Tech

Booz Allen Hamilton commits $400M to a16z's newest set of funds, for which a16z raised $15B+ in January; this is Booz Allen's first LP stake in any VC fund (www.axios.com)
2026-1-24

R&D firm Merkle, which sold Farcaster, says it plans to repay VCs the $180M they invested in the social media project, and says Farcaster is not shutting down (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-24

TikTok Finalizes Deal To Form New American Entity (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-24 U.S.

US Formally Withdraws From WHO (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-24

Microsoft: Outlook for iOS crashes, freezes due to coding error (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-24 IOS Microsoft

Sources: China has told Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance that they can prepare orders for Nvidia's H200 chips, suggesting Beijing is close to approving imports (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-24 China Alibaba Tencent Nvidia

How Chinese tech companies navigate geopolitical tensions: TikTok and Manus adopted a “China shedding” strategy, while Shein and Meituan seek non-US growth (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-23 China

Hackers get $1,047,000 for 76 zero-days at Pwn2Own Automotive 2026 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-23

Multiple top AI models, one $75 lifetime plan in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-23 AI

Sources: UBS plans to make cryptocurrency investing available for some private banking clients in Switzerland, starting with bitcoin and ether (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 Bitcoin Switzerland Cryptocurrency

Google invests an undisclosed sum in Sakana AI, valued at $2.6B in November 2025, to boost Gemini's presence in Japan; Sakana AI gains access to Google's LLMs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 Japan Google AI

Fortinet confirms critical FortiCloud auth bypass not fully patched (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-23

Malaysia lifted its temporary ban on Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot after xAI added safety measures; Grok remains subject to continuous monitoring by authorities (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 AI chatbot Malaysia Ban Elon Musk

'Active' Sitting Is Better For Brain Health (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-23

Anthropic details how it had to redesign its take-home test for hiring performance engineers as Claude kept defeating it, and releases the original test (www.anthropic.com)
2026-1-23

AI Boosts Research Careers But Flattens Scientific Discovery (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-23 AI

Sources: Revolut scrapped plans to buy a US lender and will instead apply for a US banking license, betting Trump's lighter touch on approvals will be faster (www.ft.com)
2026-1-23 Trump

How Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are testing AI models by having them play Pokémon Blue on Twitch to track a model's ability to reason and make decisions (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-23 Google AI

Bengaluru-based digital payments startup Juspay raised $50M, in a mix of primary and secondary investments, from WestBridge Capital at a $1.2B valuation (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
2026-1-23 Startup

Sam Altman says OpenAI added more than $1B in annual recurring revenue in the past month “just from our API business” (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-23

The US' TikTok deal is a win for ByteDance: it will keep and license the algorithm instead of selling it, and continue to run TikTok's commercial activities (www.ft.com)
2026-1-23 Algorithm

Sources: China's review of Meta's Manus deal was spurred by what officials called “selling young crops”, a concern over cross-border transfer of emerging tech (www.ft.com)
2026-1-23 China

Intel says it struggled to satisfy demand for its server chips used in AI data centers, and forecasts Q1 2026 revenue and profit below market estimates (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-23 Intel AI

Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters expects Netflix to win WBD, says Paramount's bid “doesn't pass the sniff test” and a “very small” number of WBD holders backed it (www.ft.com)
2026-1-23 Netflix

Sources: Fei-Fei Li's World Labs is in discussions with investors to raise hundreds of millions at a valuation of $5B; World Labs was last valued at $1B in 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23

South Korea Launches Landmark Laws To Regulate AI (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-23 Korea AI

BitGo closed up ~2.7% at $18.49 per share in its NYSE debut on Thursday which saw shares jump as much as 36% intraday, after raising $212.8M in its IPO (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-23 IPO

Intel Struggles To Meet AI Data Center Demand (slashdot.org)
2026-1-23 Intel AI

TikTok's new majority US-owned JV includes investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, each holding 15%, and Dell Family Office; ByteDance retains 19.9% (www.ft.com)
2026-1-23 Oracle Silver

Adam Presser, previously TikTok's head of operations and trust and safety, will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture; TikTok CEO Shou Chew will be a director (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-23

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