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State of Mobile 2025: in 2024, app downloads on iOS and Google Play dropped ~1% YoY to 136B, while revenue from IAP, paid apps, and games rose 13% YoY to $150B (sensortower.com)
2025-1-23 IOS Google Mobile

Scientists Detect Chirping Cosmic Waves In an Unexpected Part of Space (science.slashdot.org)
2025-1-23

Samsung to manufacture Galaxy S25 smartphones at Noida Plant: JB Park (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-23 Samsung

An Indian tribunal suspends restrictions preventing WhatsApp from sharing user data with Meta for ads, temporarily lifting a five-year ban imposed by the CCI (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 India WhatsApp Ban

Neko Health, a startup co-founded by Daniel Ek that offers AI-based full-body scans, has raised $260M led by Lightspeed, sources say at a $1.7B valuation (t.co)
2025-1-23 Startup AI

Samsung Galaxy S25 series India pricing, pre-order details, and launch offer explained (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-23 India Samsung

SK Hynix's Q4 operating profit grew over 20x YoY to ~$5.6B, beating Samsung's for first time, with HBM chips accounting for 40% of its total DRAM chip revenue (t.co)
2025-1-23 Samsung 4Q

Saudi digital security firm Elm Company agrees to acquire business services firm Thiqah from Saudi Arabia's PIF, which is also Elm's majority owner, for $906M (www.reuters.com)
2025-1-23 Arabia Saudi Arabia

ByteDance launches Doubao-1.5-pro, an upgraded AI model, claiming it outperforms OpenAI's o1 in AIME benchmarks, joining DeepSeek in China's AI reasoning push (www.reuters.com)
2025-1-23 China AI

An interview with Pinterest CEO Bill Ready on why his company is backing US state laws to restrict cellphone use in classrooms (www.washingtonpost.com)
2025-1-23 Interview

Sensor Tower: consumer spending in 2024 on AI apps like ChatGPT, Gemini, and ByteDance's Doubao grew more than 200% YoY to nearly $1.1B (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-23 AI Sensor

A New ‘Golden Age' for America (dailyreckoning.com)
2025-1-23 U.S.

Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI were arguing over Microsoft's ability to fulfill OpenAI's computing needs, in the months leading up to the Stargate announcement (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-23 Microsoft

OpenAI tells India court ChatGPT data removal will breach US legal obligations (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-23 India

US Meta users report automatic re-follows of president, VP accounts (indianexpress.com)
2025-1-23

Nice try, Apple, but Indonesia wants a restart (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-1-23 Apple Indonesia

How drone racing promotes battlefield FPV capability (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2025-1-23 Drone

Google signs an agreement to acquire a part of the HTC VIVE engineering team in Taiwan for $250M in cash, aiming to “accelerate” Android XR development (9to5google.com)
2025-1-23 Android Taiwan Google HTC

Microsoft was mentioned only as a technology partner in Stargate but the company is poised to benefit from the venture by offloading AI computing costs (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-23 Microsoft AI

EU member blocks renewal of sanctions against Russia – Bloomberg (www.rt.com)
2025-1-23 Russia Europe

Foreign ‘experts' plotting coup – leader of EU state (www.rt.com)
2025-1-23 Europe

DHS Terminates All Its Advisory Committees, Ending Its Investigation Into Chinese Telecom Hack (it.slashdot.org)
2025-1-23 China

The population paradox in India (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-1-23 India

What does the Trump presidency mean for Women, Peace and Security? (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-1-23 Trump

Moderators for 50+ subreddits announce bans of X links in new posts and comments, with several citing Elon Musk's recent gesture that many saw as a Nazi salute (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-1-23 Elon Musk

SK Hynix reports Q4 revenue up 75% YoY to a record ~$13.7B, a ~$5.6B net profit, and a ~$5.6B operating profit, in line with estimates, as HBM chip demand soars (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-1-23 4Q

Microsoft's LinkedIn Sued For Disclosing Customer Information To Train AI Models (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-1-23 Microsoft LinkedIn AI

A US district judge rules that the FBI's warrantless “backdoor” searches of FISA's Section 702 databases violate the Fourth Amendment (www.cato.org)
2025-1-23 FBI

Sources: Sam Altman told some colleagues that OpenAI and SoftBank will each commit $19B to fund The Stargate Project (www.theinformation.com)
2025-1-23

AI Apps Saw Over $1 Billion In Consumer Spending In 2024 (news.slashdot.org)
2025-1-23 AI

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