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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.com)
2026-1-31

Do Markets Make Us Moral? (slashdot.org)
2026-1-31

Microsoft to disable NTLM by default in future Windows releases (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-31 Microsoft

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.news)
2026-1-31

Operation Switch Off dismantles major pirate TV streaming services (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-31

'Call Screening is Aggravating the Rich and Powerful' (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-1-31

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 (www.theblock.co)
2026-1-31 Bitcoin

The UK Paid $5.65 Million For a Bookmarks Site (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-31

Microsoft fixes Outlook bug blocking access to encrypted emails (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-31 Microsoft

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

Amazon in Talks To Invest Up To $50 Billion in OpenAI (slashdot.org)
2026-1-31 Amazon

Peter Steinberger rebrands his AI agent project to OpenClaw, its second name change after Anthropic forced a shift from Clawdbot to Moltbot (www.forbes.com)
2026-1-31 AI

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

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