| 7:35 PM • | The Information: Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise funding at a $1.3B valuation, up from $500M in October |
| 7:15 PM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The EC introduces draft revisions to the EU's Cybersecurity Act to phase out equipment from high-risk suppliers in critical sectors, a move criticized by Huawei |
| 6:50 PM • | Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: X says it has open sourced its “core recommendation system” on GitHub and that the system “ranks everything using a Grok-based transformer model” |
| 6:40 PM • | Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: Drone delivery startup Zipline raised $600M+, boosting its valuation to $7.6B, and says it has now completed 2M+ commercial deliveries of 20M different items |
| 6:15 PM • | Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter: Greg Peters says Netflix plans to bring new content types like video podcasts to its vertical video feed, and plans to roll out a new mobile UI later in 2026 |
| 5:45 PM • | Alex Heath / Sources: Demis Hassabis says there aren't “any plans” to put ads in Gemini and, in response to OpenAI testing ads, says “maybe they feel they need to make more revenue” |
| 5:25 PM • | Nate Raymond / Reuters: A Massachusetts judge grants a preliminary injunction blocking Kalshi from letting state residents bet on sports through its online platform |
| 5:10 PM • | Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Snap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit in California, a week before the start of a trial in the first of several such lawsuits |
| 4:40 PM • | Theo Wayt / The Information: Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT |
| 4:30 PM • | Dade Hayes / Deadline: Netflix's ad revenue hit $1.5B in 2025, up by more than 2.5x vs. 2024, and viewing hours grew 2% YoY in H2, driven by a 9% rise in viewing of branded originals |
| 4:18 PM • | Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $12B vs. $11.97B est., 325M paid subs, 2025 revenue up 16% to $45.2B, plans to increase content spend by 10% in 2026 |
| 4:00 PM • | April Rubin / Axios: The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers |
| 3:50 PM • | Jody Godoy / Reuters: The US FTC files a notice to appeal a November 2025 ruling that found Meta did not hold an illegal monopoly by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp |
| 3:30 PM • | Juby Babu / Reuters: OpenAI rolls out age prediction on ChatGPT globally to identify users under 18 and apply automatic content protections as it prepares to introduce adult content |
| 3:05 PM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Filings from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit detail Microsoft's decade-long OpenAI relationship, like establishing a new subsidiary for Sam Altman while he was fired |
| 2:45 PM • | Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: xAI co-founder Greg Yang says he is stepping back from the startup into an informal advisory role to focus on his health after being diagnosed with Lyme disease |
| 1:45 PM • | Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: Sources: AI inference startup Baseten raised $300M led by IVP and CapitalG at a $5B valuation, more than doubling its previous valuation; Nvidia invested $150M |
| 1:35 PM • | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI and ServiceNow sign a three-year deal to integrate OpenAI's models into ServiceNow's business software, including using OpenAI's AI agents for IT tasks |
| 1:10 PM • | Shona Ghosh / Bloomberg: World Economic Forum panel: Palantir CEO Alex Karp says AI-driven job displacement will “make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration” |
| 1:00 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Netflix adds a real-time voting feature with the premiere of its Star Search reboot, available on mobile, smart TVs, and streaming devices, but not in a browser |
| 12:50 PM • | Bloomberg: Demis Hassabis says Chinese AI companies are about six months behind leading western labs and the response to DeepSeek's R1 in 2025 was a “massive overreaction” |
| 12:25 PM • | Peter S. Goodman / New York Times: 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 |
| 11:45 AM • | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: Setapp Mobile, one of the first alt iOS app stores launched in 2024 after the EU's DMA, plans to shut down, blaming “still-evolving and complex business terms” |
| 11:05 AM • | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Ethernovia, which builds advanced packet processors and Ethernet networking chips for vehicles and edge devices, raised a $90M+ Series B led by Maverick Silicon |
| 11:00 AM • | Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Substack challenger Beehiiv says it expects to nearly double its annual revenue to $50M in 2026 and now has 40K+ MAUs, including nearly 15K paying subscribers |
| 10:30 AM • | Max Hunder / Reuters: Ukraine says it plans to share nearly four years of wartime combat data, like millions of hours of drone footage, with allies to help train AI military models |
| 10:20 AM • | Melos Ambaye / Bloomberg: Filings: Michael Saylor's Strategy has bought $3B+ in bitcoin since January 5, its biggest two-week purchase since December 2024; Strategy holds ~$65B in crypto |
| 8:30 AM • | Aditya Soni / Reuters: Legal AI startup Ivo, which aims to reduce hallucinations by breaking legal reviews into 400+ tasks, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a ~$355M valuation |
| 8:20 AM • | Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter: Nielsen: Christmas Day 2025 set a record for US streaming usage with 55.1B minutes, or 54% of all TV viewing for the day, up by 3.9B minutes on Christmas 2024 |
| 8:10 AM • | Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: Portugal orders Polymarket to cease operations and blocks it in the country after heavy activity tied to its recent presidential election, with €110M+ in volume |
| 7:55 AM • | Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is like “selling nuclear weapons to North Korea” and has “incredible national security implications” |
| 7:45 AM • | Cade Metz / New York Times: 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 |
| 7:40 AM • | Zach Vallese / CNBC: 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 |
| 7:30 AM • | Michael Thomsen / New York Times: How Zynga uses a secretive VIP program with personal account managers and exclusive sweepstake entries to keep top players spending on games like FarmVille |
| 7:15 AM • | Brian Stelter / CNN: Netflix and WBD say Netflix revised its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75/share, with the same $82.7B value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing |
| 7:05 AM • | Ben Bergman / Business Insider: Vibe coding startup Emergent raised a $70M Series B led by Khosla and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, after a $23M Series A in September 2025, and claims 5M+ users |
| 6:55 AM • | Newley Purnell / Bloomberg: Meta VP of Public Policy Simon Milner, Meta's most senior Asia-Pacific policy executive who joined in 2012, says he will retire from full-time work in H1 2026 |
| 6:35 AM • | Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal: 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 |
| 6:25 AM • | Alex Wickham / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 6:10 AM • | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Sony and TCL sign a nonbinding deal to spin off Sony's TV and home audio hardware business into a joint venture, split 51% TCL and 49% Sony, by the end of March |
| 6:00 AM • | John Liu / Bloomberg: Sources: China broadens its probe into Temu owner PDD, dispatching 100+ investigators to its Shanghai HQ, after staff exchanged physical blows with regulators |
| 5:50 AM • | Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: Private equity firm Everstone combines Delhi-based Wingify, which helps A/B test websites, and Paris-based AB Tasty, which provides experimentation software |
| 5:35 AM • | Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg: Paris-based accounting software startup Pennylane raised €175M led by TCV, a source says at a ~$4.25B valuation; Blackstone, Sequoia, and others also invested |
| 3:55 AM • | Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: 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 |
| 2:20 AM • | Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance expands its cloud via sales hires and lower prices; IDC: ByteDance had nearly 13% of China's AI cloud market in H1 2025, vs. Alibaba's 23% |
| 1:45 AM • | Anjali Jain / Inc42: Pune-based supply chain robotics startup Unbox Robotics raised a $28M Series B in a mix of primary and secondary capital, after raising $15M in earlier rounds |
| 12:00 AM • | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: xAI faces a growing outcry from global regulators over Grok generating nonconsensual explicit photos, but has faced little legal or regulatory action in the US |
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