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Demis Hassabis says Chinese AI companies are about six months behind leading western labs and the response to DeepSeek's R1 was a “massive overreaction” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 China AI

Filings: Michael Saylor's Strategy has bought more than $3B in Bitcoin since January 5, marking its biggest two-week purchase since December 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 Bitcoin

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is a blunder with “incredible national security implications”, calling it a “big mistake” and “crazy” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 China AI

Meta VP of Public Policy Simon Milner, the company's most senior Asia-Pacific policy executive, plans to leave after 14 years to retire from full-time work (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 Asia

Sources: UK and Chinese security officials set up a forum to discuss cyberattacks after hacking accusations, the first of its kind, to help prevent escalation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 China

Sources: China broadens its probe into Temu owner PDD, dispatching 100+ investigators to its Shanghai HQ, after staff exchanged physical blows with regulators (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 China Shanghai

French accounting software startup Pennylane raised $204M led by TCV, a source says at a ~$4.25B valuation, with participation from Blackstone, DST, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 France Startup

A look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 China Korea AI

xAI has faced a growing outcry from global regulators over Grok's generation of non-consensual explicit photos, but has faced little regulatory action in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20

Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch has revived fears about disruption that weighed on SaaS stocks in 2025; Morgan Stanley SaaS index is down 15% so far in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 SaaS Morgan Stanley

Sources: Seoul-based AI chip designer FuriosaAI seeks to raise a $300M-$500M Series D to fund mass production of its 2nd-gen RNGD chip and is eyeing a 2027 IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 IPO AI

The UK Gambling Commission says Meta is letting illegal gambling sites advertise on Facebook and Instagram, calling its ad library a “window into criminality” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 Facebook Instagram

NYSE plans to use its tech that matches buyers and sellers, alongside blockchain networks, to facilitate real-time trading of tokenized securities in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 Blockchain

a16z's Matt Bornstein and others talk adding $1.7B to its $1.25B AI infrastructure fund, focusing on early rounds; Ben Horowitz calls it “one of the best funds” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 AI

Bitcoin fell 3.6% to under $92K, ether fell ~5%, and solana fell 8.6%, wiping ~$100B from crypto's total value, after Trump proposed new 10% European tariffs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-19 Trump Europe Bitcoin

Chinese media: phone makers Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Transsion trimmed their 2026 shipment targets, with Oppo cutting up to 20%, due to the memory chip shortage (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-19 China Xiaomi OPPO Vivo

Shenzhen-based UBTech signed deals to supply its Walker S2 humanoid robots to Airbus and Texas Instruments, and says it aims to produce 10,000+ units in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-19 Airbus Robot Shenzhen Texas

Micron signs a letter of intent to buy a fabrication site in Taiwan from Powerchip for $1.8B to expand DRAM memory chip production, expected to close in Q2 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-18 Taiwan

Filing: Elon Musk seeks $79B-$134B damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning nonprofit roots and partnering with Microsoft (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 Microsoft Elon Musk

Adobe's stock has slumped more than 45% since the end of 2023, reflecting analyst concerns over the threat of AI-driven disruption to SaaS companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 SaaS AI Adobe

Sources: Anchorage Digital, the first federally chartered US digital asset bank, is seeking to raise $200M to $400M, ahead of a possible IPO in 2027 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 IPO Asset

Sources: Google is in talks with broadband operator Radiate to set up a JV to hold their fiber assets; Stonepeak Partners will invest $1B to support the deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 Google Asset

Some top California Democrats join Governor Gavin Newsom in opposing a ballot initiative led by a healthcare union seeking a one-time 5% tax on $1B+ in assets (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 Tax Democrat Asset California

FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says the agency is examining Big Tech's acqui-hires to make sure “they are not an attempt to get around” its merger review process (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17

Sources: Replit is in advanced discussions to raise a new round of funding that would roughly triple its valuation to $9B; source: the round is for ~$400M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17

Sources: Trump and Northeastern state governors agree to push grid operator PJM to hold an auction for tech companies to fund new power plants, amid the AI boom (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 Trump AI

DoorDash Chief Revenue Officer Lee Brown is departing the delivery app company after less than six months; long-term VP Shanna Prevé will become CRO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17

ClickHouse, a Snowflake challenger that offers an OLAP database management system, raised $400M led by Dragoneer at a $15B valuation, up from $6.35B in May 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-17 Database

Sources: Trump and several state governors agree to direct grid operator PJM to hold an auction for tech companies to fund new power plants due to AI demand (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-16 Trump AI

Sources: Replit is in advanced discussions to raise about $400M in a new round of funding that would roughly triple its valuation to $9B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-16

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