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January 10, 2026, 1:05 AM

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Jennifer Hiller / Wall Street Journal:
Dan Primack / Axios:
a16z raises $15B+ across five new funds, including $6.75B for its fifth growth fund, the largest sum, and $3B for unspecified “other venture strategies”  —  Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, whose past investments included Airbnb and Coinbase, on Friday announced …
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Italy fines Cloudflare €14.2M for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service; CEO Matthew Prince says he will discuss it with US officials  —  Italy fined Cloudflare 14.2 million euros for refusing to block access to pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Anthropic adds safeguards to prevent third-party apps, like OpenCode, from spoofing Claude Code to access Claude models for more favorable pricing and limits  —  Anthropic has confirmed the implementation of strict new technical safeguards preventing third-party applications from spoofing …
Bloomberg:
OpenAI and SoftBank say they will each invest $500M in SB Energy to support the infrastructure company's growth as a data center developer and operator  —  OpenAI and SoftBank Group Corp. have jointly invested $1 billion in SB Energy, an infrastructure company that's working with the tech firms …
Luke Kawa / Sherwood News:
D-Wave Quantum agrees to acquire Quantum Circuits, a developer of error-corrected gate-model technology, for $550M, with $300M in stock and the rest in cash  —  D-Wave Quantum announced Wednesday that it has struck a deal to purchase Quantum Circuits for $550 million, as the annealing-centric …
Bloomberg:
Chinese short-video app Kuaishou's stock has surged 88% over the past year, driven by the success of its Kling AI video generator, which has amassed 60M users  —  Few major companies have tried to pull off a pivot to AI as swiftly as Kuaishou Technology.  —  Long known as a laggard …
Bloomberg:
Xreal co-founder and CEO Chi Xu says the smart glass maker, which has a $1B+ valuation, recently raised $100M from “supply chain partners” and other backers  —  Smart glasses maker Xreal Inc. recently raised $100 million, its chief executive officer said, adding to the firm's coffers as competition in the category heats up.
Wired:
Documents: OpenAI is asking contractors to upload their work from current or previous jobs to evaluate its models, leaving it to them to scrub confidential info  —  To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs …
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