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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

AWS launches European Sovereign Cloud, creating a new parent company for its sovereign cloud that will be locally controlled in the EU and run by EU citizens (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-15 Europe

Warhammer Maker Games Workshop Bans Its Staff From Using AI In Its Content or Designs (games.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15 AI

Scientists say that AI has become a powerful and rapidly improving research tool, and that whether it is generating ideas on its own is, for now, a moot point (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-15 AI

TSMC projects capital spending in 2026 at between $52B and $56B, up 25%+ from 2025, and forecasts ~30% YoY revenue growth in 2026, both above analyst estimates (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15

Palo Alto Networks warns of DoS bug letting hackers disable firewalls (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15

Microsoft: Windows update blocks access to Cloud PC sessions (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15 Microsoft

Britain Awards Wind Farm Contracts That Will Power 12 Million Homes (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15 U.K.

Appfigures: global consumer spending in mobile apps on the App Store and Google Play rose 21.6% YoY to $155.8B in 2025, but app downloads dropped 2.7% to 106.9B (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-15 Google Mobile

Microsoft agrees to buy a record 2.85M soil carbon credits from Indigo Carbon linked to regenerative US agriculture; a source values the deal at $171M-$228M (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-15 Microsoft

Microsoft disrupts massive RedVDS cybercrime virtual desktop service (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15 Microsoft

Hong Kong-based WeLab, which operates two digital banks in Hong Kong and Indonesia, raised $220M in equity and debt from HSBC, Prudential Hong Kong, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 Hong Kong HSBC Indonesia Equity

Blockchain-based lender Figure unveils the On-Chain Public Equity Network to issue, trade, and lend stocks natively on a blockchain, not as tokenized replicas (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-15 Blockchain Equity

Source: Apple's Google Gemini deal will be a cloud contract where Apple pays Google; another source says OpenAI declined to be Apple's custom model provider (t.co)
2026-1-15 Google Apple

TSMC reports Q4 net profit up 35% YoY to a record ~$16B, handily beating estimates, as it benefited from surging demand for AI chips (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-15 AI 4Q

OpenAI quietly rolls out ChatGPT Translate, a standalone website that currently supports plain text translations across 50+ languages (www.androidauthority.com)
2026-1-15

Sources: China is drafting rules for Nvidia H200 purchases, limiting how many chips local companies can buy and requiring them to justify the need (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-1-15 China Nvidia

GlobalFoundries agrees to acquire Synopsys' ARC processor IP business, which includes ARC-V (RISC-V) and ARC CPU IP, and integrate it into its MIPS business (www.eetimes.com)
2026-1-15

A source close to Thinking Machines alleged that ex-CTO Barret Zoph, who is returning to OpenAI, had shared confidential company information with competitors (www.wired.com)
2026-1-15

Bengaluru-based edtech startup Emversity raised a $30M Series A led by Premji Invest, sources say at a $120M post-money valuation, up from $60M in April 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-15 Startup

Alibaba links Qwen to its online shopping and travel services, including Taobao, Alipay, Fliggy, and Amap, aiming to build a one-stop AI app for its 100M users (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15 Alibaba AI Alipay

The Swedish Start-Up Aiming To Conquer America's Full-Body-Scan Craze (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15 U.S. Sweden

CoinDesk Data: Binance's market share of spot crypto trading fell to 25% in December, its lowest since 2021, and it is also losing ground in derivatives trading (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-15

ChatGPT's upcoming cross-platform feature is codenamed "Agora" (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15

Are QWERTY Phones Trying To Make a Comeback? (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15

Project Eleven, which builds tools to prepare blockchains for post-quantum threats, raised a $20M Series A led by Castle Island at a $120M post-money valuation (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-15 Quantum

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