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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

Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-9 Startup Shopify

Former Google CEO Plans To Singlehandedly Fund a Hubble Telescope Replacement (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-9 Google

Tailwind CSS Lets Go 75% Of Engineers After 40% Traffic Drop From Google (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-9 Google

Tailwind CSS lays off three of its four engineers after Google traffic to its documentation fell ~40% from early 2023 due to AI, causing an ~80% drop in revenue (www.seroundtable.com)
2026-1-9 Google AI

Microsoft launches Copilot Checkout in the US, enabling in-chat purchases via PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, and others; Shopify merchants are automatically enrolled (searchengineland.com)
2026-1-9 Microsoft Shopify

5 Critical Microsoft 365 Security Settings You Could Be Missing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-9 Microsoft

Google makes Help Me Write, AI email summaries, and Suggested Replies free to all Gmail users; the features required a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription (9to5google.com)
2026-1-9 Google AI

Google rolls out an AI Inbox view for Gmail, showing users to-dos and summaries of topics rather than a traditional email list, first for US “trusted testers” (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-9 Google AI

Microsoft Exchange Online outage blocks access to mailboxes via IMAP4 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Microsoft

Microsoft to enforce MFA for Microsoft 365 admin center sign-ins (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Microsoft

Microsoft's chief scientist Eric Horvitz warns that the US' cuts to academic research funding could push talent abroad and hand rivals an edge in the AI race (www.ft.com)
2026-1-8 Microsoft AI

Google and Character.AI Agree To Settle Lawsuits Over Teen Suicides (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8 Google AI

Warner Bros Rejects Revised Paramount Bid, Sticks With Netflix (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8 Netflix

ChatGPT is losing market share as Google Gemini gains ground (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Google

Docs: Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits with families of teenagers who killed or harmed themselves after interacting with Character.AI's chatbot (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-8 Google AI chatbot

Microsoft: Classic Outlook bug prevents opening encrypted emails (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Microsoft

Spotify launches Listening Activity on iOS and Android, letting users view friends' real-time listening via the sidebar alongside chats, as an opt-in feature (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-8 Android IOS Spotify

'Everyone Hates OneDrive, Microsoft's Cloud App That Steals Then Deletes All Your Files' (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8 Microsoft

In 2026, Hackers Want AI: Threat Intel on Vibe Hacking & HackGPT (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Intel AI

Google Search AI hallucinations push Google to hire "AI Answers Quality" engineers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Google AI

Intel spinout and enterprise AI company Articul8 raised over half of a $70M Series B at a $500M pre-money valuation and expects the round to close in Q1 2026 (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-7 Intel AI

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

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

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

How Google's ambitious approach to training Gemini on text, code, audio, images, and video helped it stage a powerful comeback, triggering a Code Red at OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-7 Google

Google Will Now Only Release Android Source Code Twice a Year (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7 Android Google

Brands complain Amazon's “Buy for Me” AI-powered shopping tool features their products on Amazon without permission and shows descriptions with errors (www.modernretail.co)
2026-1-7 Amazon AI

Intel Is Making Its Own Handheld Gaming PC Chips At CES 2026 (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7 Intel

Microsoft cancels plans to rate limit Exchange Online bulk emails (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-7 Microsoft

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