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Dow plans to cut 4,500 staff to save costs and will rely on AI to boost productivity, resulting in $1.1B to $1.5B in charges; it currently employs ~34,000 staff (www.wsj.com)
5 hours ago AI

Alibaba's Cainiao logistics unit merges with Chinese robovan company Zelos, creating a business sources say valued at ~$2B with a fleet set to hit 20K+ vehicles (www.wsj.com)
8 hours ago China Alibaba Logistics

The US construction industry is adopting AI tools to improve project management and support site managers and foremen; IDC says 60% of firms use some form of AI (www.wsj.com)
12 hours ago AI

Google says it took legal action to take down dozens of domains and disrupt the residential proxy network of Chinese company Ipidea, widely used by bad actors (www.wsj.com)
17 hours ago China Google

A look at “neolabs” such as Safe Superintelligence and Humans&, which give priority to long-term AI R&D over immediate profits; dozens have become unicorns (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago AI

Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $30B more in OpenAI; SoftBank is already one of OpenAI's largest shareholders after investing $22.5B in December (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago

The US Army signs a $5.6B, 10-year contract with Salesforce to speed up outdated practices; as part of the deal, military recruiters will get access to Slack (www.wsj.com)
2 days ago Salesforce Slack

Upwind Security, which filters out false security alerts in cloud apps to let security teams address actual risks, raised a $250M Series B at a ~$1.5B valuation (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago

Documents: China's military is focused on harnessing AI to deploy swarms of drones, robot dogs, and other autonomous systems, learning from hawks and coyotes (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago China AI Robot Drone

Quantum computing company IonQ acquires US chipmaker SkyWater for ~$1.8B, paying $35/share, in IonQ's biggest deal yet; SkyWater will operate as a subsidiary (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago Quantum

Manufacturers say that AI is fundamentally changing how some new products are created, finding unexpected solutions and reducing R&D time from weeks to days (www.wsj.com)
3 days ago AI

Sources: the EU's executive arm is drafting new legislation aimed at promoting tech sovereignty and openly discussing the security risks posed by US tech (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago

Sources: the Trump administration dismissed two Commerce Department officials, who focused on Chinese tech threats, raising concerns about a softening stance (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago Trump China

Intel's stock, riding high for months after the US government took a 10% stake, crashed 17% on Jan. 23, after the company flagged continued operational issues (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago Intel

Sources: the US DOJ opened a criminal probe and sent out grand-jury subpoenas in recent weeks over allegations that Deel recruited a spy inside rival Rippling (www.wsj.com)
5 days ago

How Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are testing AI models by having them play Pokémon Blue on Twitch to track a model's ability to reason and make decisions (www.wsj.com)
6 days ago Google AI

Capital One agrees to acquire Brex, which specializes in tech to administer corporate credit cards, expenses, and rewards, for $5.15B in cash and stock (www.wsj.com)
6 days ago Credit Card

Autodesk plans to cut about 1,000 jobs, or ~7% of its workforce, as part of a global restructuring plan seeking to strengthen sales and marketing (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago

Vinted CEO Thomas Plantenga says the Lithuania-based secondhand retailer plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to expand in the US in the coming months (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago

Survey: over 40% of executives said AI saved them more than eight hours per week, while two-thirds of non-management staff said they saved less than two hours (www.wsj.com)
7 days ago AI

Sources: Elon Musk is pushing for a SpaceX IPO by July, seems eager to beat OpenAI and Anthropic to market, and views it as a way to help xAI catch its rivals (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago IPO Elon Musk SpaceX

At Davos, Jensen Huang says AI is already bringing economic benefits and needs more investment, and an “AI bubble comes about because the investments are large” (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago AI Davos

Salt Lake City-based Zanskar, which uses AI to find overlooked geothermal fields to boost US electricity supply, raised $115M, taking its total funding to $180M (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago AI

Barret Zoph says Thinking Machines Lab fired him only after learning he was leaving, and at no time did the company cite his performance or unethical conduct (www.wsj.com)
8 days ago

Sources: AI inference startup Baseten raised $300M led by IVP and CapitalG at a $5B valuation, more than doubling its valuation; Nvidia invested $150M (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago Startup AI Nvidia

OpenAI and ServiceNow sign a three-year deal to integrate OpenAI's models into ServiceNow's business software, including embedding OpenAI's AI agents (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago AI

Sources: Baidu's Ernie Assistant passes 200M MAUs, as competition intensifies among Chinese tech giants in AI; Ernie is linked to apps like JD.com and Meituan (www.wsj.com)
9 days ago China AI

A look at the business and geopolitical considerations behind TSMC's international expansion, as Taiwan commits to spend $250B+ in the US in a trade deal (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago Taiwan

Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a “Claude bender” (www.wsj.com)
10 days ago

A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about Google DeepMind and its CEO Demis Hassabis, garnering 285M+ views on YouTube since November 2025 (www.wsj.com)
11 days ago Google YouTube

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