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xAI raised a $20B Series E, exceeding its $15B targeted round size, with participation from Valor, Nvidia, and others, and says Grok 5 is currently in training
xAI is rapidly accelerating its progress in building advanced AI. — xAI completed its upsized Series E funding round …
Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or “nudifying” images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of Grok images are sexualized
Elon Musk's X has become a top site for images of people that have been non-consensually undressed by AI …
Filing: Larry Page moved assets out of California ahead of the proposed CA wealth tax, meeting an end-of-2025 deadline; a source said he has left the state
- Google cofounder Larry Page is cutting ties with California. — A source said Page had already left the state.
How Google's ambitious approach to training Gemini on text, code, audio, images, and video helped it stage a powerful comeback, triggering a Code Red at OpenAI
After ChatGPT dominated early chatbot market, Google staged comeback with powerful AI model; biggest search-engine overhaul in years
Sources: Chinese officials are reviewing Meta's $2B Manus acquisition for possible tech export control violations, including Manus' relocation to Singapore
Commerce ministry assessing whether deal for Chinese-founded group violates technology export controls
Polymarket is disputing that the US mission to capture Nicolás Maduro constituted an “invasion”, refusing to pay out bets on a contract with $10.5M in wagers
Prediction market disputes US raid amounted to an invasion in fight over more than $10.5mn in wagers
Motorola unveils the Razr Fold, its first book-style foldable phone, with a 6.6" front display and an 8.1" 2K LTPO inner screen, expected to launch this summer
Lenovo Group Ltd.'s Motorola unveiled its first folding phone that opens like a book or passport, a departure from the string …
As data center development puts pressure on power grids, US officials propose requiring data centers to power down or switch to a backup as blackout risks rise
Power-grid operators are asking tech companies to supply their own electricity or go dark at times, but many are pushing back
Brands complain Amazon's “Buy for Me” AI-powered shopping tool features their products on Amazon without permission and shows descriptions with errors
Angie Chua has avoided selling on Amazon since she founded her Palm Springs, California-based stationery brand Bobo Design Studio in 2016.
In the first successful US prosecution of a spyware operator in 10+ years, pcTattletale's founder pleads guilty to promoting surveillance apps for unlawful uses
The founder of a U.S.-based spyware company, whose surveillance products allowed customers to spy on the phones and computers …
Sources: Discord files confidentially for a US IPO, working with Goldman and JPMorgan; Discord was valued at ~$15B in 2021, and rejected a $12B Microsoft offer
Discord Inc. filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter …
WBD's board unanimously rejects Paramount's amended $108.4B acquisition offer, saying the bid still has “significant” risks compared to Netflix's $83B offer
The board says the revised $108.4 billion bid continues to offer “significant costs, risks and uncertainties” compared to its $83 billion deal with Netflix
GWI: LinkedIn's 2025 revenue rose to $17B from $7B in 2020 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once per day in 2025, from 3.9% in 2020
Data show people are scrolling longer on the site. Its secret is a founding principle that curbs toxicity. — It isn't just you.
China unveils rules banning major platforms like Alibaba from forcing merchants into discounts or practices seen as disrupting market order, effective February
China unveiled broad regulations Wednesday that ban major platforms such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. from coercing online merchants …
Google will now publish new source code to the Android Open Source Project twice per year, down from releasing source code for every quarterly Android release
Google has announced that it will publish Android source code to AOSP in Q2 and Q4 of each year. — •
Samsung says it expects memory chip supply shortages to raise prices across the electronics industry, including potentially among its own consumer products
Samsung Electronics Co. expects memory chip supply shortages to raise prices across the electronics industry, including potentially among its own consumer products.
Jensen Huang says Nvidia has “fired up” H200 production in the expectation of resumed China sales and it is working on the “last details” with the US government
Company confident ‘last details’ of deal with White House to resume AI chip exports will be finalised soon
PitchBook-NVCA: global VC investments hit $512B in 2025 with AI accounting for 50%+; VC fundraising fell to a 10-year low of $118.6B, ~$100B less than in 2024
The global venture capital market hit its second-highest annual total on record in 2025, with the year seeing $512 billion in deal value …
Memo: JPMorgan's asset management unit cuts ties with proxy advisory firms to use its AI-powered Proxy IQ platform to assist on US votes, an industry first
Bank's asset and wealth-management unit will use in-house, AI-powered platform to cast shareholder votes
Nike quietly sold its digital products subsidiary RTFKT on December 16 for an undisclosed sum, roughly one year after Nike shuttered the NFT unit
Nike has sold one of its subsidiaries, but it's not the one on the minds of some analysts and industry watchers.
Intel spinout and enterprise AI company Articul8 raised over half of a $70M Series B at a $500M pre-money valuation and expects the round to close in Q1 2026
Articul8, an enterprise AI company spun out of Intel in early 2024, has secured more than half of a planned $70 million funding round …
Roblox expands mandatory age estimations for chat features to all regions using Persona's tech, after a rollout in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands
After a user's age has been verified, they'll be able to chat with others in similar age groups.