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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to 0.6 GW in 2024 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and ARR grew from $2B in 2023 to $6B in 2024 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: The Information, eWeek, WebProNews, Neowin, Benzinga, Analytics India Magazine, CTech, and Sadagopan's weblog …
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Forums: r/singularity and r/OpenAI
| The Information: |
Sources: after five Thinking Machines staff left, investors are rattled, potentially impacting fundraising; two researchers quit via Slack during an all-hands — The timing couldn't have been more awkward for Thinking Machines Lab. — On Wednesday, during an all-hands meeting at the AI startup …
More: The Decoder, WinBuzzer, The Information, and The Indian Express
| Financial Times: |
The IMF says the “surprisingly resilient” global economy is at risk of a sharp AI boom reversal, but “the levels of market frothiness” are below the dotcom bust — Fund's chief economist says there are reasons to be concerned about a potential AI correction
More: Reuters, Business Today, The National, Forbes Middle East, Dow Jones Newswires, Times of India, Gulf News, Bloomberg, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Blockonomi, and Daily Sabah. Forums: Slashdot
| Jack Dunn / Variety: |
On Joe Rogan's JRE, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck discuss Hollywood and AI; Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate the plot because viewers are on their phones — Matt Damon and Ben Affleck recently appeared on the “Joe Rogan Experience” to promote their new Netflix film “The Rip,” …
More: Spyglass, Breitbart, International Business Times, WCSH, NME, Business Insider, Deadline, Screen Rant, The Hollywood Reporter, PowerfulJRE on YouTube, Just Jared, The Independent, The A.V. Club, primetimer.com, Entertainment Weekly, Daily Mail, Benzinga, The Week, and Fox News
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Forums: r/nottheonion, r/NewsOfTheStupid, r/entertainment, r/movies, r/television, r/netflix, r/DC_Cinematic, and r/NoShitSherlock
| Katherine Doherty / Bloomberg: |
NYSE plans to use its tech that matches buyers and sellers, alongside blockchain networks, to facilitate real-time trading of tokenized securities in 2026 — The New York Stock Exchange is building a venue using blockchain technology to allow for trading tokenized stocks and exchange-traded funds around the clock.
More: Business Wire, CoinDesk, The Block, Reuters, Coinspeaker, Pulse 2.0, Cryptonews, Crypto Briefing, Dow Jones Newswires, Cointelegraph, and Coinpedia Fintech News. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Alex Isenstadt / Axios: |
Source: Elon Musk donates $10M to boost pro-Trump Senate candidate Nate Morris, who is seeking to replace Mitch McConnell, in Musk's largest-yet Senate donation — Elon Musk has cut a massive $10 million check to bolster Nate Morris, an outsider, pro-Trump candidate running to succeed retiring … | Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: internal Google data shows Gemini API calls surged from 35B in March 2025 to 85B in August 2025; Google says Gemini Enterprise hit 8M subscribers — Google's improvements to its Gemini AI models are boosting the company's top line. — Over the past year, Google's business selling access … | Palmer Luckey / @palmerluckey: |
Meta's VR layoffs may help the industry long term, as most of the ~1,500 roles worked 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
| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft is preparing to launch a session-based ad-supported Xbox Cloud Gaming tier in 2026; users note Xbox Cloud Gaming now references “ad support” — Users have been noticing that Xbox Cloud Gaming has begun referencing “ad support” while launching games, confirming our earlier report.
More: Screen Rant, GamingBolt, iPhone in Canada, Digit, XboxEra, Pure Xbox, Digital Trends, and Tech4Gamers. Bluesky: @jezcorden.com
| Counterpoint Research: |
Chinese smartphone shipments fell 1.6% YoY in Q4 2025 and 0.6% YoY for 2025 due to weak demand, rising prices, and memory shortages; iPhone shipments rose 28% — Type: — Insight — Team Counterpoint — Counterpoint research is a young and fast growing research firm covering analysis of the tech industry.
More: MacTech.com, Moneycontrol, WebProNews, Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, and DigiTimes
| Axios: |
OpenAI executive Chris Lehane says the company is “on track” to unveil its first device in the “latter part” of 2026; reports suggest it will be a wearable — OpenAI is “on track” to unveil its first device in the second half of 2026, the company's policy chief, Chris Lehane, said Monday at Axios House Davos.
More: 9to5Mac
| John Sakellariadis / Politico: |
Sources: political appointees at the US CISA blocked Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala's attempt to oust the agency's Chief Information Officer Robert Costello — The personnel spat began late last Thursday afternoon after Costello was given a so-called management-directed reassignment …
Bluesky: @metacurity.com and @laurenmeidasa
| Bloomberg: |
Shenzhen-based UBTech Robotics signed deals to sell its Walker S2 humanoid robots to Airbus and Texas Instruments, and says it aims to produce 10K units in 2026 — UBTech Robotics Corp. shares jumped after the China-based humanoid maker received an order from Airbus SE … | Jordyn Holman / New York Times: |
Q&A with FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam, only the second CEO in the company's history, on humanoid robots, automation, AI, drones, US-China trade tensions, and more — Raj Subramaniam took over three years ago from FedEx's founder, who ran the company for nearly 50 years.
More: Business Insider
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