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WBD's board unanimously rejects Paramount's amended $108.4B acquisition offer, saying the bid still has “significant” risks compared to Netflix's $83B offer (www.thewrap.com)
2026-1-7 Netflix

Enhance your security career with CISSP courses for under $20 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-7 Career

UK announces plan to strengthen public sector cyber defenses (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-7

Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or “nudifying” images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of Grok images are sexualized (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7

10 Dark Details of Australia's Gruesome Unsolved Wanda Murders (listverse.com)
2026-1-7 Australia

Filing: Samsung plans to acquire $1.73B of its stock for employee and executive compensation, as part of a performance-linked scheme introduced in October 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-7 Samsung

Sources: Chinese officials are reviewing Meta's $2B Manus acquisition for possible tech export control violations, including Manus' relocation to Singapore (t.co)
2026-1-7 China Singapore

Jensen Huang says Nvidia has “fired up” H200 production in the expectation of resumed China sales and it is working on the “last details” with the US government (www.ft.com)
2026-1-7 China Nvidia

Samsung says it expects memory chip supply shortages to raise prices across the electronics industry, including potentially among its own consumer products (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 Samsung

Trump putting Venezuela's interim leader on ‘short leash' – Politico (www.rt.com)
2026-1-7 Trump Venezuela

UK sides with Denmark against Trump's Greenland claim (www.rt.com)
2026-1-7 Trump U.K.

BBC bans saying US ‘kidnapped' Maduro – leaked memo (www.rt.com)
2026-1-7

Polymarket is disputing that the US mission to capture Nicolás Maduro constituted an “invasion”, refusing to pay out bets on a contract with $10.5M in wagers (www.ft.com)
2026-1-7

Chinese AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax are set to go public in Hong Kong on January 8 and 9, respectively; MiniMax has 210M+ users, and Zhipu has 8,000+ clients (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 China Hong Kong Startup AI

Sources: Discord files confidentially for a US IPO, working with Goldman and JPMorgan; Discord was valued at $15B in 2021, and rejected a $12B Microsoft offer (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 Microsoft IPO JPMorgan Goldman

UK and France unveil troop commitments for Ukraine (www.rt.com)
2026-1-7 France U.K. Ukraine

Fyodor Lukyanov: Trump's Venezuela move may have just earned him a Nobel peace prize (www.rt.com)
2026-1-7 Trump Venezuela Nobel

Congressman Introduces Legislation To Criminalize Insider Trading On Prediction Markets (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7

US threatens greater control over Western Hemisphere (www.rt.com)
2026-1-7

Merz tells Zelensky to stop young men from leaving Ukraine (www.rt.com)
2026-1-7 Ukraine

GWI: LinkedIn's 2025 revenue rose to $17B from $7B in 2020 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once per day in 2025, from 3.9% in 2020 (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-7 LinkedIn

Facing protests and new Threats from Trump, is the Iranian Regime on its last legs? (www.juancole.com)
2026-1-7 Trump Iran

Trump's anti-Climate Policies are Driving up Insurance Costs for Homeowners (www.juancole.com)
2026-1-7 Trump Climate Insurance

Vietnam on the Nile? With Chinese investment, Egypt turns to Solar Panel Manufacturing (www.juancole.com)
2026-1-7 China Manufacturing Solar Vietnam Egypt

Ugly Charts of US Auto Sales, 2025: Stellantis, Nissan Flirt with Catastrophe. GM, Ford, Honda Sales Rise but far below Peaks. Toyota & Hyundai-Kia Set Records (wolfstreet.com)
2026-1-7 Honda Toyota Ford Nissan

An AI-Generated NWS Map Invented Fake Towns In Idaho (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7 AI

A look at Kalshi and Polymarket's lucrative shift toward sports, as high-profile real-world bets raise questions about access, integrity, and US CFTC regulation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 CFTC

As data center development pressures power grids, officials have proposed requiring data centers to power down or switch to a backup when blackout risks rise (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-7

An interview with Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu on his new role as Google's chief AI architect, Gemini 3, progress toward the goal of AGI, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-1-7 Google Interview AI

PitchBook-NVCA: global VC investments hit $512B in 2025 with AI accounting for 50%+; VC fundraising fell to a 10-year low of $118.6B, ~$100B less than in 2024 (siliconangle.com)
2026-1-7 AI

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