Tech Headlines For February 7, 2025
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- Byte Dance
Video ByteDance unveils AI that brings photos to life
OmniHuman-1, which has not been released for public use yet, is the latest innovation by the Beijing-based company.
ABC News
- Intel
Intel Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake CPU specs break cover — leak suggests up to 16 CPU cores and 180 total AI TOPS
Panther Lake is reserved for laptops, while Wildcat Lake supposedly succeeds the Alder Lake-N series.
Hassam Nasir
- DeepSeek
- Society
Scientists used a computer to predict exactly when society will collapse
A group of scientists have used a computer to try and establish exactly when society will collapse, and the results are rather daunting.
Lucy Devine
- Apple
Apple Expected to Launch Revamped iPhone SE Next Week
The budget-friendly device is expected to include Face ID and Apple’s first in-house modem.
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- X
German court orders X to give data access to democracy researchers ahead of federal elections | TechCrunch
Under European Union law, X is one of a handful of major social media platforms that has a duty to facilitate public interest researchers’ access to
Natasha Lomas
- Superlogic
Superlogic raises $13.7M at a $200M valuation to help consumers use reward points toward cool ‘experiences’
Superlogic, a startup that helps give consumers a way to apply rewards points toward experiences, has raised $13.7 million at a $200 million valuation, the
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- Nuclear DataCentres
UK Planning Reform Green-Lights Data Centre SMR Potential
The UK government has removed restrictions on nuclear sites and has created a regulatory taskforce to speed up deployment of small nuclear reactors (SMRs)
Amber Jackson
- FCC
FCC chair plans major C-band spectrum auction to ‘power new connections’
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Carr revealed that the agency is considering auctioning off more C-band spectrum.
Ben Wodecki
- Bill Gates
Bill Gates says AI will replace humans “for most things — but you wouldn’t want to watch computers play baseball.”
Microsoft’s co-founder says AI is getting so advanced that people may not be needed in many future roles.
Kevin Okemwa
- Apple UK
Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying
The secret order would give the UK access to encrypted backups belonging to any user — not just Brits.
Dominic Preston
- Chip Stock
Prediction: This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chip Stock Will Win Big From DeepSeek’s Feat | The Motley Fool
Harsh Chauhan
- Amazon
Once profit-starved Amazon is swimming in cash—and will go on a $100 billion AI-focused spending spree
Once profit-starved, Amazon is displaying a version of itself that many rivals have long feared.
Jason Del Rey
- AI Findings
AI Peers Inside Burned 2,000-Year-Old Vesuvius Scroll, Finds ‘Disgust’
A breakthrough out of the Vesuvius Challenge builds on past efforts to virtually “unroll” fragile papyrus documents carbonized into hardened lumps by the volcanic blast.
Leslie Katz
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