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Similarweb: Threads had 141.5M DAUs on iOS and Android as of January 7, driven by Instagram promotions, while X had 125M DAUs; X continues to lead on the web — A report from market intelligence firm Similarweb suggests that Meta's Threads is now seeing more daily usage than Elon Musk's X on mobile devices.
More: Forbes, Digit, PYMNTS.com, Gizmodo, and Analytics Insight
X: @boredelonmusk, @jeremiahdjohns, @jeremiahdjohns, @theandreboso, @wongmjane, @gmiller, @the_ai_investor, @clairlemon, @briannawu, @theandreboso, @aziz0nomics, and @aziz0nomics. Bluesky: @carnage4life
Threads: @dikaiosvne, @thespacemechanic, @calbucci, and @tomgara
| George Hammond / Financial Times: |
Sources: Sequoia is planning a big investment in Anthropic, joining a round led by GIC and Coatue, which are investing $1.5B each; Anthropic aims to raise $25B+ — Silicon Valley investor to write first cheque for AI start-up after recent leadership overhaul
More: TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Analytics India Magazine, The Information, PYMNTS.com, Tech in Asia, The Straits Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, and CNBC
Bluesky: @bwnash, @tyleraking.com, @johnholland, and @edzitron.com
| Bradley Olson / Wall Street Journal: |
Similarweb: Claude's web audience more than doubled in December 2025 compared with December 2024, as many coders spent their holiday breaks on a “Claude bender” — Developers and hobbyists are comparing the viral moment for Anthropic's Claude Code to the launch of generative AI| Palmer Luckey / @palmerluckey: |
Meta's VR layoffs may help the industry long term, as most affected roles focused on first-party content and games that competed with the broader ecosystem — I have an opinion on the Meta layoffs that is contrary with most of the VR industry and much of the media, but strongly held. This is not a disaster. They still employ the largest team working on VR by about an order of magnitude. Nobody else is even close. The “Meta is
More: Futurism, GameSpot, and Global Competition Review
| Sarah Friar / OpenAI: |
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B+ in 2025 — We launched ChatGPT as a research preview to understand what would happen if we put frontier intelligence directly in people's hands.
More: Sadagopan's weblog …. X: @signulll, @chatgpt21, @benitoz, @zephyr_z9, @vraserx, @signulll, @andrewcurran_, @the_ai_investor, @bearlyai, and @dr_gingerballs. LinkedIn: Sarah Friar
Forums: r/OpenAI and r/singularity
| Dr. Ian Cutress / More Than Moore: |
Q&A with SiFive co-founder Krste Asanović, who was part of the original team that developed RISC-V, on creating a company that builds IP around RISC-V, and more — Update: SiFive just announced today that it has partnered with NVIDIA for NVLink Fusion on RISC-V. It's a big step, and we'll be covering that separately.| Bloomberg: |
Shenzhen-based UBTech signed deals to supply its Walker S2 humanoid robots to Airbus and Texas Instruments, and says it aims to produce 10,000+ units in 2026 — UBTech Robotics Corp. shares jumped after the China-based humanoid maker received an order from Airbus SE, bolstering the outlook … | Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the business and geopolitical considerations behind TSMC's international expansion, as Taiwan commits to spend $250B+ in the US in a trade deal — TSMC has for decades provided a ‘Silicon Shield’ to its namesake island. Now it sees both business and geopolitical reasons for going big in the U.S.
More: Taipei Times, Focus Taiwan, Taiwan News, DigiTimes, CNBC, NewsMax.com, and The American Bazaar
| New York Times: |
Inside the 2026 National Retail Federation conference in New York City, where integrating AI into retail businesses was the overarching theme on the expo floor — Stores of all kinds are using artificial intelligence to sell everything from luxury handbags to hay for horses.
More: The Economic Times. LinkedIn: Thomas Ross, Mathias Cohen, and Kim Bhasin. Bluesky: @janerosenzweig
Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
CoinGecko: over 53% of the 20.2M crypto tokens launched since 2021 are now inactive, with 7.7M tokens failing in Q4 2025, after Oct. 10 “liquidation cascade” — Over 13.4 million tokens have been erased between mid-2021 and 2025, according to a new analysis by CoinGecko. — What to know:
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
RunPod, an AI app hosting service launched four years ago that raised a $20M seed in May 2024, says it has reached a $120M annual revenue run rate — Runpod, an AI app hosting platform that launched four years ago, has hit a $120 million annual revenue run rate, founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep Singh tell TechCrunch.| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models — Former OpenAI policy chief Miles Brundage, who has just founded a new nonprofit institute called AVERI that is advocating …
More: AVERI, Miles's Substack, and AVERI
X: @typewriters, @averiorg, @miles_brundage, @benjaminmmurphy, @sjgadler, @s_oheigeartaigh, @w01fe, and @mikemccormick_
LinkedIn: AVERI and Jeremy Kahn
| Caroline Haskins / Wired: |
The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren't enough skilled workers in the US, such as electricians, to keep up — The AI boom is driving an unprecedented wave of data center construction, but there aren't enough skilled tradespeople in the US to keep up.| Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the making of The Thinking Game, a documentary about Google DeepMind and its CEO Demis Hassabis, garnering 285M+ views on YouTube since November 2025 — A documentary about Google DeepMind has become wildly popular. Before he turned his attention to AI, the film's director learned everything from the NFL.Sponsor Posts
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