Tech

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 (www.cnbc.com)
26 days ago

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 (techcrunch.com)
26 days ago Mobile Sensor

The BBC confirms a “strategic partnership” with YouTube to produce exclusive content, including news and kids shows, a landmark deal for the UK broadcaster (variety.com)
26 days ago YouTube

Lightning AI merges with data center operator Voltage Park to create an “AI cloud” with a $2.5B valuation, managing 35,000+ Nvidia GPUs across six data centers (www.forbes.com)
26 days ago AI Nvidia

Ukrainian-founded language learning marketplace Preply raised a $150M Series D led by WestCap at a $1.2B valuation; the startup has a 150-person office in Kyiv (techcrunch.com)
26 days ago Startup Ukraine

Israeli startup DataRails, which offers financial planning and analytics tools, raised a $70M Series C led by One Peak at an estimated $600M to $700M valuation (en.globes.co.il)
26 days ago Israel Startup

At Davos, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says Superintelligence Labs delivered its first high-profile AI models internally this month and the models are “very good” (www.reuters.com)
26 days ago AI Davos

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago China Startup AI

GlobalWafers Chair Doris Hsu says the Taiwanese silicon wafer maker is preparing for phase two of its Texas plant, after unveiling plans to invest an extra $4B (www.reuters.com)
26 days ago Taiwan Texas

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago Germany Solar

How Ukraine and Russia both rely on the same Chinese drone suppliers, whose tech is vital to the war; China officially bans sensitive drone tech exports to both (www.ft.com)
26 days ago Russia China Drone Ukraine

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
26 days ago AI Virginia

Sources: OpenAI begins offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, initially charging per ad view, not per ad click, and asks them for <$1M commitments (www.theinformation.com)
26 days ago chatbot

Snap Settles Social media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of Landmark Trial (yro.slashdot.org)
27 days ago

As Taiwanese chipmakers push localization to secure supply chains, suppliers to the steel, plastics, and display industries are moving into Taiwan's chip sector (asia.nikkei.com)
27 days ago Taiwan

10 Widespread Historical Myths and the Texts That Started Them (listverse.com)
27 days ago

Aurora Watch In Effect As Severe Solar Storm Slams Into Earth (news.slashdot.org)
27 days ago Solar

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 (www.ft.com)
27 days ago

A programmer estimates his typical day of coding with Claude Code is equivalent to running the dishwasher an extra time, much more energy than a “median query” (www.simonpcouch.com)
27 days ago Energy

Bengaluru-based Amagi, an ad tools provider for broadcast and streaming TV, fell below its listing price in its India market debut after raising $196M in an IPO (techcrunch.com)
27 days ago India IPO

Thoma Bravo co-founder Orlando Bravo says the slump in software company valuations over threat of AI-driven disruption is creating a “huge buying opportunity” (www.ft.com)
27 days ago AI

Payments using facial recognition are growing in South Korea as the tech improves; South Korean fintech app Toss has scaled its “Facepay” service to 1M+ users (asia.nikkei.com)
27 days ago Korea Fintech Facial Recognition

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 (www.ft.com)
27 days ago AI Africa

Apple wins dismissal of parts of a class action alleging it violated CA privacy law by collecting user data from its apps despite users believing they opted out (news.bloomberglaw.com)
27 days ago Apple

China's Cyberspace Administration requires firms to file their AI tools in a public algorithm registry, creating a detailed map of the country's AI ecosystem (www.wired.com)
27 days ago China AI Algorithm

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago AI

OpenAI says it will cover the costs of developing energy-related infrastructure at its Stargate data centers to ensure they don't raise consumers' utility bills (www.bloomberg.com)
27 days ago Energy

Barret Zoph says Thinking Machines Lab fired him only after learning he was leaving, and at no time did the company cite his performance or unethical conduct (www.wsj.com)
27 days ago

Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy' Is Here, UN Report Says (news.slashdot.org)
27 days ago

Multiple Apple services, including Apple TV, the App Store, and iCloud have been experiencing outages since 6:48 PM ET, according to Apple's system status page (www.macrumors.com)
27 days ago Apple

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