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These are the Daily Tech headlines for Monday, February 10th, 2025. I'm Sarah Lane. T Mobile announced Starlink pricing and availability during the super bowl on Sunday, and it doesn't actually require being a T Mobile customer. The beta is free until July, Then included in Go5G Next plans or available for $15 per month for T Mobile users and $20 a month for others. The service is powered by Starlink's Direct to Cell satellites and currently supports text with voice and data coming later. Apple has apparently shelved its Mac tethered AR glasses, but may still be pursuing standalone AR glasses long term. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple is focusing on display and chip technology rather than a stopgap product. The feature device may closely resemble regular glasses rather than a Vision Pro style headset. On Sunday at the AI Action Summit in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron announced 109 billion euros in private AI investments, mainly for data centers. Macron emphasized France's competitive AI landscape and and highlighted AI company Mistral's plans to invest billions in an AI cluster with surplus nuclear power. France is looking to attract AI infrastructure investments, pledging 1 gigawatt of nuclear energy for AI training by 2026. On Sunday, Valve reaffirmed its long standing ban on in game advertising by adding a dedicated advertising on Steam page to its steamworks documentation. Games on Steam can't require players to watch ads, gate content behind ads or use ads as a core monetization model. Limited forms of advertising like cross promotions and product placements are still allowed. Steam says the stance is meant to curb exploitative monetization, similar to its ban on blockchain based games. Last Friday, Acer unveiled the Predator helos. Neo 16 AI and 18 AI both feature up to an Intel Core Ultra 9275 HX processor and Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti GPU and up to 64 gigs of RAM. The Neo 16 has more portable design with an OLED display. The Neo 18 is more designed as a desktop replacement, has a mini LED WQXGA Panel with a 250Hz refresh rate. Neo 16 is starting at $1,900 coming in April. The new 18 launches in May starting at 2,200. Discord announced a new feature called Ignore, which hides messages, DMS notifications and general activity from selected users without notifying the user that you did it. Ignored messages are still accessible, but show is grayed out and Discord users will receive a warning before joining calls with ignored accounts. The feature can be managed through user settings, the friends list or profiles. Reuters sources say OpenAI is developing its first in house AI chip to reduce reliance on Nvidia, with plans to finalize the design and send it to TSMC for fabrication later this year. If successful, mass production could begin by 2026, although initial deployment is said to be limited. The the project is being led by ex Google engineer Richard Ho and aims to improve OpenAI's bargaining power with chip suppliers. This follows news that OpenAI is also updating how its latest model, O3 Mini presents its reasoning process. Last week the company announced that all ChatGPT users can now see more details of the chain of thought that shows how the model arrives at its answers. Not every single step, but a clearer summary. The update also offers a post processing step to weed out things like unsafe content and translate reasoning into users native languages for better accessibility. For more analysis of the tech news of the day, you know what to do. Subscribe to DailyTech News Show.com you can find show notes and links to all these headlines there as well. I'm Sarah Lane. I thank you for listening and and we'll talk to you next time.