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| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
The US unveils new rules to curb flow of advanced chips produced by TSMC and others to China and sanctions 16 Chinese companies building China's chip industry — - Measures also impose sanctions on 16 Chinese entities — Biden has issued a raft of China regulations in his last week| The Information: |
Sources: TikTok plans to switch off its app in the US on January 19 unless SCOTUS blocks the ban; the law only requires app stores to stop TikTok app downloads — TikTok plans to shut off its app for U.S. users on Sunday, the day a federal law will ban the app, unless the Supreme Court intervenes …
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Bluesky: @davelee.me and @kenvogel
X: @adamkovac, @milkkarten, @kyurieff, @michaelsobolik, @stx12_, @jingyanghk, @awwstn, and @adamkovac. Forums: r/technology
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it will no longer support Office apps, known as Microsoft 365 apps, on Windows 10 after October 14, 2025 — Microsoft says it will no longer support Office apps, known as Microsoft 365 apps, on Windows 10 later this year. The support cutoff coincides with Windows 10's end …
More: Microsoft Tech Community, BleepingComputer, Tom's Hardware, Forbes, PCMag, How-To Geek, Wired, ZDNET, Digital Trends, PCWorld, iPhone in Canada Blog, OSnews, BGR, WinBuzzer, TechRadar, and Laptop Mag
Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk. X: @matthewstoller. Forums: Hacker News, r/Windows10, r/technews, and r/technology
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google makes all its Gemini features for Workspace apps free, after charging $20 or $30 per user per month, but increases the prices of all its Workspace plans — Previously, Google charged an additional $20+ per user/month for Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Meet, and other Workspace apps.
More: TechCrunch, Android Authority, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, Google Workspace Blog, PCWorld, Seeking Alpha, Constellation Research, Maginative, Google Workspace Updates, and Thurrott
Bluesky: @matthewtarpy.com. LinkedIn: Tim Crawford, Aaron Rimmer, Abdul Rahman Al Thehaiban, Frédéric Arnoux, Carlo Marchini, and Mattia Sbrozi
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft relaunches its free Copilot for businesses as Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, offering pay-as-you-go AI agents and using OpenAI's GPT-4o to answer queries — Microsoft is relaunching its free Copilot for businesses as Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat today, complete with the ability to use AI agents.
More: Microsoft Copilot Blog, VentureBeat, PYMNTS.com, GeekWire, Computerworld, Seeking Alpha, The Information, The Decoder, Petri IT Knowledgebase, Thurrott, CNBC, TechCrunch, and TechRadar
Bluesky: @getwired and @tomwarren.co.uk
| Jaffer Zaidi / The Keyword: |
Google says it has partnered with the AP to deliver a feed of real-time information to enhance the usefulness of results displayed in the Gemini app — The AP will now deliver a feed of real-time information to help enhance the usefulness of results displayed in the Gemini app.
More: 9to5Google, Engadget, Associated Press, TechCrunch, Seeking Alpha, and Android Police
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn launches free AI tools built on top of its own AI tech and data: a Jobs Match tool for job seekers and a recruitment AI agent for small businesses — If you've ever applied or thought of applying for a job via LinkedIn, you'll know that the experience can be immediately disheartening …
More: Engadget, Social Media Today, ZDNET, MakeUseOf, Business Insider, Android Headlines, and RTÉ
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
OpenAI will fund the expansion of Axios to Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Boulder, and Huntsville, as part of a broader content-sharing and technology deal — - Google struck a deal with McClatchy to fund the creation of three digital-only local newsrooms in 2019.
More: The Information, TechCrunch, Engadget, OpenAI, The Decoder, MediaPost, and Maginative
| Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
The Netherlands tightens its export control rules, requiring ASML and ASM International to seek Dutch, not US, licenses for some of its chipmaking tools — The Netherlands tightened export control rules to make ASML Holding NV apply for licenses with the Dutch government instead of Washington for some of its tools.
More: Reuters, Seeking Alpha, The Verge, Tom's Hardware, Government.nl, and Techzine Global
| Reuters: |
The FTC sues John Deere, alleging it illegally drove up repair costs by making its software repair tool available only to its authorized dealers — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sued farm equipment maker Deere (DE.N), alleging it illegally drives up repair costs by forcing farmers … | Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
A 28-year-old woman describes her “relationship” with ChatGPT, or Leo as the chatbot named itself, which became her therapist, erotic partner, and adviser — “It was supposed to be a fun experiment,” Aryin said of her A.I. relationship, “but then you start getting attached.”
Bluesky: @nytceciliakang, @kashhill, @jenvalentino, @onekade, @ashwinrodrigues.com, @sharonk, @beijingpalmer, @jgcarpenter.com, @thewanderingjew, @lakewitchhouse, @jedbracy, and @laurawags. Mastodon: @jwfell@newsie.social. X: @giadapistilli
| Matthew Ball / MatthewBall.co: |
A close look at the state of video gaming in 2025, including why gaming soared from 2011 to 2021 and then stalled, China's global rise, and mobile gaming growth — Please note, this deck is in Early Access and will release in PDF shortly. There are two versions below based on your preference …
More: Business Insider and Mobilegamer.biz
X: @ballmatthew, @andykleinman, @ballmatthew, @pkafka, @ballmatthew, @danfriedman81, and @knowsworthy. LinkedIn: Doug Shapiro
| Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph: |
DappRadar: NFT trading volumes in 2024 fell 19% YoY to $13.7B and sales counts fell 18% YoY to just under 50M, making 2024 the worst performing year since 2020 — DappRadar found the NFT market last year was the worst since 2020 for trading and sales volumes, with both falling nearly 20% over 2024.
More: DappRadar, Decrypt, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, The Coin Republic, GuruFocus, ReadWrite, The Block, Cryptopolitan, crypto.news, and Cointelegraph
X: @dappradar, @dappradar, @worldofdypians, and @dappradar
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Nikita Bier, creator of apps like tbh and anonymous compliments app Gas, launches Explode, a freemium app to send disappearing texts and photos via iMessage — Nikita Bier, creator of popular apps like the anonymous polling app tbh (acquired by Facebook) and the anonymous compliments app Gas …
More: Gizmodo and BGR
Bluesky: @radiobeartime.com. X: @nikitabier, @gosubb, @baconbrix, @nikitabier, @omooretweets, @eoghan, @turnernovak, @illscience, @lennysan, @signulll, @ghoshal, @giaset, @iamjasonlevin, @the_carlosdp, @joshpuckett, @nikitabier, @producthunt, @jacobandreou, @gregisenberg, @avischiffmann, @nikitabier, and @blakeandersonw
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
DoubleVerify says there is a jump in AI click farms, including a network of 200+ websites called Synthetic Echo, designed to siphon ad revenue from real outlets — A new report, shared exclusively with WIRED, shows how an AI content mill with hundreds of sites managed to pull big-name advertisers into their schemes.
More: DoubleVerify. Bluesky: @timmarchman. X: @anderagakura, @knibbs, @chrisharihar, and @robleathern
| Bradley Hope / Wired: |
A profile of Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan, the UAE's intelligence chief overseeing $1.5T in sovereign wealth and who wants to make the UAE into an AI superpower — Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE's chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign wealth.
More: The Information. Bluesky: @eff.org. Mastodon: @evacide@hachyderm.io. Forums: r/technology, r/artificial, and r/technews
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
British Virgin Islands-based Tether plans to move its corporate entity and subsidiaries to El Salvador after obtaining a digital asset service provider license — - Company and all subsidiaries will relocate to El Salvador — Stablecoin firm incorporated in the British Virgin Islands
More: Tether, Blockchain.News, CryptoSlate, Cryptopolitan, The Coin Republic, CoinJournal, CoinGape, crypto.news, CryptoPotato, The Block, The Crypto Times, Protos, Crypto Briefing, Cryptonews, Coinspeaker, Coinpedia Fintech News, Blockchain News, Blockhead, and Cryptopolitan
X: @paoloardoino, @patio11, @jseyff, and @paoloardoino
| Steven J. Horowitz / Variety: |
Drake pulls his petition accusing UMG and Spotify of inflating Kendrick Lamar's “Not Like Us” with bots and payola; the diss track accuses Drake of pedophilia — Drake has withdrawn his petition against Spotify and Universal Music Group after accusing the entities of launching an illegal …
More: The Verge, GQ, Music Business Worldwide, iPhone in Canada Blog, Above the Law, Forbes, MobileSyrup, Vibe, Bossip, Consequence, Cele|bitchy, Billboard, Music Ally, TheGrio, Rolling Stone, UPROXX, Digital Music News, and Courthouse News Service
Forums: r/law and r/ToddintheShadow
| Nicola M White / Bloomberg: |
The US SEC sues Elon Musk, claiming he failed to timely disclose a 5%+ purchase of Twitter's stock ahead of his takeover of the social media platform in 2022 — - Agency alleges billionaire ignored disclosure deadline in 2022 — Musk's lawyer says he did ‘nothing wrong’ and SEC has no case
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Bluesky: @kateconger.com, @drewharwell.com, @digiphile, @digiphile, @mvij.org, @regimecpa, @daniloc.xyz, @nategire, @thefred, and @caseynewton
X: @elonmusk, @jason_kint, @jason_kint, @gaborgurbacs, @krassenstein, @elonmusk, @rob_weissman, @richardhanania, @billym2k, @teslaownerssv, @sawyermerritt, @amitisinvesting, and @zerohedge. LinkedIn: Howard Fischer
| Reuters: |
Court filing: Meta says it may have to “roll back or pause” some features in India after a CCI directive banned WhatsApp data sharing with Meta for ad purposes — Meta may have to “roll back or pause” some features in India due to an antitrust directive which banned … | Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Sources and docs: Meta has dismantled its system for identifying and limiting viral hoaxes, and told content-ranking teams to stop penalizing misinformation — The company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake news. Last week, it shut them down — I.
More: Foreign Policy, American Enterprise Institute, and Off Message
Bluesky: @garymarcus, @claesdevreese, @willoremus.com, @carlbergstrom.com, @brooklynmarie, @samusishere, @brendannyhan, @greene.haus, @donmoyn, @noupside, @sheeraf, @noupside, @brainnotonyet, @bobbyallyn, and @caseynewton
Threads: @sourlyfe and @writewordsmakemagic
| The Verge: |
Court docs: internal chats suggest Meta used data from piracy site LibGen to train its Llama AI models and worked to conceal it, as Meta raced to beat rivals — A major copyright lawsuit against Meta has revealed a trove of internal communications about the company's plans to develop …
More: TechCrunch, Publishers Weekly, and Rolling Stone
Bluesky: @qwertybro, @aaronrosspowell.com, and @oheysteenz
| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Maki, which provides companies a conversational AI agent for job interviews and candidate filtering, raised a $28.6M Series A led by Blossom Capital — According to some of the latest statistics, employers are swamped by job applications. In the UK alone, employers running graduate training …
More: The Times, FinSMEs, Maki, EU-Startups, and Tech Funding News
LinkedIn: Maxime Legardez Coquin, Simon Ovadia, and Alistair Redfern
| Bloomberg: |
The Philippines' decision to supercharge its online gambling sector has been disastrous, opening the door to crimes, including money laundering, in the country — A casino raid in a sleepy town revealed the mayor's business connections to Singapore's $2 billion money-laundering scandal, and sparked allegations of Chinese espionage.| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
How gamers are turning gaming PCs into fashion statements: iBuypower customers spend an average of ~$2.4K on custom-built gaming PCs and $1.6K on prebuilt ones — Not just a gray box that hides under the desk anymore, many gaming PCs are designed and modified to be shown off.
LinkedIn: Cecilia D'Anastasio
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
DJI replaces its geofence around the US' No-Fly Zones with a dismissible warning, saying the update “aligns” with FAA rules and is similar to changes in the EU — For over a decade, you couldn't easily fly a DJI drone over restricted areas in the United States.
More: CNET, ViewPoints, Breitbart, How-To Geek, ViewPoints, Hunterbrook Media, Fortune, Foreign Policy, Engadget, Redmond Pie, PetaPixel, PCMag, Gizmodo, Boing Boing, and Notebookcheck
Bluesky: @faineg and @matthewstoller
X: @dronelaws, @lessin, @mickwest, and @geiger_capital
Forums: r/technews, r/technology, r/gadgets, r/craftofintelligence, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Synthesia, a London-based B2B startup building products around highly realistic AI avatar technology, raised a $180M Series D led by NEA at a $2.1B valuation — As the world continues to work through how to handle the explosion of deepfake content online, it seems that not all AI-created videos are stirring controversy.
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