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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 (www.forbes.com)
2026-1-31 AI

Microsoft is Experimenting With a Top Menu Bar for Windows 11 (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-31 Microsoft

Costco will use Instacart's white-label e-commerce service to offer grocery delivery in Spain and France, extending their partnership beyond North America (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-31 France U.S. Spain

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-31

Backseat Software (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-31

Unable To Stop AI, SAG-AFTRA Mulls a Studio Tax On Digital Performers (slashdot.org)
2026-1-31 Tax AI

Windows 11 KB5074105 update fixes boot, sign-in, and activation issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-31

A faster way to edit and convert PDFs is just $40 for life (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-31

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 (www.forbes.com.au)
2026-1-31 Startup AI

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.com)
2026-1-31 IPO Insurance

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 (www.ft.com)
2026-1-30 France Europe

Former Google Engineer Found Guilty of Stealing AI Secrets For Chinese Firms (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-30 China Google AI

The Netherlands' consumer protection regulator launches an investigation into Roblox under the DSA over potential risks to underage users in the EU (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-30 Netherlands

Sources: China has given DeepSeek approval to buy Nvidia's H200 AI chips but imposes regulatory conditions, which are still being finalized (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-30 China AI Nvidia

Radiologists Catch More Aggressive Breast Cancers By Using AI To Help Read Mammograms, Study Finds (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-30 AI

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.co)
2026-1-30

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.com)
2026-1-30 India Google AI Education

Filing: Chinese AI chipmaker Axera aims to raise up to ~$379.2M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 104.9M shares at ~$3.61 each; trading expected to start February 10 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-30 China Hong Kong IPO AI

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 (www.bigtechnology.com)
2026-1-30 Google AI

Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-30 AI

Filing: Chinese chip designer Montage plans to raise up to ~$902M in a Hong Kong IPO, pricing shares at ~$13.69, and expects trading to start February 9 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-30 China Hong Kong IPO

Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup debuts its short-form Revolutionary War series, made via Google DeepMind with human voices and distributed by Time Studios (variety.com)
2026-1-30 Google

Comcast Keeps Losing Customers Despite Price Guarantee, Unlimited Data (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-30

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-30 China iPhone Apple Tim Cook

Cory Doctorow On Tariffs and the DMCA In Canada (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-30 Canada

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-30 iPhone Apple

Linux Gaming Developers Join Forces To Form the Open Gaming Collective (games.slashdot.org)
2026-1-30 Linux

Microsoft links Windows 11 boot failures to failed December 2025 update (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-30 Microsoft

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 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-30

An AI Toy Exposed 50K Logs of Its Chats With Kids To Anyone With a Gmail Account (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-30 AI

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