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Trump-linked World Liberty Financial's stablecoin, USD1, hit $5B in total circulation in January with 85% held in Binance accounts; Trump pardoned CZ in October (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-8 Trump

The EU says that TikTok's “addictive design” is illegal under the DSA, citing the app's infinite scroll and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-6 Algorithm

A federal jury in Phoenix ordered Uber to pay $8.5M to a passenger who said a driver sexually assaulted her in 2023, the first case where Uber was found liable (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-6 Uber

DOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-6 Startup Coinbase

Bedrock, which aims to automate heavy construction equipment like excavators, raised $270M led by CapitalG and the Valor Atreides AI Fund at a $1.75B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-5 AI

The SpaceX-xAI merger further intermingles Musk's companies, creates the most valuable private company in the world, and provides a financial lifeline to xAI (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-3 SpaceX

How food delivery is reshaping US mealtimes, as some users spend thousands; NRA data shows nearly 75% of 2024 restaurant orders were not eaten in a restaurant (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-2

China's desire to lead in cutting-edge AI is bumping against its aim to control it; Zhipu warned IPO investors about the burden of complying with 6+ AI rules (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-2 China IPO AI

Indonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X “outlining concrete steps” to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok (www.nytimes.com)
2026-2-2 Ban Indonesia

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-31 California

Amazon's $35M marketing campaign for Melania is ~10x the budget for similar documentaries like CNN's RBG; some suggest Amazon is currying favor with Trump (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-29 Trump Amazon Budget

Google DeepMind researchers unveil AlphaGenome, an AI model trained on molecular data to predict 11 different genomic processes, such as gene splicing (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-29 Google AI

AI sales startup Clay launches its second employee tender offer in under nine months, valuing it at $5B, up from $3.1B in August and $1.5B in its May 2025 offer (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-29 Startup AI

Internal documents from 2025: Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28B liters by 2030, up from 7.9B liters in 2020 and 10.4B liters in 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-28 Microsoft

AdImpact: Meta spent $6.4M in November and December 2025 to run TV ads in eight US state capitals and DC, aiming to change negative opinions about data centers (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-28

TikTok says the new US entity has not updated its algorithm since the joint venture was announced, after users accused it of suppressing posts related to ICE (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-28 Algorithm

TikTok settles a California lawsuit ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial; Snap recently settled the suit, while Meta and YouTube remain defendants (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-28 YouTube California

Internal Slack message: Sam Altman tells OpenAI staff that “What's happening with ICE is going too far” and he hopes President Trump “will rise to this moment” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-28 Trump Slack

Interviews with 100+ therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-26 AI chatbot

Ricursive, founded by ex-Google researchers to automate advanced chip design, raised $335M from Sequoia, Radical, Lightspeed, and others at a $4B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-26 Google

A look at Kalshi and Polymarket's rise; reports say Polymarket had 491K monthly active traders in December 2025, and <0.04% of addresses took 70% of profits (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-24

Court filing: SEC drops a case against Gemini Trust, founded by the Winklevoss twins, major Trump donors; the case stemmed from Gemini Earn's implosion (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-24 Trump

How Chinese tech companies navigate geopolitical tensions: TikTok and Manus adopted a “China shedding” strategy, while Shein and Meituan seek non-US growth (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-23 China

ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-23 China Ban

TikTok says ByteDance sold a majority stake in the app's US operations to a group of non-Chinese investors, including Oracle, MGX, and Silver Lake (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-23 China Oracle Silver

Inside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-23

NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M+ sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-22 Elon Musk

Snap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit, a week before the start of a trial in the first of several such lawsuits (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-21

The World Economic Forum in Davos is now dominated by tech giants, whose interests shunt aside topics like climate change, as Trump and AI take center stage (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-21 Trump AI Davos Climate

Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff to build collaborative AI, raised a $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others at a $4.48B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-21 Google AI Nvidia Jeff Bezos

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