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Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Paris-based AI startup Mistral raised $830M in its debut debt financing to build Nvidia-powered data centers across Europe; Mistral plans to spend €4B in total  —  French company's debut debt financing follows rising demand for alternatives to US groups
Wall Street Journal:
Inside the rise and fall of OpenAI's Sora, which worked apart from OpenAI's research team, as the company shuts down Sora and redirects compute to other tasks  —  When Sam Altman arrived in Los Angeles to attend Vanity Fair's Oscar afterparty earlier this month, his company was just weeks away …
Jared Spataro / Microsoft 365 Blog:
Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork to its Frontier program for early-stage testing, including a new Researcher Critique tool using Anthropic and OpenAI models  —  Microsoft 365 Copilot is your AI for work.  It's built on a multi-model advantage—bringing the best AI innovation from across …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Meta is testing an Instagram Plus subscription in a few countries, offering features including anonymous Story viewing and extended 48-hour Story durations  —  Meta has begun testing a premium subscription on Instagram in a few countries, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday.
Qwen:
Alibaba releases its Qwen3.5-Omni omnimodal LLM with support for 10+ hours of audio input, saying the Plus variant surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio benchmarks  —  Qwen3.5-Omni is Qwen's latest generation of fully omnimodal LLM, supporting the understanding of text, images, audio, and audio-visual content.
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch:
AI chip startup Rebellions raised $400M in a pre-IPO round at a $2.34B valuation, bringing its total funding to $850M, with $650M in the past six months  —  Fresh off a successful Series C funding round in November, the South Korean fabless AI chip startup Rebellions has raised an additional $400 million.
Sujeet Indap / Financial Times:
A Delaware judge reassigns Elon Musk cases over “disproportionate media attention” after allegations she “liked” a LinkedIn post celebrating a Musk legal defeat  —  Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick denies bias but cites media glare as risk to justice
Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac:
Gurman: Apple pulls Apple Intelligence in China, after accidentally launching it in the country; there is no imminent launch as Apple has no regulatory approval  —  Apple Intelligence first launched in the US in October 2024, but now after a nearly 18-month wait, Apple's AI features appear to be rolling out in China too.
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Match Group agrees to settle an FTC lawsuit claiming it illegally shared user data from the OkCupid app with facial recognition tech company Clarifai in 2014  —  Match Group (MTCH.O) agreed to settle a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit claiming it gave an outside company unauthorized access …
Katherine Bindley / Wall Street Journal:
Levels.fyi: median base-salary offers for US software engineers at VC-backed startups have risen 25% to $200K since 2022; total compensation has risen just 18%  —  Young tech companies once might have complemented lower salaries with generous equity packages.  Now they're upping base pay.
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Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg:
Quinnipiac poll: 55% of Americans say AI will do more harm than good in their day-to-day lives, and 65% oppose building data centers in their community  —  Americans are increasingly turning against artificial intelligence, with growing majorities saying they fear the fast-moving technology …
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber agrees to acquire Berlin-based chauffeur booking app Blacklane for an undisclosed sum to bolster its Uber Elite service, set to close by the end of 2026  —  Uber Technologies Inc. has acquired the chauffeur booking app Blacklane, the company's latest move to court a high-end clientele.
Sean Endicott / Windows Central:
After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it “disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback”  —  Over 11,000 pull requests have been spotted with the same “tips” injected into descriptions.
Derek Thompson:
Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which blames phones for anxiety, populism, and polarization, despite harms being concentrated in the Anglosphere  —  Many people believe that the nexus of smartphones, Internet, and social media is to blame for every modern catastrophe.
Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:
Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $170M Series A led by Benchmark and EQT at a $1.1B valuation, and plans to launch Starcloud 2 later in 2026  —  Starcloud's latest funding round values the space compute company at $1.1 billion, making it one of the fastest startups to reach unicorn status after graduating from Y Combinator.
Ezra Klein / New York Times:
Some thoughts about companies and people in San Francisco adapting to AI workflows, AI's sycophancy, “cognitive offloading” and “cognitive surrender”, and more  —  In his classic book “Understanding Media,” Marshall McLuhan dwells on the Greek myth of Narcissus.
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
A look at Pretext, a new JS library that solves the problem of calculating multi-line text height without touching the DOM, enabling highly dynamic layouts  —  Pretext solves the problem of calculating the height of a paragraph of line-wrapped text without touching the DOM.
Boaz Barak / Windows On Theory:
State of AI safety: as capabilities grow and models can monitor other models, issues like adversarial robustness persist and society is still not ready for AI  —  Here is a quick overview of my intuitions on where we are with AI safety in early 2026:  — So far, we continue to see exponential improvements in capabilities.
Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav / @reach_vb:
OpenAI introduces a Codex plugin for Claude Code, letting users invoke Codex from inside Claude Code to review code or delegate tasks  —  If you already use Claude Code, this Codex plugin gives you a simple way to pull Codex into the same workflow.  It is useful for three things …
Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Valinor, which aims to use smart contracts to replace manual lending processes in the private credit industry, raised a $25M seed led by Castle Island Ventures  —  Many corners of finance—stock exchanges, banks, and payments firms—are embracing digital assets, but the private credit industry …

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