| 11:00 PM • | Bloomberg: Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice rose 54% in its Hong Kong debut after raising ~$600M in its IPO, and reported H1 2025 profit of ~$84M, up 14% from H2 2024 |
| 10:35 PM • | Reuters: Nvidia denies that it asked Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, saying it “would never require customers to pay for products they do not receive” |
| 9:40 PM • | Mike Solana / Pirate Wires: A late-2025 amendment to California's wealth tax proposal treats founder control as ownership, a move that could end founder-controlled startups in the state |
| 8:25 PM • | Reuters: SK Hynix will invest ~$12.9B to build an advanced chip packaging plant in South Korea to meet rising memory chip demand, targeting completion by the end of 2027 |
| 7:50 PM • | Business Insider: Trump says Microsoft will “ensure” Americans don't face higher bills due to data centers' power use and Big Tech must “pay their own way” for their data centers |
| 6:05 PM • | Emily Mason / Bloomberg: Personal finance app Betterment says an individual accessed certain systems to send fake crypto scam notification and believes the person accessed user info |
| 5:15 PM • | Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Hands-on with Claude Cowork: looks well positioned to bring the powerful capabilities of Claude Code to a wider audience, but risks of prompt injections remain |
| 5:00 PM • | Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Bakkt agrees to acquire Distributed Technologies Research, the stablecoin infrastructure company founded by Bakkt CEO Akshay Naheta; BKKT closes up 18.69% |
| 4:05 PM • | Laura Mandaro / The Information: OpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app that aggregates and analyzes medical records; source: OpenAI is paying about $100M in equity |
| 4:00 PM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Elon Musk says Apple and Google's Gemini deal “seems like an unreasonable concentration of power for Google given that [they] also have Android and Chrome” |
| 3:42 PM • | New York Times: Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-person Reality Labs division, disproportionately affecting those working on VR headsets and Horizon Worlds |
| 3:00 PM • | Webb Wright / ZDNET: Anthropic launches Cowork for Claude, built on Claude Code to automate complex tasks with minimal prompting, as a research preview for Claude Max subscribers |
| 1:25 PM • | Elvira Pollina / Reuters: Italy's antitrust authority says it reduced the record fine imposed on Amazon in 2021, from €1.13B to €752M, after a recalculation |
| 1:20 PM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is establishing a new “top-level” initiative called Meta Compute to build “tens of gigawatts” of AI infrastructure during this decade |
| 12:45 PM • | Laura Cress / BBC: The UK plans to bring into force a law this week that will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, as Ofcom investigates X |
| 12:35 PM • | New York Times: Sources: the US nears a trade deal with Taiwan that would reduce tariffs on the island's exports and include a commitment from TSMC to build 5+ fabs in Arizona |
| 12:10 PM • | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Google says Gemini will help power not only a more personalized version of Siri, but also future Apple Intelligence features |
| 11:35 AM • | Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: World Liberty Financial launches World Liberty Markets, letting users lend and borrow digital assets among one another, supporting its own token USD1 and others |
| 10:50 AM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Document: Meta said last week that it would exclude Italy from its ban on rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp, after an order from the country's antitrust authority |
| 10:48 AM • | Financial Times: Alphabet hits a $4T market cap, becoming the fourth Big Tech company to reach the milestone, after its stock has risen 6%+ in the past month |
| 10:40 AM • | Financial Times: Researchers from Nvidia, Microsoft, and others develop AI models, trained on 1M+ species' data, to generate potential new gene editing and drug therapies |
| 10:24 AM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: Apple signs a multiyear Google deal to use Gemini models to power a more personalized Siri in 2026, saying Google's tech “provides the most capable foundation” |
| 10:15 AM • | Bloomberg: Nvidia and Eli Lilly say they will invest $1B over five years in a new Silicon Valley-based AI drug lab, aiming to speed up the pharmaceutical industry's AI use |
| 10:05 AM • | Financial Times: A viral Chinese app called “Are You Dead?” that asks users living alone to “check in” with a button press becomes the top paid app in Apple's App Store in China |
| 9:35 AM • | Prakhar Srivastava / Reuters: Crypto custody startup BitGo aims to raise up to $201M in its IPO on the NYSE at an up to $1.96B valuation, selling 11.8M shares priced between $15 and $17 each |
| 9:15 AM • | Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: Eddy Cue says 2025 was a “record-breaking year” for Apple services: December was a monthly TV engagement record, the App Store has 850M+ weekly users, and more |
| 9:00 AM • | James Hunt / The Block: Michael Saylor's Strategy bought 13,627 bitcoin for ~$1.25B between January 5 and 11, taking its total holdings to 687,410, and boosts its USD reserve to $2.25B |
| 8:50 AM • | Sara Fischer / Axios: Meta appoints Dina Powell McCormick, a prominent banking executive and former Republican official, as president and vice chair, reporting to Mark Zuckerberg |
| 8:25 AM • | Max Goldbart / Deadline: Ampere Analysis expects streaming services' content spend to grow 6% in 2026 to $101B, crossing $100B for the first time, and overall content spend to grow 2% |
| 6:35 AM • | Financial Times: Ofcom opens an investigation under the OSA into Grok over the sexualized deepfakes of women and kids being generated on X and threatens X with a ban or a fine |
| 6:25 AM • | Counterpoint Research: Global smartphone shipments rose 2% YoY in 2025; Apple led with 20% market share and 10% YoY growth, followed by Samsung's 19% market share and 5% YoY growth |
| 6:05 AM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Paris-based autonomous drone maker Harmattan AI raised a $200M Series B led by Dassault at a $1.4B valuation, and aims to produce 10K drones per month in 2026 |
| 5:55 AM • | New York Times: Sources and filings: Peter Thiel donated $3M to a group to beat California's wealth tax proposal, the first of several expected tech leader donations in 2026 |
| 5:40 AM • | Nasteho Said / Bloomberg: Meta says it shut down nearly 550K accounts in Australia to comply with its under-16 social media ban, including 330,639 Instagram and 173,497 Facebook accounts |
| 5:05 AM • | Steven Sinofsky / Hardcore Software: CES 2026 report: AI, autonomy, and robotic products are still finding their way, country-level booths are growing, Nvidia underpinned much of the show, and more |
| 4:45 AM • | Richard Waters / Financial Times: A look at claims from Google, HSBC, and others about quantum computing breakthroughs over the past few months that helped boost quantum computing stocks in 2025 |
| 4:10 AM • | Andrew Gregory / The Guardian: Investigation: Google removed AI Overviews for two liver health queries after experts warned of “alarming” results, but slight tweaks still trigger AI responses |
| 3:50 AM • | Chris Velazco / Washington Post: CES 2026: how some companies are trying to make their AI products cute and relatable, from Lenovo's chatty motorized laptop to Sharp's ChatGPT-powered Poketomo |
| 1:40 AM • | Rachael Levy / Reuters: President Trump says “we may speak to Elon” about using Starlink to restore the internet in Iran, which has blocked the internet since January 8 amid protests |
| 1:05 AM • | Wall Street Journal: A profile of China's memory chipmaker CXMT, whose $4.2B IPO goal would rank among the century's biggest by a chipmaker, as it faces US and South Korean curbs |
| 12:25 AM • | Bloomberg: Chinese AI executives say China is unlikely to eclipse the US in the AI race anytime soon, citing limited resources and US chip export curbs as key constraints |
| 11:05 PM • | Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: Chinese AI startup MiniMax's stock closed up 109% in its Hong Kong debut on January 9, after raising ~$619M in its IPO, which was priced at ~$21.17 per share |
| 10:20 PM • | The Information: Source: Lambda, which rents access to AI chips and is backed by Nvidia, is in talks to raise $350M+ led by Mubadala Capital, ahead of an IPO planned for H2 2026 |
| 9:20 PM • | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: Seattle-based Spangle AI, which offers AI tools for online retailers to generate custom storefronts, raised a $15M Series A led by NewRoad at a $100M valuation |
| 7:55 PM • | Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: Docs: xAI had a net loss of $1.46B in Q3, up from $1B in Q1; sources: xAI told investors it plans to build AI that will eventually power Optimus humanoid robots |
| 7:50 PM • | Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: Nvidia has hired Google Cloud VP of Marketing Alison Wagonfeld to be Nvidia's first CMO, starting in February; source: Wagonfeld will report to CEO Jensen Huang |
| 7:05 PM • | Sophie Bates / Associated Press: Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves says xAI will spend $20B to build its MACROHARDRR data center in Southaven, xAI's third data center in the greater Memphis area |
| 6:00 PM • | Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: Filings: Meta has hired Bill McGinley, a veteran GOP operative and a former top DOGE lawyer, as a lobbyist, the latest indication of its cozy Trump relationship |
| 5:05 PM • | Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: Snowflake agrees to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake databases; in December, the acquisition was reported to be valued at ~$1B |
| 4:25 PM • | The Information: Sources: Strava, the fitness startup founded in 2009, confidentially filed for an IPO; source: Strava grew revenue 50%+ YoY in 2025 but to still less than $500M |
| 3:50 PM • | Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks with investors to raise ~$2B, after raising $1.5B+ across a pair of rounds in September and October |
| 3:45 PM • | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: OpenAI launches a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to help with medical reasoning and reduce administrative work, at Cedars-Sinai and elsewhere |
| 3:25 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek is leaving, sources say after OpenAI sided with Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki in a disagreement over its research direction |
| 3:10 PM • | Ed Hardy / Cult of Mac: Statcounter: only ~15% of iPhone users have iOS 26 installed four months after its release; in January 2025, ~63% of users were using iOS 18, a 4x adoption rate |
| 3:00 PM • | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: Google, Meta, Netflix, Microsoft, and Amazon will be subject to a voluntary framework rather than binding rules under the EU's Digital Networks Act |
| 2:35 PM • | Hadas Gold / CNN: Source: weeks before Grok started “digitally undressing” people, Musk expressed frustration to xAI staff about restrictions on Grok's image and video generator |
| 2:30 PM • | Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Are people updating to iOS 26? Here's what the data reportedly shows |
| 2:15 PM • | Cody Combs / The National: NetBlocks says internet connectivity in Iran has fallen on multiple providers, as protests spread to 100+ cities; Cloudflare says IPv6 traffic share dropped 85% |
| 2:00 PM • | Ann Gehan / The Information: Sources: OpenAI has been slow to expand in-app checkouts for ChatGPT as the startup and its partners Shopify and Stripe struggle to standardize merchant data |
| 12:30 PM • | Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: Tailwind Labs, the maker of Tailwind CSS, lays off staff after online traffic to its documentation fell ~40% from 2023 due to AI, causing an ~80% revenue drop |
| 12:20 PM • | Leo Schwartz / Fortune: ThreatModeler, which helps developers identify vulnerabilities in their applications, acquires IriusRisk, its largest competitor, a source says for $100M+ |
| 11:49 AM • | New York Times: A profile of Apple SVP of Hardware Engineering John Ternus; sources: Ternus is seen as the front-runner to succeed Tim Cook, who wants to reduce his workload |
| 11:40 AM • | Jessica Hopkins / The Athletic: FIFA says that parts of 2026 World Cup matches will be broadcast live on TikTok and select creators will get access to press conferences and training sessions |
| 11:05 AM • | Dave Sebastian / Bloomberg: Chinese AI startup MiniMax raises ~$619M in its Hong Kong IPO, at the top of its marketed range; sources: its institutional offering was oversubscribed by 70x+ |
| 10:45 AM • | Samantha Subin / CNBC: CrowdStrike acquires identity management startup SGNL, in a deal valued at nearly $740M, to bolster identity security defenses on its flagship Falcon platform |
| 10:42 AM • | Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Microsoft debuts Copilot Checkout in the US, enabling in-chat purchases via PayPal, Shopify, Stripe, and more; Shopify merchants will be automatically enrolled |
| 10:15 AM • | Amy Feldman / Forbes: NYC-based Pomelo Care, which offers 24/7 virtual care for women by using data to flag pregnancy risks and more, raised $92M led by Stripes at a $1.7B valuation |
| 9:15 AM • | Chainalysis: Illicit crypto addresses received a record $154B in 2025, up 162% YoY, driven by sanctions evasion; Russia's A7A5 token transacted $93.3B+ in less than one year |
| 8:30 AM • | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A |
| 8:15 AM • | Louise Breusch Rasmussen / Reuters: The European Commission orders X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual images |
| 8:11 AM • | Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google makes Help Me Write, AI email summaries, and Suggested Replies free to all Gmail users, after previously requiring a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription |
| 8:06 AM • | Jay Peters / The Verge: Google rolls out an AI Inbox view for Gmail that shows users to-dos and summaries of topics rather than a traditional email list, first for US “trusted testers” |
| 7:45 AM • | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Israeli data security startup Cyera raised a $400M Series F led by Blackstone Growth at a $9B valuation, up from $6B after raising $540M in June 2025 |
| 7:35 AM • | Wall Street Journal: Sources: China is considering how to build fences around its AI know-how amid the AI race and is identifying standout companies to add to an export control list |
| 7:20 AM • | Jesse Drucker / New York Times: Sources and US tax lawyers: the IRS' planned audit of private equity and VC firms is faltering under President Trump; nearly all the project's leaders have left |
| 7:01 AM • | Tom Phillips / IGN: Lego says its Smart Brick is “here to stay” but “does not mean that we're leaving our core proposition behind”, after criticism it's abandoning non-digital play |
| 6:30 AM • | Jennifer Maas / Variety: Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood predicts “we'll see the first 100% AI-generated hit movie” within three years and discusses Roku's new $3/month Howdy service |
| 6:01 AM • | Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: Sources: wealthy Californians are quietly mobilizing on WhatsApp chats and calls in a long-shot bid to oust Representative Ro Khanna, who supports a wealth tax |
| 5:40 AM • | Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: Sources: China's Salt Typhoon accessed the emails of top US House committee staff, detected in December, and intercepted senior US officials' calls for years |
| 5:15 AM • | Bloomberg: A profile of VC firm Index Ventures, which saw billions in gains from exits in 2025, including Figma, Scale AI, and Dream Games, as it looks ahead to succession |
| 4:55 AM • | Margaux MacColl / The San Francisco Standard: A profile of Replit co-founder Amjad Masad, who a source says some investors have accused of being antisemitic for his ongoing criticism of Israel's war in Gaza |
| 4:35 AM • | CNBC: China says it will investigate Meta's Manus acquisition to assess compliance with laws on export controls, tech import and export, and overseas investment |
| 2:36 AM • | John Liu / Bloomberg: Sources: China plans to approve some of Nvidia's H200 imports as soon as Q1 2026 but bar them from the military, some agencies, and critical infrastructure |
| 2:20 AM • | Rest of World: Chinese local governments have funded 40+ “robot training centers”, where humans mimic movements like folding clothes and wiping tables to teach the robots |
| 2:10 AM • | David Shepardson / Reuters: The US FCC exempts some new models of foreign-made drones and critical components from a sweeping import ban, announced in December 2025, until the end of 2026 |
| 1:35 AM • | Chris Welch / Bloomberg: Samsung appears to have shelved Ballie, a robot it announced six years ago but never released, calling it an “active innovation platform” within the company |
| 1:30 AM • | Reuters: Sources: to hedge against Beijing approval risk, Nvidia is requiring Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, with no cancellations, refunds, or changes |
| 1:25 AM • | Chris Kerr / Game Developer: Ubisoft closes its mobile game-focused Halifax studio, weeks after the majority of the workers voted to unionize; CWA Canada says it is “demanding information” |
| 1:05 AM • | Financial Times: Microsoft Chief Scientific Officer Eric Horvitz warns that the US' academic research funding cuts could push talent and ideas abroad and hand rivals a tech lead |
| 12:45 AM • | Wired: Grok's website and app are being used to produce extremely graphic, sometimes violent, sexual imagery of adults that is vastly more explicit than images on X |
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