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Meta reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to $59.9B, vs. $58.35B est., net income up 9% to $22.8B, and family DAP up 7% to 3.58B for December; META is up 7%+ — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2025.
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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Waymo says a robotaxi struck a child at 6MPH near an elementary school in Santa Monica on January 23, resulting in minor injuries; the NHTSA opens a probe — A Waymo robotaxi struck a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica on January 23, according to the company.
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| Financial Times: |
Tesla plans to scrap its premium S and X models and convert its California factory into an Optimus manufacturing hub, as Elon Musk refocuses on robotics and AI — Elon Musk's electric-car maker invests $2bn in the billionaire's xAI — Tesla plans to scrap two models and invest $2bn in Elon Musk's xAI …
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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $81.3B, operating income up 21% to $38.3B, net income up 60% to $38.5B, and Microsoft Cloud revenue tops $50B — Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Drives Second Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — January 28, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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| Connor Jones / The Register: |
Security researchers warn Moltbot, previously Clawdbot, requires a specialist skillset to use safely, as data exposure risks persist even when set up correctly — The massively hyped agentic personal assistant has security experts wondering why anyone would install it
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Samsung reports Q4 revenue up 24% YoY to ~$65.6B, vs. ~$65.28B est., and operating profit up 200%+ to ~$14.06B, driven by memory chip price hikes and HBM demand — Samsung Electronics shares rose 2.4% Thursday after the company reported an over threefold surge in fourth-quarter operating profits … | Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Google says it took legal action to take down dozens of domains and disrupt the residential proxy network of Chinese company Ipidea, widely used by bad actors — Company targets global network employed by hackers that often use devices running in homes of everyday Americans
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| Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC clarifies its tokenized stock rules, saying they are subject to securities and derivatives rules and issuer approval is required for true ownership — The agency says issuer approval is required for true tokenized ownership, warning that many stock tokens sold to retail investors provide only indirect or synthetic exposure.| Sri Muppidi / The Information: |
Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise up to $30B from Nvidia, less than $10B from Microsoft, and $10B-$20B from Amazon as part of a $100B funding round — OpenAI is lining up huge checks from some of its biggest tech partners, as it seeks to raise up to $100 billion to fund growing demand for its AI.| Counterpoint Research: |
Apple's iPhone 16 was the world's best-selling smartphone in 2025, followed by the 16 Pro Max and 16 Pro; Apple took 7 of the top 10 spots and Samsung took 3 — - Apple and Samsung continued to capture the Top 10 spots. … - In terms of comparisons with predecessor models …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Nothing CEO Carl Pei says the company's flagship Phone 4 won't launch in 2026: “We're not just going to churn out a new flagship every year for the sake of it” — CEO Carl Pei says there's no new flaghip on the way, but teased improvements for the 4A series instead.
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| Koh Ewe / BBC: |
Chinese media: China executed 11 members of the Ming mafia family that ran online scam centres in Myanmar; five Bai family members are also sentenced to death — China has executed 11 members of a notorious mafia family that ran scam centres in Myanmar along its north-eastern border, state media report.
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| New York Times: |
Amazon's $35M marketing campaign for Melania is ~10x the budget for similar documentaries like CNN's RBG; some suggest Amazon is currying favor with Trump — The tech giant is spending $35 million to promote its film about the first lady, far more than is typical for documentaries.
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| Bloomberg: |
Amazon reported hundreds of thousands of pieces of potential CSAM in AI training data to NCMEC in 2025; child safety officials say Amazon didn't give the source — The tech giant reported hundreds of thousands of cases of suspected child sexual abuse material, but won't say where it came from
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google launches Project Genie, which lets users create interactive worlds using Genie 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Gemini, for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US — It's what I had the most fun using Google's Project Genie for, at least right now. … This week, a new generative AI tool …
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| Zoe Kleinman / BBC: |
Waymo says it hopes to launch its London robotaxi service as soon as September, after an April pilot; the UK government plans to change regulations in H2 2026 — Waymo, the US driverless car firm, said it hopes to be operating a robotaxi service in London as soon as September this year.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Airtable unveils Superagent, a service that can deploy AI agents in parallel for tasks like market analysis, its first standalone product in its 13-year history — It might sound crazy to some, launching an entirely new product line while your flagship business has shed two-thirds of its paper value.
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| Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
Crypto exchange Bybit plans to offer banking services via “MyBank” accounts that can hold USD and other currencies, set to launch in February pending approvals — Crypto exchange Bybit plans to start offering banking services with the launch of accounts that will let customers hold balances … | Ben Wilson / Windows Central: |
Nvidia launches a native GeForce NOW app for Linux, starting with Debian-based Ubuntu, after releasing a Steam Deck app in 2025; in a hands-on, it works well — GeForce NOW cloud gaming expands to desktops and other Ubuntu devices, with Bazzite tested and the Steam Deck thriving.
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Sources: ByteDance and Alibaba both plan to release flagship AI models around China's mid-February Lunar New Year holiday, including ByteDance's Doubao 2.0 — The battle for AI dominance in China is reaching new heights. Tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba Group are both poised to release …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Munich-based RobCo, which makes robotic arms and factory automation software, raised $100M led by Lingotto and Lightspeed, a source says at a $500M+ valuation — RobCo, a German startup that makes robots for use in manufacturing, has raised $100 million in financing from investors …
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| Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide: |
A coalition of music publishers, including UMG, filed a second lawsuit against Anthropic, seeking $3B over allegations of copyright infringement of 20k+ songs — A coalition of music publishers has filed a second copyright infringement lawsuit against AI company Anthropic, and it's a big one.| Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: |
STMicro reports Q4 net revenue up 0.2% YoY to $3.33B, operating income down 66% YoY to $125M, and forecasts Q1 2026 net revenue of $3.04B, above $2.92B est. — STMicroelectronics NV, a chip supplier for Tesla Inc. and Apple Inc., forecast first-quarter revenue that beat analysts' estimates …
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| Jiahui Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba's Cainiao logistics unit merges with Chinese robovan company Zelos, creating a business sources say valued at ~$2B with a fleet set to hit 20K+ vehicles — The Zelos-Cainiao robovan fleet is set to top 20,000 vehicles — Alibaba's logistics arm is merging its autonomous-driving unit …
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| Bloomberg: |
SAP reports Q4 revenue up 3% YoY to €9.68B, adjusted operating profit up 27% to €2.83B, and forecasts 2026 cloud revenue to grow 23%+ to €25.8B; SAP falls 14%+ — SAP SE shares fell the most in more than five years as current cloud backlog in the fourth quarter slipped … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
DeepSeek job listings show it hopes to broaden its AI offerings with a search engine capable of supporting multiple languages and more emphasis on agents — DeepSeek is looking to broaden its AI offerings with new artificial intelligence search features and more emphasis on agents … | Financial Times: |
A look at Amazon's and Walmart's differing approaches to agentic AI shopping; Similarweb says Walmart doubled its AI referral share in the US to 32.5% in 2025 — Industry giants Walmart and Amazon are taking different approaches to a technology that could further automate shopping| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
A federal judge in Virginia ruled that Norfolk's use of ~200 Flock automated license plate scanners is constitutional and doesn't violate the Fourth Amendment — A federal judge in Virginia ruled Tuesday that the City of Norfolk's use of nearly 200 automated license plate readers (ALPRs) …
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| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
US-based AI startup Arcee releases Trinity Large, a 400B-parameter open-weight model that it says compares to Meta's Llama 4 Maverick 400B on some benchmarks — Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta …
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