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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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| 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: TechCrunch, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, YouTube Official Blog, and Bloomberg
| 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
| 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
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
YouTube unveils new ways for creators to earn with brand deals and the Shopping program, including letting them swap out brand sponsorships in longform videos — At its Made on YouTube event on Tuesday, the company unveiled a series of new ways for creators to earn more with brand deals …
More: The Verge, Deadline, Variety, YouTube Official Blog, The Wrap, and Next in Media
| 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, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Engadget, The Information, Sherwood News, Quartz, B&T, Platformer, Sinocism, and New York Post
| 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 … | 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
| 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 …
More: Workday Newsroom, Reuters, CIO.com, The Information, Reuters, Investor's Business Daily, Tech.eu, Sifted, Constellation Research, Silicon Canals, and Menlo Ventures. LinkedIn: Philip Chopin
| 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: Fortune, PYMNTS.com, The Block, TechCrunch, Finextra, BeInCrypto, 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
| 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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| 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 …
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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 … | 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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| 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 …
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| Silicon Republic: |
Nory, which offers an AI-powered restaurant management system, raised a $37M Series B led by Kinnevik, bringing its total funding to $63M — Conor Sheridan says his AI platform frees up restaurants to focus on what matters most - “great food and even greater customer experiences”.| 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 … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI debuts GPT‑5-Codex, a version of GPT‑5 optimized for agentic coding in Codex and says it spends its “thinking” time more dynamically than previous models — OpenAI announced Monday that it's releasing a new version of GPT-5 to its AI coding agent, Codex.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, r/programare, and r/ChatGPTPro
| 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
| 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 … | Monica Alleven / Fierce Network: |
MVNO Noble Mobile launches with former presidential candidate Andrew Yang as CEO, offering cash back rewards to clients who use less than 20GB of data per month — - The schtick here is customers get rewarded by using less data - in the form of cash back rewards| 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.| Alicia Park / Forbes: |
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