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

New Ukraine defense chief admits scale of manpower crisis (www.rt.com)
2026-1-16 Ukraine

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

EU seeks figurehead for Russia talks amid isolation fears – Politico (www.rt.com)
2026-1-16 Russia Europe

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

US Republicans defeat bill meant to curb Trump on Venezuela (www.rt.com)
2026-1-15 Trump Republican Venezuela

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

US is ‘main enemy of the dollar' – ex-IMF director (www.rt.com)
2026-1-15 IMF

Russia open to further contact with Trump's envoys – Lavrov (www.rt.com)
2026-1-15 Trump Russia

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

Iran fear Trump could launch 'surprise attack' as Tehran backs down over US military threat (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-1-15 Trump Iran Tehran

Passenger jet is surrounded by cops at Barcelona airport amid 'on board threat' alert after it was 'escorted by warplanes' over the Med (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2026-1-15

Why Gaza Should Be Placed Under US and Israeli Control (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-1-15 Israel

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

The Inevitable Transition in Iran (www.juancole.com)
2026-1-15 Iran

The Use of Military Force in Iran could Backfire on Trump (www.juancole.com)
2026-1-15 Trump Iran

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