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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thinking Machines parts ways with CTO Barret Zoph, with Soumith Chintala taking over the role; sources say the termination is due to "unethical conduct" (Kylie Robison/@kyliebytes)

Thinking Machines parts ways with CTO Barret Zoph, with...

Kylie Robison / @kyliebytes: Thinking Machines parts ways with CTO Barret Zoph, ...

Fidji Simo says Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz are returning to OpenAI from Thinking Machines and the move "has been in the works for several weeks" (Fidji Simo/@fidjissimo)

Fidji Simo says Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenh...

Fidji Simo / @fidjissimo: Fidji Simo says Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoen...

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...

Sources: Chinese chip designer Montage, a Shanghai&listed company valued at $22B, plans a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $900M+, backed by Alibaba and JPMorgan (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)

Sources: Chinese chip designer Montage, a Shanghai&list...

Dave Sebastian / Bloomberg: Sources: Chinese chip designer Montage, a Shanghai-l...

Sources: McKinsey pilots an overhaul in how it recruits its next generation, asking candidates to use its AI tool Lilli to analyze a case study during a test (Financial Times)

Sources: McKinsey pilots an overhaul in how it recruits...

Financial Times: Sources: McKinsey pilots an overhaul in how it recruits its nex...

Alpaca, which builds software to let companies offer stocks, ETFs, and other financial instruments, raised a $150M Series D led by Drive at a $1.15B valuation (Ben Weiss/Fortune)

Alpaca, which builds software to let companies offer st...

Ben Weiss / Fortune: Alpaca, which builds software to let companies offer stocks...

Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more (The Information)

Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri ...

The Information: Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features...

Liftoff, which helps companies place ads in mobile apps, files for a US IPO, reporting a $25.6M net loss on $491.6M in revenue in the nine months up to Sept. 30 (Natalia Kniazhevich/Bloomberg)

Liftoff, which helps companies place ads in mobile apps...

Natalia Kniazhevich / Bloomberg: Liftoff, which helps companies place ads in mob...

Under new licensing requirements, the US Commerce Department says exports of Nvidia's H200 chips and AMD's MI325X chips will be reviewed on a case&by&case basis (Bloomberg)

Under new licensing requirements, the US Commerce Depar...

Bloomberg: Under new licensing requirements, the US Commerce Department says exp...

PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13&state power grid across the US, expects 4.8% average annual power growth over the next decade driven by the AI boom (Wall Street Journal)

PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13&state power grid a...

Wall Street Journal: PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state power grid acros...

The US House passes a bipartisan bill to expand US export controls to restrict Chinese companies' remote access to US AI chips from data centers outside China (Juro Osawa/The Information)

The US House passes a bipartisan bill to expand US expo...

Juro Osawa / The Information: The US House passes a bipartisan bill to expand US...

Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studying LLMs like living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets for the first time (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)

Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studyi...

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, a...

OpenAI acquires Torch, a one&year&old AI healthcare app that aggregates and analyzes medical records; source: OpenAI is paying $100M in equity (Laura Mandaro/The Information)

OpenAI acquires Torch, a one&year&old AI healthcare app...

Laura Mandaro / The Information: OpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI health...

Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal "seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google given that [they] also have Android and Chrome" (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)

Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal "seems li...

Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal “seems ...

Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000&person Reality Labs division, disproportionately affecting those working on VR headsets and Horizon Worlds (New York Times)

Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000&perso...

New York Times: Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-person Reality...

'It's a scam': French AI envoy on X making Grok chatbot pay&to&perve

'It's a scam': French AI envoy on X making Grok chatbot...

France's AI and Digital Ambassador Clara Chappaz says making public image genera...

CES 2026: how some companies are trying to make their AI products cute and relatable, from Lenovo's chatty motorized laptop to Sharp's ChatGPT&powered Poketomo (Chris Velazco/Washington Post)

CES 2026: how some companies are trying to make their A...

Chris Velazco / Washington Post: CES 2026: how some companies are trying to make...

President Trump says "we may speak to Elon" about using Starlink to restore the internet in Iran, after the state imposed an internet blackout amid protests (Rachael Levy/Reuters)

President Trump says "we may speak to Elon" about using...

Rachael Levy / Reuters: President Trump says “we may speak to Elon” about using ...

A profile of China's CXMT, whose $4.2B IPO goal would r...

Wall Street Journal: A profile of China's CXMT, whose $4.2B IPO goal would rank ...

"It's a scam": French AI envoy on X making Grok chatbot pay&to&perve

"It's a scam": French AI envoy on X making Grok chatbot...

France's AI and digital ambassador Clara Chappaz says making public image genera...

Tucuvi, which develops AI agents that check in with patients and escalate cases to human teams when needed, raised a $20M Series A, led by Cathay and Leadwind (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)

Tucuvi, which develops AI agents that check in with pat...

John Reynolds / Tech.eu: Tucuvi, which develops AI agents that check in with pat...

Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issu...

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an...

Tel Aviv&based Torq, which operates an autonomous AI&powered security operations platform, raised $140M led by Merlin Ventures at a $1.2B valuation (Andrew Martin/Bloomberg)

Tel Aviv&based Torq, which operates an autonomous AI&po...

Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: Tel Aviv-based Torq, which operates an autonomous AI-...

Investigation: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used two UK&registered companies to move ~$1B in stablecoins since 2023, evading international sanctions (TRM Insights)

Investigation: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

TRM Insights: Investigation: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used two U...

Newly listed Chinese AI chipmakers Moore Threads, Biren, and MetaX had stellar stock market debuts, but none has sales above 10% of rival Cambricon (Financial Times)

Newly listed Chinese AI chipmakers Moore Threads, Biren...

Financial Times: Newly listed Chinese AI chipmakers Moore Threads, Biren, and Me...

Analysis: global AI&related companies drove ~40% of benchmark convertible bond index returns in 2025, pushing the amount raised to $166.5B, the most since 2001 (Bloomberg)

Analysis: global AI&related companies drove ~40% of ben...

Bloomberg: Analysis: global AI-related companies drove ~40% of benchmark convert...

Morgan Stanley survey of audio habits in the US: 50% to 60% of listeners aged 18&44 reported listening to AI&generated music for 2.5 to 3 hours per week (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)

Morgan Stanley survey of audio habits in the US: 50% to...

Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: Morgan Stanley survey of audio habits in the US: 50% ...

Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing the risk of non&consensual sexual deepfakes, becoming the first country to block the AI tool (Fransiska Nangoy/Reuters)

Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing the risk of n...

Fransiska Nangoy / Reuters: Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing the risk o...

Stack Overflow recorded just 6,866 questions in Dec. 20...

Claire Yubin Oh / Sherwood News: Stack Overflow recorded just 6,866 questions in...

Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current or previous jobs to evaluate its models, leaving it to them to scrub confidential info (Wired)

Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their...

Wired: Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current...

Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pir...

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block ...

Chinese short&video app Kuaishou's stock has surged 88% over the past year, driven by the success of its Kling AI video generator, which has amassed 60M users (Bloomberg)

Chinese short&video app Kuaishou's stock has surged 88%...

Bloomberg: Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's stock has surged 88% over the past...

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