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HHS Announces New Study of Cellphone Radiation and Health (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21

Drone delivery startup Zipline raised $600M+, boosting its valuation to $7.6B, and says it has now completed 2M+ commercial deliveries of 20M different items (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 Startup Drone

X says it has open sourced its “core recommendation system” on GitHub and that the system “ranks everything using a Grok-based transformer model” (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-21 GitHub

Greg Peters says Netflix plans to bring new content types like video podcasts to its vertical video feed, and plans to roll out a new mobile UI later in 2026 (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-1-21 Mobile Netflix

ACF plugin bug gives hackers admin on 50,000 WordPress sites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-21 WordPress

OpenAI rolls out age prediction model on ChatGPT to detect your age (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-21

UK Mulls Australia-Like Social Media Ban For Users Under 16 (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 Australia Ban Social Media

Majority of CEOs Report Zero Payoff From AI Splurge (slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 AI

A Massachusetts judge grants a preliminary injunction blocking Kalshi from letting state residents bet on sports through its online platform (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21

Demis Hassabis says there aren't “any plans” to put ads in Gemini and, in response to OpenAI testing ads, says “maybe they feel they need to make more revenue” (sources.news)
2026-1-21

Snap reaches an agreement to settle a social media addiction lawsuit, a week before the start of a trial in the first of several such lawsuits (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-21

Meta's Oversight Board Takes Up Permanent Bans In Landmark Case (meta.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21

Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-21 Elon Musk

56% of Companies Have Seen Zero Financial Return From AI Investments, PwC Survey Says (slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 AI

Netflix's ad revenue hit $1.5B in 2025, up by more than 2.5x vs. 2024, and viewing hours grew 2% YoY in H2, driven by a 9% rise in viewing of branded originals (deadline.com)
2026-1-21 Netflix

Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $12B vs. $11.97B est., 325M paid subs, 2025 revenue up 16% to $45.2B, plans to increase content spend by 10% in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 Netflix 4Q

The US FTC plans to appeal to revive its case accusing Meta of bolstering an illegal monopoly by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp; Meta won the case in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21 Instagram WhatsApp

The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers (www.axios.com)
2026-1-21

Setapp Mobile To Close in February as Alternative iOS App Store Economics Prove Untenable (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 IOS Mobile

OpenAI rolls out age prediction on ChatGPT globally to identify users under 18 and apply automatic content protections as it prepares to introduce adult content (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21

Filings from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit detail Microsoft's decade-long relationship with OpenAI, including plans for a new subsidiary during Sam Altman's firing (www.geekwire.com)
2026-1-21 Microsoft Elon Musk

Anthropic CEO Says Government Should Help Ensure AI's Economic Upside Is Shared (slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 AI

Greg Yang, one of the co-founders of xAI, is stepping down from the company after being diagnosed with Lyme disease (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21

VoidLink cloud malware shows clear signs of being AI-generated (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-21 AI

AI Agents 'Perilous' for Secure Apps Such as Signal, Whittaker Says (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 AI

Get an intro to the CISSP certification with this $20 course bundle (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-21

Sources: AI inference startup Baseten raised $300M led by IVP and CapitalG at a $5B valuation, more than doubling its valuation; Nvidia invested $150M (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-21 Startup AI Nvidia

EU plans cybersecurity overhaul to block foreign high-risk suppliers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-21

Palantir CEO Says AI To Make Large-Scale Immigration Obsolete (slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 AI Immigration

OpenAI and ServiceNow sign a three-year deal to integrate OpenAI's models into ServiceNow's business software, including embedding OpenAI's AI agents (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-21 AI

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