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Sources: Anthropic raises its revenue forecasts to $18B in 2026, $55B in 2027, and $148B in 2029, delaying its cash flow positive expectations by a year to 2028 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-28

US Government Lost More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Last Year (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28

Court filings allege Anthropic, Meta, and other AI companies found ways to acquire books without authors' knowledge, including by downloading pirated copies (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Amazon appears to mistakenly alert some AWS employees about planned layoffs in an email invite to a Wednesday “Project Dawn” meeting about company efficiency (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-28 Amazon Layoffs

Memo: Tim Cook told employees that he is “heartbroken by the events in Minneapolis” and calls for a “deescalation” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-28 Tim Cook

Apple Updates iOS 12 For the First Time Since 2023 (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 IOS Apple

Scientists Launch AI DinoTracker App That Identifies Dinosaur Footprints (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 AI

Internal documents from 2025: Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28B liters by 2030, up from 7.9B liters in 2020 and 10.4B liters in 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-28 Microsoft

Paolo Ardoino says Tether now holds ~140 tons of gold, worth ~$23B, has been buying one to two tons a week, and plans to keep doing so for the next few months (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-28

SoundCloud Data Breach Impacts 29.8 Million Accounts (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28

Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $30B more in OpenAI; SoftBank is already one of OpenAI's largest shareholders after investing $22.5B in December (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-28

OpenAI's ChatGPT ad costs are on par with live NFL broadcasts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28

Supreme Court To Decide How 1988 Videotape Privacy Law Applies To Online Video (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28

OpenAI Releases Prism, a Claude Code-Like App For Scientific Research (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28

AdImpact: Meta spent $6.4M in November and December 2025 to run TV ads in eight US state capitals and DC, aiming to change negative opinions about data centers (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-28

Chinese Mustang Panda hackers deploy infostealers via CoolClient backdoor (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28 China

Fortinet blocks exploited FortiCloud SSO zero day until patch is ready (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28

Amazon To Pay $309 Million To US Shoppers In Settlement Over Returns (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Amazon

Seagate reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $2.83B, vs. $2.73B est., forecasts Q3 results above estimates on strong data storage demand; STX jumps 8%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-28

TikTok says the new US entity has not updated its algorithm since the joint venture was announced, after users accused it of suppressing posts related to ICE (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-28 Algorithm

Texas Instruments reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.42B, vs. $4.44B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates; TXN jumps 9%+ after hours (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-28 4Q Texas

Internal Messages May Doom Meta At Social Media Addiction Trial (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Social Media

Sources: the interim director of CISA, Madhu Gottumukkala, triggered automated security warnings last summer by uploading sensitive documents to ChatGPT (www.politico.com)
2026-1-28

Citigroup Mandates AI Training For 175,000 Employees To Help Them 'Reinvent Themselves' (slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 AI

Privacy-focused MVNO Cape, which has raised $61M from a16z and others, launches across the US following a March 2025 beta, offering a $99 monthly plan (www.fastcompany.com)
2026-1-28

Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 AI Mozilla

Meta blocks users from sharing links to ICE List, which compiles names of DHS staffers; Meta cites a policy against “asking for personally identifiable” info (www.wired.com)
2026-1-28

Revolut launches full banking operations in Mexico in its first expansion outside Europe, with capital of $100M+, more than double the regulatory minimum (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-28 Europe Mexico

Apple releases iOS 12.5.8 for the iPhone 5s and iPhone 6, extending software support for these devices to 13 and 12 years after their respective launches (www.macrumors.com)
2026-1-28 IOS iPhone Apple

Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp To Test Premium Subscriptions (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Facebook Instagram WhatsApp

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