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| 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, Tech Monitor, Benzinga, Silicon Republic, Neowin, Analytics India Magazine, SiliconANGLE, The Information, PYMNTS.com, Tech in Asia, The Straits Times, CNBC, Reuters, and Bloomberg
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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, Mashable, Digit, Gizmodo, PYMNTS.com, Analytics Insight, and Ukrainian National News
X: @theandreboso, @wongmjane, @gmiller, @jeremiahdjohns, @the_ai_investor, @clairlemon, @briannawu, @theandreboso, @aziz0nomics, @aziz0nomics, @boredelonmusk, and @jeremiahdjohns. Bluesky: @carnage4life
Threads: @dikaiosvne, @thespacemechanic, @calbucci, and @tomgara
| 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: Benzinga, CTech, Neowin, Sadagopan's weblog …, and Analytics India Magazine
X: @rohanpaul_ai, @alternatejones, @signulll, @chatgpt21, @benbajarin, @benitoz, @zephyr_z9, @vraserx, @signulll, @firstadopter, @jimcramer, @andrewcurran_, @the_ai_investor, @sundeep, @kimmonismus, @bearlyai, @therealadamg, and @dr_gingerballs. LinkedIn: Sarah Friar
Forums: r/OpenAI and r/singularity
| 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: Business Insider, Futurism, The Game Business, and GameSpot
| 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
| 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,” …
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X: @jtfoz, @clairlemon, @zymazza, @trungtphan, @pourfairelevide, @forrestpknight, @xqc, @dead_baseball, @barondestructo, @thecinesthetic, @tom_lsoo, @robkhenderson, @jackposobiec, @freightalley, @blackmajikman90, @bearlyai, @dead_baseball, @lynaldencontact, @hdmoviesource, @lookatmymeat1, @danielrpk, @colin_gladman, @groditid, @khuze_elikhulu, @dead_baseball, @mattzeitlin, @ross__hendricks, @grummz, @lthomasnews, @ctachio83984, and @andthatsbb. Threads: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
| 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 Information and The Indian Express
| 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: @laurenmeidasa
| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
Chinese media: phone makers Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and Transsion trimmed their 2026 shipment targets, with Oppo cutting up to 20%, due to the memory chip shortage — Nvidia Corp. supplier Micron Technology Inc. said an ongoing memory chip shortage has accelerated over the past quarter …
More: Barron's Online, Tech in Asia, and DigiTimes
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
The memory shortage that is spiking RAM prices is now expanding to the broader PC market, driving price hikes for GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and hard drives — GPU makers may prioritize more profitable models; large SSDs are harder to find. … Standalone, direct-to-consumer RAM kits … | 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: The Nation, DigiTimes, NewsMax.com, CNBC, Taiwan News, Focus Taiwan, and Taipei Times
| 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: Moneycontrol, The Economic Times, and DigiTimes
| Bloomberg: |
Shenzhen-based UBTech signs 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 … Sponsor Posts
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SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
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GitHub Universe 2026: Highlights from the developer's developer conference — Copilot Fusion was the belle of the ball, but the hero at the heart of the two-day event was the developer community.
GitHub Universe 2026: Highlights from the developer's developer conference — Copilot Fusion was the belle of the ball, but the hero at the heart of the two-day event was the developer community.
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Update on Node.js vulnerabilities CVE-2026-111497, CVE-2026-105482, CVE-2026-105483 and CVE-2026-106069 — Overview On October 21, 2026, Node.js announced security releases for the 26.x, 24.x and 22.x release lines to fix multiple vulnerabilities.
Update on Node.js vulnerabilities CVE-2026-111497, CVE-2026-105482, CVE-2026-105483 and CVE-2026-106069 — Overview On October 21, 2026, Node.js announced security releases for the 26.x, 24.x and 22.x release lines to fix multiple vulnerabilities.
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