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Show Notes
New York Signs RAISE Act
Friday, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the RAISE Act, establishing AI safety guardrails for the most advanced “frontier” models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Microsoft. The law requires reporting critical safety incidents within 72 hours, creates a new oversight office, and sets penalties starting at $1 million. It is stricter than California’s framework but scaled back from earlier New York proposals.
Source: Politico
Google Sues SerpApi
Google filed suit against SerpApi, alleging it bypassed security measures to scrape and resell copyrighted content from Search results, including images and real-time data. Google claims SerpApi used cloaking, rotating bots, and ignored crawling directives. The lawsuit follows similar claims by Reddit and could make third-party SERP data harder and more expensive to access.
Source: Search Engine Land
Browser Extensions Collect AI Chats
Security firm Koi found eight Chrome and Edge extensions, installed over 8 million times, secretly collecting full AI chatbot conversations from platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. The extensions capture prompts, responses, timestamps, and metadata, even bypassing VPNs and ad blockers. Some were Google- and Microsoft-endorsed.
Source: Ars Technica
Starlink Satellite Explodes
A Starlink satellite suffered an internal anomaly, likely a small explosion, venting its propulsion tank and releasing limited trackable debris. LeoLabs confirmed the event was not a collision. The satellite is tumbling below the ISS and will fully burn up in Earth’s atmosphere within weeks. This follows a near-collision with a Chinese satellite.
Source: Engadget
Google Launches Gemini 3 Flash
Google released Gemini 3 Flash, replacing Gemini 2.5 Flash as the default in the Gemini app and AI search. The model offers improved multimodal understanding, better reasoning, and higher performance on benchmarks like MMMU-Pro. It is designed for bulk tasks and available for consumer, enterprise, and developer use, with slightly higher token costs.
Source: TechCrunch
Amazon in Talks to Invest in OpenAI
Amazon is discussing a $10 billion investment in OpenAI, potentially including use of Amazon Trainium AI chips and additional AWS data center capacity. OpenAI previously committed $38 billion over seven years for AWS server use. Amazon cannot market OpenAI’s most advanced models due to Microsoft’s exclusive rights until at least 2030.
Source: Financial Times, Engadget
Instagram Limits Hashtags
Instagram will cap posts at five hashtags, emphasizing fewer, high-quality tags. Threads will allow just one hashtag per post. Adam Mosseri says hashtags aid search but do not inherently boost reach, and creators should focus on content quality over engagement manipulation.
Source: The Verge
Netflix Acquires Ready Player Me
Netflix is buying Estonian avatar platform Ready Player Me to let subscribers carry personalized avatars across games. CTO Rainer Selvet is joining Netflix; the rest of the 20-person team is not. Ready Player Me will shut down its services on January 31. The acquisition supports Netflix’s pivot from mobile to TV-focused gaming.
Source: TechCrunch
Google Delays Assistant Transition
Google is postponing the full replacement of Assistant with Gemini on Android phones into 2026. Gemini is already default on newer devices like the Pixel 9. The rollout will continue across phones, tablets, cars, and connected devices that meet minimum requirements.
Source: Engadget
iRobot Files for Bankruptcy
iRobot filed for Chapter 11 and plans to be acquired by Chinese company Picea Robotics, pending court approval, with a deal expected in February. The company says operations, apps, and product support will continue uninterrupted. The move follows a failed Amazon acquisition in 2024 due to European regulatory concerns.
Source: Engadget