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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

Silver FAQs (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-1-15 Silver

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

Details of high-level Ukrainian vote-buying probe released (www.rt.com)
2026-1-15 Ukraine

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

Mariners first: rebuilding Australia's navy for war at sea (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-1-15 Australia

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

Indonesia's gamble on mega merger of ride-hailing firms (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-1-15 Indonesia

Canada mustn't forget political prisoners in its China reset (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-1-15 China Canada

Sales of Existing Homes in 2025 Drop to Lowest since 1995, Sellers Massively Yank Listings off the Market, Waiting for Spring (wolfstreet.com)
2026-1-15

Kiev attacked Kazakh-commissioned tanker – Russian military (www.rt.com)
2026-1-15 Russia

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

Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-15 Reddit

Google plans to make Chrome for Android an agentic browser with Gemini (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15 Android Google Browser Chrome

Greenland, NATO and the ghost of Henry Kissinger (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-1-15

The rise of coercive Islamist mobilisation in Bangladesh (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-1-15 Bangladesh

Cerebras Scores OpenAI Deal Worth Over $10 Billion (slashdot.org)
2026-1-15

Fidji Simo says Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz are returning to OpenAI, a move which “has been in the works for several weeks” (x.com)
2026-1-15

Thinking Machines parts ways with CTO Barret Zoph, with Soumith Chintala taking over the role; sources say the termination is due to “unethical conduct” (x.com)
2026-1-15

Google's Personal Intelligence links Gmail, Photos and Search to Gemini (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-15 Google Intelligence

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