Dienstag, 3. Februar 2026

18:05
US v. Google: the DOJ and a group of states will appeal the September 2025 ruling in the Search antitrust case in which Google dodged a forced sale of Chrome
Bloomberg
17:40
Super Micro reports Q2 net sales up 123% to $12.7B, vs. $10.43B est., and expects Q3 net sales above estimates; SMCI jumps 5%+ after hours
Sherwood News
17:25
EA reports Q3 net bookings up 38% YoY to $3.05B, vs. $2.86B est., driven by strong sales of Battlefield 6, and net income of $88M, down from $293M a year ago
Reuters
17:10
Take-Two reports Q3 net bookings up 28% YoY to $1.76B, vs. $1.58B, net revenue up 25% to $1.7B, and raises its annual bookings forecast; TTWO up 5%+ after hours
Sherwood News
16:50
Match reports Q4 revenue up 2% YoY to $878M, vs. $871M est., net income up 32% YoY to $210M, paying users down 5% to 13.8M; MTCH jumps 7%+ after hours
Bloomberg
16:45
AMD reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $10.3B, Data Center revenue up 39% to $5.4B, forecasts Q1 revenue below the highest projections; AMD drops 5%+ after hours
Bloomberg
16:25
Sources: Texas Instruments is in advanced talks to buy chip designer Silicon Laboratories for ~$7B, a premium to Silicon Labs' market cap of $4.4B as of Tuesday
Financial Times
15:30
Microsoft launches the Publisher Content Marketplace in partnership with Condé Nast, Hearst, AP, and others, to let publishers license content to AI companies
Search Engine Land
15:05
Bitcoin dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest price since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes amid mounting geopolitical concerns
CNBC
14:05
Skyryse, which plans to integrate its flight automation OS, SkyOS, in Black Hawk helicopters and other aircraft, raised a $300M+ Series C at a $1.15B valuation
TechCrunch
14:00
At the Cisco AI Summit, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says the company plans to build GPUs and has already hired a chief GPU architect
Reuters
13:55
Ares Interactive, which makes cross-platform, free-to-play games with plans for a new baseball game in 2026, raised a $70M Series A led by General Catalyst
PocketGamer.biz
13:35
Apple brings agentic coding to Xcode 26.3, allowing developers to use Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex, and integrates support for MCP
TechCrunch
13:30
Tomorrow.io raised $175M at a $1B+ valuation to deploy an AI-driven LEO satellite network for weather forecasting, bringing its total funding to ~$500M
CTech
13:20
Sources: Alphabet plans a new complex in Bengaluru, India, which can accommodate up to 20K extra staff, amid US visa restrictions and proposed H-1B fee hikes
Bloomberg
13:00
Apptopia: ChatGPT's US market share fell from 69.1% to 45.3% between Jan. 2025 and Jan. 2026; Gemini rose from 14.7% to 25.1%, Grok rose from 1.6% to 15.2%
Big Technology
12:25
Lotus Health, which uses AI to offer free, 24/7 primary care in 50 languages, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV and Kleiner Perkins, taking its funding to $41M
TechCrunch
12:15
AI agent social network Moltbook grew from 30K+ users on January 30 to 1.5M+ on February 2; researchers say some of the viral posts were likely human-scripted
The Verge
12:00
Walmart hits a $1T market cap in intraday trading after a stock surge fueled in part by enthusiasm for its e-commerce growth and automation and AI investments
Wall Street Journal
11:55
LexisNexis-owner Relx, Thomson Reuters, and other media and financial stocks fell 10%+ after Anthropic launched Claude Cowork tools that automate legal work
Financial Times
11:40
Seattle-based Overland AI, which builds off-road robots and autonomous vehicles for the US military, raised $100M led by 8VC, taking its total funding to $142M
Bloomberg
11:35
Grindr is testing Edge, a subscription tier with AI-powered personalized matches and insights, no ads, and more, with prices ranging from $80 to $220 per week
Business Insider
11:30
Crypto.com launches prediction market platform OG ahead of the Super Bowl, following 40-fold WoW growth in its event contracts business over the past six months
Bloomberg
11:25
Y Combinator says it will let founders receive their customary funding allotment, typically ~$500K, in Circle-issued USDC, starting with the Spring 2026 cohort
Fortune
11:20
Gruve, which taps unused power and space from US data center providers for AI inference, raised a $50M Series A extension, taking its total funding to $87.5M
Business Insider
11:00
A profile of Sam Altman, who says “we basically have built AGI, or very close to it” before dialing back his claim to “a spiritual statement, not a literal one”
Forbes
10:35
Epic reports third-party game revenue on the Epic Games Store up 57% YoY in 2025 to $400M, total spend up 6% to $1.16B, and total player hours down 14% to 6.65B
GamesIndustry.biz
10:15
Orion, which has developed an AI platform meant to replace data loss prevention tools, raised a $32M Series A led by Norwest, bringing its total funding to $38M
CTech
09:45
Sources: HP CEO Enrique Lores leaving to become PayPal CEO blindsided HP, whose board rushed to launch a CEO search process; Lores had worked for HP since 1989
Semafor
08:55
The UK ICO launches a new investigation into X and xAI over “serious concerns” about Grok's data use and “its potential to produce harmful sexualized” content
Financial Times
08:40
Disney names Josh D'Amaro, head of its theme parks and consumer products division, as CEO, replacing Bob Iger, effective March 18; D'Amaro joined Disney in 1998
Variety
07:35
Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil Luffu, a self-funded startup developing an AI-powered “family care system”, currently in private testing
Axios
07:20
PayPal names HP CEO Enrique Lores as CEO, replacing Alex Chriss on March 1, and reports Q4 revenue up 4% YoY to $8.68B, below estimates; PYPL closes down 20.3%
Bloomberg
06:10
A profile of Brazilian neobank Nubank, which aims to enter the US market within 18 months, growing its 120M+ customers; analysts expect $2.9B in 2025 net income
Financial Times
05:55
Uber rolls out its service in the Chinese gambling hub of Macau, its first new entry to an Asian market in years; Uber sold its China business to Didi in 2016
Bloomberg
05:35
Sources: OpenAI is prioritizing ChatGPT over long-term research, prompting senior staff departures; Sora and DALL-E teams felt neglected and under resourced
Financial Times
05:10
Paris prosecutors raid X's French offices and summon Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino to appear at April hearings, in a probe into sexual deepfakes and more
BBC
03:50
Q&A with Docusign CEO Allan Thygesen on Docusign growing to just under 7,000 employees, its Intelligent Agreement Management system, AI hallucinations, and more
The Verge
02:25
Nintendo says the Switch 1 sold 155.37M units from its March 2017 launch through December 2025, topping the DS' 154.02M units, becoming its best-selling console
The Verge
02:16
Nintendo reports Q3 revenue of ~$5.2B, below $5.45B est., a ~$1.03B net profit, vs. $950M est., and maintains its 19M Switch 2 sales forecast for fiscal 2026
CNBC
01:20
Sources: China's top memory chipmakers, CXMT and YMTC, plan their biggest expansions yet, as a global supply crunch lets them close the gap with market leaders
Nikkei Asia
00:50
Sources: Telefónica and Liberty Global, the owners of Virgin Media O2, are set to lead a ~£2B acquisition of the UK's fourth-largest broadband network, Netomnia
Financial Times

Montag, 2. Februar 2026

22:30
How WhatsApp's client-side E2EE, user-held backup keys, and past reverse engineering undercut claims in a class action lawsuit that Meta can read user chats
A Few Thoughts …
20:55
If assumptions hold, SpaceX-xAI could own a full stack of capabilities, from launch to orbital bandwidth to frontier AI models, and offer AI on demand anywhere
Ars Technica
20:05
Staff memo: xAI says xAI and SpaceX will maintain their separate branding for now and the joint venture is continuing to prepare for a “possible IPO in 2026”
Business Insider
19:55
Email to current and former X and xAI employees: xAI shares will be converted into 0.1433 shares of SpaceX stock, and employees will have the option to cash out
Wall Street Journal
19:45
Crunchyroll raises its US prices by $2/month; the cheapest, $10/month tier gets its first price bump since 2019 and now offers offline downloads on one device
Polygon.com
19:05
Elon Musk's SpaceX-xAI merger further intermingles his companies, creates the world's most valuable private company, and provides a financial lifeline to xAI
New York Times
18:45
Trump plans to launch Project Vault, a $12B critical minerals stockpile to minimize China reliance; 12+ companies, including Google, have agreed to participate
Bloomberg
18:30
Adobe says it will discontinue its 2D animation software Animate on March 1; enterprises will receive support until March 2029 and others will until March 2027
TechCrunch
18:00
Oracle says the Nvidia-OpenAI deal has “zero impact” on its financial relationship with OpenAI and it is “highly confident in OpenAI's ability to raise funds”
@oracle
17:35
SpaceX Acquires xAI for $250 Billion
The Information
17:20
Waymo raised $16B led by Sequoia, DST, and Dragoneer at a $126B valuation, plans an expansion across the US and into the UK in 2026, and makes 400K+ rides/week
Bloomberg
16:35
Palantir reports Q4 revenue up 70% YoY to $1.41B, above $1.33B est., and forecasts Q1 and FY 2026 revenue well above estimates; PLTR jumps ~5%
CNBC
16:33
SpaceX acquires xAI; sources say the all-stock deal values the combined company at $1.25T, with SpaceX valued at $1T and xAI at $250B; xAI burns ~$1B per month
Bloomberg
16:30
Sources: OpenAI is unsatisfied with some of Nvidia's latest AI chips for inference and has sought alternatives since 2025, such as from AMD, Cerebras, and Groq
Reuters
15:55
The US DOJ releasing emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kicks off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage
Wired
15:35
New Epstein Files Reveal Even More Powerful Connections: Musk, Trump, Gates, Lutnick, More
Forbes
14:20
Oracle is selling $25B in bonds to help finance its AI buildout, in what is set to be the biggest US high-grade offering since Meta's $30B bond sale in October
Bloomberg
14:00
Responding to user feedback, Mozilla says Firefox users will be able to disable all AI features in its desktop browser, starting with Firefox 148 on February 24
BleepingComputer
13:30
Meta gives $65M to two super PACs to help elect California state candidates whom it views as supportive of the AI and tech industry, regardless of their party
Politico
13:07
OpenAI launches Codex for macOS, designed to be a command center for managing coding agents, and says GPT-5.2-Codex usage has nearly doubled since mid-December
ZDNET
12:45
Barcelona-based Biorce, which uses AI to speed up the design and execution of clinical trials, raised a $52.5M Series A, bringing its total funding to $60M+
Tech.eu
12:20
OpenText is selling its analytics business Vertica to Rocket Software for $150M to reduce its outstanding debt, its second business unit sale within five months
BetaKit
11:50
Shield, which acquires IT businesses and uses AI to make them efficient, raised $100M from Thrive Holdings and says it crossed $100M in annual revenue in 2025
Bloomberg
11:35
Fieldguide, which uses AI agents to automate accounting and auditing tasks, raised a $75M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives at a $700M valuation
Fortune
11:15
Day AI, which is developing an AI-powered CRM service that can automate data entry, meeting prep, note-taking, and more, raised a $20M Series A led by Sequoia
Upstarts Media
10:45
Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding
Reuters
10:20
Notepad++ and security researchers say Chinese state-sponsored threat actors were likely behind the hijacking of its update traffic from June to December 2025
BleepingComputer
10:10
Snowflake and OpenAI sign a multiyear, $200M deal to integrate OpenAI's models into Snowflake Cortex AI and the Snowflake Intelligence agent for enterprises
The Deep View
09:40
Alabama-based Linq, which pivoted to programmatic messaging APIs in February 2025, raised a $20M Series A to build AI assistants that work within messaging apps
TechCrunch
09:20
After X updated Grok to ban sexual deepfakes of women, tests show Grok still undresses men on Grok's app, Grok's website, and X, rarely rejecting user requests
The Verge
07:15
Inside Elon Musk's bet to hook X users that turned Grok into a porn generator; sources say xAI's AI safety team was just two or three people for most of 2025
Washington Post
07:05
How Kontigo, a crypto startup from YC S24 that raised $20M+, helped move money in and out of Venezuela and now faces bank and payment network service cutoffs
Wall Street Journal
06:55
xAI rolls out Grok Imagine 1.0, which it says can generate 720p 10-second videos with better audio, and says Imagine generated 1.245B videos in the past 30 days
@xai
06:42
Sources: SpaceX is in advanced talks to combine with xAI and they have informed some of their investors, as Elon Musk moves quickly to consolidate his empire
Bloomberg
06:30
How food delivery is reshaping US mealtimes, as some users spend thousands; NRA data shows nearly 75% of 2024 restaurant orders were not eaten in a restaurant
New York Times
06:20
Snap blocked 415K+ Australian accounts as of January to comply with the under-16 social media ban and warns its implementation has “real technical limitations”
The Guardian
06:10
The US' high-speed internet rollout means drillers, linemen, and splicers pull in soaring pay nationwide amid a labor shortage for the physically demanding work
Wall Street Journal
05:55
China's desire to lead in cutting-edge AI is rubbing against its aim to control it; Zhipu AI warned IPO investors about the burden of complying with 6+ AI rules
New York Times
05:40
Seoul unveils Maeumi, an AI chatbot integrated into its suicide prevention hotline, offering immediate emotional support even before a human counselor connects
The Korea Herald
05:25
A look at Polymarket's rise since the US DOJ dropped its probe: securing publisher deals and US licenses, insider trading concerns, and bet resolution disputes
Wall Street Journal
05:15
Alibaba says it will spend ~$431M in a Lunar New Year campaign from February 6 to attract users to its Qwen AI app, above Tencent's ~$143.7M and Baidu's ~$71.8M
Reuters
04:45
Taiwan hits a 21.06% weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, surpassing China's 20.93%, the first time since July 2007, driven by AI-linked local companies
Bloomberg
04:30
SEC complaint: a whistleblower alleges Google broke its ethics rules in 2024 to help an Israeli military contractor use AI to analyze drone surveillance video
Washington Post
04:10
Sources: a KKR-led consortium is nearing a deal to buy Singapore-based ST Telemedia Global Data Centers for $10B+, as Asia sees a data center investment frenzy
Wall Street Journal
04:00
OpenSourceMalware: 230+ malicious OpenClaw extensions, posing as crypto trading automation tools to steal user info, were uploaded to ClawHub since January 27
Tom's Hardware
03:50
A look at DestinE, an EU-funded project to create Earth's digital twin using AI, offering climate change models with far higher resolution than current models
Financial Times
02:20
AI conferences have rushed to restrict the use of LLMs for writing and reviewing research papers in recent months after being flooded with AI-generated slop
Financial Times
02:05
Q&A with D‑Wave CEO Alan Baratz on the Quantum Circuits acquisition, error-correcting quantum systems, its Davidson and Anduril defense collaboration, and more
Sherwood News
00:00
French IT company Capgemini plans to sell its US subsidiary Capgemini Government Solutions, after French lawmakers asked about its contract with US agency ICE
Reuters

Sonntag, 1. Februar 2026

23:20
Anthropic and UofT researchers detail “disempowerment patterns in real-world LLM usage” where AI potentially distorts a user's reality, beliefs, or actions
Ars Technica
21:25
TikTok US says it has resolved technical issues caused by an Oracle data center outage; features like posting and view counts were impacted over the past week
The Hollywood Reporter
21:00
AI companies are outbidding Apple, long dominant in the electronics supply chain, for chips, memory, glass fiber, and more, as suppliers gain leverage on prices
Wall Street Journal
18:40
Oracle says it plans to raise $45B to $50B in 2026 to build additional cloud infrastructure capacity, including for AMD and OpenAI, via debt and equity sales
Bloomberg
18:30
As Elon Musk looks to use his empire to fund xAI's appetite for cash and compute, a merger with SpaceX would consolidate cash flow and give xAI new capabilities
Bloomberg
16:45
A survey of 100 companies in the Global 2000 on AI use: 78% of CIOs use OpenAI models in production, above Anthropic's 44%, but Anthropic's gains are impressive
a16z
15:10
Researchers detail how AI tools for generating deepfakes spread on Civitai before it banned deepfakes in 2025; many tools submitted before the ban remain live
MIT Technology Review
13:25
India proposes zero taxes for foreign cloud providers through 2047 on services sold outside the country if they run those workloads from Indian data centers
TechCrunch
12:55
Indonesia “conditionally” lifts its Grok ban after X sent it a letter “outlining concrete steps” to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok
New York Times
12:35
Sources: Apple's executives question if it has the right ingredients to win the AI era, new MacBook Pros are coming, and Apple mulls a clamshell foldable iPhone
Bloomberg
11:15
India plans to exempt foreign companies from being taxed when providing equipment to their contract manufacturers in the country, a change Apple lobbied for
Reuters
10:05
Inside Physical Intelligence, a startup co-founded by Stripe veteran Lachy Groom that is building general-purpose robotics foundation models and has raised $1B+
TechCrunch
08:05
A look at iOS 26's call-screening feature: some see it as an executive assistant that filters unwanted calls and some complain it makes people hard to reach
Wall Street Journal
06:05
Chinese government funding is backing traditional Chinese medicine providers to adopt AI for drug discovery, clinical diagnostics, acupuncture robots, and more
Rest of World
04:05
A look at China's “genius class” system, which picks ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni span ByteDance, PDD, and more
Financial Times
02:00
Anthropic positions itself as the AI sector's superego, but it's caught between the pressures to be safe, fast, and rigorous while being commercially successful
The Atlantic
01:50
Sources: Alibaba has delivered more than 100K units of the Zhenwu 810E, an ASIC for AI training and inference, surpassing those of its domestic rival Cambricon
South China Morning Post
01:40
A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of the site's AI agents and post anything; the database has since been secured
404 Media
01:25
OpenAI says it is asking select advertisers to commit $200K+ as it rolls out beta ads on ChatGPT; two sources say their companies were pitched lower amounts
Adweek
01:15
Amazon asks the FCC for a 2-year extension until July 30, 2028, to deploy half of the 3,232 satellites for its Leo internet system, citing a rocket shortage
GeekWire
01:00
Filing: Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon reports a $316M net profit in 2025, its first profitable year; rivals Moore Threads and MetaX narrowed their losses
South China Morning Post
00:45
Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration
Wall Street Journal

Samstag, 31. Januar 2026

23:05
Denver-based Northslope, which builds customized AI applications for Palantir OS, raised a $22M Series A led by Friends & Family Capital and Goldcrest Capital
Axios
20:05
Nomura: total returns for software debt in collateralized loan obligations have been lower than all other sectors in 2026, amid fears about AI's impact on SaaS
Bloomberg
16:40
An interview with Nvidia's senior VP of hardware engineering, Andrew Bell, on continuing to provide Shield Android TV software updates a decade after its launch
Ars Technica
15:52
Sources: Waymo is nearing a $16B round at a $110B valuation; Alphabet will invest $12B+ and a16z, Dragoneer, Mubadala, Sequoia, and DST Global will also invest
Financial Times
14:30
Bitcoin has fallen to ~$77K, down ~5% in 24 hours, over 12% in the past week, and down 39% since its ATH in October 2025; Ethereum is down 21%+ in the past week
Bloomberg
13:50
How the music industry is divided over AI; some labels signed licensing deals for AI that mirror revenue splits they use with YouTube for user-generated content
Financial Times
13:10
Filing: SpaceX is seeking US FCC approval to launch 1M satellites; SpaceX claims that they will orbit the Earth and harness the sun to power AI data centers
Reuters
12:25
Miami-based Indigo, which uses AI-powered underwriting tech to provide medical liability insurance to physicians, raised a $50M Series B led by Rubicon Founders
Axios
10:30
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's OpenAI investment will be “the largest investment we've ever made”, after a report said plans to invest $100B in OpenAI stalled
Bloomberg
10:10
Q&A with AMD CTO Mark Papermaster, who says AMD is the first customer for TSMC's 2nm process, on AMD's rise since he joined in 2011, AI in chip design, and more
More Than Moore
06:35
Global Energy Monitor: 97+ GW of gas-fired power in the US pipeline were explicitly earmarked for data centers in 2025, compared with just over 4 GW in 2024
Wired
02:35
Q&A with Gokul Rajaram, investor and a former product leader at Google, Meta, and others, on AI changing product development, building ad businesses, and more
Invest Like The Best on YouTube
02:10
Ant Group reports 30M MAUs for its AI health chatbot Ant Afu, which integrates appointments, test analysis, and insurance payments within Alipay's ecosystem
Rest of World
01:50
Global Net: three Chinese firms ranked among the world's top 20 chipmaking equipment manufacturers in 2025, up from one in 2022, with Naura Tech rising to fifth
Nikkei Asia
01:40
TechCreate's shares surged ~1,995% in the past week; the payment software company says it is not aware of any info that would account for the trading activity
Sherwood News
01:30
Sandisk and Kioxia announce a five-year extension of their JV manufacturing contract from 2029 to 2034; the new deal involves SanDisk paying Kioxia $1.165B
Nikkei Asia
01:05
Taiwan's GDP rose 12.68% in Q4 2025, its fastest quarterly growth since 1987; full-year GDP grew 8.63%, topping the 7.5% forecast on AI demand for tech products
Bloomberg
00:05
OpenAI details its custom internal-only GPT‑5.2-powered AI data agent that allows its employees to do natural language data analysis across 600+ PB of data
OpenAI

Freitag, 30. Januar 2026

23:02
Even though Moltbook has security risks and a lot of spam, the scale of nearly 150,000 autonomous AI agents interacting with each other is unprecedented
@karpathy
22:10
A look at South Park Commons, the VC firm behind a startup community focusing on idea exploration over immediate business plans, as it aims to raise $500M
Bloomberg
21:10
A US judge says her “tentative view” is to grant OpenAI's motion to dismiss xAI's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets by poaching xAI employees
Reuters
20:30
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators
New York Times
19:55
Report: Jensen Huang has privately criticized what he has described as a lack of discipline in OpenAI's business approach
Reuters
19:50
Indian e-commerce platform Meesho reports Q3 net loss of Rs. 4.91B, or $53.4M, up from Rs. 374.3M a year ago, in its first earnings report since its IPO
Reuters
19:01
Sources: Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100B in OpenAI, announced in September 2025, has stalled after some inside Nvidia expressed doubts about the deal
Wall Street Journal
18:20
Tether says it generated over $10B in net profits in 2025, down from $13B+ in 2024, and says it holds $193B in assets backing the $186B USDT in circulation
The Block
18:00
A look at the clash between Coinbase and Wall Street over the Clarity Act and whether crypto exchanges can offer stablecoin “rewards”
Wall Street Journal
16:41
Sources: SpaceX generated about $8B in EBITDA on $15B to $16B of revenue last year; Starlink accounted for about 50% to 80% of the total revenue
Reuters
16:30
Hands-on with Google's Auto Browse for Chrome: it performs multistep tasks noticeably better than similar tools but struggles with complex tasks
Wired
16:15
Anthropic details an experiment on whether AI coding tools shape developer skills: the biggest performance decline for developers occurred in debugging tasks
Anthropic
15:55
Sources: OnlyFans is in talks to sell a nearly 60% stake to Architect Capital in a deal that values the company at around $5.5B, including debt
Wall Street Journal
14:45
Anthropic details how NASA engineers used Claude to plot out the route for Perseverance rover to navigate a ~400 meter path on the Martian surface
Anthropic
14:11
Sources: Apple lost at least four more AI researchers in recent weeks, two of whom went to Meta and one to DeepMind; a top Siri executive left for DeepMind
Bloomberg
13:40
Shares of gaming companies plunge after Google released Project Genie, which lets users create interactive worlds; Unity closed down 24.2% and Take-Two 7.9%
Reuters
13:30
A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more
Simon Willison's Weblog
13:25
Anthropic expands its agentic plugins, which let enterprise users automate department-specific workflows, from Claude Code to its new general-use tool Cowork
TechCrunch
13:20
Gurman: internal development at Apple “runs on Anthropic at this point” and Apple wanted to rebuild Siri around Claude but Anthropic “wanted a ton of money”
@tbpn
12:55
Bluesky releases its first transparency report: users rose 60% in 2025 to 41.2M, including AT Protocol accounts; moderation reports from users grew 54% to 9.97M
TechCrunch
12:00
Poetiq, which leverages existing LLMs to create “expert agents” for specific tasks, and spent just $40K to achieve high ARC-AGI-2 scores, raised a $45.8M seed
Puck
11:15
Binance says it will convert $1B in stablecoin reserves held in its SAFU into bitcoin over the next 30 days, as BTC falls to its lowest level since November
The Block
10:30
Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future has raised $125M+ in 2025, including from a16z and Greg Brockman, to try to shape the US midterms and federal AI regulation
Axios
10:10
Peter Steinberger rebrands his AI agent project to OpenClaw, its second name change after Anthropic forced a shift from Clawdbot to Moltbot
Forbes
10:00
Sources: Granola, which makes an AI-based note-taking app, aims to raise $100M+ led by Index Ventures at a $1B+ valuation, up from a $250M valuation in May 2025
Forbes
09:45
Costco will use Instacart's white-label e-commerce service to offer grocery delivery in Spain and France, extending their partnership beyond North America
Bloomberg
09:01
Oura CEO Tom Hale says the company has no plans to abandon its subscription model, even as rivals experiment with cheaper hardware and no recurring fees
Bloomberg
08:20
Checkbox, an AI startup that aims to automate legal intake, raised a $23M Series A led by Touring Capital; Checkbox has 100+ clients, including SAP and PepsiCo
Forbes Australia
07:55
Insurance tech company Ethos raised ~$200M in its Jan. 29 IPO, selling 10.5M shares at $19 each; it reached a $1.1B market cap, below its 2021 $2.7B valuation
TechCrunch
06:35
France blocks Eutelsat's ~€550M sale of its ground antenna business to EQT, calling it Europe's only Starlink competitor; France has a 29.6% stake in Eutelsat
Financial Times
06:05
Cloudflare says it mitigated a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack from the Aisuru/Kimwolf botnet in December 2025, making it the largest attack ever disclosed publicly
BleepingComputer
05:40
The Netherlands' consumer protection regulator launches an investigation into Roblox under the DSA over potential risks to underage users in the EU
Reuters
04:40
Sources: China has given DeepSeek approval to buy Nvidia's H200 AI chips but imposes regulatory conditions, which are still being finalized
Reuters
02:00
The US government finalized forfeiture of $400M+ tied to Helix crypto mixer last week; Helix operator Larry Dean Harmon was sentenced to three years in 2024
Decrypt
00:15
Google's experience in India has become a proving ground to scale AI in education, as the country accounts for the highest global usage of Gemini for learning
TechCrunch

Donnerstag, 29. Januar 2026

23:00
Filing: Chinese AI chipmaker Axera, which focuses on AI inference SoCs for on-device and edge computing, aims to raise up to ~$379.2M in a Hong Kong IPO
Reuters
22:40
Q&A with Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis on AGI, next breakthroughs like continual learning, his vision for AI glasses, whether AI progress is slowing, more
Big Technology
22:15
Filing: Chinese chip designer Montage plans to raise up to ~$902M in a Hong Kong IPO; Montage's Shanghai-listed shares rose 100%+ in 2025 to a ~$27B valuation
Bloomberg
21:35
Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup debuts its short-form Revolutionary War series, made using Google DeepMind's AI tools and human voice actors
Variety
20:50
Apple's Q1 sales in greater China surged 38% to $25.5B; Tim Cook attributed the increase to users upgrading and switching from other platforms to iPhone 17
Bloomberg
20:15
Apple expects Q2 revenue to grow 13% to 16% YoY, vs. 10% est.; it's currently constrained by iPhone processor supply and expects memory costs to rise after Q2
Reuters
19:20
OpenAI plans to retire several models from ChatGPT on February 13, including GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, and o4-mini, saying only 0.1% of users still choose GPT-4o
CNBC
19:05
Perplexity signs a deal with Microsoft; sources say the $750M, three-year commitment will let Perplexity deploy AI models through Microsoft's Foundry service
Bloomberg
18:50
Sources: the Pentagon is clashing with Anthropic over safeguards limiting the use of its tech to target weapons autonomously and conduct domestic surveillance
Reuters
18:30
Sources: special agents with the US Commerce Department investigated claims by ex-Meta contractors that Meta staff had “unfettered” access to WhatsApp messages
Bloomberg
18:10
Sources: OpenAI is laying the groundwork for an IPO in Q4 2026, and its executives have privately expressed concerns about Anthropic beating OpenAI to an IPO
Wall Street Journal