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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
UK data center developer Nscale raised a $2B Series C led by Aker and 8090 Industries at a $14.6B valuation and adds Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board — Nscale, a UK developer for artificial intelligence data centers, has raised $2 billion in funding and added a trio …
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X: @peterkyle, @kanishkanarayan, @darlingtondev, @nscale_cloud, @uksovereignai, @stefanroberts, @_iainmartin, @sebjohnsonuk, and @nickclegg
LinkedIn: Josh Payne and Alex Sharp
| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
A profile of Nscale founder Josh Payne, a former coal miner from Australia who moved to London and started the data center company in 2024 amid the AI boom — After leaving high school in an industrial area of Australia, Josh Payne took an unlikely path to becoming the head …
More: Wall Street Journal
| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
iPad Air (M4) review: M4 is powerful, iPadOS 26 improves multitasking, and the hardware is robust, but its screen could be better, no Face ID, and can be pricey — The iPad Air is extremely powerful and portable, but it's past time for it to have a nicer screen.
More: ZDNET, The Verge, Mashable, CNET, Gizmodo, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Tom's Guide, Tech Advisor, MobileSyrup, TechRadar, Trusted Reviews, HardwareZone Singapore, and 9to5Toys
| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
iPhone 17e review: MagSafe, 256GB of base storage, and the camera are great, but no always-on display and 60Hz makes the iPhone 17 a better deal for $200 more — The iPhone 17E is a better value than the 16E was when it arrived, but that should matter to basically nobody.
More: Engadget, CNET, Telegraph, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Sun, TechRadar, Brian Tong on YouTube, MobileSyrup, PCMag, Tom's Guide, Wired, Mashable, WhistleOut, and Stuff. X: @lanceulanoff
| Bloomberg: |
OpenClaw mania hits China: AI labs launch tools to help users deploy OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts a policy encouraging free OpenClaw services, and more — Chinese software shares surged Monday after local government agencies joined tech leaders such as Tencent Holdings Ltd … | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft launches the E7 bundle for $99/user/month, a 65% jump; of the 450M+ business users that paid for its tools in January, only ~3% also paid for Copilot — Microsoft Corp. is launching a new bundle of workplace software with the aim of getting more people to use its artificial intelligence tools for the office.| Charles Lamanna / Microsoft 365 Blog: |
Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, integrating Anthropic's Claude Cowork tech into Microsoft 365 and using Work IQ to ground actions in organizational data — AUDIENCE — Try Microsoft 365 Copilot — Available on desktop and mobile devices — If you have used Copilot …
More: Thurrott, Reuters, CNET, XDA Developers, The Verge, Yahoo Finance, Fortune, and Blockonomi
X: @zackkorman, @marlene_zw, @akoustov, @yacinelearning, @metacriticcap, @tunguz, @jshpigler, @clamanna, and @satyanadella
Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com and @tomwarren.co.uk
| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Nasdaq partners with Kraken to develop a framework for 24/7 tokenized stock trading, targeting a 2027 launch, focusing on corporate governance like proxy voting — Nasdaq sought approval in September to let investors trade tokenized versions of its listed stocks and other exchange-traded products
More: Nasdaq, Inc., Reuters, Kraken Blog, Decrypt, The Block, CoinDesk, Bitcoin Insider, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Crypto Times, Cointelegraph, Bloomberg, CryptoPotato, and InsuranceNewsNet
Bluesky: @daniloc.xyz, @michaelcaley, and @danny.page
| Aaron Levie / @levie: |
Advice to developers: build API-first and make software that agents want, as AI agents, not humans, will become the primary users of all software in the future — Building for trillions of agents — Over the past few months, something big has started to happen with agents.
X: @karpathy, @petergyang, @julian2kwan, @ycombinator, @morganlinton, @matthewberman, and @karpathy. LinkedIn: Jai Bhatia. Mastodon: @glent@aus.social
| Harvard Business Review: |
A study of 1,488 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause “AI brain fry”, a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity — On New Year's Day, programmer Steve Yegge launched Gas Town, an open-source platform that lets users orchestrate swarms … | Bloomberg: |
Kalshi partners with XP, Brazil's largest brokerage firm with 4.8M active clients in December 2025, to list event contracts, its first international expansion — Prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. is expanding outside the US for the first time, partnering with Brazil's XP Inc. to list event contracts.
More: Coinpedia Fintech News
| Miles Kruppa / The Information: |
The US-led war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B+ on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies — The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend more than $300 billion on data centers, chips and other AI investments …
More: The Register, Financial Times, Semafor, and New York Times
X: @bubbleboi, @elaifresh, @bubbleboi, and @adamscochran
Bluesky: @theseouldan, @wilkos, and @bigworker
| Financial Times: |
Nvidia and ABB partner to bring ABB's robot training software to Nvidia's Omniverse simulation platform to build autonomous robots, which Foxconn is trialling — Industrial robots that can be trained in virtual conditions are being trialled by Foxconn — Nvidia and ABB Robotics are partnering …
More: Reuters, Business Wire, Blockonomi, and RoboticsTomorrow.com
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Uber expands its Women Drivers matching feature nationwide, including in major US markets like New York City, Philadelphia, and DC, amid mounting assault cases — Uber Technologies Inc. said that a feature designed to match female riders and drivers will be available nationwide …
More: Quartz, Axios, and Associated Press
| Bloomberg: |
Stablecoin payments company KAST raised $80M led by QED and Left Lane; sources say the fundraise is at a $600M valuation, and KAST expects $100M ARR in 2026 — KAST, a stablecoin payments firm, has raised $80 million in its latest funding round, as venture capitalists continue to pour money …
More: CoinDesk, KAST, PYMNTS.com, The Block, Cointelegraph, and Blockonomi
| Financial Times: |
South Korean giant Coupang is lobbying the US to represent its interests as it faces 10+ data leak probes; Coupang Korea CEO Harold Rogers attended Trump's SOTU — Coupang leans on its US domicile to lobby Washington against probes from Seoul — Coupang, the online retailer, once called itself a “proud Korean company”.Sponsor Posts
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