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- Days before TikTok briefly went dark, Instagram and Facebook made design tweaks, released new features, and ran ads promoting its apps as TikTok alternatives (Louise Matsakis/Wired)
- Quant trading firm XTX, managing $250B+ in daily trades, plans to invest €1B+ on five data centers in Finland to support its growing use of machine learning (Bloomberg)
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- Some crypto executives fear investor backlash over $TRUMP and $MELANIA memecoins; CoinMarketCap reports most $TRUMP trading is concentrated on Asian exchanges (Financial Times)
- Truecaller rolls out real-time caller ID to its ~750K iOS subscribers, who account for 40% of its revenue; Truecaller has 2.6M+ paying subscribers in total (TechCrunch)
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- Microsoft to buy 3.5M carbon credits, estimated to be worth about $200M, from Re.green over 25 years to restore parts of Brazil's Amazon and Atlantic forests (Kenza Bryan/Financial Times)
- The Trump administration removed all advisory committee members within the DHS, including those in CISA and CSRB, which was investigating Salt Typhoon (Becky Bracken/Dark Reading)
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- Sources: Google is investing over $1B more in Anthropic, which is also nearing a further $2B funding round from Lightspeed and other VCs at a ~$60B valuation (Financial Times)
- DealStreetAsia: Southeast Asian startups raised $4.56B in 2024, down 42% YoY and falling to a fifth of a 2021 peak, as the number of deals fell 10% YoY to 633 (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
- An internal probe into SoftBank-backed eFishery, one of Indonesia's most prominent startups, finds the agritech company allegedly faked most of its 2024 sales (Bloomberg)
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- Documents: Google gave Israel access to its latest AI tools from the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas war, directly assisting the Defense Ministry and the IDF (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)
- Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Jan. 22, #121
- Filing: OpenAI spent $1.76M on lobbying in 2024, up from 2023's $260K, with focus on the AI Advancement and Reliability Act and the Future of AI Innovation Act (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
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- NVIDIA's GeForce NOW memberships are "sold out" right now, and it says it's our fault for using the servers too much
- Sources: a deep philosophical rift over how DOGE should operate helped spur Vivek Ramaswamy's exit, with Donald Trump's Jan. 20 EO embodying Elon Musk's vision (Washington Post)
- Sources: ByteDance plans to spend ~$5.5B to acquire AI chips in China in 2025, double the amount spent in 2024, with ~60% going to Chinese suppliers like Huawei (Financial Times)
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- Render, which offers developers cloud services for building, deploying, and running apps and websites, raised an $80M Series C led by Georgian (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
- Here’s what Bambu will — and won’t — promise after its controversial 3D printer update
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- Trump pardons Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht
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- StackBlitz, which offers an AI tool to create websites using text prompts, says it's finalizing raising $83.5M at a $700M valuation, following a $22M Series A (Bloomberg)
- Trump grants a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency world who was serving a life sentence (New York Times)
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- Highnote, which offers businesses a card-issuing software, raised a $90M Series B led by Adams Street Partners, a source says at a $750M+ valuation (Stephen Pastis/Forbes)
- Trump Says He Ended the ‘EV Mandate.’ What Does That Mean?
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- Survey of 3,000+ game devs: 11% were laid off in the past year, 58% back unionization, 30% say generative AI is having a negative impact on the industry, more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
- Trump says he’s open to Musk or Ellison buying TikTok
- Netflix plans now cost between $8 and $25 after yet another subscription price hike
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- Trump says he would be open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok US as part of a joint venture that would give the US government 50% ownership (Bloomberg)
- Microsoft says it has a new deal with OpenAI that gives Microsoft "right of first refusal", meaning it's no longer OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Trump Says He Won't Enforce TikTok Ban Until Spring
- Microsoft is letting OpenAI get its own AI compute now
- Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well
- MrBeast joins an investor group led by Employer.com founder Jesse Tinsley in an all-cash bid to acquire TikTok US operations; several groups have shown interest (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)
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- Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Jan. 22, #325
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- iOS 18.3 RC Is Out and It Updates AI Notification Summaries and More
- OpenAI and Softbank are starting a $500 billion AI data center company
- How Meta Tried to Lure TikTok Users to Instagram
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- Instagram's Newest Tactic to Entice TikTokkers Is a Video Editing App
- OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle announce The Stargate Project, a JV to invest in US AI infrastructure, committing $100B now and up to $500B in the next four years (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Jan. 22, #591
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- Report: Meta could release its first true AR headset as soon as 2027
- Nielsen: Netflix captured 8.5% of all US streaming viewership in December 2024, its highest share since July 2023, in part due to NFL games; YouTube had 11.1% (Drew Lerner/Awful Announcing)
- New year, same streaming headaches: Netflix raises prices by up to 16 percent
- Crypto.com launches its institutional exchange service for US customers; it had closed the service in June 2023 due to "limited demand" (MK Manoylov/The Block)
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- Meta is trying to lure TikTok creators with a new bonus program
- Netflix Is Increasing Subscription Prices. Here's How Much Your Plan Will Cost
- Netflix Subscriber Base Surges, So It’s Raising Prices Again
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- Tencent unveils Hunyuan3D 2.0, an AI system that turns single images or text prompts into 3D models in seconds, and open sources it on HuggingFace and GitHub (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
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- Netflix raises prices in the US, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina; the standard US plan rises from $15.49 to $17.99, standard with ads jumps a dollar to $7.99 (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
- Trump Takes Aim at Social Media 'Censorship' With Executive Order
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- Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.2B and 301.6M global subs, adding 18.9M subs, more than doubling Wall Street estimates; NFLX jumps 13%+ after hours (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
- Netflix is raising prices again, as the standard plan goes up to $17.99
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- Perplexity debuts Sonar, an API service to let devs build AI search tools into their apps, with a base tier costing $5/1K searches and a pricier Sonar Pro tier (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
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- Apple Releases macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3, and iPadOS 18.3 Release Candidates, Makes Apple Intelligence Opt-Out
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- Sources: Meta aims to debut glasses with a built-in display and new Oakley-branded smart glasses for athletes in 2025; it has resumed work on watches, earbuds (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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- Apple Intelligence, previously opt-in by default, enabled automatically in iOS 18.3
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- Microsoft’s Steam-like browser overlay is now available on Windows 11
- ACLU and 18 states sue Trump over his attempt to repeal birthright citizenship
- Apple says installing macOS Sequoia 15.3, iOS 18.3, or iPadOS 18.3 will turn on Apple Intelligence automatically on compatible devices; users can opt out later (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
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