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UK data center developer Nscale raised a $2B Series C led by Aker and 8090 Industries at a $14.6B valuation and adds Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board — Nscale, a UK developer for artificial intelligence data centers, has raised $2 billion in funding and added a trio …
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
A profile of Nscale founder Josh Payne, a former coal miner from Australia who moved to London and started the data center company in 2024 amid the AI boom — After leaving high school in an industrial area of Australia, Josh Payne took an unlikely path to becoming the head …
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Thoughts on the MacBook Neo, as Apple expands its superpremium tier via “Ultra” products; sources say Apple plans to 3D-print aluminum for the Watch and iPhone — Apple has taken the wraps off its $599 MacBook Neo, entering new territory in a way that could shake up the computer market.
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| Miles Kruppa / The Information: |
The US-led war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B+ on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies — The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend more than $300 billion on data centers, chips and other AI investments …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with unprecedented speed and precision in attacks, even as the cost of badly informed decisions remains high — Intelligence, targeting and damage assessments are accelerating thanks to military versions of software now remaking business and daily life| Bloomberg: |
OpenClaw mania hits China: AI labs launch tools to help users deploy OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts a policy encouraging free OpenClaw services, and more — Chinese software shares surged Monday after local government agencies joined tech leaders such as Tencent Holdings Ltd … | Bloomberg: |
Kalshi partners with XP, Brazil's largest brokerage firm with 4.8M active clients in December 2025, to list event contracts, its first international expansion — Prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. is expanding outside the US for the first time, partnering with Brazil's XP Inc. to list event contracts.
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| Harvard Business Review: |
A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause “AI brain fry”, a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity — On New Year's Day, programmer Steve Yegge launched Gas Town, an open-source platform that lets users orchestrate swarms …
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| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Nasdaq partners with Kraken to develop a framework for 24/7 tokenized stock trading, targeting a 2027 launch, focusing on corporate governance like proxy voting — Nasdaq sought approval in September to let investors trade tokenized versions of its listed stocks and other exchange-traded products| Aaron Levie / @levie: |
Advice to developers: make software that agents want, with API-first design, as AI agents, instead of humans, will become the primary users of future software — Building for trillions of agents — Over the past few months, something big has started to happen with agents.
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| Ingrid Lunden / Resilience Media: |
London-based Isembard, which helps hardware makers in defence, aerospace, and robotics make components, raised a $50M Series A to build “AI-powered factories” — Isembard, a London startup that's built a platform to help hardware makers in defence, aerospace and robotics manufacture components …
| New York Times: |
How some candidates for the US midterms are using social media posts and niche buzzwords on their websites to signal for support from crypto and AI super PACs — The A.I. and crypto industries entered this year with nearly $250 million combined to spend on politics, and a battle plan to shape the regulatory landscape in their favor.| Mary McDougall / Financial Times: |
A Lloyds-commissioned study of 5,000 people in the UK finds that 50%+ of the adults used generative AI platforms for financial advice; ChatGPT was the most used — Millions of people are already turning to chatbots such as ChatGPT to plan their retirement — When Dan, a 41-year-old …
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| Financial Times: |
South Korean giant Coupang is lobbying the US to represent its interests as it faces 10+ data leak probes; Coupang Korea CEO Harold Rogers attended Trump's SOTU — Coupang leans on its US domicile to lobby Washington against probes from Seoul — Coupang, the online retailer, once called itself a “proud Korean company”.Sponsor Posts
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