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Sources: Apple now needs to fight for TSMC production capacity amid the AI boom; Nvidia was likely TSMC's top customer in at least one or two quarters in 2025 — [Exclusive] A 15-year relationship helped TSMC grow and Apple leap ahead of rivals. But now the iPhone maker is struggling … | Reuters: |
TSMC reports Q4 net profit up 35% YoY to a record ~$16B, above $15.17B est., as it benefited from surging demand for AI chips and hit $100B in 2025 revenue — TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, posted a 35% jump in fourth-quarter net profit on Thursday, beating market forecasts … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get “tuned” API access; Google is already a member — The companies have joined Google as the latest members of the Wikimedia Enterprise program.
More: Associated Press, TechCrunch, Wikimedia Enterprise, Reuters, Engadget, The Decoder, Ars Technica, Blockonomi, Sherwood News, and Constellation Research
LinkedIn: Lane Becker. Bluesky: @craiggrannell. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Forums: r/wikipedia, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Wikimedia celebrates Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, marking its growth from 100 pages to 65M+ articles with nearly 15B monthly views, and releases a docuseries — The online encyclopedia is releasing a mini docuseries that puts faces to the editors behind an array of Wikipedia articles.
More: Anil Dash, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, Diff, Scientific American, Wired, Forbes, WebProNews, 9to5Mac, Freedom of the Press …, Wikipedia, The Independent, Financial Times, Observer, and ABC
X: @trevortimm and @25yearsagolive
| Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
A source close to Thinking Machines Lab alleges ex-CTO Barret Zoph, who is returning to OpenAI, had shared confidential company information with competitors — The departures are a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about why they happened.
More: Fortune, The Decoder, Analytics India Magazine, The Economic Times, Digit, and Benzinga
| Kylie Robison / @kyliebytes: |
More: TechCrunch, Implicator.ai, Spyglass, The Information, The Decoder, and Implicator.ai
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| Fidji Simo / @fidjissimo: |
More: Wired, The Information, Neowin, and Bloomberg
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
The US says Taiwanese companies will invest $250B+ in chip production in the US as part of a trade deal, with Taiwanese government guaranteeing $250B in credit — The U.S. and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement to build chips and chip factories on American soil, the Department of Commerce announced on Thursday.| Financial Times: |
Source: Apple's Gemini deal is a cloud contract where it pays Google several billion dollars; a source says OpenAI declined to be Apple's custom model provider — Multibillion-dollar deal to secure Gemini models reflects cautious approach to infrastructure spending
More: The Verge, Appleosophy, From Afar, Tom's Guide, 9to5Mac, WebProNews, iPhone in Canada, iClarified, Android Headlines, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, Marketing Week, and MacTech.com
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Forums: r/technology and r/artificial
| Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: |
OpenAI quietly rolls out ChatGPT Translate, a standalone website that supports plain text translations across 50+ languages and features prompt customization — OpenAI's new standalone translation tool supports over 50 languages and features AI-powered prompt customization. — • — TL;DR
More: ChatGPT Translate, The Verge, Digital Trends, CNET, MobileSyrup, WebProNews, Thurrott, PCWorld, Tom's Guide, Android Headlines, WinBuzzer, ZDNET, PCMag, Neowin, Business Standard, Engadget, The Decoder, The Hans India, Android Central, iPhone in Canada, Moneycontrol, Digit, and BleepingComputer. X: @zats
| André Beganski / Decrypt: |
X revises its developer API policies to “no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on X (aka “infofi")", amid a backlash about increasing AI slop on X — X is making major changes to its API to prevent access by “InfoFi” crypto projects that seek to incentivize “reply spam,” an exec said.| CNBC: |
Replit launches Mobile Apps on Replit, which enables vibe-coding of iOS apps with integrated Stripe monetization — AI coding startup Replit is now letting users create and publish mobile apps for Apple devices using only natural language prompts, the latest evolution in so-called vibe-coding.
More: DEVCLASS
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Amazon files an objection to Saks Global's bankruptcy financing plan, and says its $475M investment in the department store is now effectively “worthless” — Amazon wants a federal judge to reject Saks Global's bankruptcy financing plan, writing in court papers the beleaguered department store …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Scientists say that AI has become a powerful and rapidly improving research tool, and that whether it is generating ideas on its own is, for now, a moot point — For decades, elite mathematicians have struggled to solve a collection of thorny problems posed by a 20th-century academic named Paul Erdos.
More: TechCrunch and GitHub
LinkedIn: Daniel de Faro Adamson and Satnam Singh
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Forums: r/technology and Slashdot
| Ben Sherry / Inc: |
Symbolic.ai, founded by ex-eBay CEO Devin Wenig and Ars Technica cofounder Jon Stokes, partners with News Corp to offer AI tools to WSJ, Barron's, and others — Exclusive: An AI-based journalism platform aims to do it all. Can it deliver the accuracy and productivity it promises?| Ike Swetlitz / Bloomberg: |
Brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs, which Sam Altman co-founded, raised a $252M seed from OpenAI, Bain Capital, Gabe Newell, and others — Merge Labs, a company co-founded by AI billionaire Sam Altman that is building devices to connect human brains to computers, raised $252 million.
More: OpenAI, TechCrunch, Core Memory, Wired, Sourcery, and The Decoder
| Financial Times: |
Anthropic researchers say rich countries' higher AI adoption risks deepening economic disparities and widening living standard gaps, assuming productivity gains — Research by AI start-up suggests productivity gains from the technology unevenly spread around world
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| Ciara O'Brien / The Irish Times: |
Equal1, which was spun out from University College Dublin, raised $60M to deploy its new quantum server for data centers, bringing its total funding to $85M — UCD spinout has developed a quantum server for data centres — Equal1, the Irish quantum computing company that was spun …
More: The Quantum Insider, Business Post, InsideHPC, EU-Startups, Silicon Republic, and Tech Funding News. X: @novaucd
| Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek: |
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Mytra, which is building autonomous robots for warehouses that can move loads up to 3,000 pounds, raised a $120M Series C led by Avenir Growth — Senior Finance Reporter And Author Of Term Sheet — Mytra's Chris Walti (L) and Ahmad Baitalmal (R).MYTRA — Chris Walti once led engineering for Tesla's humanoid Optimus.
More: FinSMEs, The Robot Report, and Pulse 2.0
LinkedIn: Seth Winterroth, Dan O'Mahony, and Andrew G. Sugrue
| Hayden Field / The Verge: |
Andrea Vallone, who left OpenAI in November as the head of its safety research team, joins Anthropic's alignment team — Andrea Vallone has joined Anthropic's alignment team. … One of the most controversial issues in the AI industry over the past year was what to do when a user displays signs … | Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
X updates Grok to prevent the “editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis” and geoblocks it for all users “where it's illegal” — The company is also blocking image generation entirely from non-subscribers.
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Bluesky: @ashleybelanger, @druce.ai, @davidho, @campuscodi.risky.biz, @tatumhunter, and @parismarx.com. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. Forums: r/musked
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Google releases TranslateGemma, a suite of Gemma 3-based open translation models available in 4B-, 12B-, and 27B-parameter sizes, with support for 55 languages — Today, we're introducing TranslateGemma, a new collection of open translation models built on Gemma 3, helping people communicate …
More: The Decoder and Hugging Face
X: @_philschmid, @googleaidevs, @osanseviero, and @googledeepmind
| Ryan Dezember / Wall Street Journal: |
AWS signs a two-year supply deal with Rio Tinto to access its Arizona copper mine, the US' first new source in 10+ years, as AI data centers create huge demand — The copper, which is being produced in Arizona by Rio Tinto with bacteria and acid, will be used for data-center construction
More: Rio Tinto, Tom's Hardware, Fox Business, Reuters, The Verge, Proactive, Benzinga, Barron's Online, Axios, Bloomberg, iTnews, and Crypto Briefing
| Wired: |
Researchers detail WhisperPair, vulnerabilities in Google's Fast Pair protocol affecting 17 audio device models from 10 brands; Google rolled out updates — Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Google's one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers.
More: Ars Technica, Engadget, ZDNET, Macworld, Inc, Daily Mail, Android Police, Tom's Guide, BleepingComputer, Android Authority, and 9to5Google
Forums: r/Android, r/technology, and Ars OpenForum
| Sara Ashley O'Brien / Wall Street Journal: |
Self-help gurus like Tony Robbins, Gabby Bernstein, and Matthew Hussey are charging up to $99 per month to access AI chatbots that promise personalized advice — Self-help gurus like Matthew Hussey and Gabby Bernstein have expanded their empires with AI chatbots promising personalized advice| New York Times: |
Sources: the US cyberattack that plunged Caracas into darkness during the Maduro mission shows its offensive capabilities; Senators plan to question officials — Senators are expected to ask Lt. Gen. Joshua M. Rudd, President Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Cyber Command, about the mission in Caracas.| Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: |
Bitmine, the largest corporate holder of ether, invests $200M in MrBeast's Beast Industries, set to close on January 19; Bitmine holds 4M+ ETH valued at ~$13.6B — The investment gives Bitmine a stake in a brand with strong Gen Z and millennial appeal, reaching over 450 million subscribers across its YouTube channels.
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