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| Beth Galetti / About Amazon: |
Amazon plans to cut ~16,000 roles across the company as part of an ongoing effort to reduce organizational layers and bureaucracy, after cuts in October 2025 — I want to let you know that we're making additional organizational changes across Amazon that will impact some of our teammates.
More: Financial Times, New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Business Insider
| Business Insider: |
Memo: Amazon appeared to mistakenly alert some AWS staff about planned layoffs in an email invite to a January 28 “Project Dawn” meeting on company efficiency — - Some Amazon employees got a worrying calendar invitation on Tuesday. — The invitation discussed upcoming job cuts and …
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Forums: r/Layoffs, r/technology, r/news, and r/amazonemployees
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Memo: Tim Cook told Apple staff that he is “heartbroken by the events in Minneapolis”, calls for a “deescalation”, and says he discussed it with President Trump — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook became the latest executive to weigh in on the killing …
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| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
ASML reports Q4 net sales of €9.7B, vs. €9.6B est., and €2.84B net profit, vs. €3.01B est., and says it expects China to account for 20% of its total 2026 sales — ASML reported on Wednesday orders that smashed past expectations while 2026 sales guidance was also ahead … | Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $30B more in OpenAI; SoftBank is already one of its largest shareholders after investing $22.5B in December 2025 — The Japanese conglomerate is exploring further investment as part of the startup's efforts to raise up to $100 billion| Financial Times: |
Sources: Anthropic is set to raise about $20B led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue, double the amount it had targeted, at a $350B valuation — Company in talks to raise new funds from Coatue, GIC, Iconiq and Sequoia at $350bn valuation — Anthropic is set to raise about $20bn from venture capitalists …
More: CNBC, MarketWatch, TechCrunch, Benzinga, Tech in Asia, PYMNTS.com, POCIT, CoinDesk, The Deep View, and Crypto Briefing
| Jack Ryan / Bloomberg: |
Paolo Ardoino says Tether now holds ~140 tons of gold, worth ~$23B, has been buying one to two tons per week, and plans to keep doing so for the next few months — There are roughly 370,000 nuclear bunkers in Switzerland, a legacy of the Cold War that are now rarely used. One of them, though, is a hive of activity.
More: The Daily Hodl, Watcher Guru, crypto.news, Cryptonews, The Block, and Financial Times. X: @arashmassoudi
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Tether launches USAT, a US-regulated stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, marking the company's direct return to the US market that it left in 2018 — Tether Holdings SA said it has launched a US-focused stablecoin, as the world's largest issuer of dollar-pegged tokens prepares to return to crypto's largest market.
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| Abhijeet Mishra / SamMobile: |
Samsung says it will introduce a display feature for the Galaxy S26 series that improves “privacy at a pixel level” to protect users from “shoulder surfing” — Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S26 series will introduce a new display feature designed to improve privacy when using your phone in public.| David McCabe / New York Times: |
TikTok says the new US entity has not updated its algorithm since the joint venture was announced, after users accused it of suppressing posts related to ICE — Some users had accused the app of blocking them from posting videos about Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The app said it was a power outage issue.
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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
A critique of a large UK social media study that suggested measures like social media bans are unlikely to have an effect on teens' long term mental health — The “moral panic” framing misses how platforms actually harm kids. PLUS: Newsom investigates TikTok over Trump, and the Clawdbot frenzy
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| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
OpenAI launches Prism, a free cloud-based LaTeX editor that embeds GPT-5.2 to assist in scientific paper drafting and citation management — OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to. The firm has released a free LLM-powered tool for scientists called Prism …
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| Kang Yoon-seung / Yonhap News Agency: |
Sources: Nvidia has allocated ~70% of its 2026 HBM4 demand to SK Hynix; Counterpoint estimates SK Hynix will account for 54% of the global HBM4 market in 2026 — SK hynix Inc. has secured over two-thirds of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) supply orders from U.S. tech giant Nvidia Corp. to be used …
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| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
| John Sakellariadis / Politico: |
Sources: CISA's interim director Madhu Gottumukkala triggered automated security warnings in summer 2025 by uploading sensitive documents to ChatGPT — Cybersecurity sensors at CISA flagged the uploads this past August, said the four officials. One official specified there were multiple …
More: Raw Story and Axios
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| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
TikTok settles a California lawsuit ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial; Snap recently settled the suit, while Meta and YouTube remain defendants — The settlement means TikTok will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective …
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| Carrie LaFrenz / Australian Financial Review: |
Amazon partners with Harris Farm to offer fresh food delivery in Australia for the first time, starting in inner Sydney, free for Prime members on AU$100 orders — Amazon will deliver fresh food to homes in Australia for the first time after striking an agreement with Harris Farm Markets …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
SEC filing: Pinterest plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce by Q3 and cut back on office space, saying it is “reallocating resources” to AI teams — Pinterest said Tuesday it plans to lay off less than 15% of its workforce and cut back on office space as the company embraces artificial intelligence.
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Forums: r/technology and r/Layoffs
| Reuters: |
Sources: China approved its first batch of Nvidia H200 chips for import, covering several hundred thousand units, during Jensen Huang's visit to China this week — China has approved its first batch of Nvidia's H200 artificial intelligence chips for import, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters …
More: The Information, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Benzinga, TRT World, DigiTimes, and Investing.com
| David Gilbert / Wired: |
Meta blocks users from sharing links to ICE List, which compiles names of DHS staffers; Meta cites a policy against “asking for personally identifiable” info — Users of Meta's social platforms can no longer share links to ICE List, a website listing what it claims are the names of thousands of DHS employees.
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| Jeff Horwitz / Reuters: |
Court filings: Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable of sexual interactions — Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg approved allowing minors to access AI chatbot companions that safety staffers warned were capable …
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| New York Times: |
Internal documents from 2025: Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28B liters by 2030, up from 7.9B liters in 2020 and 10.4B liters in 2024 — Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double … | Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at “neolabs” such as Safe Superintelligence and Humans&, which give priority to long-term AI R&D over immediate profits; dozens have become unicorns — Flapping Airplanes is one of a wave of new startup research labs drawing intense interest from investors, the latest chapter in the AI race| Milagros Costabel / BBC: |
A look at AI-powered tools and apps like Aira Explorer that are helping blind people access visual feedback about their bodies, sometimes for the first time — Artificial intelligence is helping blind people access visual feedback about their bodies, sometimes for the first time … | Dylan Loh / Nikkei Asia: |
Momentum Works: the GMV of the online food delivery market in Southeast Asia's six biggest economies grew 18% YoY to $22.7B in 2025, and Grab accounted for 55% — SINGAPORE — Grab Holding's share of the Southeast Asian food delivery market rose to 55% last year, cementing its position …
More: DealStreetAsia, TNGlobal, and Tech in Asia
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Osaka-based Capcom reports game sales up 13.5% to a record 34.64M from March to December 2025; the Street Fighter and Resident Evil maker's stock jumps 10%+ — Japanese video game publisher Capcom Co. posted its biggest single-day share gain in 18 months on Wednesday after December-quarter …
More: Digit and Morningstar
| Parth Mn / Rest of World: |
Several Indian tech workers say they are buckling under deadline pressure and worry about layoffs, with many fearing conditions will worsen with the rise of AI — A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.Sponsor Posts
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