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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
| 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, The Times, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, Bloomberg, The Information, TechCrunch, Reuters, and Forbes Middle East
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| Wall Street Journal: |
JPMorgan Chase will take over the Apple credit card program from Goldman Sachs; sources: JPMorgan plans to launch a new Apple savings account — 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: AppleInsider, The Information, MacRumors, Financial Times, 9to5Mac, Apple, Channel NewsAsia, Daily Mail, Wccftech, Bloomberg, CNBC, MacTech.com, TidBITS, and Six Colors
Forums: r/AppleCard, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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.
More: WhatsApp Blog, Meta Newsroom, iPhone in Canada, Thurrott, PCMag, Fortune, Neowin, Social Media Today, WABetaInfo, Moneycontrol, WeRSM, Times of India, iClarified, The Indian Express, Engadget, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, and The Economic Times. Forums: Hacker News
| 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 … | 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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| Hugh Langley / Business Insider: |
Filings: Larry Page moved his assets out of California ahead of its proposed wealth tax, meeting an end-of-2025 deadline; a source says he had left the state — - Google cofounder Larry Page is cutting ties with California. — A source said Page had already left the state.
More: SFGATE, San Francisco Chronicle, Breitbart, Inc.com, Fortune, Daily Mail, The Ankler, Newsmax, Telegraph, Implicator.ai, Android Headlines, The Week, and Neowin
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Forums: r/California and r/technology
| 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| 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 …
More: Polymarket, crypto.news, Reuters, Benzinga, Blockonomi, Bitcoin Magazine, Coinspeaker, Watcher Guru, and The Block
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| Bloomberg: |
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| 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.| 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
| 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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X: @adamjohnsonchi, @lucas_shaw, @sarafischer, @sarafischer, @cgasparino, @sarafischer, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, @brianstelter, and @sarafischer. Bluesky: @tprstly.com. Forums: r/entertainment
| 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
More: CNBC, New York Times, The Information, The Verge, The Information, Financial Times, Reuters, Axios, Engadget, Tech in Asia, RTÉ, and Channel NewsAsia
| 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
| 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 … | 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 … | 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| 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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| Matthew Kish / Oregonian: |
Nike quietly sold its digital products subsidiary RTFKT on December 16 for an undisclosed sum, after Nike acquired it in 2021 and shuttered the NFT unit in 2024 — Nike has sold one of its subsidiaries, but it's not the one on the minds of some analysts and industry watchers.
More: The Block, Inside Bitcoins, Blockchain.News, The Business of Fashion, Cryptonews, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, NFTgators, crypto.news, and Bloomberg Law. Bluesky: @caseynewton
| Jamie Smyth / Financial Times: |
As Trump and Big Tech aim to build SMRs to “win” the AI race, a look at the issues they face; none of the 50+ SMRs under development have a US operating license — On an industrial site on the shores of Lake Michigan, hundreds of workers are racing to do something that has never … Sponsor Posts
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