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| Politico: |
CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a ~$7.5B market cap, is around the 28th most valuable cryptocurrency; some in crypto call Official Trump a “horrible look” — Trump's memecoin has taken off since debuting late Friday night. Not everyone in crypto is thrilled.
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Threads: @aaron.rupar and @kolchak
X: @scaramucci, @twobitidiot, @tier10k, @drjimfan, @kylascan, @ashcryptoreal, @nic__carter, @ramit, @caitlinlong_, @gafoorkhann, @skirano, @coffeebreak_yt, @brentsketit, @jjcycles, @wassielawyer, @wassielawyer, @gafoorkhann, @itspaulai, @jjcycles, @nic__carter, @0xlaiyuen, @gafoorkhann, @balajis, @c_kavanagh, @emollick, @molly0xfff, @wassielawyer, @jjcycles, @gafoorkhann, @kapursanat, @sershokunin, @coffeebreak_yt, and @cryptohayes. Forums: r/literaciafinanceira
| Alan Suderman / Associated Press: |
Bitcoin passed $108K hours ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, after topping $100K for the first time in December 2024 before falling to ~$90K — The price of bitcoin surged to over $109,000 early Monday, just hours ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration … | Tim Copeland / The Block: |
A memecoin named Official Barron Trump hit a $460M market cap before falling 95%; a Pump.fun user behind it has debuted other unofficial coins called “official” — - A memecoin called Official Barron Trump rose to a $460 million market cap on speculation that it might have been launched by Barron Trump himself.
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| Axios: |
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Bluesky: @tyleraking.com and @gateklons
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-R1, an MIT-licensed model that does well with math, code, and reasoning tasks, alongside other open and distilled models — DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/singularity
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X rolls out a dedicated video tab in the US in the app's bottom bar, letting users vertically scroll through short videos, after launching a TV app in 2024 — Social network X is trying to capitalize on the removal of ByteDance apps like TikTok and Lemon8 from U.S. app stores by launching a dedicated vertical video feed.
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X: @x, @x, @congelatoreh, @myleswagner, @levie, and @lindayax
Forums: r/Twitter and r/technology
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Bluesky launches video custom feeds for TikTok-style vertical videos in its mobile app, saying “we had to get in on the video action, too” — It is the product shipping time for all social networks with TikTok's services in the restoration phase, and the app still unavailable in the App Store and the Play Store.| Wall Street Journal: |
China suggests it is willing to work with Donald Trump to keep TikTok operating in the US, after previously saying that it would block any forced sale of TikTok — Founder of app's parent, Beijing-based ByteDance, met with Elon Musk last year — SINGAPORE—China suggested it was willing … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @carnage4life@mas.to
Threads: @bobbyallyn, @jbillinson, @bobbyallyn, and @bobbyallyn
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Jan. 17 filing: the US NHTSA said it “upgraded” its April 2024 probe into Ford's BlueCruise, a driver assistance system that was active during two fatal crashes — A U.S. federal safety regulator has “upgraded” its investigation into Ford's hands-free advanced driver assistance system known …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Metropolis, an AI-powered parking service, acquires Oosto, formerly known as AnyVision, for just $125M in stock, well under the $380M it raised over the years — The general hype around all things AI is not lifting all boats, as certain startups continue to struggle and look for exits.
More: Yahoo Finance and Globes Online
| Hafiz Rashid / New Republic: |
During a speech following Donald Trump's inauguration, Elon Musk appeared to deliver two “Nazi salutes” to the crowd — During a speech at Capitol One Arena Monday following Donald Trump's inauguration, Elon Musk appeared to deliver a Roman salute not once, but twice.
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Threads: @parkert, @fathernathan, @theheatherashley, @vocino, @pstomlinson, and @yasharali
| PYMNTS.com: |
Stuttgart-based robotics startup Sereact, which develops Vision Language Action Models and whose customers include BMW and Daimler Truck, raised a $26M Series A — German tech company Sereact has raised $26 million for its AI-powered robotics efforts. — The company's Series A round … | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The EC says Facebook, X, YouTube, and others agreed to an updated, voluntary code of conduct, first set up in May 2016, over hate speech under the DSA — Meta's (META.O) Facebook, Elon Musk's X, Google's (GOOGL.O) YouTube and other tech companies have agreed to do more to tackle online hate speech under …
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