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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Chinese officials are reviewing Meta's $2B Manus acquisition for possible tech export control violations, including Manus' relocation to Singapore — Commerce ministry assessing whether deal for Chinese-founded group violates technology export controls
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health, which lets users import medical records and other data from health apps into ChatGPT, available to a small group via a waitlist — OpenAI is expanding its capabilities by adding a dedicated health tab to ChatGPT, allowing people to bring in electronic medical records …
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Forums: r/technology and r/BetterOffline
| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple announces JPMorgan Chase as the new issuer of the Apple Card, taking over from Goldman Sachs, with an expected transition in about 24 months — After more than a year of negotiations, a deal to take over Goldman Sachs's role in Apple program is expected to be announced soon
More: Apple, The Verge, Engadget, MarketWatch, PYMNTS.com, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Macworld, Financial Times, The Information, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Channel NewsAsia, American Banker, The Apple Post, Cult of Mac, iClarified, 9to5Mac on YouTube, iPhone in Canada, Wccftech, Daily Mail, Bloomberg, and PaymentsJournal
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Forums: r/apple, r/AppleCard, r/AppleCard, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Anthropic plans to raise $10B led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue Management at a $350B valuation before the new investment, up from $183B in September — The startup behind chatbot Claude is raising money from investors including GIC and Coatue Management
More: New York Times, SiliconANGLE, The Times, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes Middle East, Reuters, The Information, and TechCrunch
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| Barron's Online: |
Alphabet surpassed Apple in market cap for the first time since 2019 after its shares closed up 2.5% on Wednesday, valuing it at $3.89T vs. Apple's $3.85T — So long, Apple . There's a new No. 2 in the market-capitalization rankings. Alphabet surpassed Apple in market cap on Wednesday …
More: The Information, CNBC, Tech in Asia, Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, and Benzinga
Forums: r/stocks and r/StockMarket
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features: member tags that show user roles, text stickers generated from any word, and custom event reminders — WhatsApp on Wednesday said it's rolling out new features to group chats, including member tags, text stickers, and event reminders.| Bloomberg: |
Samsung says it expects memory chip supply shortages to raise prices across the electronics industry, including potentially among its own consumer products — Samsung Electronics Co. expects memory chip supply shortages to raise prices across the electronics industry, including potentially among its own consumer products.| Financial Times: |
Polymarket is disputing that the US mission to capture Nicolás Maduro constituted an “invasion”, refusing to pay out bets on a contract with $10.5M+ in wagers — Prediction market disputes US raid amounted to an invasion in fight over more than $10.5mn in wagers
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: China has told some local tech companies to temporarily halt purchase orders for Nvidia's H200 chips while officials deliberate whether to approve them — The Chinese government this week asked some tech companies to temporarily halt plans to buy Nvidia's H200 AI chips … | Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Trump family's World Liberty Financial says its entity World Liberty Trust has applied for a US banking license, which would let it issue the USD1 stablecoin — Critics have said World Liberty and its stablecoin pose a major conflict of interest for President Trump| Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap: |
WBD's board unanimously rejects Paramount's amended $108.4B acquisition offer, saying the bid still has “significant” risks compared to Netflix's $83B offer — The board says the revised $108.4 billion bid continues to offer “significant costs, risks and uncertainties” compared to its $83 billion deal with Netflix
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| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
Polymarket agrees to supply Dow Jones outlets like the WSJ and Barron's with prediction market trading data for online and in print, its first media partnership — Polymarket will supply Dow Jones with trading data under a new partnership, the latest in a string of deals between exchanges …
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Sources: Larry Page bought two Miami estates in December and January for a combined $173.4M; Sergey Brin is also said to be in discussions to buy a Miami home — The deal comes as high-profile tech investors speak out against a proposed tax on the ultrawealthy in California
More: The Real Deal
| Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
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Forums: r/California, r/California_Politics, and r/technology
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or “nudifying” images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of all Grok images are sexualized — Elon Musk's X has become a top site for images of people that have been non-consensually undressed by AI …
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Forums: r/WomenInNews and r/technology
| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Docs: Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits with families of teenagers who killed or harmed themselves after interacting with Character.AI's chatbot — The cases involving Character.AI's virtual companions highlighted concerns about artificial intelligence and mental health
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| Gabriele Steinhauser / Wall Street Journal: |
Cambodia extradites Chen Zhi, the chairman of online scam conglomerate Prince Group, to China; in October, the US DOJ seized Chen's bitcoin worth nearly $12B — Justice Department accused Chen Zhi of running a sprawling scam empire targeting Americans — Chen Zhi, the alleged ringleader … | Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Lux Capital raised $1.5B for its ninth fund, the largest in its history, to back companies focusing on fields like breakthrough science and national security — Venture firm Lux Capital raised $1.5 billion for its ninth fund — the largest in its more than 20-year history …
More: TechCrunch and Lux Capital
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| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks agrees to acquire accounting platform TRES Finance, sources say for $130M in cash and equity; TRES raised $11M in 2023 — TRES Finance cofounders Tal Zackon (left) and Eilon Lotem.COURTESY OF TRES FINANCE — The blockchain infrastructure company Fireblocks …
More: Fireblocks, TRES Finance, Tech in Asia, Coinspeaker, The Block, CoinDesk, and Globes
X: @edsim and @fireblockshq
| Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Spotify launches Listening Activity on iOS and Android, letting users view friends' real-time listening via the sidebar alongside chats, as an opt-in feature — The company is also adding a Request to Jam option to mobile chats. … Since almost day one, Spotify has offered the ability …
More: Spotify, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Digital Music News, TechCrunch, The Mac Observer, Neowin, Digital Trends, Engadget, Pocket-lint, iPhone in Canada, and Phandroid. X: @glenngabe
| Reuters: |
Arm creates a “Physical AI” unit to focus on robotics and automotive sectors, as part of a reorganization that includes “Cloud and AI” and “Edge” business units — Chip technology company Arm Holdings has reorganized the company to create a Physical AI unit … | Katherine Blunt / Wall Street Journal: |
How Google's more ambitious approach to training Gemini on text, code, audio, images, and video helped it stage a comeback, triggering a Code Red inside OpenAI — After ChatGPT dominated early chatbot market, Google staged comeback with powerful AI model; biggest search-engine overhaul in years
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