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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on a “slight redesign” for macOS 27 to address Liquid Glass issues and plans a feature to automatically group Safari tabs in “27” OSes — Also: The latest on iOS 27 and the truth about the Vision Pro. — Apple is planning design changes …
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| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
A look at Janitor AI, a romantic fantasy roleplay chatbot site run by three men that claims 2.5M DAUs and 15M total users, with 70% to 80% identifying as women — Despite its name, Janitor AI isn't selling productivity agents or enterprise copilots; it's serving up interactive erotic content … | CNBC: |
Nvidia embraces its role as an AI investor in 2026, committing $40B+ to equity investments including a $30B stake in OpenAI, $3.2B in Corning, and $2.1B in IREN — Nvidia stepped on the gas last year, putting cash into companies up and down the AI infrastructure stack and helping …
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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI facilitated a $6.6B secondary share sale in October 2025 for 600+ current and ex-employees; over 75 people cashed out the maximum cap of $30M — Employees waited two years to sell their shares. Then, the company let them unload $30 million.| CNBC: |
A look at “YouTube whisperers” like Paddy Galloway and Mario Joos, a booming class of advisers that help popular YouTube creators grow their audiences — When wildlife TV personality Forrest Galante sat down for his monthly call with YouTube consultant Paddy Galloway, he received some bad news.| Sarah Kessler / New York Times: |
Corporate lawyers say AI-transcribed meeting notes may not have attorney-client privilege, making otherwise protected conversations discoverable in lawsuits — A trendy productivity hack, A.I. note takers are capturing every joke and offhand comment in many meetings.
More: Australian Financial Review and Implicator.ai
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Digital Asset, which builds Canton Network, a public blockchain with privacy features, is raising ~$300M led by a16z crypto at a ~$2B valuation — Digital Asset Holdings LLC, the company behind a blockchain used among several big banks and trading firms, is raising money …
More: Blockhead, Blockonomi, crypto.news, Tech in Asia, The Block, Crypto Briefing, and Cointelegraph
| Min-Jeong Lee / Bloomberg: |
SoftBank partners with South Korea's Cosmos Lab and DeltaX to mass produce next-gen data center batteries in Japan at the scale of one GWh per year in FY 2027 — SoftBank Group Corp.'s mobile unit said it plans to begin large-scale battery cell manufacturing at its Sakai, Osaka plant to address growing power demand for AI services.
More: The Next Web, Nikkei Asia, Dow Jones Newswires, SoftBank, Crypto Briefing, and Telecompaper
| Taylor Telford / Financial Times: |
Brookings: clerical and administrative workers, 85%+ of whom are women, are among the most exposed to AI-driven displacement and least equipped to navigate it — Female-dominated clerical work is among the most vulnerable to automation, and labour market losses are already being felt| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: Cerebras plans to raise its IPO price range from $115 to $125 per share to $150 to $160 per share, potentially raising ~$4.8B at the top of the range — Cerebras Systems is set to raise the size and price of its initial public offering as soon as Monday, as demand …
More: Benzinga, Morningstar, The Information, Crypto Briefing, SiliconANGLE, Tech in Asia, and Bloomberg
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| Luke James / Tom's Hardware: |
Chinese state media: CAS Cold Atom Technology has built the 200-qubit Hanyuan-2, the world's first dual-core quantum computer, with a core for error correction — Metrics and peer-reviewed papers seem to be lacking. … CAS Cold Atom Technology, a Wuhan-based firm affiliated … | Fortune: |
Q&A with Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on 2026 as “year of agents”, the end of the smartphone-centric world, 6G turning humans into “walking cameras”, and more — Cristiano Amon's pitch is that the smartphone-centric world Qualcomm helped build is coming to an end.
Bluesky: @theseouldan and @y2skot
| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft and G42's $1B geothermal-powered data center in Kenya stalls after the government couldn't provide annual payment guarantees that Microsoft requested — A major Microsoft Corp. data center site in East Africa has been delayed by disagreements with the Kenyan government … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
A profile of Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf, a Palantir alum and self-identified Democrat, as Anduril's defense tech shakes up the US military-industrial complex — “The question isn't whether we can build the next Lockheed Martin, it's whether we can avoid becoming the thing we're trying to replace … Sponsor Posts
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