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Source: Lambda, which rents access to AI chips and is backed by Nvidia, is in talks to raise $350M+ led by Mubadala Capital, ahead of an IPO planned for H2 2026 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-9 IPO AI Nvidia

Seattle-based Spangle AI, which makes AI tools for online retailers to build custom storefronts, raised a $15M Series A led by NewRoad at a $100M valuation (www.geekwire.com)
2026-1-9 AI Seattle

YouTube Will Now Let You Filter Shorts Out of Search Results (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-9 YouTube

Lawsuit Over OpenAI For-Profit Conversion Can Head To Trial, US Judge Says (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-9

Illinois Health Department Exposed Over 700,000 Residents' Personal Data For Years (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-9

Nvidia has hired Google Cloud VP of Marketing Alison Wagonfeld to be Nvidia's first CMO; source: Wagonfeld will report to CEO Jensen Huang (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-9 Google Nvidia

Docs: xAI had a net loss of $1.46B in Q3, up from $1B in Q1; sources: xAI told investors it plans to build AI that will eventually power Optimus humanoid robots (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-9 AI Robot

Google Is Adding an 'AI Inbox' To Gmail That Summarizes Emails (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-9 Google AI

Gmail's new AI Inbox uses Gemini, but Google says it won't train AI on user emails (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-9 Google AI

Mississippi Gov. Reeves says xAI is set to spend $20B+ to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, xAI's third data center in the greater Memphis area (apnews.com)
2026-1-9

New China-linked hackers breach telcos using edge device exploits (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-9 China

French Court Orders Google DNS to Block Pirate Sites, Dismisses 'Cloudflare-First' Defense (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-9 France Google

FBI warns about Kimsuky hackers using QR codes to phish U.S. orgs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-9 FBI

Filings: Meta has hired Bill McGinley, a veteran Republican operative and the former top lawyer for DOGE, as a lobbyist (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-9 Republican

Microsoft Turns Copilot Chats Into a Checkout Lane (slashdot.org)
2026-1-9 Microsoft

xAI teases major Grok upgrade, hints at Grok Code CLI (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-9

Wi-Fi Advocates Get Win From FCC With Vote To Allow Higher-Power Devices (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-1-9

Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; the deal was previously reported to be valued at around $1B (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-9

The Gap Between Premium and Budget TV Brands is Quickly Closing (entertainment.slashdot.org)
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Sources: Strava, the fitness app founded in 2009, filed confidentially for an IPO; its revenue grew more than 50% YoY in 2025 but was still less than $500M (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-9 IPO

VMware ESXi zero-days likely exploited a year before disclosure (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-9 VMware

Iran in 'Digital Blackout' as Tehran Throttles Mobile Internet Access (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-9 Mobile Iran Tehran

OpenAI is rolling out a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to assist with medical reasoning and administrative tasks, at Cedars-Sinai and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-9

Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to raise about $2B, after raising more than $1.5B across a pair of rounds in September and October (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-9

Cisco switches hit by reboot loops due to DNS client bug (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-9 Cisco

Texas court blocks Samsung from tracking TV viewing, then vacates order (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-9 Samsung Texas

OpenAI VP of research Jerry Tworek is leaving, sources say after OpenAI sided with Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki in a dispute over its research direction (www.wired.com)
2026-1-9

Statcounter: four months after its release, iOS 26 is in use by only about 15% of iPhone users; in January 2025, about 63% of users were on iOS 18 (www.cultofmac.com)
2026-1-9 IOS iPhone

'The Downside To Using AI for All Those Boring Tasks at Work' (slashdot.org)
2026-1-9 AI

Sources: Google, Meta, Netflix, Microsoft, and Amazon will not be included in the EU's Digital Networks Act, despite calls from telecoms companies (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-9 Google Amazon Microsoft Netflix

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