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OpenAI buying TBPN makes little sense, par for the course for a company that, like Twitter, stumbled into a big market and may never build a functional business (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/openai-buys-tbpn-tech-and-the-token-tsunami/

OpenAI Buys TBPN, Tech and the Token Tsunami
OpenAI’s purchase of TBPN makes no sense, which may be par for the course for OpenAI. Then, AI is breaking stuff, starting with tech services.

"We have the proof that logging makes Tasmania’s forests more flammable"
#Tasmania #Environment #Trees

We have the proof that logging makes Tasmania’s forests more flammable
After almost 60 years, scientists have been able to prove an influential theory that wet eucalypt forest regrowth is more fire prone.

Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Results (Amazon)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260204777163/en/
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The Trump administration debuts its cyber strategy, outlining priorities including promoting offense operations, securing AI tech, and streamlining regulations (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/trump-cybersecurity-strategy/

OpenAI announces a Safety Fellowship program for external researchers, engineers, and practitioners to study the safety and alignment of advanced AI systems (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-safety-fellowship

Nintendo of America sues the US government, seeking a refund with interest for tariffs that the company says Trump implemented in "unlawful" EOs (Nicole Carpenter/Aftermath)
https://aftermath.site/nintendo-tariffs-sue/

Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs
Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade

A cryptography engineer calls for urgent rollout of post-quantum cryptography schemes, saying the risk of inaction is now unacceptable, after Google's warning (Filippo Valsorda)
https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/

A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
The risk that cryptographically-relevant quantum computers materialize within the next few years is now high enough to be dispositive, unfortunately.

Dario Amodei says Anthropic has been "having productive conversations" with the DOD and apologizes for a leaked memo that criticized Trump and Sam Altman (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/where-stand-department-war

Where things stand with the Department of War
A statement from Dario Amodei

Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0ggkr2g77o

2024 TfL hack affected around 10 million people, BBC can reveal
TfL insists it has "kept customers informed throughout this incident and will continue to take all necessary action".

Google has quietly released an unsupported Workspace CLI, making it easier for agentic AI tools to access Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, and other apps (Ben Patterson/PCWorld)
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3079523

Google makes Gmail, Drive, and Docs 'agent-ready' for OpenClaw
A new command-line interface for Google Workspace greases the wheels for personal AI assistants like OpenClaw to tap directly into Workspace documents.