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Sources: Apple is developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging, which it could launch 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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Forums: r/singularity, 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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Forums: r/apple, r/apple, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
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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: The Economic Times and Center for Countering …
Bluesky: @mattburgess1, @adrianweckler, @counterhate.com, and @counterhate.com
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Sources: the US and China approve a deal to sell TikTok's US business to a group of mostly US investors led by Oracle and Silverlake, set to close this week — The US and China have signed off on a deal to sell TikTok's US business to a consortium of mostly US investors led by Oracle and Silverlake … | 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.
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Sources: Anthropic projected a 40% gross margin from selling AI to companies and developers in 2025, down from est. of 50%, due to 23% higher inference costs — Anthropic last month projected it would generate a 40% gross profit margin from selling AI to businesses and application developers in 2025 … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: the US Senate's crypto market structure bill is likely to be delayed by several weeks as key lawmakers shift their focus to a housing legislation push — A sweeping US crypto market bill is likely to be delayed by at least several weeks as key lawmakers shift their focus … | AJ Dellinger / Gizmodo: |
xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has “left” the startup, after saying on a podcast last week that xAI has skirted regulations while building its data centers — Interesting timing. — Sulaiman Ghori, an engineer at Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, went on the podcast Relentless …
More: eWeek, Relentless on YouTube, Business Insider, and Moneycontrol
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Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia's stock is up ~800% over the past 12 months, as AI demand and constrained NAND flash supply boost the chipmaker's pricing power — Kioxia's stock has gained around 800 per cent in the past 12 months — For all Japan's image as a high-tech economy …
More: PC Gamer, DigiTimes, VideoCardz.com, Tom's Hardware, and Ars Technica
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Sources: Sam Altman recently visited and held early talks with investors in the Middle East, looking 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 …
More: Quartz, eWeek, CNBC, WebProNews, Benzinga, Tech Funding News, Silicon UK, and Gazetteer SF. Forums: r/singularity
| Bloomberg: |
BitGo raises $212.8M in its IPO, selling 11.8M+ shares at $18 each, above the $15 to $17 range, giving it a ~$2.1B market value, in 2026's first crypto US 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: |
A US House Committee approves a bipartisan bill that calls for congressional oversight of AI chip exports and bans Nvidia sales to China for at least two years — Congress is one step closer to gaining the authority to review artificial intelligence chip sales to China …
More: Reuters, South China Morning Post, CNBC, Tech in Asia, China Economic Review, Gizmodo, The Register, and BGR
| 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
| Will Knight / Wired: |
An analysis of 5,290 AI research papers at NeurIPS: 141, or ~3%, had US-China AI lab collaboration, vs. 134/4,497 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, The Decoder, and Fortune
| 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:| Kyu-Seok Shim / Reuters: |
South Korea enacts the AI Basic Act, which it says includes the world's first comprehensive set of laws regulating AI, as startups warn of compliance burdens — South Korea introduced on Thursday what it says is the world's first comprehensive set of laws regulating artificial intelligence …
More: Türkiye Today
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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: WebProNews. X: @daemon404. Bluesky: @davidgerard.co.uk and @danhon.com
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| 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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X: @princeofpersia, @grummz, @oliverjia1014, @gameoverthirty, @synthpotato, @legacykillahd, @thencsmaster, @mr_rebs_, @shinobi602, and @nintyprime
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Source: Google DeepMind signs a licensing deal with Hume AI, which builds emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, to hire CEO Alan Cowen and ~7 top engineers — Hume AI's CEO, Alan Cowen, will join Google DeepMind along with several top engineers as part of a major licensing deal.| 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 … | Anjli Raval / Financial Times: |
A look at the entry-level hiring squeeze in marketing, communications, and customer service as executives increasingly argue AI can absorb much of the workload — Economic uncertainty and the arrival of AI have brought a reduction in entry-level roles, with potentially disastrous consequences for young people| 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: @carnage4life and @kylierobison.com
| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Waymo launches its robotaxi service in Miami, its sixth market, initially covering a 60-square-mile area, and partners with Moove for fleet management — Alphabet's Waymo said Thursday that its robotaxi service is now open to paying riders in Miami, kicking off a 2026 market expansion.
More: The Verge, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Axios, and EV
| 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.| 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.| Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: |
Circana: the Switch 2 ended December and 2025 as the US' best-selling video game hardware, offsetting declines among rivals to lift overall hardware spend by 9% — Nintendo Co. concluded last year with a strong performance in the key US market, according to market tracker Circana …
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