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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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| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Azure Q2 revenue up 39% YoY; Microsoft cloud's contracted backlog grew 110% to $625B, ~45% of which came from OpenAI alone; MSFT drops 10%+ — Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Drives Second Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — January 28, 2026 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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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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Bluesky: @pickardje and @mzjacobson
Forums: r/RealTesla, r/cars, r/electricvehicles, r/teslainvestorsclub, r/teslamotors, and r/wallstreetbets
| Kara Carlson / Bloomberg: |
Tesla agrees to invest $2B in xAI for preferred shares as part of xAI's Series E, despite a shareholder vote in November 2025 that failed to win approval — Tesla Inc. reported fourth-quarter profit that surpassed expectations, showing the automaker is making progress toward overcoming rising costs …
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X: @autismcapital, @serobinsonjr, @teslaboomermama, @niccruzpatane, @teslaownerssv, @sawyermerritt, and @stanphylcap. Forums: r/technology
| 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
More: Ars Technica, ZDNET, Gizmodo, Pivot to AI, BleepingComputer, Implicator.ai, SOC Prime, The Stack, Digital Trends, and Wired
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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 … | 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.
More: Business Insider, Engadget, Waymo, The Verge, Reuters, and Automotive World
| 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.| 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
More: Google Cloud Blog, Cyber Security News, The Hacker News, Android Authority, CyberInsider, PYMNTS.com, and Reuters
X: @denisewu, @mandiant, and @googlecloudsec. LinkedIn: Chris Cornillie. Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
| 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.
More: Bloomberg, Metro.co.uk, Protos, Associated Press, Beyond Search, Le Monde, Al Jazeera, and OCCRP
Forums: r/myanmar, r/China, and r/worldnews
| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.
More: Superagent, Implicator.ai, Airtable, and VentureBeat
| 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 … | The Information: |
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 …
X: @scaling01
| Kyle Kucharski / ZDNET: |
Google updates Gemini in Chrome with a new side panel, an auto browse feature that can navigate pages and take actions for AI Pro and AI Ultra users, and more — ZDNET's key takeaways — Google Chrome is being upgraded with Gemini 3 and a revamped sidepanel UX.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| 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 … | Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Sources: OpenAI is considering using biometric verification like World's eyeball scanning Orb for its planned social network to ensure its users are real people — OpenAI is quietly building a social network and considering using biometric verification like World's eyeball scanning orb …
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Bluesky: @spavel, @molly.wiki, @seanhodgdon.com, and @thealexknapp
Forums: r/technology and r/OpenAI
| 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.
More: The Sun, Metro.co.uk, The Standard, The Independent, The Guardian, Daily Mail, and London Centric
| 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
More: PC Gamer
| Will Canny / CoinDesk: |
Talos, which develops digital asset trading infrastructure, raised a $45M extension from Robinhood and others to its $105M Series B, at a $1.5B valuation — The $45 million Series B extension also includes participation from new strategic investors Sony Innovation Fund, IMC, QCP and Karatage.
More: The Block, Talos Trading, and Cryptonews
| 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) …
Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Olivier Acuna / CoinDesk: |
Russia says a crypto regulatory framework will come into force July 1, 2027; it will ban privacy coins like monero and cap retail investor purchases at ~$4K — What to know: … The head of Russia's lower house of the country's parliament on Thursday said crypto market regulations … | 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 …
More: Arcee AI and Interconnects AI
X: @arcee_ai, @latkins, @cailen, @scaling01, @kalomaze, @beffjezos, @natolambert, @theonejvo, @sasurobert, and @juddrosenblatt. LinkedIn: Mark McQuade. Bluesky: @prietschka
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
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