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US military has adopted an aggressive push to embrace AI; the top US Army commander in South Korea says “Chat and I” have become “really close lately” — - Some military leaders are adopting AI for decision-making. — The military has adopted an aggressive push …

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Jinjoo Lee / Wall Street Journal:

A look at some US energy companies linked to AI infrastructure, such as Sam Altman-backed Oklo, whose stocks have soared despite having little to no revenue — Concept stocks with no revenue have soaring valuations — Forget about the froth in tech valuations. The real excess might be building up in energy stocks.

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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:

WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants of OpenAI, Perplexity, others — Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp changed its business API policy this week to ban general-purpose chatbots from its platform.

X: @aravsrinivas, @indianidle, and @thisguyoftheai. LinkedIn: Ivan Mehta

Meir Orbach / CTech:

Prisma Photonics, which develops AI-based tech for monitoring infrastructure using existing optical fiber networks, raised $30M, taking total funding to $80M — The Tel Aviv deep-tech firm turns ordinary fiber networks into global security and power-grid sentinels.

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Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:

Shares of bitcoin mining companies pivoting to AI and HPC infrastructure have soared in 2025, with a fund tracking mining firms up 150% year-to-date — Shares of the large-scale computing outfits that make Bitcoin work are once again outperforming the original cryptocurrency …

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Kif Leswing / CNBC:

A profile of Credo, which makes active electrical cables to connect AI servers and whose stock price has more than doubled this year, after soaring 245% in 2024 — In July, Elon Musk posted photos from inside an xAI data center called Colossus 2, which the artificial intelligence startup aims …

Financial Times:

Sources: Chinese companies including Ant Group and JD.com pause plans to issue stablecoins in Hong Kong after instructions from regulators not to move ahead — Regulators raise concerns about the rise of privately controlled currencies — Chinese tech giants have paused plans …

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Reuters:

Nexperia says its China unit is operating as usual, a day after Nexperia China asserted that it had the right to operate independently of the Dutch parent — Nexperia said on Sunday that its employees in China still have access to company platforms and are receiving salaries as usual …

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Bloomberg:

How Robinhood is expanding beyond commission-free trading into retirement accounts, tokenized equities, and sports betting, with some 27M people using its app — After making its name on millennials and meme stocks, the popular brokerage app is riding its Trump bump into the S&P 500 and beyond.

More: Motley Fool. Bluesky: @gloriasin

Martina Di Licosa / Forbes:

A profile of Anton Pavlovsky, CEO of Kyiv-based Headway Inc, which develops gamified educational apps and has 160M users across its five-product portfolio — Shelf-ish: “Books and reading are really important to me, but we realize not everyone is so into books,” says Headway founder Anton Pavlovsky …

LinkedIn: Martina Di Licosa

Dan Jones / Fierce Network:

Boston-based OneLayer, which offers zero-trust security and device management for private 5G and LTE networks, raised a $28M Series A led by Maor Investments — private 5G private LTE cybersecurity funding — OneLayer has scored $28 million in funding — SNS Telecom said that it already has 30 private network customers

More: FinSMEs, CTech, OneLayer, Tech in Asia, and Pulse 2.0. LinkedIn: OneLayer

Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu:

Paris-based Upciti, which offers city operations software and hardware to over 150 municipalities in 17 countries, raised a $20M Series A led by Notion Capital — UPCITI's platform helps cities run essential operations with greater efficiency and security, offering a clear, proven ROI that simplifies adoption for municipalities.

More: Tech Funding News and Startup Rise Europe

LinkedIn: Jean-Baptiste POLJAK, Notion Capital, and Point Nine

Andy Newman / New York Times:

Two Wikipedia contributors disarmed a gunman who threatened to kill himself at WikiConference to protest a policy banning editors who identify as pedophiles — After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World's Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.

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