastic test …

Sources: execs at xAI rivals were alarmed by how fast Elon Musk set up the 100K GPU cluster Colossus; a source says Sam Altman argued with Microsoft over it (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)

Anissa Gardizy / The Information:
Sources: execs at xAI rivals were alarmed by how fast Elon Musk set up the 100K GPU cluster Colossus; a source says Sam Altman argued with Microsoft over it  —  On a sunny day last month, a propeller plane made multiple passes in the air over a large industrial building surrounded …

In a policy blueprint, OpenAI says the US and its neighbors should form a “North American Compact for AI” to compete with China in talent, financing, and more (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)

Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg:
In a policy blueprint, OpenAI says the US and its neighbors should form a “North American Compact for AI” to compete with China in talent, financing, and more  —  – The startup called for a ‘North American Compact on AI’  — OpenAI said US must backstop, streamline AI infrastructure

Sources detail Elon Musk’s role in Trump’s transition: Mar-a-Lago meetings, calls with world leaders, voicing support for Brendan Carr at the FCC, and more (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)

Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Sources detail Elon Musk’s role in Trump’s transition: Mar-a-Lago meetings, calls with world leaders, voicing support for Brendan Carr at the FCC, and more  —  He’s on the patio.  He’s on the golf course.  Everywhere Donald Trump looks, there is the world’s richest man.