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January 31, 2026, 5:35 PM

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Debby Wu / Bloomberg:
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's OpenAI investment will be “the largest investment we've ever made”, after a report said plans to invest $100B in OpenAI stalled  —  Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said the company will be participating in OpenAI's latest funding round …
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Fabiola Arámburo / Reuters:
Reuters:
Filing: SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of 1 million satellites that will orbit Earth and harness the sun to power AI data centers …
Molly Taft / Wired:
Global Energy Monitor: over 97 GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just 4 GW in 2024  —  Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
An interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering, Andrew Bell, on continuing to provide Shield Android TV software updates a decade after its launch  —  “Selfishly a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves.”  —  It took Android devicemakers a very long time to commit to long-term update support.
Bloomberg:
Bitcoin has fallen to ~$78K, down ~7% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past week, and down ~37% since its ATH in Oct. 2025; Ethereum dropped ~18% in the past week  —  Bitcoin fell sharply in early Saturday afternoon trading in New York, tumbling below $80,000 mark to hit levels last seen in April 2025.
Anna Nicolaou / Financial Times:
How the music industry is split over AI; some labels signed licensing deals for AI that mirror revenue splits they use with YouTube for user-generated content  —  A folk-pop song called “I Know, You're Not Mine” recently topped Spotify's charts in Sweden.  The soft vocals …
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Brock E.W. Turner / Axios:
Miami-based Indigo, which uses AI-powered underwriting tech to provide medical liability insurance to physicians, raised a $50M Series B led by Rubicon Founders  —  Indigo, which provides liability insurance to physicians, raised $50 million in a Series B funding round, CEO Jared Kaplan tells Axios Pro exclusively.
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Patrick O'Shaughnessy / Invest Like The Best on YouTube:
Q&A with Gokul Rajaram, investor and a former product leader at Google, Meta, and others, on AI changing product development, building ad businesses, and more  —  Gokul Rajaram joins Patrick to discuss the seismic shift in product building driven by AI.  As a legendary operator (Google, Facebook, Square, DoorDash) and p...
Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
Ant Group reports 30M MAUs for its AI health chatbot Ant Afu, which integrates appointments, test analysis, and insurance payments within Alipay's ecosystem  —  Ant's health chatbot has become a top downloaded app in China as users seek personalized care they can't get from the overburdened hospitals.

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