Tech

ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-17

Google says it's appealing the US v. Google ruling that found it has an illegal search monopoly and asks a court to pause some of the remedies during the appeal (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-17 Google

Cloudflare Acquires Team Behind Open Source Framework Astro (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 Open Source

OpenAI says its new ChatGPT ads won't influence answers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-17

Sources: Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered US digital asset bank, is seeking to raise $200M to $400M, ahead of a possible IPO in 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 IPO Asset

Canada Reverses Tariff On Chinese EVs (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 China Canada

Sources: Google is in talks with broadband operator Radiate to set up a JV to hold their fiber assets; Stonepeak Partners will invest $1B to support the deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 Google Asset

TSMC Says AI Demand Is 'Endless' After Record Q4 Earnings (slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 AI 4Q

Claude Code represents a “ChatGPT moment repeated” and an “extinction-level event” for horizontal software companies focused on human-oriented consumption (www.fabricatedknowledge.com)
2026-1-17

StealC hackers hacked as researchers hijack malware control panels (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-17

Britain Has 'Moved Away' From Aligning With EU Regulation, Financial District's Ambassador Says (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 U.K.

Sources: ElevenLabs seeks to raise hundreds of millions at a valuation of $11B, four months after a secondary share sale that valued it at $6.6B (www.ft.com)
2026-1-17

Microplastics From Washing Clothes Could Be Hurting Your Tomatoes (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

Some top California Democrats join Governor Gavin Newsom in opposing a ballot initiative led by a healthcare union seeking a one-time 5% tax on $1B+ in assets (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 Tax Democrat Asset California

PhD Students' Taste For Risk Mirrors Their Supervisors' (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says the agency is examining Big Tech's acqui-hires to make sure “they are not an attempt to get around” its merger review process (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17

TikTok has launched a standalone micro drama app, PineDrama, in the US and Brazil, offering vertical serialized shows for free without ads or paywalls for now (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-17 Brazil

Partly AI-Generated Folk-Pop Hit Barred From Sweden's Official Charts (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 AI Sweden

Black Basta boss makes it onto Interpol's 'Red Notice' list (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-17

Ads Are Coming To ChatGPT in the Coming Weeks (slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

OpenAI expands its $8/month ChatGPT Go subscription tier to the US and the rest of the world, after previously launching it in India and some other countries (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-17 India

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (www.wired.com)
2026-1-17

Seattle is Building Light Rail Like It's 1999 (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17 Seattle

OpenAI plans to test ads below ChatGPT replies for users of free and Go tiers in the US; source: it expects to make “low billions” from ads in 2026 (t.co)
2026-1-17

Verizon starts issuing $20 credits after nationwide outage (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-17

China-linked hackers exploited Sitecore zero-day for initial access (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-17 China

Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27: Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a “side show”, and more (sources.news)
2026-1-17 AI Elon Musk

Verizon Offers $20 Credit After Nationwide Outage Stranded Users in SOS Mode For Hours (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-17

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-17 Vietnam

Sources: Replit is in advanced discussions to raise a new round of funding that would roughly triple its valuation to $9B; source: the round is for ~$400M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17

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