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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 — Goldman Sachs is offloading the credit-card balances at a more than $1 billion discount — JPMorgan Chase has reached a deal …
More: Apple, The Verge, MarketWatch, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Macworld, Financial Times, The Information, The Mac Observer, The Apple Post, Channel NewsAsia, American Banker, Cult of Mac, iClarified, Daily Mail, CNBC, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada, Wccftech, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac on YouTube
X: @snazzylabs, @tatchero, @matthewkeyslive, @paytondev, @fttechnews, @aaronp613, @bzamayo, and @iphoneincanada. Threads: @chancehmiller
Forums: r/AppleCard, r/apple, 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: SiliconANGLE, The Times, The Economic Times, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, CNBC, Reuters, Forbes Middle East, The Information, and TechCrunch
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Cyera researchers detail Ni8mare, a critical RCE flaw that lets hackers access local instances of the n8n workflow automation platform, impacting ~100K servers — A maximum severity vulnerability dubbed “Ni8mare” allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to take control over locally deployed instances …
More: GitHub, Cyera, CyberScoop, Security Affairs, The Hacker News, Cyber Security News, CSO, and SiliconANGLE
Forums: r/cybersecurity and r/netsec
| 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, Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Benzinga, and Tech in Asia
Forums: r/stocks and r/StockMarket
| 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| 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| 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
More: Washington Times, Bloomberg, Quartz, Yahoo Finance, and MarketWatch
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| 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.| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Samsung expects Q4 operating profit up 208% YoY to ~$13.8B, vs. ~$12.3B est., and revenue up 23% to ~$64.2B, as demand for AI servers lifted memory chip prices — Samsung Electronics Co.'s quarterly profit more than tripled to a record high after global demand for AI servers sharply lifted memory chip prices.| 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 … | 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 … | 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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| 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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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Ford plans to launch an AI voice assistant on its apps this year before expanding to its vehicles in 2027, and aims to debut Level 3 autonomous driving in 2028 — The automaker is bringing most of the work in house to reduce costs and retain control.
More: Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC, and InsideEVs. X: @jimfarley98
| Politico: |
Utah launches a pilot program with health tech startup Doctronic to let AI systems handle routine prescription renewals for patients with chronic conditions — That raises new questions about the safety of automating prescription refills, including how they should be regulated.
More: Utah Department of Commerce, PYMNTS.com, Ars Technica, GovTech, Gizmodo, FOX 13 News Utah, Healthcare IT News, People, NewsNation, Washington Examiner, Deseret News, and CBS News
X: @andrewcurran_, @doctronic, and @kevintfrazier
LinkedIn: Margaret Busse and Timothy Aungst
Forums: r/medicalschool, r/pharmacy, r/publichealth, r/technology, and Slashdot
| 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 …
More: The Guardian, Wired, 404 Media, American Prospect, The Guardian, Reuters, Techdirt, Digit, Kotaku, Irish Independent, Semafor, Washington Post, and BBC
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Bluesky: @grissallia, @eliothiggins, @brianwernham, @sundersays, @katie-drummond, @jasonkoebler, @chafkin, @ryanlcooper.com, @ryanlcooper.com, @ddayen, @shiraovide, @carnage4life, @thinkorswim, @gsoh31, @ottoenglish, @jamesrball.com, and @bencollins
Forums: r/WomenInNews, r/ABoringDystopia, and r/technology
| Wall Street Journal: |
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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X: @teddyschleifer. LinkedIn: Hugh Langley. Bluesky: @laurajnelson, @carnage4life, @davelee.me, @fbajak, @joshsternberg.com, @rmac, and @mattrosoff
Forums: r/California, r/California_Politics, and r/technology
| 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 … | 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, Cointelegraph, TRES Finance, Coinspeaker, Tech in Asia, The Block, and CoinDesk
X: @fireblockshq and @edsim
| 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
More: Tom's Guide, The Economic Times, AFTVnews, Inc, BleepingComputer, AzerNews, and The Decoder
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