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January 26, 2026, 8:00 AM
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Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The EU opens a formal DSA investigation into xAI over Grok generating sexualized images of women and children; xAI faces fines of up to 6% of global revenue  —  European regulators begin investigation into creation and spread of sexualised images of women and children
Reece Rogers / Wired:
TikTok presents users in the US with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app's US ownership transition and now allow precise location tracking  —  According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location …
Jasmine Sun / @jasmine's substack:
Claude Code can feel daunting, and most people's problems are not software-shaped, but it is clearly autonomous and the home-cooked app renaissance is great  —  are your problems software-shaped?  —  ∙ Paid  —  If you tell a friend they can now instantly create any app, they'll probably say “Cool!
Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View:
London-based enterprise AI video startup Synthesia raised a $200M Series E led by GV at a $4B valuation, up from $2.1B after raising $180M in January 2025  —  W  —  hile AI video generators like OpenAI's Sora, Google's Veo, and Kling are best known for creating “AI slop” …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A deep dive into Apple's AI strategy reset, as it prepares to announce a Gemini-powered personalized Siri next month and a reimagined chatbot-like Siri at WWDC  —  Apple shakes up its AI efforts with a Google partnership, management changes and two new versions of Siri.
Cade Metz / New York Times:
Ricursive, founded by ex-Google researchers to automate advanced chip design, raised $335M from Sequoia, Radical, Lightspeed, and others at a $4B valuation  —  One new start-up is called Recursive with an “e.”  Another is called Ricursive with an “i.”  They are trying to do the same thing …
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
Sources: NY-based Tandem, which uses AI to automate the paperwork for writing and receiving medical prescriptions, raised a $100M Series B at a $1B valuation  —  Health care technology startup Tandem Technology Inc., which aims to smooth the process of writing and receiving medical prescriptions …
New York Times:
Interviews with 100+ therapists and psychiatrists on clients' AI chatbot usage show, while there are some upsides, conversations also deepened negative feelings  —  Dozens of doctors and therapists said chatbots had led their patients to psychosis, isolation and unhealthy habits.
Ashley Gold / Axios:
OpenAI says nearly 1.3M weekly users are discussing “advanced topics in hard science” in January, with an average of 8.4M ChatGPT messages on those topics  —  AI is increasingly being used as a research collaborator for mathematicians and scientists, per a new report from OpenAI shared exclusively with Axios.
Bloomberg:
Sources: SoftBank halts talks about a ~$50B acquisition of US data center operator Switch, a setback to Masayoshi Son's goal to roll out Stargate infrastructure  —  SoftBank Group Corp. has halted talks about an acquisition of US data center operator Switch Inc., a setback …

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Associated Press:
After a short-term hold, SCOTUS denies former Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge's bid to stay an $800-a-day fine if she refuses to reveal a source

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Comcast co-CEO Brian Roberts' earlier bundling strategy for connectivity and content, and his plan now to unbundle in order to keep growing

Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez criticizes the agency's move to dismiss a petition by former FCC members and media advocates challenging the news distortion policy

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Jason Lemkin / SaaStr:
Many AI founders now find it necessary to raise at valuations requiring absolute domination of the field; Brex, once valued at $12B, shows the downsides of this
Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Microsoft confirms it does provide BitLocker recovery keys for encrypted data if it receives a valid legal order and the user has stored the keys on its servers
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