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Signal Creator Marlinspike Wants To Do For AI What He Did For Messaging (slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 AI

Sources: CoinGecko, a prominent crypto market data and analytics company, is considering a sale at a ~$500M valuation, after starting the sales process in 2025 (www.coindesk.com)
2026-1-14

Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 AI

Sources: Meta and EssilorLuxottica are discussing potentially doubling Ray-Ban Meta production to 20M+ units by the end of 2026 and possibly as high as 30M+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 Ban

Sources: carmakers find a workaround for chip shortages amid Nexperia's internal battle, buying wafers from its Dutch arm and then shipping themselves to China (www.ft.com)
2026-1-14 China Netherlands

Meta confirms it is laying off Reality Labs staff and will “reinvest the savings” in wearables; CTO Andrew Bosworth says 1,000+ staff will be notified Tuesday (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14

Apple unveils Apple Creator Studio, a “groundbreaking collection” of creative apps like Final Cut, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro for $12.99/month or $129/year (9to5mac.com)
2026-1-14 Apple

Microsoft Pledges Full Power Costs, No Tax Breaks in Response To AI Data Center Backlash (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Microsoft Tax AI

Deepgram, which is building enterprise voice-recognition tech, raised a $130M Series C led by AVP at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $215M (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-14

Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-employee Reality Labs division, disproportionately affecting those working on VR headsets and Horizon Worlds (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-14 VR

Latin American VC funding rose 14.3% YoY in 2025 to $4.1B, with early-stage investment up 31.9% YoY to nearly $2B and late-stage/growth deals reaching $1.63B (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-1-14 U.S. Latin America

Microsoft changes its data center approach, pledging to pay its power costs, reject tax breaks, and replenish more water than it uses, amid local opposition (www.geekwire.com)
2026-1-14 Microsoft Tax

Trump Says Microsoft To Make Changes To Curb Data Center Power Costs For Americans (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Trump U.S. Microsoft

Crypto scams received $14B+ on-chain in 2025, up from 2024's $12B and potentially rising to $17B+ as more wallets are found; impersonation scams jumped 1,400% (www.chainalysis.com)
2026-1-14

Salesforce makes Slack's new AI-powered Slackbot generally available, helping users answer workflow questions, draft documents, schedule meetings, and more (www.zdnet.com)
2026-1-14 AI Salesforce Slack

Target employees confirm leaked code after ‘accelerated' Git lockdown (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-14

IDC: in Q4 2025, global PC shipments rose nearly 10% YoY to 76.4M units, helped by Windows 10 end-of-support and OEMs pulling forward inventory amid tariffs (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-14 4Q

Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone and other execs discuss the challenges Netflix faces in streaming live events, after broadcasting 200+ live events since March 2023 (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-14 Netflix

Boston- and Tel Aviv-based Converge Bio, which uses AI trained on molecular data to help pharma and biotech companies develop drugs, raised a $25M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-13 AI Biotech

Sources: OpenAI plans a 60-second Super Bowl ad during NBC's broadcast, the second straight year of doing so; ad buyers say clients pay $8M+ for just 30 seconds (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-13

NYC-based Proxima, which uses AI to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised an $80M seed led by DCVC, with participation from Nvidia and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-13 AI Nvidia

Make tax time easier with H&R Block Deluxe + State 2025 in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-13 Tax

Warhammer maker Games Workshop says it banned its staff from using AI in its content or designs and it is taking a “very cautious” approach to protect its IP (www.ft.com)
2026-1-13 AI

Interviews with Spotify founder Daniel Ek on his CEO exit, and new co-CEOs Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström, who face algorithmic fatigue and angry artists (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-13 Spotify

Sources: Google will start developing and making high-end Pixel phones like the Pro and Fold from scratch in Vietnam in 2026; the Pixel A remains in China (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-1-13 China Google Vietnam

A profile of Eric Migicovsky's Core Devices, a five-person company that he says is “not a startup” and aims to be “sustainable”, as it builds new Pebble devices (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-13 Startup

Researchers Beam Power From a Moving Airplane (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-1-13

The US House passes a bipartisan bill to expand US export controls to restrict Chinese companies' remote access to US AI chips from data centers outside China (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-13 China AI

PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state power grid across the US, expects 4.8% average annual power growth over the next decade driven by the AI boom (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-13 AI

Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studying LLMs like living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets for the first time (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-1-13

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