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The PowerSchool hacker claims that they stole personal data of 62.4M students and 9.5M teachers; in a private customer FAQ, PowerSchool said it paid a ransom (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
Source: Trump had a lengthy conversation with Sam Altman last week about the potential of AI and the need to develop the tech in the US (Kate Rooney/CNBC)
Samsung's Galaxy S25 lineup will be the first handsets to support the Content Credentials standard, which identifies AI-generated images (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
London-based Lindus Health, which has built a software platform for running clinical trials, raised a $55M Series B led by Balderton Capital (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
Samsung teases the Galaxy S25 Edge; an exec says it aims to sell the ultra-thin phone in the US and other markets by the middle of 2025, priced under $1,300 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Sources: Trump administration dismissed the members of CSRB, which investigates major cybersecurity incidents, likely disrupting the Salt Typhoon hacks probe (David DiMolfetta/Defense One)
Samsung banks on a hybrid AI strategy, using Google features backed by Gemini and internally developed AI features for One UI 7, to spur smartphone demand (Bloomberg)
Samsung's mobile chief TM Roh says Samsung and Google are working on AR glasses, but doesn't provide further details or a launch timeframe (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Google says Galaxy S25 supports the Gemini Nano AI model and Samsung's TalkBack accessibility app is the first non-Google app to use the model (Mishaal Rahman/Android Police)
Samsung updates its Wallet app with "Instant Installment", its take on BNPL, and "Tap to Transfer", similar to Apple's Tap to Cash, both coming later in 2025 (Cherlynn Low/Engadget)
Google details improvements to Android's Circle to Search, including automatically recognizing phone numbers, addresses, and URLs, expanded AI Overviews, more (Mishaal Rahman/Android Faithful)
Samsung unveils the $1.3K Galaxy S25 Ultra with a 6.9" QHD+ AMOLED screen, up from 6.8", 50MP sensor for the ultra-wide camera, a small S Pen downgrade, more (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)
Google's Gemini will be the default on-device assistant for the new Galaxy S25 series, and gets the ability to work across multiple apps in a single prompt (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
Samsung announces the $800 Galaxy S25 with a 6.2" screen and the $1K 6.7" Galaxy S25 Plus, with 12GB of RAM, Snapdragon 8 Elite, "Qi2 Ready", and more (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
Sources: Meta aims to debut glasses with a built-in display and new Oakley-branded smart glasses for athletes in 2025; it has resumed work on watches, earbuds (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Apple says installing macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3, or iPadOS 18.3 will turn on Apple Intelligence automatically on compatible devices; users can opt out later (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
DeepSeek's new MIT-licensed AI models can be accessed via DeepSeek's API at a fraction of the cost of comparable OpenAI models but there are censorship concerns (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
The SEC launches a "Crypto 2.0" task force led by SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, to create a "comprehensive and clear regulatory framework for crypto assets" (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
Parrot Analytics estimates Severance season 1 earned $200M+, with ~50% coming in the year following the finale; Ted Lasso generated $609.4M from Q3'20 to Q3'24 (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
ByteDance-owned video editing app CapCut is now working in the US, but is still not in app stores, after Trump signed an EO attempting to pause the TikTok ban (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
Omdia: by the end of 2024, TikTok generated ~$8B in ad revenue in the US and $63.3B globally, and surpassed 1.9B MAUs globally, including 145M MAUs in the US (Marta Balaga/Variety)
Meta will soon let users link WhatsApp accounts with Instagram and Facebook, allowing cross posts of WhatsApp Statuses as Stories on Instagram and Facebook (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)