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  • Mon Jan 12

US FTC chair urges Tim Cook to review Apple News' terms and curation after a study claimed the app promoted "leftist outlets" and suppressed conservative ones (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

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Sources: the Pentagon is pushing OpenAI, Anthropic, and others to make their AI tools available on classified networks without the standard user restrictions (Reuters)

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Brandlight, which develops tools that help brands monitor how AI models perceive them, raised a $30M Series A led by Pelion Venture Partners (Chris Metinko/Axios)

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Russia removes WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram from a Roskomnadzor-run online directory, essentially blocking them in the country without workarounds (Financial Times)

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Cisco reports Q2 revenue up 10% YoY to $15.35B, vs. $15.12B est., and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS only in line with estimates; CSCO drops 7%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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AppLovin reports Q4 revenue up 66% YoY to $1.66B, vs. $1.61B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue and adjusted EBITDA above estimates; APP drops 6%+ after hours (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)

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Robinhood launches a public testnet for Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer 2 network on Arbitrum supporting 24/7 trading, with a broader rollout later in 2026 (CoinDesk)

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xAI will be organized into four core areas: Grok's chatbot and voice products, Coding, Imagine, and Macrohard, which will build digital agents to run companies (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

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Elon Musk announces an xAI reorganization that "required parting ways with some people", after two xAI co-founders announced they were leaving this week (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

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Social media addiction trial: Adam Mosseri says social media is not "clinically addictive" and that Meta was careful to test features used by young people (New York Times)

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Anthropic says it will upgrade power grid infrastructure, generate new power, and cover consumer price increases to minimize the effects of its data centers (Jared Perlo/NBC News)

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EssilorLuxottica says it sold over 7M Meta AI glasses in 2025, up from the 2M that the company sold in 2023 and 2024 combined (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

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BlockFills, a crypto liquidity provider and lender to ~2K institutional clients, halts deposits and withdrawals, citing "recent market and financial conditions" (Financial Times)

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Anthropic says Claude users on the free plan can now create files, connect to external services, use skills, and more (Will Shanklin/Engadget)

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Sources: Apple's Siri upgrade has run into snags recently, possibly pushing some personalized Siri and other features from iOS 26.4 to iOS 26.5, due in May (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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OpenAI announced Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT via GenAI.mil; sources say the move came after months of deliberation among employees (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

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Google releases Android 17 Beta 1, which requires developers to optimize apps for foldables and large screens, includes performance improvements, and more (Sanuj Bhatia/Android Central)

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Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, expected to be operational at the end of 2027 or in early 2028 (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

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Meta launches an AI feature that lets Threads users temporarily personalize their feed by specifying topics in a public post that begins with "Dear Algo" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

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Amazon Pharmacy plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, adding nearly new 2,000 communities (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

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Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)

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Z.ai launches GLM-5, its flagship open-weight model, saying it has best-in-class performance among open-source models in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks (Z.ai)

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Source: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team in recent weeks and transferred its employees; team lead Joshua Achiam will take on a "chief futurist" role (Casey Newton/Platformer)

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London-based commerce and payments infrastructure provider Rezolve Ai agrees to acquire London-based cashback rewards company Reward for $230M (PYMNTS.com)

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Google told advertisers that it is integrating shopping features into Search's AI Mode and Gemini; users can now buy items from Etsy and Wayfair within Gemini (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

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Source: to catch leakers, OpenAI security staff use a custom ChatGPT with access to Slack, email, and docs that cross-references news articles with access logs (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

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TikTok US launches an opt-in Local Feed for content tied to travel, news, events, shopping, and dining near the user's current location, after changing its ToS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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An OpenAI researcher who helped shape how models were built and priced says she quit after two years due to "deep reservations" about ads and OpenAI's strategy (Zoë Hitzig/New York Times)

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A Dutch court orders an investigation into alleged mismanagement at Chinese-owned chip company Nexperia and upholds the suspension of CEO Zhang Xuezheng (Kim Mackrael/Wall Street Journal)

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Meridian, which uses AI to make financial modeling and spreadsheets more "predictable and auditable", exits stealth and raised a $17M seed at a $100M valuation (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

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Austin-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised $520M led by Google and others at a $5.5B+ valuation, up ~3x from when it raised $415M in February 2025 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)

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GitGuardian, which integrates with GitHub and others to sell nonhuman identity and AI agent security, raised a $50M Series C, taking its total funding to ~$106M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

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xAI all-hands meeting: Elon Musk told employees that xAI needs a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space (New York Times)

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Filings: San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, set to run for California governor to succeed Newsom, gets donations from Sergey Brin, Roblox CEO David Baszucki, and others (Bloomberg)

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T-Mobile announces a network-level, AI-based Live Translation feature that supports 50+ languages, coming "this spring" in beta and available on 4G LTE and 5G (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Anthropic CCO Paul Smith says the startup is focused on "growing revenue" rather than "flashy headlines", calls the software stock selloff "hyperbole", and more (CNBC)

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Shopify reports Q4 revenue up 31% YoY to $3.7B, vs. $3.59B est., net income down 43% YoY to $743M, and forecasts Q1 revenue growth above est; SHOP drops 10%+ (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)

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Mistral says it will spend €1.2B to build AI infrastructure in Sweden with partner EcoDataCenter, set to open in 2027 as its first data center outside France (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

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Investigation: as Ford pushes its BlueCruise driving system, some drivers found it confusing to use, misunderstood its limitations, and didn't heed its warnings (Ryan Felton/Wall Street Journal)

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Researchers find Kalshi and Polymarket bettors can more accurately predict economic data, earnings, and political events than analysts, likely due to incentives (Lydia DePillis/New York Times)

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A profile of South Korea's SK Hynix, a once unloved memory chipmaker that now enjoys 58% operating margins and a $438B market cap amid the global HBM shortage (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)

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JPMorgan exec Naveen Mallela, global co-head of blockchain division Kinexys, steps down after 11 years at the bank; Kinexys handled $5B transactions per day (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)

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SMIC CEO Zhao Haijun says the industry is "a bit panicked" about the memory chip shortage, and more supply may arrive in nine months; prices are up 80%+ in 2026 (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)

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Chinese video game giant NetEase reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to ~$4B and net profit down 29% to ~$903M, below ~$1.2B est., as it pushes self-developed games (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)

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KPMG citing PitchBook data: UK fintech investment totaled almost $11B in 2025 across 418 deals, down from ~$13.4B in 2024 across 527 deals; Revolut raised $4B (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)

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Sources: Amazon, Google, and others plan to skirt Trump's $100K H-1B fee by finding workers in categories that don't include the fee, like existing H-1B holders (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

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Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says the startup's annualized revenue run rate was "north of $400M", up from $20M a year ago, and it is set to hit $1B ARR by 2026-end (Financial Times)

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Q&A with Fidji Simo on ChatGPT ads, OpenAI's efforts to ship a new model soon to end Sam Altman's Code Red, Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Sora, Jony Ive, and more (Alex Heath/Sources)

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GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 can handle the full app development lifecycle on their own, a sign of what's coming for most knowledge work within five years (Matt Shumer)

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A study of 596 Indian high-tech startups suggests that homegrown entrepreneurs fare better over the long run than returning diaspora with overseas experience (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

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Entries updated Feb 11, 2026 04:06:14 PM PST

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