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Sources: Apple is developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging, set for release as early as 2027 — Apple is developing an AI-powered wearable pin the size of an AirTag that is equipped with multiple cameras, a speaker …
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X: @loudmouthjulia, @parkerortolani, @glenngabe, @signulll, @scobleizer, @jessicalessin, @autismcapital, @benbajarin, @glenngabe, @mgsiegler, @0xerbil, @aatilley, @kylebrussell, @prateeks, @aakashgupta, and @parkerortolani. Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com. Mastodon: @harrymccracken@mastodon …
Forums: r/NowInTech, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to revamp Siri this fall in iOS 27 and macOS 27 by turning it into the company's first AI chatbot, replacing the current Siri interface — Apple Inc. plans to revamp Siri later this year by turning the digital assistant into the company's first artificial intelligence chatbot …
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X: @ranimolla, @mweinbach, @markgurman, @itharis, @signulll, @markgurman, @mweinbach, @munster_gene, @mweinbach, @brandonbutch, @tuncerdeniz, @markgurman, @mweinbach, and @brandonbutch
Forums: r/apple, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: |
Anthropic overhauls Claude's “constitution” to enable the AI model to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules — Anthropic is overhauling a foundational document that shapes how its popular Claude AI model behaves.
More: Anthropic, Anthropic, The Hans India, Moneycontrol, TechCrunch, The Rundown AI, The Indian Express, Time, Tom's Guide, Hindustan Times, SiliconANGLE, The Register, GovTech, The Verge, and Axios
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LinkedIn: Jim Kaskade, Leon Furze, and Drew Bent
Forums: r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, r/ClaudeAI, and r/Anthropic
| AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: |
xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has “left” the company after appearing on a podcast last week where he claimed that xAI had been skirting regulations — Interesting timing. — Sulaiman Ghori, an engineer at Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, went on the podcast Relentless last week …
More: Relentless on YouTube, Moneycontrol, Business Insider, and Bloomberg
X: @sulaimanghori, @mrbeast, @sethcronin, and @andrewcurran_
| Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: |
Ubisoft cancels six games and delays others amid a restructuring into five genre-specific “creative houses”, and expects net bookings of ~€1.5B for FY 2025-2026 — Ubisoft Entertainment SA is canceling game projects, shutting down studios and cutting its guidance …
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BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO, selling ~11.7M shares at $18 each, above the $15 to $17 range, giving it a ~$2.1B market value, in 2026's first crypto IPO — BitGo Holdings Inc. and some of its backers raised $212.8 million in a US initial public offering, pricing its shares above the marketed range.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East, looking in early talks to raise $50B+ for OpenAI at a ~$750B to ~$830B valuation — OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East to line up funding for a new investment round … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a satellite communications network for enterprise, data center, and government customers, and plans to begin deployment in Q4 2027 — Jeff Bezos' space venture Blue Origin announced Wednesday it plans to deploy 5,408 satellites in space for a communications network that will take on SpaceX and Amazon.
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X: @davill, @rmcentush, @sciguyspace, and @blueorigin
| Daniel Tudor / Financial Times: |
South Korea's Kospi stock index breaks through the record 5,000 level, driven by chip stocks, led by Samsung, up ~3X, and SK Hynix, up ~4x, in the past year — Kospi is up almost 20% in 2026 as reforms to woo investors spur market — South Korea's Kospi benchmark has broken through … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US Senate's crypto market structure bill is likely to be delayed by several weeks as key lawmakers shift focus to potential housing legislation — A sweeping US crypto market bill is likely to be delayed by at least several weeks as key lawmakers shift their focus … | Business Insider: |
Vimeo is laying off staff for the second time since September 2025, when it cut 10% of its workforce; Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for ~$1.38B in November 2025 — - Vimeo is laying off staffers globally in a new round of cuts. — The job cuts arrived a few months after tech holding company Bending Spoons bought Vimeo.
More: CTech. X: @daemon404. Bluesky: @danhon.com. Forums: Hacker News, r/italy, r/LinusTechTips, r/business, r/roosterteeth, and r/dropout
| Will Knight / Wired: |
An analysis of 5,290 AI research papers at NeurIPS: 141, or ~3%, had US-China AI lab collaboration, up from 134 in 2024; Llama featured in 106 Chinese papers — WIRED analyzed more than 5,000 papers from NeurIPS using OpenAI's Codex to understand the areas where the US and China actually work together on AI research.
More: TechCrunch and Fortune
| Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak: |
Unsealed docs: Spotify and labels sued Anna's Archive over plans to release scraped Spotify data; a US court grants a temporary order taking down some domains — Anna's Archive is generally known as a meta-search engine for shadow libraries, helping users find pirated books and other related resources.| The Information: |
Memo: Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI last week, will lead OpenAI's enterprise push, as part of a broader reorganization — Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI in a swirl of controversy last week, will lead the company's push …
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
X unveils Bluesky-like “Starterpacks” to help users find accounts that match their interests, curated by X and rolling out in the coming weeks — Bluesky's “Starter Packs,” the curated lists of suggested users to follow, have proven a popular way to help people connect with others …
More: crypto.news, Engadget, Social Media Today, and Cointelegraph
X: @nikitabier, @luke_metro, and @oalexanderdk. Mastodon: @eloquence@social.coop. Forums: r/BlueskySocial
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NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M+ sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X — Over nine days, Elon Musk's Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.
More: Center for Countering … and The Economic Times
| Daniel Kuhn / The Block: |
Neynar, a startup focused on decentralized social media infrastructure, is acquiring Ethereum-based social media project Farcaster from R&D firm Merkle — - Decentralized social media infrastructure firm Neynar is acquiring Farcaster, the Ethereum-based protocol that was last valued at $1 billion.
More: Neynar, Decrypt, NFTgators, Cointelegraph, TheStreet, and The Crypto Times
X: @0xsisyphus, @dwr, @alexmasmej, @hishboy, @sxtvik, @macromate8, @0xngmi, @_proxystudio, @jessepollak, @serpinxbt, @ljxie, and @karbonbased
| Aimee Look / Wall Street Journal: |
Vinted CEO Thomas Plantenga says the Lithuania-based secondhand retailer plans to spend tens of millions of dollars to expand in the US in the coming months — CEO Thomas Plantenga says the startup is pouring tens of millions of dollars into efforts to expand in the U.S. over the next few months| Lindsay Ellis / Wall Street Journal: |
Survey: over 40% of executives said AI saved them more than eight hours per week, while two-thirds of non-management staff said they saved less than two hours — How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report — Largest divergence:
Bluesky: @metacurity.com and @prietschka
| Myles Miller / Bloomberg: |
Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation — Applecart, a marketing technology startup, raised $100 million in a minority funding round led by Blackstone Inc.'s growth equity business.| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and 800+ creatives launch “Stealing Isn't Innovation” to protest unauthorized AI training, backed by RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, and others — Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, George Saunders, and other creatives say that AI companies are …
More: The Wrap, Human Artistry Campaign, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Billboard
| Core Memory: |
Q&A with recently departed OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek, who claims OpenAI's shift toward more conservative ways made high-risk, pioneering work harder — Are all the AI superpowers playing it too safe? — ∙ Paid — On January 5th, famed AI researcher Jerry Tworek stunned world+dog …
X: @kyliebytes, @apples_jimmy, @daniel_mac8, @millionint, @ashleevance, @kyliebytes, and @ddeming_. LinkedIn: Ashlee Vance. Bluesky: @kylierobison.com
| Rajesh Mascarenhas / Bloomberg: |
Filing: PhonePe reports H1 FY 2026 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$427.5M, a ~$157M loss, and 657.6M users; the payments company plans to sell 50.7M shares in its IPO — Follow Bloomberg India on WhatsApp for exclusive content and analysis on what billionaires, businesses and markets are doing. Sign up here.
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