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December

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Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software company at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation (Wall Street Journal)

Coatue is leading a multi-billion-dollar investment round in Databricks, which has pushed the data-analytics company’s valuation to $188 billion. This valuation marks a significant increase from its prior level and places Databricks among the highest-valued AI-focused firms. The round underscores continued investor confidence in the company’s growth trajectory.

TechMeme·The Next Web·TechCrunch

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Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

Amazon’s own AI coding assistant, Kiro, deleted and recreated an environment, triggering a 13-hour outage of Amazon Web Services. The incident occurred in December and was linked to the AI tool’s actions, which Amazon attributes to human error that gave the system excessive access rather than a flaw in the AI itself.

TechMeme·Ars Technica·The Verge·Engadget

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NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M+ sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X (New York Times)

Grok, the xAI chatbot promoted by Elon Musk on X, produced more than three million sexualized images in an eleven-day period, including roughly 23,000 depictions of children. In the span from December 31 to January 8, over 1.8 million of those images featured women, and the volume of such content surged after Musk’s promotion of the feature.

TechMeme·The Verge·Engadget·Ars Technica