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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 …
More: Reuters, crypto.news, TechNode, Cointelegraph, Tech in Asia, and Crypto Briefing
| Business Insider: |
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 …
More: New Republic and Breitbart
Bluesky: @timmathews and @carnage4life
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| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most popular AI chatbot app Doubao, is quietly gaining traction in the UK, Mexico, and Southeast Asia — ByteDance is paying for ads and partnering with influencers to promote its AI chatbot app Cici in countries like the UK, Mexico, and Indonesia.| The Conversation: |
A study of 311 AI-generated eighth-grade civics lesson plans in Massachusetts suggests they fall short of inspiring students or promoting critical thinking — When teachers rely on commonly used artificial intelligence chatbots to devise lesson plans, it does not result in more engaging …
More: CITE Journal. X: @tedpavlic. Bluesky: @jenlucpiquant, @lyndonhood, and @smcgrath.phd. Mastodon: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange. Forums: Slashdot
| 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.
X: @aaronback. LinkedIn: Gerard Reid and WSJ Heard on the Street
Bluesky: @tprstly.com, @kostyack, and @pauljdavies
| 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.
More: FinSMEs and Prisma Photonics
| 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 … | 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 …
More: South China Morning Post, The Chip Letter, Nikkei Asia, Daily Caller News Foundation, and Asia Times
Forums: r/neoliberal and r/China
| 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: Startup Rise Europe and Tech Funding News
LinkedIn: Jean-Baptiste POLJAK, Notion Capital, and Point Nine
| Emma Beavins / Fierce Healthcare: |
Counsel Health, which uses a medical AI chatbot and human physicians to provide virtual care, raised a $25M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and GV — Artificial Intelligence Andreessen Horowitz Google Ventures Telehealth — AI-enabled virtual care company Counsel Health …
More: FinSMEs, Business Wire, Counsel Health, Andreessen Horowitz, Wall Street Journal, and HIT Consultant
X: @malagappan, @jayrughani, and @counselhealth
| 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| 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.| 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
| 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.
More: Livemint, PCMag, Moneycontrol, and Trak.in
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