Sonntag, 4. Januar 2026

19:40
Plaud launches the $179 Plaud NotePin S AI recorder, similar to the $159 NotePin but with a button, alongside a new desktop app for recording meeting audio
The Verge
17:20
US immigration lawyers, talent managers, and creators say influencers and OnlyFans models now dominate O-1B visas, which are reserved for “exceptional” artists
Financial Times
14:55
How a crew of crypto-focused criminals moved from SIM swap attacks to coordinated, violent home invasions and kidnappings, targeting small-time crypto investors
Bloomberg
12:25
Sources: Palo Alto Networks is in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi for $400M; Koi has raised $48M to date
CTech
11:55
Sources: Cisco is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity company Axonius for $2B; Axonius has raised ~$700M and was valued at $2.6B during earlier rounds
CTech
11:10
Hands-on with Xreal's Neo, a $99 battery pack and mini-dock that acts as a passthrough converter so the company's glasses can work with the Nintendo Switch
CNET
10:55
Xreal unveils the $449 1S, a pair of AR glasses with 1200p, 700 nits brightness, 52 degree FOV, and 16:10 aspect ratio; the 1S can convert any 2D video into 3D
The Verge
08:00
A profile of June Paik, CEO of Seoul-based chip startup FuriosaAI, valued at ~$700M, whose AI chip dubbed “RNGD” is slated to enter mass production this month
Wall Street Journal
02:00
Tech workers in Silicon Valley are increasingly experimenting with gray-market peptide drugs from China, legal for personal use, for improving focus and more
New York Times
01:10
EU officials and policymakers say the EC will intensify its enforcement of the DMA and DSA in 2026, a move expected to renew clashes with US Big Tech and Trump
Financial Times
00:55
Reddit surpasses TikTok as the fourth most-visited social media service in the UK, likely driven by changes to Google's search algorithms and AI deals
The Guardian
00:40
Filing: West Co, founded by Biz Stone and Evan Sharp, raised $29M; it launched the invite-only social app Tangle, “designed for intentional living”, in November
Financial Times

Samstag, 3. Januar 2026

20:50
Fueled partly by US tech companies, governments worldwide are racing to deploy GenAI in schools and universities, even as agencies such as UNICEF urge caution
New York Times
16:50
A new Polymarket account bet $30K on Maduro's capture just hours before Trump's announcement, renewing questions on insider information in prediction markets
Axios
15:35
A look at AVA, an AI chatbot developed by Alaska's court system to provide aid in the probate process, which has been plagued by delays and hallucinations
NBC News
13:05
Q&A with Kara Swisher on Sam Altman's determination to “do anything to make OpenAI win”, Elon Musk, the tech industry's Trump pivot, and more
Bloomberg
11:10
Dating apps are pivoting to Asia as swipe-right fatigue hits the West; India, China, and Indonesia ranked among the top five markets by downloads in 2025
Financial Times
08:30
The Groq deal shows the challenges Nvidia faces as options to deploy its cash flood narrow; its annual free cash flow has risen from $4.2B in 2020 to $80B+ now
Wall Street Journal
05:30
A deep dive into co-packaged optics, long promised to transform data center connectivity, covering benefits, challenges, architecture, key companies, and more
SemiAnalysis
02:30
A look at Elon Musk's bet that Tesla's future is in its Optimus humanoid robots, which for now rely on human helpers and still face commercial challenges
Wall Street Journal
01:05
London is set to become the first city where both US and Chinese robotaxis operate, as Waymo and Baidu prepare to launch their robotaxis in the city in 2026
Financial Times
00:50
Global SWF: sovereign wealth funds invested $66B in AI and digitalization in 2025, with Mubadala investing $12.9B and Kuwait Investment Authority investing $6B
Bloomberg

Freitag, 2. Januar 2026

21:30
What to expect at CES 2026: laptops with new chips from Intel, Qualcomm, and AMD, more AI integrations, smart home robotics, smart glasses, and more
The Verge
19:20
Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, has been released early due to First Step Act, Trump's prison-reform law
CNBC
18:20
California launched a free tool on January 1 that lets residents request the deletion of their personal data from over 500 registered data brokers
PCMag
17:45
Comparing ChatGPT's mini-apps with native iOS apps: some like Uber, OpenTable, and TripAdvisor fell short with frequent error messages, but Instacart did well
Wall Street Journal
16:20
On top of nonconsensual porn images, X users seem to be using Grok to alter images to depict real women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed
Futurism
16:05
Mumbai-based Knight Fintech, which builds core infrastructure that connects banks, lenders, platforms, and borrowers, raised $23.6M led by Accel
The Economic Times
15:00
xAI launches Grok Business, priced at $30 per seat/month, for SMBs, and Grok Enterprise, whose price is not listed publicly, for larger organizations
VentureBeat
13:45
India orders X to stop Grok from generating obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing its “safe harbor” protections
TechCrunch
13:05
Filing: OpenAI President Greg Brockman was the biggest donor to Trump's super PAC in H2 2025, donating $25M; Crypto.com operator Foris DAX donated $20M
Bloomberg
12:35
Uber rewrote its UK driver contracts to act as an agent, rather than a supplier, of taxi services outside London, to avoid the UK's new 20% “taxi tax” on fares
The Guardian
12:00
Pebble unveils the Pebble Round 2, a smartwatch with a rounded screen and basic health and activity tracking but no heart rate monitor, shipping in May for $199
TechCrunch
11:30
An interview with analyst Benedict Evans on the role of productization in AI adoption, an AI bubble, OpenAI, comparing Nvidia and Sun Microsystems, and more
The Circuit on YouTube
10:25
xAI's Grok says “lapses in safeguards” led it to create sexualized images of people, including minors, in response to X user prompts; X took some images down
Bloomberg
09:10
Yann LeCun admits that Llama 4's “results were fudged a little bit”, and that the team used different models for different benchmarks to give better results
Financial Times
07:55
Tech analyst Dan Wang reflects on the Chinese Communist Party vs. Silicon Valley, AI and manufacturing, how China and the US are building the future, and more
Dan Wang
05:50
As of January 1, UK crypto buyers are required to share their account details with tax officials or face penalties, as the UK seeks to collect unpaid taxes
BBC
04:15
How Meta's Reels became a hit, with a $50B+ annual run rate; Sensor Tower: users spend 27 minutes/day on Instagram Reels, 21 on YouTube Shorts, and 44 on TikTok
Wall Street Journal
01:50
How Nokia has reinvented itself for the AI revolution by pushing further into cloud services, data centers, and optical networks, and by partnering with Nvidia
Financial Times

Donnerstag, 1. Januar 2026

22:55
Chinese AI chip startup Biren's stock jumped almost 76% in its trading debut in Hong Kong, after the company raised ~$717M in its IPO priced at ~$2.52 per share
Bloomberg
22:30
How Arizona is training talent for its growing chip industry as suppliers fear tighter US immigration policy; Arizona has drawn $200B+ in investments since 2020
Nikkei Asia
20:30
Baidu says its AI chip unit Kunlunxin has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO, aiming for a spin-off; a December fundraising reportedly valued it at ~$3B
Reuters
18:50
SpaceX plans to lower its Starlink satellites from orbiting at ~550km to ~480km in 2026 to improve space safety and reduce the likelihood of debris collisions
Reuters
17:10
Brookfield is starting cloud company Radiant and a new $10B AI fund, after saying it plans to acquire up to $100B in land, data centers, and power assets for AI
The Information
15:00
How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral
Philosopher Count
13:55
A look at US tech laws coming in 2026, like California's SB 53 AI transparency law and Virginia's new social media limits for minors, effective from January 1
The Verge
12:35
Ukraine has become a live-fire test range for AI drones like the Bumblebee, provided by a secretive Eric Schmidt-led venture, raising alarms in Kremlin circles
New York Times
11:15
DeepSeek researchers detail mHC, a new architecture they used to train 3B, 9B, and 27B models, finding it scaled without adding significant computational burden
South China Morning Post
10:10
Sources: OpenAI is taking steps to improve its audio AI models, in preparation for its AI-powered personal device, which is expected to be largely audio-based
The Information
09:05
Startups have started to offer free nicotine pouches as a perk, as some employees claim the products help them focus during the workday, despite health hazards
Wall Street Journal
06:55
A look at the rise of AI companionship apps; a researcher found 206 on Apple's App Store and 253 on Google Play, with a total of 220M+ downloads as of July 2025
Financial Times
04:37
Hundreds of megawatts of new data center capacity are being planned for Vernon, a town near LA, which is a key US-Asia cable-linking hub and is becoming crowded
Los Angeles Times
02:30
Sources: SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic could all go public in 2026; those three deals alone would outstrip the total proceeds from the ~200 US IPOs in 2025
Financial Times
02:25
Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index rose 28% in 2025, its best percentage performance since 2017, driven by tech and Hong Kong reclaiming the top spot in IPOs
Wall Street Journal
02:20
Analysts and manufacturers warn that smartphone, PC, and consumer electronics prices could rise by up to 20% in 2026, as AI demand drives up memory chip costs
Financial Times
01:20
Report: China-based Moonshot AI, which makes Kimi AI models, raised a $500M Series C at a $4.3B valuation led by IDG Capital; Alibaba and Tencent also invested
South China Morning Post
01:15
Some LLM takeaways for 2025: reasoning as a signature feature, coding agents were useful, subscriptions hit $200/month, and Chinese open-weight models impressed
Simon Willison's Weblog
01:05
IDC estimates that Apple shipped just 45,000 Vision Pro units in Q4 2025; Sensor Tower says Apple reduced its digital ad spend for the headset by 95%+ in 2025
Financial Times

Mittwoch, 31. Dezember 2025

22:00
How AI labs are deploying on-site gas generators for power, as the US electric grid struggles with demand, estimated to grow from ~3GW in 2023 to 28GW+ by 2026
SemiAnalysis
20:45
Elon Musk says that Neuralink plans to start “high-volume production” of its BCI devices and move to an “almost entirely automated surgical procedure in 2026”
Reuters
19:50
Adam Mosseri details trends shaping Instagram and says it'll be more practical to authenticate real media than label AI, as AI gets better at imitating reality
Engadget
18:05
The FBI says that fraudsters bilked Americans out of $333.5M via bitcoin ATM scams from January through November 2025, up from $247M in 2024 and $189M in 2023
ABC News
17:00
Thiel Capital opens an office in Miami, as Peter Thiel and others reportedly look to cut ties with California over a proposed ballot measure to tax billionaires
Bloomberg
16:35
TSMC says the US government has granted the company an annual license to import US chip manufacturing equipment to its facilities in Nanjing, China
Reuters
16:05
Internal docs reveal Meta's tactics to fend off regulatory pressure to crack down on scammers, like making scam ads “not findable” for authorities and others
Reuters
14:45
Filing: Chinese AI chip startup Biren raises ~$717M in its Hong Kong IPO; institutional and retail tranches were oversubscribed ~26x and ~2,348x, respectively
Reuters
14:05
Unsealed documents detail a US operation that stopped the alleged smuggling of $160M worth of Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs to China between Oct. 2024 and May 2025
CNBC
12:50
Sources: Uber is in talks to acquire parking space reservation app SpotHero, which was last valued at $290M when it raised a $50M Series D in August 2019
The Information
11:10
Truth Social owner Trump Media plans to distribute a new token to its shareholders in partnership with Crypto.com, expected to operate on the Cronos blockchain
Bloomberg
09:45
Finland seizes a ship suspected of damaging an undersea cable linking Helsinki and Estonia in the Gulf of Finland; Estonia says a second cable was also damaged
Reuters
08:10
Dealroom: 76 European deep tech and life sciences companies spun out from universities reached $1B valuations or $100M in revenue in 2025, or both
TechCrunch
06:06
How the AI data center boom boosted Caterpillar's power and energy unit; generator sales are up 28% YoY through Sept. 2025, after growing 22% to $7.8B in 2024
Wall Street Journal
04:00
Sources: Nvidia has approached TSMC to ramp up H200 chip production; Chinese companies have placed orders for 2M+ H200 chips for 2026, while Nvidia holds 700K
Reuters
03:25
Filing: China's top DRAM maker CXMT plans to raise $4.2B in a Shanghai IPO; CXMT held a 4% global share in Q2 2025 and targets HBM production by the end of 2026
Reuters
02:35
Data storage stocks led the S&P 500 in 2025, with SanDisk up 560%+ to become the top performer, followed by Western Digital in second and Seagate in fourth
Bloomberg
02:20
OpenAI financial data: its stock-based pay averaged ~$1.5M per employee in 2025, ~7x Google pre-IPO and ~34x the average pay of other pre-IPO peers, per Equilar
Wall Street Journal
01:45
Chinese AI firms are leading a wave of IPOs in Hong Kong, where at least 25 companies debuted in December 2025, the busiest month for deals since November 2019
Bloomberg
01:40
Filing: Chinese chip designer OmniVision Integrated Circuits seeks to raise up to ~$617M in a Hong Kong IPO; HKEX: Hong Kong IPOs have raised ~$36B in 2025
Reuters
01:30
Trump Mobile delays plan to launch its gold-coloured smartphone, initially promised for August 2025, saying the recent US government shutdown delayed deliveries
Financial Times
00:55
How Manus distanced itself from its Chinese roots to court US investors; a source says Meta's $2.5B deal includes a $500M retention pool for Manus' employees
Wall Street Journal

Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2025

23:35
Filing: Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice aims to raise up to ~$600M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 28.9M shares at up to ~$21 each
Reuters