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ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga — TikTok said on Thursday that its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new U.S. TikTok …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Adam Presser, previously TikTok's head of operations and trust and safety, will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture; TikTok CEO Shou Chew will be a director — TikTok said Thursday that it formed a joint venture that will keep the video-sharing app operating in the U.S. under the leadership of an American executive.
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| Financial Times: |
TikTok's new majority US-owned JV includes investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, each holding 15%, and Dell Family Office; ByteDance retains 19.9% — Video app sets up American unit to handle data and algorithm security — TikTok has established a US data security unit … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
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| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
R&D firm Merkle, which sold Farcaster, says it plans to repay VCs the $180M they invested in the social media project, and says Farcaster is not shutting down — The software firm behind a crypto-oriented social-media platform plans to repay venture capitalists the $180 million …
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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
How Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are testing AI models by having them play Pokémon Blue on Twitch to track a model's ability to reason and make decisions — Nintendo's original Pokémon games are becoming a popular and strangely effective way to test and benchmark new artificial-intelligence models.
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic details how it had to redesign its take-home test for hiring performance engineers as Claude kept defeating it, and releases the original test — What we learned from three iterations of a performance engineering take-home that Claude keeps beating.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q4 revenue down 4% YoY to $13.7B, vs. $13.4B est., Data Center and AI revenue up 9% to $4.7B, Q1 guidance below est.; INTC drops 10%+ — Intel reported fourth-quarter earnings Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations but offered soft guidance for the current quarter.
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Source: by the end of 2025, Claude Code's ARR had grown by at least another $100M from the $1B announced in November, making up 12% of Anthropic's total ARR — WIRED spoke with Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, about how the viral coding tool is changing the way Anthropic works.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Fei-Fei Li's World Labs is in discussions with investors to raise hundreds of millions at a valuation of $5B; World Labs was last valued at $1B in 2024 — Artificial intelligence pioneer Fei-Fei Li has had discussions with investors to raise hundreds of millions in funding for her startup …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps as it develops a special version of an AI character for teens — Meta today said that it is pausing teens' access to its AI characters globally across all its apps. The company mentioned that it is not abandoning …
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| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon is planning a second round of job cuts next week as part of its goal of trimming 30,000 corporate workers, after cutting 14,000 jobs in October — Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a second round of job cuts next week as part of its broader goal of trimming some 30,000 corporate workers …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China has told Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance that they can prepare orders for Nvidia's H200 chips, suggesting Beijing is close to approving imports — Chinese officials have told the country's largest tech firms including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. they can prepare orders …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Revolut scrapped plans to buy a US lender and will instead apply for a US banking license, betting Trump's lighter touch on approvals will be faster — UK-headquartered fintech had hoped to secure a banking charter through buying an American lender — Stephen Morris in Davos and Laith Al-Khalaf in London
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Cubby, which makes software for self-storage operators, raised a $63M Series A led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives — Senior Finance Reporter And Author Of Term Sheet — Wild things happen in the self-storage business. — In 2023, Matt Engfer was at back-to-back lien auctions in Texas.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: UBS plans to make cryptocurrency investing available for some private banking clients in Switzerland, starting with bitcoin and ether — UBS Group AG plans to make cryptocurrency investing available for some private banking clients, in what could become a significant move … | Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: |
Google invests an undisclosed sum in Sakana AI, valued at $2.6B in November 2025, to boost Gemini's presence in Japan; Sakana AI gains access to Google's LLMs — Google joined Japanese startup Sakana AI's roster of backers in a move that bolsters chatbot Gemini's presence in a country eager … | The Verge: |
Epic v. Google: Epic and Google have a secret deal involving Unreal Engine, Fortnite, and Android, with Epic spending $800M over six years on Google services — “Sorry, I'm blowing this confidentiality.” … In a hearing in San Francisco today, the court revealed that Epic and Google …
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| Lee Chong Ming / Business Insider: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI added more than $1B in annual recurring revenue in the past month “just from our API business” — - OpenAI has made more than $1 billion a month from something other than ChatGPT. — That revenue comes “just from our API business,” Sam Altman said.
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: smart ring maker Oura plans a tender offer for early investors at a 25% discount to its $11B valuation from Series E, aiming to stay private longer — Oura Health Oy, the maker of popular smart rings, is working on a tender offer for existing investors at a discount to its latest funding round … | Anisah Shukry / Bloomberg: |
Malaysia lifted its temporary ban on Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot after xAI added safety measures; Grok remains subject to continuous monitoring by authorities — Malaysia lifted its temporary ban on Elon Musk's Grok artificial intelligence chatbot after the company behind it added safety measures …
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| Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Booz Allen Hamilton commits $400M to a16z's newest set of funds, for which a16z raised $15B+ in January; this is Booz Allen's first LP stake in any VC fund — Defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton said Friday it is committing $400 million into Andreessen Horowitz's most recent set of funds.
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