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The US imposes visa restrictions on five Europeans, including Thierry Breton, accusing them of pressuring US tech companies to censor certain US viewpoints — The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.
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Over the past month, the US paused talks on a tech pact with the UK, canceled a South Korea trade meeting, and threatened the EU over Big Tech regulations — “It's telegraphing that we've looked at this deeply, we think there's a problem, we're looking at tools to address it and we're looking … | Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Waymo says it is updating its fleet to improve navigation during widespread outages, after pausing its service during blackouts in San Francisco on December 20 — Three days after a blackout in San Francisco caused Waymo to pause it driverless car service, the Alphabet-owned company … | Heo Kyungjun / The Asia Business Daily: |
South Korean prosecutors allege China's CXMT mass-produced 10nm-class DRAM using leaked Samsung tech, indicting 10 employees who previously worked for Samsung — Prosecutors: “Hundreds of DRAM Process Steps Copied and Leaked” — Samsung Electronics' Sales Declined by 5 Trillion Won Last Year
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| Stu Woo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China's AI regulations, which require chatbots to pass a 2,000-question ideological test, have spawned specialized agencies that help AI companies pass — Beijing is enforcing tough rules to ensure chatbots don't misbehave, while hoping its models stay competitive with the U.S.
More: Washington Post
| Kiran Rathee / The Economic Times: |
Sources: India raises concerns about the misuse of Indian phone numbers on WhatsApp, which banned 9.8M Indian accounts per month on average in 2025 to October — The Indian government is concerned about the widespread misuse of Indian mobile numbers on platforms like WhatsApp, with millions of accounts banned monthly for violations.
More: TechRadar
| New York Times: |
A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat — As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China's battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Chainalysis and TRM Labs estimate that $2.7B was stolen in crypto in 2025 in total, up from $2.2B in 2024; the biggest hack was the $1.4B breach at Bybit — Cybercriminals stole $2.7 billion in crypto this year, a new record for crypto-stealing hacks, according to blockchain-monitoring firms.| John Koblin / New York Times: |
YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prime-time viewership is more even — At Nancy Ann Ling's house in Central Texas, the TV generally goes on around 5 a.m., and Mrs. Ling flips over to the same app each day: YouTube.
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Bitcoin miners that are retooling data centers for AI have boosted their stocks; the CoinShares Bitcoin Mining ETF is up ~90% YTD even as bitcoin has slumped — The pivot to AI has lifted a bitcoin-mining ETF by around 90% this year, even as bitcoin itself has slumped. — It's harder than ever to mine bitcoin.
More: Coinspeaker, Forbes, Blockchain.News, and CoinDesk
| Polly Thompson / Business Insider: |
Starlink says it hit 9M “active customers” across 155 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 8M in November, 7M in August, and 4.6M in December 2024 — - SpaceX says its Starlink internet has hit 9 million customers, just over a month after reaching 8 million.
More: Moneycontrol, International Business Times, and Benzinga
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| Aime Williams / Financial Times: |
The Trump administration plans to replace the lottery system for H-1B visas with a “weighted” system prioritizing higher-paid individuals, starting February 27 — ‘Weighted’ selection process that prioritises higher-paid and more skilled applicants will begin in February| Prakhar Srivastava / Reuters: |
Fleet management software provider Motive files for a US IPO, reporting a $138.5M net loss on $327.3M in revenue for the nine months ended September 30 — AI-powered fleet management company Motive Technologies on Tuesday disclosed a rise in nine-month revenue in its U.S. initial public offering filing … | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Marissa Mayer's new startup Dazzle, which is building next-gen AI personal assistants, raised an $8M seed at a $35M valuation and plans to exit stealth in 2026 — The former Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, refuses to sit on the sidelines of the generative AI revolution.
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