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| Megan Morrone / Axios: |
OpenAI says it is developing a “different ChatGPT experience” for teens and plans to use age-prediction tech to bar kids under 18 from the standard version — OpenAI is developing a “different ChatGPT experience” for teens and plans to use age-prediction technology …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/ChatGPT
| Financial Times: |
China says the US spin-off of TikTok will use ByteDance's Chinese algorithm and the US-agreed framework includes “licensing the algorithm and other IP rights” — Security hawks have raised fears recommendation code could be manipulated to push propaganda
More: Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, The Information, Sherwood News, Quartz, B&T, Platformer, Sinocism, New York Post, HotAir, and Breitbart
| Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News: |
Sources: Oracle is among a consortium of companies that would enable TikTok to continue its US operations if the US and China finalize their framework deal — Technology company Oracle is among a consortium of firms that would enable TikTok to continue operations in the U.S. if a framework deal between … | Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
YouTube unveils new livestreaming features, including letting creators transition between public and members-only streams, and ads that run next to the stream — At its Made on YouTube event on Tuesday, the video giant announced several new features aimed at improving the livestreaming experience.
More: 9to5Google, Decrypt, The Verge, Yahoo Finance, and YouTube Official Blog
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube unveils new generative AI tools for Shorts, including a custom version of Veo 3 called Veo 3 Fast, which includes sound, and an Edit with AI feature — At its Made on YouTube live event on Tuesday, the company unveiled new generative AI tools for Shorts creators.
More: Wall Street Journal, YouTube Official Blog, and Bloomberg
| Zach Vallese / CNBC: |
YouTube says it has paid out $100B+ to creators over the last four years and the number of YouTube channels making over $100K from TV screens has jumped 45% YoY — YouTube said on Tuesday it has paid out over $100 billion to creators, artists and media companies since 2021.
More: YouTube Official Blog and TipRanks Financial
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds automatic AI model selection to Visual Studio Code; it primarily favors Claude Sonnet 4 over GPT-5 or GPT-5 mini for paid GitHub Copilot users — Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5.
More: Visual Studio Code, Thurrott, Implicator.ai, Windows Report, and WinBuzzer
| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
Google launches the Agent Payments Protocol, or AP2, designed to securely facilitate agent-led payments across platforms, with the support of 60+ organizations — ZDNET's key takeaways — Google announces Agent Payments Protocol (AP2). — AP2 helps companies carry out agent-led payments securely.
More: TechCrunch, Finextra, The Crypto Times, WinBuzzer, and Google Cloud Blog
| Yasmin Khorram / Politico: |
Tech executives say the Trump administration's stake in Intel and its intervention into other private businesses have had a chilling effect on decision making — In one case, a tech executive turned down a dinner invitation to the White House earlier this month — and sent a deputy instead.
Bluesky: @niedermeyer.online and @marypcbuk
| David Heaney / UploadVR: |
A now-removed unlisted video on Meta's YouTube channel shows Meta Ray-Ban glasses with a HUD visible to the right eye, used for Meta AI and on-foot navigation — Meta's HUD glasses with sEMG wristband will in fact be Ray-Ban branded, a leaked clip which also depicts the HUD and wristband in action reveals.
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| Jackie Davalos / Bloomberg: |
Humanoid robot startup Figure raised a $1B+ Series C led by Parkway Venture Capital at a post-money valuation of $39B, up from $2.6B in February 2024 — Figure AI Inc., a company developing humanoid robots, has received more than $1 billion in committed capital in a financing round that values … | Nicholas G. Miller / Wall Street Journal: |
HR software provider Workday agrees to acquire Sana, an AI startup specializing in workplace tools, for $1.1B; the transaction is set to close before January 31 — the Sana acquisition also will deepen Workday's educational offerings — Workday is acquiring Sana, an AI company focused on workplace tools … | Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
Google plans to invest £5B in the UK for AI, energy, R&D, and more over the next two years, expecting to add 8,000+ jobs a year at businesses across the country — The company said the investment would add more than 8,000 jobs a year at businesses across the U.K.
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| Reuters: |
Study: Grok, ChatGPT, Meta AI, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek can be easily used to create phishing emails targeting the elderly, despite being trained to refuse — Major AI chatbots were happy to help. — Reuters and a Harvard University researcher used top chatbots to plot a simulated phishing scam …
More: Implicator.ai, Digit, and Reuters on YouTube
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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 11 review: slightly better battery and Sleep Score is intuitive, but the most exciting updates are coming to older watches through watchOS 26 — No one is going to wax lyrical about the Apple Watch Series 11. Not because it's a bad smartwatch — it's a great smartwatch, actually.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
OpenAI hires former xAI CFO Mike Liberatore as business finance officer, reporting to CFO Sarah Friar, to oversee infrastructure spending; he left xAI in July — OpenAI has hired Mike Liberatore, former finance chief at Elon Musk's xAI, to be the artificial intelligence startup's business finance officer … | Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Druid, whose Druid Conductor orchestration engine allows companies to deploy specialized AI agents, raised a $31M Series C and hires Joseph Kim as CEO — Agentic artificial intelligence startup Druid AI S.A. says it's ready to scale up the adoption of its enterprise-grade platform after closing …
More: Tech.eu and EU-Startups
| Monica Alleven / Fierce Network: |
New MVNO Noble Mobile launches with former presidential candidate Andrew Yang as CEO, offering cash back rewards to clients using less than 20 GB of monthly — - The schtick here is customers get rewarded by using less data - in the form of cash back rewards
More: Business Wire
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Nothing raised a $200M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $450M+, and says it had $1B in total sales in early 2025 — Smartphone startup Nothing announced today that it closed its Series C round of $200 million, which was led by the investment firm Tiger Global.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Invisible Technologies, a Scale AI rival that helped train ChatGPT, raised $100M, sources say at a $2B+ valuation, and says that sales doubled to $134M in 2024 — Vanara, a spinoff of TPG, led the latest funding round. — Add us on Google — Artificial intelligence startup Invisible Technologies …
More: PYMNTS.com, Business Wire, and eeNews Europe
| Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce launches Missionforce, a new business unit focused on incorporating AI into defense workflows concerning personnel, logistics, and decision making — Salesforce is increasing its focus on national security. — The customer relationship management giant announced the creation …
Bluesky: @wilkos
| Alicia Park / Forbes: |
A look at prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket; Kalshi has ~$1B in current monthly volume and processed $6.9B in total, including $6.4B since October 2024 — Kalshi co-founders, Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara — The savviest billionaire traders are placing their bets on budding prediction marketplaces.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese hardware maker Goertek tightened its grip on Meta's AI glasses supply chain, including making “Hypernova”, through a spate of dealmaking — Goertek takes stronger grip of US tech giant's supply chain, even as Zuckerberg aligns with Trump's anti-China stance
X: @mattocko and @byron_wan
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Filing: the Internet Archive settles with major music publishers in their copyright infringement lawsuit over its project to preserve early music recordings — A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project … Sponsor Posts
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