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January 4, 2026, 5:10 PM
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Herb Scribner / Axios:
A new Polymarket account bet $30K on Maduro's capture just hours before Trump's announcement, renewing questions on insider information in prediction markets  —  - These bets — many of which were on Maduro's capture, and are now on what happens next to the ousted leader …
Sophie Shulman / CTech:
Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi for $400M; Koi has raised $48M to date  —  The deal would extend the cyber giant's reach in enterprise endpoint protection amid AI-driven market shifts.  —  Palo Alto Networks, the cybersecurity giant …
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Jasmine Sun / New York Times:
Tech workers in Silicon Valley are increasingly experimenting with gray-market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, for improving focus and more  —  Jayden Clark first heard about Chinese peptides at his Fourth of July party this past year.  —  In the backyard of a San Francisco …
Scott Stein / CNET:
Hands-on with Xreal's Neo, a $99 battery pack and mini-dock that acts as a passthrough converter so the company's glasses can work with the Nintendo Switch  —  I loved playing Switch games on the Xreal 1S glasses, but getting them connected is a little awkward.
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Xreal unveils the $449 1S, a pair of AR glasses with 1200p, 700 nits brightness, 52 degree FOV, and 16:10 aspect ratio; the 1S can convert any 2D video into 3D  —  Despite the spec bump, the Xreal 1S are $50 cheaper than their predecessor. … At CES 2026, Xreal announced an upgraded …
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Jared Perlo / NBC News:
A look at AVA, an AI chatbot developed by Alaska's court system to provide aid in the probate process, which has been plagued by delays and hallucinations  —  A yearlong effort to build an AI probate assistant reveals the limits of government chatbot development.
Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of June Paik, CEO of Seoul-based chip startup FuriosaAI, valued at ~$700M, whose AI chip dubbed “RNGD” is slated to enter mass production this month  —  June Paik spurned a takeover offer from Meta Platforms last year.  Now his South Korean company, FuriosaAI, has an AI chip entering mass production.
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Fueled partly by US tech companies, governments worldwide are racing to deploy GenAI in schools and universities, even as agencies such as UNICEF urge caution  —  In early November, Microsoft said it would supply artificial intelligence tools and training to more than 200,000 students and educators in the United Arab Emirates.
Mishal Husain / Bloomberg:
Q&A with Kara Swisher on Sam Altman's determination to “do anything to make OpenAI win”, Elon Musk, the tech industry's Trump pivot, and more  —  After a year of dominating mega-deals and driving stock-market gains, the tech industry is poised for a pivotal 2026 that centers largely …

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Lauren Hirsch / New York Times:
WBD says Paramount's new $31-a-share offer could lead to a better deal than Netflix's, potentially triggering a four-day period for Netflix to revise its bid

New York Times:
The FTC and FCC are engaging in a hostile takeover of the marketplace of ideas by treating editorial decisions as fraud and conditioning mergers on news content

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The Verge:
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Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, has been released early due to First Step Act, Trump's prison-reform law
Maggie Harrison Dupré / Futurism:
On top of nonconsensual porn images, X users seem to be using Grok to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Pebble unveils the Pebble Round 2, a smartwatch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199
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