The US SEC sues Elon Musk, claiming he failed to timely disclose a 5%+ purchase of Twitter's stock ahead of his takeover of the social media platform in 2022
- Agency alleges billionaire ignored disclosure deadline in 2022 — Musk's lawyer says he did ‘nothing wrong’ and SEC has no case
Sources: TikTok plans to switch off its app in the US on January 19 unless SCOTUS blocks the ban; the law only requires app stores to stop TikTok app downloads
TikTok plans to shut off its app for U.S. users on Sunday, the day a federal law will ban the app, unless the Supreme Court intervenes …
Microsoft says it will no longer support Office apps, known as Microsoft 365 apps, on Windows 10 after October 14, 2025
Microsoft says it will no longer support Office apps, known as Microsoft 365 apps, on Windows 10 later this year. The support cutoff coincides with Windows 10's end …
Sources and docs: Meta has dismantled its system for identifying and limiting viral hoaxes, and told content-ranking teams to stop penalizing misinformation
The company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake news. Last week, it shut them down — I.
British Virgin Islands-based Tether plans to move its corporate entity and subsidiaries to El Salvador after obtaining a digital asset service provider license
- Company and all subsidiaries will relocate to El Salvador — Stablecoin firm incorporated in the British Virgin Islands
Drake pulls his petition accusing UMG and Spotify of inflating Kendrick Lamar's “Not Like Us” with bots and payola; the diss track accuses Drake of pedophilia
Drake has withdrawn his petition against Spotify and Universal Music Group after accusing the entities of launching an illegal …
DJI replaces its geofence around the US' No-Fly Zones with a dismissible warning, saying the update “aligns” with FAA rules and is similar to changes in the EU
For over a decade, you couldn't easily fly a DJI drone over restricted areas in the United States.
Microsoft relaunches its free Copilot for businesses as Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, offering pay-as-you-go AI agents and using OpenAI's GPT-4o to answer queries
Microsoft is relaunching its free Copilot for businesses as Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat today, complete with the ability to use AI agents.
A close look at the state of video gaming in 2025, including why gaming soared from 2011 to 2021 and then stalled, China's global rise, and mobile gaming growth
Please note, this deck is in Early Access and will release in PDF shortly. There are two versions below based on your preference …
Google makes all its Gemini features for Workspace apps free, after charging $20 or $30 per user per month, but increases the prices of all its Workspace plans
Previously, Google charged an additional $20+ per user/month for Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Meet, and other Workspace apps.
A profile of Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan, the UAE's intelligence chief overseeing $1.5T in sovereign wealth and who wants to make the UAE into an AI superpower
Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE's chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign wealth.
Court docs: internal chats suggest Meta used data from piracy site LibGen to train its Llama AI models and worked to conceal it, as Meta raced to beat rivals
A major copyright lawsuit against Meta has revealed a trove of internal communications about the company's plans to develop …
OpenAI will fund the expansion of Axios to Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Boulder, and Huntsville, as part of a broader content-sharing and technology deal
- Google struck a deal with McClatchy to fund the creation of three digital-only local newsrooms in 2019.
Nikita Bier, creator of apps like tbh and anonymous compliments app Gas, launches Explode, a freemium app to send disappearing texts and photos via iMessage
Nikita Bier, creator of popular apps like the anonymous polling app tbh (acquired by Facebook) and the anonymous compliments app Gas …
Email: Sonos CPO Maxime Bouvat-Merlin is leaving; some employees say he shares a significant amount of blame for the brand damage due to the botched app revamp
A day after Sonos announced a CEO transition, the company is making more moves. Chief product officer Maxime Bouvat-Merlin will also be leaving his position.
LinkedIn launches free AI tools built on top of its own AI tech and data: a Jobs Match tool for job seekers and a recruitment AI agent for small businesses
If you've ever applied or thought of applying for a job via LinkedIn, you'll know that the experience can be immediately disheartening …
Huione Guarantee, a Telegram-based marketplace that enables “pig butchering” and other scams, recently debuted a few crypto products, including a USD stablecoin
- Huione Guarantee is a Telegram-based marketplace serving fraudsters in South East Asia, including those responsible for so-called “pig butchering” scams.
The US unveils new rules to curb flow of advanced chips produced by TSMC and others to China and sanctions 16 Chinese companies building China's chip industry
- Measures also impose sanctions on 16 Chinese entities — Biden has issued a raft of China regulations in his last week
Authorities in Singapore, which has a dire shortage of nurses, see the potential in AI tools to assist in preventive illness care, especially for the elderly
The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it's using AI for preventive care. — • SINGAPORE
Berlin-based Nelly, whose SaaS lets medical practices digitally onboard new patients, accept payments, and more, raised a €50M Series B led by Cathay Innovation
Nelly wants to become the biggest fintech startup in the healthcare industry. The Berlin-based startup is already working …
Maki, which provides companies a conversational AI agent for job interviews and candidate filtering, raised a $28.6M Series A led by Blossom Capital
According to some of the latest statistics, employers are swamped by job applications. In the UK alone, employers running graduate training …
The Netherlands tightens its export control rules, requiring ASML and ASM International to seek Dutch, not US, licenses for some of its chipmaking tools
The Netherlands tightened export control rules to make ASML Holding NV apply for licenses with the Dutch government instead of Washington for some of its tools.
The VisionTrack Composite Index, which tracks the performance of 130 crypto-dedicated hedge funds, jumped 40% in 2024, compared to Bitcoin's 120% surge in 2024
- Many crypto hedge funds notched double-digit returns in 2024 — But fewer were able to beat Bitcoin's 120% advance last year
A 28-year-old woman describes her “relationship” with ChatGPT, or Leo as the chatbot named itself, which became her therapist, erotic partner, and advisor
“It was supposed to be a fun experiment,” Aryin said of her A.I. relationship, “but then you start getting attached.” Bluesky: @sharonk , @beijingpalmer , @lakewitchhouse , @thewanderingjew , and @kas...
Apple and Amazon fight off a UK lawsuit filed on behalf of ~36M UK consumers alleging they colluded to bar most resellers of Apple and Beats products on Amazon
Apple (AAPL.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O) have successfully fought off a mass lawsuit in Britain over alleged collusion between …
In federal court, lawyers for Microsoft and OpenAI defended the scraping of news stories to train LLMs and urged the dismissal of news outlets' copyright claims
I really have no idea how those arguments landed. Kate Knibbs / @knibbs : Daily News & NYT lawyer now speaking. Pushing back on the idea that the publishers should've known about the ingestion prior ...
The US CFTC puts Crypto.com trading of Super Bowl and other sports derivatives under review; Crypto.com says it rejected the CFTC's request to halt such trading
- Company rejects agency's request to suspend sports trading — Regulators grappling with limits of prohibitions on gaming
Brazilian nonprofit Legal Games Institute estimates that betting apps draw $23B+ in wagers annually, nearly 10 times the Mafia-run animal lottery in the country
Digital gambling could spell the end for a lottery run by criminal gangs that has been a fixture of Brazilian life for decades. Bluesky: @mrkickbacknchill Bluesky: @mrkickbacknchill : This entire post...
An excerpt from a book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons details how Nintendo localized the game for Western players; the game has 46M+ in all-time Switch sales
www.polygon.com/animal-cross... X: @bossfightbooks : An excerpt from our most popular book of 2024, ANIMAL CROSSING by @kelslewin, was just published by @polygon as part of their Culture Shock series....
Decentralized Instagram alternative Pixelfed debuts iOS and Android apps; its Android app is the top Social app on Google Play in some markets, including the US
I am unsure if being based on ActivityPub (the same as Mastodon) will help or hurt it. @vikingsvssamurai : Pixelfed: the rebel Instagram we've been waiting for—no ads, no Meta meddling, just pure, chr...
Intel Capital plans to split off from its parent into a standalone fund with a new name in H2 2025; Intel Capital has invested $20B+ into over 1,800 companies
Dan Primack / Axios :
The Philippines' decision to supercharge its online gambling sector has been disastrous, opening the door to crimes, including money laundering, in the country
A casino raid in a sleepy town revealed the mayor's business connections to Singapore's $2 billion money-laundering scandal, and sparked allegations of Chinese espionage.
Quantum Brilliance, which makes quantum computing hardware using synthetic diamond qubits that work at room temperature in any setting, raised a $20M Series A
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
How gamers are turning gaming PCs into fashion statements: iBuypower customers spend an average of ~$2.4K on custom-built gaming PCs and $1.6K on prebuilt ones
Modern gaming PCs are fashion statements—far from the red-black dudebro builds …
Synthesia, a London-based B2B startup building products around highly realistic AI avatar technology, raised a $180M Series D led by NEA at a $2.1B valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Court filing: Meta says it may have to “roll back or pause” some features in India after a CCI directive banned WhatsApp data sharing with Meta for ad purposes
Experts say Donald Trump and others pushing for stronger US cyber offense must clarify if escalation is a proper response to recent Chinese cyber breaches
cyberscoop.com/aggressive-c... X: Eric Geller / @ericgeller : Tale as old as time: “Advocates for increased offensive measures need to clarify what precisely they want to do, experts said.” https://cy...
Red Hat acquires Neural Magic, which has built tools to boost generative AI inference workloads and raised $50M from a16z and others, for an undisclosed sum
and that starts today. Brian Stevens / @addvin : Today it become official, Neural Magic now a part of Red Hat. Michael Ferris / @mikeferris : Excited that we continue to expand our AI and Hybrid footp...
LemFi, a financial and payment services platform designed for immigrants that claims to have over 1M active users, raised a $53M Series B led by Highland Europe
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch :
Elmsford, NY-based quantum computing startup SEEQC raised a $30M Series A extension co-led by Booz Allen and NordicNinja, following a $22.4M Series A in 2020
Anna Heim / TechCrunch :
Industry insiders say China's share of the global DRAM chip market could double YoY to 10% in 2025, driven by CXMT, up from virtually zero just five years ago
Nikkei Asia :
AI will face different rules in Northern Ireland and Britain as the EU's AI Act takes effect next month, potentially causing friction in the UK's tech sector
Financial Times :
Analysis: the ten leading chip companies cut their fiscal 2024 capex by a combined $9.5B from initial plans due to a weakening demand for smartphones and EVs
Nikkei Asia :
PUBG developer Krafton, whose Seoul-listed shares are up more than 70% since early 2024, plans to invest over $136M in 2025 in more than a dozen game studios
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.