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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
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
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 …
Bloomberg:
A look at Kalshi's and Polymarket's lucrative shift toward sports, as bets on real-world events raise questions about access, integrity, and US CFTC regulation
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
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 …
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:
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
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 …
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
Evan Halper / Washington Post:
How the huge data center buildout is heating up local politics in US towns across red and blue states on issues like local water supplies and electricity prices
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Roblox expands using Persona's tech for age estimations for chat features to all regions, after rolling it out in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands  —  After a user's age has been verified, they'll be able to chat with others in similar age groups.
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.
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.
Chris Welch / Bloomberg:
Motorola unveils the Razr Fold, its first book-style foldable phone, with a 6.6" outer display and an 8.1" 2K LTPO inner screen, expected to launch this summer  —  Lenovo Group Ltd.'s Motorola unveiled its first folding phone that opens like a book or passport, a departure from the string …
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.

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Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
A US judge dismisses Trump's $10B defamation suit against WSJ over an article asserting Trump's name was on a 2003 letter to Epstein, but says Trump can re-file

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Bryan Cranston, Joaquin Phoenix, and 1,000+ writers, actors, and directors sign a letter opposing Paramount's WBD bid, warning it cuts jobs and audience choice

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Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Lenovo introduces Qira, a system-level, cross-device AI assistant for both its computers and Motorola smartphones, set to arrive later in Q1 2026
Bloomberg:
Sources: Discord files confidentially for a US IPO, working with Goldman and JPMorgan; Discord was valued at ~$15B in 2021, and rejected a $12B Microsoft offer
Allison Smith / Modern Retail:
Brands complain Amazon's “Buy for Me” AI-powered shopping tool features their products on Amazon without permission, listing titles and descriptions with errors
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
In the first successful US prosecution of a spyware operator in 10+ years, pcTattletale's founder pleads guilty to promoting surveillance apps for unlawful uses
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