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Crypto PAC Fairshake expanded its war chest to $193M by the end of last year, up from $141M in July; Ripple gave $25M, and a16z gave $24M in H2 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-29

Outtake, which uses autonomous AI agents to help companies detect and remove cyberthreats, raised $40M led by Iconiq, after a $16.5M Series A in April 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-29 AI

SK Hynix reports Q4 revenue up 66% YoY to $23B, above ~$22.4B est., and operating profit up 137% YoY to $13.3B, both company records, driven by AI HBM demand (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-28 AI 4Q

ASML reports Q4 net sales of €9.7B, vs. €9.6B est., and €2.84B net profit, vs. €3.01B est., and says it expects China to account for 20% of its total 2026 sales (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-28 China 4Q

An interview with Mozilla president Mark Surman about plans to deploy its ~$1.4B in reserves to fund an AI “rebel alliance” to challenge companies like OpenAI (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-28 Interview AI Mozilla

UPS plans to eliminate 30,000 jobs this year as part of winding down its partnership with Amazon; it expects $3B in savings related to the Amazon unwind (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-28 Amazon

Filing: Pinterest plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce by Q3 and cut back on office space, saying it is “reallocating resources” to AI teams (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Corning says Meta committed to paying up to $6B through 2030 for fiber-optic cable in its AI data centers, and it plans to expand its Hickory, NC, factory (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Meta's decision to deprioritize VR in favor of AI and internet-connected glasses has chilled the VR industry, leading to concerns about its future (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-26 VR AI

Source: Databricks obtained $1.8B in fresh debt and now has over $7B in debt ahead of a potential IPO; it raised $4B+ in December at a $134B valuation (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-24 IPO

Adam Presser, previously TikTok's head of operations and trust and safety, will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture; TikTok CEO Shou Chew will be a director (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-23

Intel reports Q4 revenue down 4% YoY to $13.7B, vs. $13.4B est., a $600M net loss, up from $100M in Q4 2024, offers soft Q1 guidance; INTC down 6%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-23 Intel 4Q

Waymo launches its robotaxi service in Miami, its sixth market, initially covering a 60-square-mile area, and partners with Moove for fleet management (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-23

Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a satellite communications network for enterprise, data center, and government customers, and plans to begin deployment in Q4 2027 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-22 4Q

OpenEvidence, which is building “ChatGPT for doctors”, raised $250M led by Thrive and DST at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in October and $1B in February 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-22

Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50%+ of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-21 Instagram Sensor

Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native for an undisclosed sum, aiming to create a new system where AI developers pay creators for training content (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-16 AI

Replit launches Mobile Apps on Replit, which enables vibe-coding of iOS apps with integrated Stripe monetization (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-16 IOS Mobile

The Department of Commerce says the US and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement as part of which Taiwan will invest $250B in chip production capacity in the US (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-16 Taiwan

Amazon files an objection to Saks Global's bankruptcy financing plan, and says its $475M investment in the department store is now effectively “worthless” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-16 Amazon

AWS launches European Sovereign Cloud, creating a new parent company for its sovereign cloud that will be locally controlled in the EU and run by EU citizens (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-15 Europe

US Big Tech companies have been on an energy-related hiring spree; Workforce.AI says Microsoft has hired 570+ people with energy-related expertise since 2022 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-14 Microsoft Energy AI

Apple announces a multi-year deal to use Google's Gemini to power new Siri features later in 2026, saying Google's tech “provides the most capable foundation” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-13 Google Apple

CrowdStrike buys identity management startup SGNL, in a deal valued at nearly $740M, to bolster identity security defenses on its flagship Falcon platform (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-9 Startup

China says it will investigate Meta's $2B Manus acquisition to assess compliance with laws on export controls, tech import and export, and overseas investment (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-8 China

X faces fresh probes in Europe, India, and Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children; the UK says it has requested related info from X (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-6 Europe India Malaysia

Starlink says it is providing free broadband service to new and existing customers in Venezuela through February 3, 2026 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-5 Venezuela

Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, has been released early due to First Step Act, Trump's prison-reform law (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-3 Trump

Unsealed documents detail a US operation that stopped the alleged smuggling of $160M worth of Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs to China between Oct. 2024 and May 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-1 China Nvidia

Sources: SoftBank has completed its $40B investment in OpenAI (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-31

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