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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

Perplexity signs a deal with Microsoft; sources say the $750M, three-year commitment will let Perplexity deploy AI models through Microsoft's Foundry service (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-30 Microsoft AI

Sources: the Pentagon is clashing with Anthropic over safeguards limiting the use of its tech to target weapons autonomously and conduct domestic surveillance (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-30 Pentagon

Sources: special agents with the US Commerce Department investigated claims by ex-Meta contractors that Meta staff had “unfettered” access to WhatsApp messages (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-30 WhatsApp

Ivanti warns of two EPMM flaws exploited in zero-day attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-30

Hugging Face abused to spread thousands of Android malware variants (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-30 Android

Google's Project Genie Lets You Generate Your Own Interactive Worlds (games.slashdot.org)
2026-1-30 Google

Sources: OpenAI is laying the groundwork for a public listing in Q4 2026, holding informal talks with Wall Street banks and growing its finance team (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-30 Wall Street 4Q

Sources: SpaceX is considering a potential merger with Tesla, an idea some investors are pushing, while separately exploring a tie-up between SpaceX and xAI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-30 Tesla SpaceX

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