Technology

Sources: China's review of Meta's Manus deal was spurred by what officials called "selling young crops", a concern over cross&border transfer of emerging tech (Financial Times)

Sources: China's review of Meta's Manus deal was spurre...

Financial Times: Sources: China's review of Meta's Manus deal was spurred by wha...

Netflix co&CEO Greg Peters expects Netflix to win WBD, says Paramount's bid "doesn't pass the sniff test" and a "very small" number of WBD holders backed it (Financial Times)

Netflix co&CEO Greg Peters expects Netflix to win WBD, ...

Financial Times: Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters expects Netflix to win WBD, says Par...

Sources: Fei&Fei Li's World Labs is in discussions with investors to raise hundreds of millions at a valuation of $5B; World Labs was last valued at $1B in 2024 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Fei&Fei Li's World Labs is in discussions with...

Bloomberg: Sources: Fei-Fei Li's World Labs is in discussions with investors to ...

Railway, a cloud platform for software deployment, raised a $100M Series B led by TQ Ventures, bringing its total funding to $130M+, says it has ARR of $10M+ (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Railway, a cloud platform for software deployment, rais...

Chris Metinko / Axios: Railway, a cloud platform for software deployment, raised...

Inferact, founded by the creators of vLLM to create a commercial AI product for cross&hardware efficiency, raised a $150M seed led by a16z at an $800M valuation (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Inferact, founded by the creators of vLLM to create a c...

Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg: Inferact, founded by the creators of vLLM to create a c...

Mistral's CEO says claims that Chinese AI startups lag behind the US are a "fairy tale," and China's open&source tech is "probably stressing" US CEOs (Bloomberg)

Mistral's CEO says claims that Chinese AI startups lag ...

Bloomberg: Mistral's CEO says claims that Chinese AI startups lag behind the US ...

xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has "left" the company days after appearing on a podcast last week where he claimed that xAI had been skirting regulations (AJ Dellinger/Gizmodo)

xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has "left" the comp...

AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has “left” the compa...

Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation (Myles Miller/Bloomberg)

Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a mino...

Myles Miller / Bloomberg: Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a min...

BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the marketed range of $15 to $17 per share, giving it a market value of about $2.1B (Bloomberg)

BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, ab...

Bloomberg: BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the market...

Upscale AI, which is building AI networking infrastructure, raised $200M led by Tiger, Premji Invest, and Xora Innovation at a $1B valuation to take on Cisco (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Upscale AI, which is building AI networking infrastruct...

Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Upscale AI, which is building AI networking infrastructur...

Sources: Elon Musk is pushing for a SpaceX IPO by July, seems eager to beat OpenAI and Anthropic to market, and views it as a way to help xAI catch its rivals (Wall Street Journal)

Sources: Elon Musk is pushing for a SpaceX IPO by July,...

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Elon Musk is pushing for a SpaceX IPO by July, see...

Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including presentation generation, file editing, and creating podcast summaries from docs stored in Adobe Spaces (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including...

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including...

LinkedIn data shows sluggish overall hiring but a surge in AI&related jobs

LinkedIn data shows sluggish overall hiring but a surge...

A new report by professional social media platform LinkedIn shows that while job...

Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise funding at a $1.3B valuation, up from $500M in October (The Information)

Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customiz...

The Information: Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models...

The EC introduces draft revisions to the EU's Cybersecurity Act to phase out equipment from high&risk suppliers in critical sectors, a move criticized by Huawei (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

The EC introduces draft revisions to the EU's Cybersecu...

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The EC introduces draft revisions to the EU's Cybersecur...

G42 CEO Peng Xiao says AI chip shipments from Nvidia, AMD, and Cerebras are set to arrive in the UAE within the next few months, as the UAE builds a 200MW hub (Bloomberg)

G42 CEO Peng Xiao says AI chip shipments from Nvidia, A...

Bloomberg: G42 CEO Peng Xiao says AI chip shipments from Nvidia, AMD, and Cerebr...

One year since Trump's return to the White House: The US's two&track economy

One year since Trump's return to the White House: The U...

It's been one year since Donald Trump started his second term as US president, a...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is a blunder with "incredible national security implications", calling it a "big mistake" and "crazy" (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to Chi...

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI ch...

Humans&, founded by ex&Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff to build collaborative AI, raised a $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others at a $4.48B valuation (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Humans&, founded by ex&Anthropic, xAI, and Google s...

Cade Metz / New York Times: Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google st...

Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50%+ of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025 (Zach Vallese/CNBC)

Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50%+ of all Instagram...

Zach Vallese / CNBC: Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50%+ of all Instagram ads...

Q&A with Razer CEO Min&Liang Tan on the use of AI in game development, the gaming community's pushback against AI, partnering with Grok, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Q&A with Razer CEO Min&Liang Tan on the use of AI i...

Nilay Patel / The Verge: Q&A with Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan on the use of AI in ga...

Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch has revived fears about disruption that weighed on SaaS stocks in 2025; Morgan Stanley SaaS index is down 15% so far in 2026 (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)

Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch has revived fears abou...

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch has revived fears ...

The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under&16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling (Kiran Stacey/The Guardian)

The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under&...

Kiran Stacey / The Guardian: The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban un...

Chinese media: phone makers Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Transsion trimmed their 2026 shipment targets, with Oppo cutting up to 20%, due to the memory chip shortage (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

Chinese media: phone makers Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Tra...

Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: Chinese media: phone makers Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and...

Chinese smartphone shipments fell 1.6% YoY in Q4 2025 and 0.6% YoY for 2025 due to weak demand, rising prices, and memory shortages; iPhone shipments rose 28% (Counterpoint Research)

Chinese smartphone shipments fell 1.6% YoY in Q4 2025 a...

Counterpoint Research: Chinese smartphone shipments fell 1.6% YoY in Q4 2025 and...

Sources: political appointees at the US CISA blocked Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala's attempt to oust the agency's Chief Information Officer Robert Costello (John Sakellariadis/Politico)

Sources: political appointees at the US CISA blocked Ac...

John Sakellariadis / Politico: Sources: political appointees at the US CISA bloc...

Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android ...

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android...

Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York City, where integrating AI into retail businesses was the overarching theme on the expo floor (New York Times)

Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference i...

New York Times: Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New Yor...

CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 "liquidation cascade" (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched...

Helene Braun / CoinDesk: CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched...

A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about Google DeepMind and its CEO Demis Hassabis, garnering 285M+ views on YouTube since November 2025 (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)

A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentar...

Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a do...

OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage ...

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage an...

Atlantic Council: China&led cross&border digital currency platform mBridge, still a prototype, has processed 4,000+ cross&border transactions totaling $55.5B (Marc Jones/Reuters)

Atlantic Council: China&led cross&border digital curren...

Marc Jones / Reuters: Atlantic Council: China-led cross-border digital currency ...

Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single&year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on&demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)

Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1...

Maria Sherman / Associated Press: Luminate 2025 report: the global music industr...

ZachXBT: a crypto user lost $282M+ in BTC and LTC in a hardware wallet social engineering scam; XMR jumped as the attacker began converting the funds to Monero (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

ZachXBT: a crypto user lost $282M+ in BTC and LTC in a ...

Daniel Kuhn / The Block: ZachXBT: a crypto user lost $282M+ in BTC and LTC in a ...

Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a fabrication site in Taiwan from Powerchip for $1.8B to expand DRAM memory chip production, expected to close in Q2 2026 (Valentine Baldassari/Bloomberg)

Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a fabrication si...

Valentine Baldassari / Bloomberg: Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a fabri...

Adobe's stock has slumped more than 45% since the end of 2023, reflecting analyst concerns over the threat of AI&driven disruption to SaaS companies (Ryan Vlastelica/Bloomberg)

Adobe's stock has slumped more than 45% since the end o...

Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Adobe's stock has slumped more than 45% since the e...

Sources: the EU's cybersecurity proposal, to be presented on Jan. 20, is expected to phase out vendors such as Huawei from the bloc's critical infrastructure (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)

Sources: the EU's cybersecurity proposal, to be present...

Barbara Moens / Financial Times: Sources: the EU's cybersecurity proposal, to be...

Luxembourg&based Hydrosat, which builds AI&based thermal infrared satellite tech to provide data for water resource management and more, raised a $60M Series B (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media)

Luxembourg&based Hydrosat, which builds AI&based therma...

Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media: Luxembourg-based Hydrosat, which builds AI-bas...

Istanbul&based TaleMonster Games, the studio behind the puzzle game Match Valley, raised a $30M Series A led by Arcadia Gaming Partners and a16z (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)

Istanbul&based TaleMonster Games, the studio behind the...

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: Istanbul-based TaleMonster Games, the studio behin...

Vietnam's military&run telecom company Viettel begins construction of the country's first chip plant, with trial production expected to start by late 2027 (Phuong Nguyen/Reuters)

Vietnam's military&run telecom company Viettel begins c...

Phuong Nguyen / Reuters: Vietnam's military-run telecom company Viettel begins c...

Analysis: Colossus 2, one of the world's largest AI datacenters, will use as much water/year as 2.5 average In&N&Outs, assuming only drinkable water and burgers (SemiAnalysis)

Analysis: Colossus 2, one of the world's largest AI dat...

SemiAnalysis: Analysis: Colossus 2, one of the world's largest AI datacenters, w...

California regulators unanimously voted in favor of Verizon's $10B Frontier acquisition; deliberations included Verizon committing to CA's DEI requirements (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)

California regulators unanimously voted in favor of Ver...

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net: California regulators unanimously voted in favor of ...

Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for worke...

Sean Hollister / The Verge: Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for wo...

SiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastructure with its RISC&V processor IP platforms, allowing SiFive silicon to communicate with Nvidia GPUs (Marco Chiappetta/Forbes)

SiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastruc...

Marco Chiappetta / Forbes: SiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastr...

Is the EU&Mercosur trade agreement more than a 'cows for cars' deal?

Is the EU&Mercosur trade agreement more than a 'cows fo...

A qualified majority of EU countries have finally approved the EU-Mercosur trade...

AI video startup Higgsfield raised an $80M Series A extension from Accel and others at a $1.3B+ valuation, and reports a $200M annualized revenue run rate (Krystal Hu/Reuters)

AI video startup Higgsfield raised an $80M Series A ext...

Krystal Hu / Reuters: AI video startup Higgsfield raised an $80M Series A extens...

Boston&based Tulip, which offers an AI&powered frontline operations platform used by 60K workers, raised a $120M Series D led by Mitsubishi at a $1.3B valuation (Gil Press/Forbes)

Boston&based Tulip, which offers an AI&powered frontlin...

Gil Press / Forbes: Boston-based Tulip, which offers an AI-powered frontline ope...

Sam Altman's brain&computer interface startup Merge Labs raised $252M from OpenAI, Bain Capital, and others (Ike Swetlitz/Bloomberg)

Sam Altman's brain&computer interface startup Merge Lab...

Ike Swetlitz / Bloomberg: Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge La...

Some museum entrance fees go up for non&EU tourists in France

Some museum entrance fees go up for non&EU tourists in ...

Tourists visiting France from outside the European Union now have to pay signifi...

Project Eleven, which builds tools to prepare blockchains for post&quantum threats, raised a $20M Series A led by Castle Island at a $120M post&money valuation (Yogita Khatri/The Block)

Project Eleven, which builds tools to prepare blockchai...

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Project Eleven, which builds tools to prepare blockch...

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