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Z.ai releases GLM-Image, an open-source multimodal AI model trained on Huawei chips that it says is China's first to be fully trained using domestic chips (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 China AI

Holistic Resilience, a US group that helps Iranians secure internet access, says SpaceX has waived Starlink subscription fees amid a days-long internet blackout (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 Iran SpaceX

Under new licensing requirements, the US Commerce Department says exports of Nvidia's H200 chips and AMD's MI325X chips will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 Nvidia AMD

Liftoff, which helps companies place ads in mobile apps, files for a US IPO, reporting a $25.6M net loss on $491.6M in revenue in the nine months up to Sept. 30 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 IPO Mobile

Sources: AI chip startup Etched raised $500M led by Stripes at a $5B valuation, bringing its total funding to almost $1B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 Startup AI

The US Senate passes the Defiance Act that would allow victims to sue over nonconsensual, sexually explicit AI-generated images, amid furor over Grok images (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 AI Senate

Taiwan issues an arrest warrant for OnePlus CEO Pete Lau for allegedly illegally recruiting 70+ Taiwanese engineers, amid a crackdown on Chinese talent raids (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 China Taiwan

Sources: India asked quick commerce companies to drop their 10-minute delivery promise due to concerns about rider safety; Blinkit already removed the assurance (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 India

Sources: Meta and EssilorLuxottica are discussing potentially doubling Ray-Ban Meta production to 20M+ units by the end of 2026 and possibly as high as 30M+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14 Ban

Meta confirms it is laying off Reality Labs staff and will “reinvest the savings” in wearables; CTO Andrew Bosworth says 1,000+ staff will be notified Tuesday (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-14

NYC-based Proxima, which uses AI to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised an $80M seed led by DCVC, with participation from Nvidia and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-13 AI Nvidia

Interviews with Spotify founder Daniel Ek on his CEO exit, and new co-CEOs Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström, who face algorithmic fatigue and angry artists (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-13 Spotify

Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice rose 54% in its Hong Kong debut after raising ~$600M in its IPO, and reported H1 2025 profit of ~$84M, up 14% from H2 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-13 China Hong Kong IPO

Personal finance app Betterment says an individual accessed certain systems to send fake crypto scam notification and believes the person accessed user info (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-13

World Liberty Financial launches World Liberty Markets, letting users lend and borrow digital assets among one another, supporting its own token USD1 and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-13 Asset

Nvidia and Eli Lilly plan to invest $1B over five years in a new Silicon Valley-based AI drug laboratory, aiming to boost the pharmaceutical industry's AI use (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-13 AI Nvidia

Paris-based autonomous drone maker Harmattan AI raised a $200M Series B led by Dassault at a $1.4B valuation, and aims to produce 10K drones per month in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-12 AI Drone Paris

Meta says it shut down nearly 550K accounts in Australia to comply with its under-16 social media ban, including 330K Instagram and 173K Facebook accounts (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-12 Australia Facebook Instagram Ban

Chinese AI executives say China is unlikely to eclipse the US in the AI race anytime soon, citing limited resources and US chip export curbs as key constraints (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-12 China AI

Tel Aviv-based Torq, which operates an autonomous AI-powered security operations platform, raised $140M led by Merlin Ventures at a $1.2B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-12 AI

Walmart partners with Google to offer AI-enhanced shopping, allowing users to purchase Walmart and Sam's Club items directly on Gemini (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-12 Google AI Walmart

Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to Grok, joining Indonesia, over the chatbot's generation of sexual content (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-12 chatbot Malaysia Indonesia

Analysis: global AI-related companies drove ~40% of benchmark convertible bond index returns in 2025, pushing the amount raised to $166.5B, the most since 2001 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-11 AI

China releases draft guidelines for governing online personal data collection, open for public consultation amid privacy concerns and companies' data misuse (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-11 China

A profile of Grubhub parent Wonder, which has raised about $2B and is rolling out robotic meal-assembly tech acquired from Sweetgreen for $186M in November 2025 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-11 Robot

Xreal co-founder and CEO Chi Xu says the smart glass maker, which has a $1B+ valuation, recently raised $100M from “supply chain partners” and other backers (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-10

Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's stock has surged 88% over the past year, driven by the success of its Kling AI video generator, which has amassed 60M users (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-10 China AI

Source: OnePay, the fintech firm behind Walmart's “super app”, recently bought back shares from employees at a price that values the startup at more than $4B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-10 Fintech Startup Walmart

OpenAI and SoftBank says they will each invest $500M in SB Energy to support the infrastructure company's growth as a data center developer and operator (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-10 Energy

Chinese humanoid robotics companies dominated CES 2026, but a wide gap remains between choreographed demonstrations and real-world deployment (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-9 China Robot

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