Tech

Apple is Fighting for TSMC Capacity as Nvidia Takes Center Stage (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Apple Nvidia

Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs raised $252M from OpenAI, Bain Capital, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-16 Startup

Wikipedia Signs AI Licensing Deals On Its 25th Birthday (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 AI

How to automate just-in-time access to applications with Tines (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-16

Anthropic's Index Shows Job Evolution Over Replacement (slashdot.org)
2026-1-16

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-16 Startup AI

'White-Collar Workers Shouldn't Dismiss a Blue-Collar Career Change' (slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 Career

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 (www.forbes.com)
2026-1-16 AI Mitsubishi

Thinking Machines Lab parts ways with CTO Barret Zoph, with Soumith Chintala taking over the role; sources say the termination is due to “unethical conduct” (x.com)
2026-1-16

Researchers discover WhisperPair, a set of vulnerabilities in Google's Fast Pair protocol affecting 17 audio device models from 10 brands; Google has patched (www.wired.com)
2026-1-16 Google

BlackRock raises $12.5B as part of its Microsoft partnership to bankroll data centers and energy infrastructure, bringing it closer to its $30B goal from 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-16 Microsoft Energy

AI Models Are Starting To Crack High-Level Math Problems (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-16 AI Mathematics

Bitmine, the largest corporate holder of ether, invests $200M in MrBeast's Beast Industries, set to close on January 19; Bitmine holds ~4M ETH valued at ~$13.6B (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-16 ETH

India's Supreme Court rules Tiger Global's $1.6B Flipkart stake sale to Walmart in 2018 is subject to taxes, a ruling that may shape future cross-border deals (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-16 India Tax Walmart

Anthropic researchers say rich countries' higher AI use risks deepening economic disparities and widening living standard gaps, driven by productivity gains (www.ft.com)
2026-1-15 AI

AWS signs a two-year supply deal with Rio Tinto to access its Arizona copper mine, the US' first new source in 10+ years, as AI data centers create huge demand (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-15 AI

This 5-course guide to getting more out of ChatGPT is just $20 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15

Sources: the US cyberattack that plunged Caracas into darkness during the Maduro mission shows its offensive capabilities; Senators plan to question officials (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-15

Spotify plans to raise its Premium subscription by $1 to $12.99/month for subscribers in the US, Estonia, and Latvia, in its first US hike since July 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 Spotify

Wikimedia celebrates Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, marking its growth from 100 pages to 65M+ articles with nearly 15B monthly views, and releases a docuseries (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-15

Berlin-based Parloa, which develops AI customer service agents for Booking.com and others, raised $350M at a $3B valuation, taking its total raised to $560M+ (t.co)
2026-1-15 Germany AI

Polymarket and Kalshi count Donald Trump Jr. as an adviser, and Trump Media plans to launch Truth Predict, raising ethical questions during Trump's second term (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-15 Trump

Self-help gurus like Tony Robbins, Gabby Bernstein, and Matthew Hussey are charging up to $99 per month to access AI chatbots that promise personalized advice (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-15 AI chatbot

ASML hits a $500B+ market cap for the first time, the third European company to reach the milestone, after TSMC reported strong earnings; ASML is up 24% YTD (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 Europe

WitnessAI, which intercepts employees' custom GenAI models usage and applies safeguards, raised $58M led by Sound Ventures, taking its total funding to $85M (www.securityweek.com)
2026-1-15

The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get “tuned” API access; Google is already a member (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-15 Google Amazon Microsoft

Yield Sec: the top 10 pirate sports streaming sites in the UK, largely funded by ads from unlicensed gambling operators, had 1.6B views in H1 2025, up 33% YoY (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15

FTC bans GM from selling drivers' location data for five years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15

South Korea dropped Naver's and NCSoft's teams from its competition to develop its first sovereign AI model, as LG's, SK Telecom's, and Upstage's teams advanced (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 Korea AI

Chinese chipmaker SpacemiT, whose RISC-V-based K1 chip is used in industrial systems, robotics, edge computing, and AI devices, raised an ~$86M Series B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 China AI Robot

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