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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google unveils the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open standard that lets AI agents work across different parts of the customer's buying process — Google today announced a new open standard, called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) for AI agent-based shopping, at the National Retail Federation (NRF) conference.
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LinkedIn: Daniel Hogben, Greg Fletcher, PhD, Marie Haynes, Costa Kladianos, Maia Josebachvili, Vidhya Srinivasan, Stavan Parikh, and Lilian Rincon. Bluesky: @joyoftech
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Google introduces new personalized ads in its Gemini-powered AI Mode, letting advertisers offer exclusives for users preparing to buy a product — Tech giant moves to gain an edge in race to monetise popular AI tools — Google is introducing new personalised advertising into its AI shopping tools … | Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
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| Jaewon Kang / Bloomberg: |
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| Andrew Gregory / The Guardian: |
Investigation: Google removed AI Overviews for two liver health queries after expert inaccuracy warnings, but slight keyword tweaks still trigger AI responses — Exclusive: Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests
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| Rachael Levy / Reuters: |
President Trump says “we may speak to Elon” about using Starlink to restore the internet in Iran, after the country imposed an internet blackout amid protests — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he plans to speak with billionaire Elon Musk about restoring internet in Iran …
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare to offer HIPAA-ready tools for providers, insurers, and consumers, and expands its life sciences offerings — - Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare to expand AI use in regulated medical industries. — Claude for Healthcare offers HIPAA-ready tools … | Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: |
Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed — If you're one of the many, many people who received a password reset email from Instagram the other day, the company says it fixed the issue.
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| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
Despite projections of memory shortages for PCs and phones, producers like Micron will proceed cautiously in adding new capacity, mindful of past downcycles — Sandisk, Western Digital, Seagate and Micron need to keep undershooting demand — The world needs a lot more memory chips and hard drives.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of China's CXMT, whose $4.2B IPO goal would rank among the century's biggest chip debuts, as the memory chip maker faces US and South Korean curbs — As AI demand drives prices up, CXMT overcomes Washington's curbs to vie with Micron and South Korean leaders| Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell, who has worked at the company since 2002 and is known as a customer emissary and Elon Musk translator — Shotwell has an expansive role at the rocket and satellite company, helping to foster its rise. With an IPO looming, the toughest stretch may still lie ahead.
LinkedIn: Jacob Bunge and Micah Maidenberg
| Chris Velazco / Washington Post: |
CES 2026: how some companies are trying to make their AI products cute and relatable, from Lenovo's chatty motorized laptop to Sharp's ChatGPT-powered Poketomo — Robots for seniors, AI “pals” for women, and laptops are embracing the power of cute — for better or worse.| Bloomberg: |
Chinese AI executives say China is unlikely to eclipse the US in the AI race anytime soon, citing limited resources and US chip export curbs as key constraints — Some of China's most prominent figures in generative artificial intelligence warned that the Asian nation is unlikely to eclipse the US in the global AI race anytime soon.
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Forums: r/technology, r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, r/agi, r/ControlProblem, and r/OpenAI
| Jarrett Renshaw / Reuters: |
Qatar and UAE will join the Pax Silica coalition on January 12 and 15, respectively, expanding the US-led effort to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains — Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will soon join a U.S.-led initiative to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains …
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| Bloomberg: |
Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to xAI's Grok, joining Indonesia, over the chatbot's generation of sexual and nonconsensual content — Indonesia and Malaysia restricted access to Elon Musk's Grok AI over the weekend, becoming the first countries to ban …
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| Geoff Weiss / Business Insider: |
ATG, which is developing the AI-powered wealth strategist app Autonomous, emerges from stealth and raised a $15M pre-seed led by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan — - ATG cofounders Dillon Erb and Daniel Kobran raised $15 million to build an AI wealth strategist. — Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan led ATG's latest round.
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