| 11:55 PM • | Sri Muppidi / The Information: Sources: Anthropic projected a 40% gross margin from selling AI to companies and developers in 2025, down from est. of 50%, due to 23% higher inference costs |
| 11:40 PM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Deepinder Goyal, CEO of Indian online food delivery service Zomato and its parent Eternal, steps down and will be succeeded by Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa |
| 10:50 PM • | Bloomberg: BitGo raises $212.8M in its IPO, selling 11.8M+ shares at $18 each, above the $15 to $17 range, giving it a ~$2.1B market value, in 2026's first crypto US IPO |
| 9:55 PM • | AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has “left” the startup, after saying on a podcast last week that xAI has skirted regulations while building its data centers |
| 8:30 PM • | Myles Miller / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 7:10 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: X unveils Bluesky-like “Starterpacks” to help users find accounts that match their interests, curated by X and rolling out in the coming weeks |
| 6:20 PM • | Business Insider: Vimeo is laying off staff for the second time since September 2025, when it cut 10% of its workforce; Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for ~$1.38B in November 2025 |
| 5:55 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Sam Altman recently visited and held early talks with investors in the Middle East, looking to raise $50B+ for OpenAI at a ~$750B to ~$830B valuation |
| 5:25 PM • | The Information: Memo: Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI last week, will lead OpenAI's enterprise push, as part of a broader reorganization |
| 5:15 PM • | Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: Unsealed docs: Spotify and labels sued Anna's Archive over plans to release scraped Spotify data; a US court grants a temporary order taking down some domains |
| 4:50 PM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a satellite communications network for enterprise, data center, and government customers, and plans to begin deployment in Q4 2027 |
| 4:15 PM • | Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Neynar, a startup focused on decentralized social media infrastructure, is acquiring Ethereum-based social media project Farcaster from R&D firm Merkle |
| 4:00 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is seeking to raise $300M to $500M after talks to sell the company to Intel for about $1.6B, including debt, stalled |
| 3:06 PM • | The Information: Sources: Apple is developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging, which it could launch as early as 2027 |
| 2:56 PM • | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple plans to revamp Siri this fall in iOS 27 and macOS 27 by turning it into the company's first AI chatbot, replacing the current Siri interface |
| 2:45 PM • | Mickey Djuric / Politico: A Canadian federal court overturned a 2024 order that would have shuttered TikTok Canada's business operations over national security concerns |
| 2:40 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate hit $9B+ at the end of 2025, up from $4B in July 2025; Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Menlo are set to join its new funding round |
| 1:55 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: ElevenLabs launches an album of original tracks made by artists like Liza Minnelli and Art Garfunkel in “collaboration” with its Eleven Music AI model |
| 12:50 PM • | Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: Ubisoft cancels six games and delays others amid a restructuring into five genre-specific “creative houses”, and expects net bookings of ~€1.5B for FY 2025-2026 |
| 12:35 PM • | Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: Anthropic overhauls Claude's “constitution” to enable the AI model to “generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules” |
| 12:15 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta plans to expand ads on Threads to all users globally starting next week; Threads began testing ads in the US and Japan in January 2025 |
| 11:35 AM • | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Sony launches the $230 LinkBuds Clip, open-style earbuds that sit outside the ear canal, with IPX4 water resistance and a 9-hour battery life, available now |
| 10:20 AM • | Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: AheadComputing, which develops a breakthrough RISC-V CPU architecture for AI, raised a $30M Seed2 led by Eclipse, Toyota, and Cambium, for $53M in total funding |
| 9:45 AM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including presentation generation, file editing, and creating podcast summaries from docs stored in Adobe Spaces |
| 9:35 AM • | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: Upscale AI, which is building AI networking infrastructure to take on Cisco, raised $200M led by Tiger, Premji Invest, and Xora Innovation at a $1B+ valuation |
| 9:25 AM • | Wall Street Journal: 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 |
| 9:15 AM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says creators will be able to generate Shorts using their AI likenesses later in 2026, and touts AI tools for making games and music |
| 9:10 AM • | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan publishes his annual letter, saying YouTube aims to reduce “AI slop” and has strengthened parental controls, and teases Shorts updates |
| 8:35 AM • | Gené Teare / Crunchbase News: European VC funding rose 9% YoY to hit $58B in 2025, vs. North America's 46% YoY jump; AI led with ~$17.5B, followed by biotech's ~$13.4B and hardware's ~$10.8B |
| 8:15 AM • | Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: Jensen Huang says that AI is already bringing economic benefits and needs more investment, and “the AI bubble comes about because the investments are large” |
| 8:00 AM • | Kate Rooney / CNBC: OpenEvidence, which is building “ChatGPT for doctors”, raised $250M led by Thrive and DST at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in October and $1B in February 2025 |
| 7:50 AM • | Benoît Morenne / Wall Street Journal: Salt Lake City-based Zanskar, which uses AI to find overlooked geothermal fields to boost US electricity supply, raised $115M, taking its total funding to $180M |
| 7:40 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Sensor Tower: consumers spent $85B on apps globally in 2025, up 21% YoY, and, in a first, more money went on non-game mobile apps than on games, driven by GenAI |
| 7:30 AM • | Alex Ritman / Variety: The BBC confirms a “strategic partnership” with YouTube to produce exclusive content, including news and YouTube channels aimed at children and young adults |
| 7:20 AM • | Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Ukrainian-founded language learning marketplace Preply raised a $150M Series D led by WestCap at a $1.2B valuation; out of 750 employees, ~150 are based in Kyiv |
| 7:10 AM • | Iain Martin / Forbes: Lightning AI merges with data center operator Voltage Park to create an “AI cloud” with a $2.5B+ valuation, managing 35K+ Nvidia GPUs across six data centers |
| 6:55 AM • | Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth: Superintelligence Labs delivered its first high-profile AI models internally in January, after just six months, which are “very good” |
| 6:45 AM • | Globes: Tel Aviv-based DataRails, which offers financial planning and analytics tools, raised a $70M Series C led by One Peak at an estimated $600M-to-$700M valuation |
| 6:35 AM • | Bloomberg: Chinese AI startup Zhipu says it is limiting GLM Coding Plan access after strong demand, taking only 20% of its current daily new subscriptions from January 23 |
| 6:25 AM • | Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: GlobalWafers Chair Doris Hsu says the Taiwanese silicon wafer maker is preparing for phase two of its Texas plant, after saying in May it will invest $4B more |
| 6:15 AM • | Coco Liu / Bloomberg: Berlin-based Cloover, which makes software to help install solar, home batteries, and heat pumps, raised $22M from Lowercarbon and others and $1.2B in debt |
| 6:05 AM • | Financial Times: How Ukraine and Russia rely on the same Chinese drone suppliers, whose tech is vital to the war; China has banned sensitive drone tech exports to both countries |
| 5:55 AM • | Francesca Maglione / Bloomberg: US colleges like Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech are using AI to streamline admissions; Virginia Tech says AI that scores essay questions saved ~8,000 hours |
| 5:45 AM • | The Information: Sources: OpenAI has begun offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, initially charging based on ad view, not ad click, asking for <$1M in commitments |
| 4:00 AM • | Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: As Taiwanese chipmakers source more materials and parts locally, suppliers to the steel, plastics, and display industries are moving into Taiwan's chip sector |
| 2:30 AM • | Simon P. Couch: A programmer estimates his daily Claude Code usage consumes as much electricity as running a dishwasher an extra time, much more than the “median” text prompt |
| 2:20 AM • | Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: Galaxy Digital plans to launch a hedge fund in Q1 2026, investing up to 30% in crypto tokens and the rest in financial stocks; sources say it has raised $100M |
| 1:50 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Bengaluru-based Amagi Media Labs, an ad tools provider for broadcast and streaming TV, fell below its IPO price in its India market debut after raising ~$196M |
| 1:25 AM • | Financial Times: Thoma Bravo co-founder Orlando Bravo says the slump in software company valuations due to fears of AI-driven disruption is creating a “huge buying opportunity” |
| 1:10 AM • | Nami Matsuura / Nikkei Asia: Payments using facial recognition are growing in South Korea as the tech improves; Viva Republica has scaled its fintech app Toss' Facepay service to 1M+ users |
| 12:50 AM • | Financial Times: The Gates Foundation and OpenAI plan to invest $50M to use AI to ease the impact of chronic staff shortages in 1,000 primary health clinics in Africa by 2028 |
| 12:15 AM • | Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: Apple wins the dismissal of parts of a class action alleging it violated CA privacy law by collecting user data from its apps while users thought they opted out |
| 12:05 AM • | Shona Ghosh / Bloomberg: Signal's Meredith Whittaker says deeper integration of AI agents into devices is “perilous” for encryption, since agents need access to lots of data across apps |
| 11:55 PM • | Yi-Ling Liu / Wired: The Cyberspace Administration of China requires companies to file their AI tools in a public algorithm registry, creating a map of the country's AI ecosystem |
| 11:35 PM • | Bloomberg: OpenAI says it will pay for the costs of developing energy-related infrastructure used by its Stargate data centers so they don't raise consumers' utility bills |
| 11:10 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Barret Zoph says Thinking Machines Lab fired him only after learning he was leaving, and at no time did the company cite performance or unethical conduct |
| 9:50 PM • | Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple outages affecting multiple services, including Apple TV, the App Store, and iCloud, are now fixed following a nearly four-hour disruption on January 20 |
| 9:25 PM • | Bloomberg: Analysis: the Trump family has generated ~$1.4B from crypto projects since President Trump's inauguration in January 2025, making up 20%+ of its wealth, a first |
| 8:00 PM • | Bloomberg: 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 |
| 7:35 PM • | The Information: 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 |
| 7:15 PM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: 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 |
| 6:50 PM • | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: X open sources its “core recommendation system”, which powers For You, on GitHub, and says the system “ranks everything using a Grok-based transformer model” |
| 6:40 PM • | Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: Drone delivery startup Zipline raised $600M+, boosting its valuation to $7.6B, and says it has now completed 2M+ commercial deliveries of 20M different items |
| 6:15 PM • | Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter: Greg Peters says Netflix plans to include new types of content, like video podcasts, in its vertical video feed, and will roll out a new mobile UI later in 2026 |
| 5:45 PM • | Alex Heath / Sources: Demis Hassabis says Google doesn't have “any plans” for ads in Gemini and, regarding OpenAI testing ads, says “maybe they feel they need to make more revenue” |
| 5:25 PM • | Nate Raymond / Reuters: A Massachusetts judge grants a preliminary injunction blocking Kalshi from letting state residents bet on sports through its online platform |
| 5:10 PM • | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Snap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit in California, a week before the start of a trial, the first of several such lawsuits |
| 4:40 PM • | Theo Wayt / The Information: Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT |
| 4:30 PM • | Dade Hayes / Deadline: Netflix says ad revenue hit $1.5B in 2025, up by over 2.5x vs. 2024, and that viewing hours grew 2% YoY in H2 2025, driven by viewing of branded originals up 9% |
| 4:18 PM • | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $12.05B, vs. $11.97B est., 325M subscribers, 2025 revenue up 16% to $45.2B, and will spend 10% more on content in 2026 |
| 4:00 PM • | April Rubin / Axios: The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers |
| 3:50 PM • | Jody Godoy / Reuters: The US FTC files a notice to appeal a November 2025 ruling that found Meta did not hold an illegal monopoly by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp |
| 3:30 PM • | Juby Babu / Reuters: OpenAI rolls out age prediction on ChatGPT consumer plans globally to identify under-18 users and apply content protections, as it prepares to add adult content |
| 3:05 PM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Filings from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit detail Microsoft's decade-long OpenAI relationship, like establishing a new subsidiary for Sam Altman while he was fired |
| 2:45 PM • | Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: xAI co-founder Greg Yang says he is stepping back from the startup into an informal advisory role to focus on his health after being diagnosed with Lyme disease |
| 1:45 PM • | Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Sources: AI inference startup Baseten raised $300M led by IVP and CapitalG at a $5B valuation, more than doubling its previous valuation; Nvidia invested $150M |
| 1:35 PM • | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI and ServiceNow sign a three-year deal to integrate OpenAI's models into ServiceNow's business software, including using OpenAI's AI agents for IT tasks |
| 1:10 PM • | Shona Ghosh / Bloomberg: World Economic Forum panel: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says AI-driven job displacement will “make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration” |
| 1:00 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Netflix adds a real-time voting feature with the premiere of its Star Search reboot, available on mobile, smart TVs, and streaming devices, but not in a browser |
| 12:50 PM • | Bloomberg: Demis Hassabis says Chinese AI companies are about six months behind leading western labs and the response to DeepSeek's R1 in 2025 was a “massive overreaction” |
| 12:25 PM • | Peter S. Goodman / New York Times: The World Economic Forum in Davos is now dominated by tech giants, whose interests shunt aside topics like climate change, as Trump and AI take center stage |
| 11:45 AM • | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Setapp Mobile, one of the first alt iOS app stores launched in 2024 after the EU's DMA, plans to shut down, blaming “still-evolving and complex business terms” |
| 11:05 AM • | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Ethernovia, which builds advanced packet processors and Ethernet networking chips for vehicles and edge devices, raised a $90M+ Series B led by Maverick Silicon |
| 11:00 AM • | Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Substack challenger Beehiiv says it expects to nearly double its annual revenue to $50M in 2026 and now has 40K+ MAUs, including nearly 15K paying subscribers |
| 10:30 AM • | Max Hunder / Reuters: Ukraine says it plans to share nearly four years of wartime combat data, like millions of hours of drone footage, with allies to help train AI military models |
| 10:20 AM • | Melos Ambaye / Bloomberg: Filings: Michael Saylor's Strategy has bought $3B+ in bitcoin since January 5, its biggest two-week purchase since December 2024; Strategy holds ~$65B in crypto |
| 8:30 AM • | Aditya Soni / Reuters: Legal AI startup Ivo, which aims to reduce hallucinations by breaking legal reviews into 400+ tasks, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a ~$355M valuation |
| 8:20 AM • | Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter: Nielsen: Christmas Day 2025 set a record for US streaming usage with 55.1B minutes, or 54% of all TV viewing for the day, up by 3.9B minutes on Christmas 2024 |
| 8:10 AM • | Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: Portugal orders Polymarket to cease operations and blocks it in the country after heavy activity tied to its recent presidential election, with €110M+ in volume |
| 7:55 AM • | Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is like “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea” and has “incredible national security implications” |
| 7:45 AM • | Cade Metz / New York Times: 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 |
| 7:40 AM • | Zach Vallese / CNBC: 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 |
| 7:30 AM • | Michael Thomsen / New York Times: How Zynga uses a secretive VIP program with personal account managers and exclusive sweepstake entries to keep top players spending on games like FarmVille |
| 7:15 AM • | Brian Stelter / CNN: Netflix and WBD say Netflix revised its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75/share, with the same $82.7B value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing |
| 7:05 AM • | Ben Bergman / Business Insider: Vibe coding startup Emergent raised a $70M Series B led by Khosla and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, after a $23M Series A in September 2025, and claims 5M+ users |
| 6:55 AM • | Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: Meta VP of Public Policy Simon Milner, Meta's most senior Asia-Pacific policy executive who joined in 2012, says he will retire from full-time work in H1 2026 |
| 6:35 AM • | Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Baidu's Ernie Assistant passes 200M MAUs, as competition intensifies among Chinese tech giants in AI; Ernie is linked to apps like JD.com and Meituan |
| 6:25 AM • | Alex Wickham / Bloomberg: Sources: UK and Chinese security officials set up a forum to discuss cyberattacks after hacking accusations, the first of its kind, to help prevent escalation |
| 6:10 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Sony and TCL sign a nonbinding deal to spin off Sony's TV and home audio hardware business into a joint venture, split 51% TCL and 49% Sony, by the end of March |
| 6:00 AM • | John Liu / Bloomberg: Sources: China broadens its probe into Temu owner PDD, dispatching 100+ investigators to its Shanghai HQ, after staff exchanged physical blows with regulators |
| 5:50 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Private equity firm Everstone combines Delhi-based Wingify, which helps A/B test websites, and Paris-based AB Tasty, which provides experimentation software |
| 5:35 AM • | Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Paris-based accounting software startup Pennylane raised €175M led by TCV, a source says at a ~$4.25B valuation; Blackstone, Sequoia, and others also invested |
| 3:55 AM • | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: A look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China |
| 2:20 AM • | Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance expands its cloud via sales hires and lower prices; IDC: ByteDance had nearly 13% of China's AI cloud market in H1 2025, vs. Alibaba's 23% |
| 1:45 AM • | Anjali Jain / Inc42: Pune-based supply chain robotics startup Unbox Robotics raised a $28M Series B in a mix of primary and secondary capital, after raising $15M in earlier rounds |
| 12:00 AM • | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: xAI faces a growing outcry from global regulators over Grok generating nonconsensual explicit photos, but has faced little legal or regulatory action in the US |
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