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Nielsen: Christmas Day 2025 set a record for US streaming usage with 55.1B minutes, or 54% of all TV viewing for the day, up by 3.9B minutes on Christmas 2024 (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
2026-1-21

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is a blunder with “incredible national security implications”, calling it a “big mistake” and “crazy” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 China AI

Humans&, founded by ex-Anthropic, xAI, and Google staff to build collaborative AI, raised a $480M seed from Nvidia, Jeff Bezos, and others at a $4.48B valuation (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-21 Google AI Nvidia Jeff Bezos

Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50%+ of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-21 Instagram Sensor

Netflix and WBD say Netflix revised its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75/share, with the same $82.7B value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing (cnn.com)
2026-1-20 Netflix

How Zynga uses a secretive VIP program with personal account managers and exclusive sweepstake entries to keep top players spending on games like FarmVille (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-20

Vibe coding startup Emergent raised a $70M Series B led by Khosla and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, after a $23M Series A in September 2025, and claims 5M+ users (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-20 Startup

Meta VP of Public Policy Simon Milner, the company's most senior Asia-Pacific policy executive, plans to leave after 14 years to retire from full-time work (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 Asia

Sources: Baidu's Ernie Assistant passes 200M MAUs, as competition intensifies among Chinese tech giants in AI; Ernie is linked to apps like JD.com and Meituan (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-20 China AI

Sources: UK and Chinese security officials set up a forum to discuss cyberattacks after hacking accusations, the first of its kind, to help prevent escalation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 China

Sony and TCL sign a non-binding agreement to spin off Sony's TV and home audio hardware business into a new joint venture, aiming to finalize the deal by March (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-20 Sony

Ocean Damage Nearly Doubles the Cost of Climate Change (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20 Climate

Sources: China broadens its probe into Temu owner PDD, dispatching 100+ investigators to its Shanghai HQ, after staff exchanged physical blows with regulators (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 China Shanghai

PE firm Everstone combines India's Wingify, which helps A/B test sites, and France's AB Tasty, which improves e-commerce UX; Everstone bought Wingify for $200M (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-20 France India

French accounting software startup Pennylane raised $204M led by TCV, a source says at a ~$4.25B valuation, with participation from Blackstone, DST, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 France Startup

10 Unsettling Ways Big Brother Is (Likely) Spying on You (listverse.com)
2026-1-20

Top 10 Real Almost‑Cities That Never Materialized (listverse.com)
2026-1-20

10 Most Influential Fictional Objects in Cinema History (listverse.com)
2026-1-20

10 Incredible Big-Time Art Fraudsters (listverse.com)
2026-1-20

A look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 China Korea AI

Sources: ByteDance boosted its cloud offering via more sales hires and lower prices; IDC: it had 13% of China's AI cloud market in H1 2025, behind Alibaba's 23% (t.co)
2026-1-20 China Alibaba AI

Bank of England 'Must Plan For a Financial Crisis Triggered By Aliens' (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20 Financial Crisis

Pune-based supply chain robotics startup Unbox Robotics raised a $28M Series B in a mix of primary and secondary capital, after raising $15M in earlier rounds (inc42.com)
2026-1-20 Startup Robot

xAI has faced a growing outcry from global regulators over Grok's generation of non-consensual explicit photos, but has faced little regulatory action in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20

The Fastest Human Spaceflight Mission In History Crawls Closer To Liftoff (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20

Anthropic details the “Assistant Axis”, a pattern of neural activity in language models that governs their default identity and helpful behavior (www.anthropic.com)
2026-1-20

The World's Longest-Running Lab Experiment Is Almost 100 Years Old (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20

Germany's EV Subsidies Will Include Chinese Brands (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-20 China Germany

ChatGPT Go now unlocks unlimited access to GPT-5.2 Instant for $8 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-20

You can get ChatGPT's $20 Plus subscription for free for a limited time (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-20

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