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Cate Blanchett, Cyndi Lauper, and 800+ creatives launch “Stealing Isn't Innovation” to protest unauthorized AI training, backed by RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, and others (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-22 AI

Wikipedia's Guide to Spotting AI Is Now Being Used To Hide AI (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-22 AI

Israeli startup Claroty, which makes security tech for hospitals, manufacturing, and industrial systems, raised a $150M Series F, sources say at a $3B valuation (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-1-22 Israel Startup Manufacturing

South Korea's Kospi stock index breaks through the record 5,000 level, driven by chip stocks, led by Samsung, up ~3X, and SK Hynix, up ~4x, in the past year (t.co)
2026-1-22 Korea Samsung

Filing: PhonePe reports H1 FY 2026 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$427.5M, a ~$157M loss, and 657.6M users; the payments company plans to sell 50.7M shares in its IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 IPO

South Korea enacts the AI Basic Act, which it says includes the world's first comprehensive set of laws regulating AI, as startups warn of compliance burdens (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-22 Korea Startup AI

Q&A with recently departed OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek, who claims OpenAI's shift toward more conservative ways made high-risk, pioneering work harder (www.corememory.com)
2026-1-22

A look at the entry-level hiring squeeze in marketing, communications, and customer service as executives increasingly argue AI can absorb much of the workload (www.ft.com)
2026-1-22 AI

Blue Origin's Satellite Internet Network TeraWave Will Move Data At 6 Tbps (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-22

Survey: over 40% of executives said AI saved them more than eight hours per week, while two-thirds of non-management staff said they saved less than two hours (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-22 AI

Sources: the US Senate's crypto market structure bill is likely to be delayed by several weeks as key lawmakers shift focus to potential housing legislation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 Real Estate Senate

A year after the DeepSeek shock following R1's release, US tech companies still lead in AI chips, model quality, and sales, with no change in investment trends (www.barrons.com)
2026-1-22 AI

German exchange operator Deutsche Boerse agrees to acquire European fund distribution platform Allfunds for about $6.2B in cash and stock (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 Germany Europe

Japanese NAND flash maker Kioxia's stock is up ~800% over the past 12 months, as AI demand and constrained NAND flash supply boost the chipmaker's pricing power (www.ft.com)
2026-1-22 Japan AI

The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs approves a bipartisan bill that calls for arms-sale style congressional oversight of advanced AI chip exports (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 AI

Deepinder Goyal, CEO of Indian online food delivery service Zomato and its parent Eternal, steps down and will be succeeded by Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-22 India

Sources: Anthropic projected a 40% gross margin from selling AI to companies and devs in 2025, down from earlier estimates of 50% due to higher inference costs (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-22 AI

BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the marketed range of $15 to $17 per share, giving it a market value of about $2.1B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 IPO

Weight-Loss Drugs Could Save US Airlines $580 Million Per Year (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-22

xAI engineer Sulaiman Ghori says he has “left” the company days after appearing on a podcast last week where he claimed that xAI had been skirting regulations (gizmodo.com)
2026-1-22

FBI's Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch On You (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-22 FBI

'America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster' (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-22 U.S.

Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 Startup Equity

Apple Reportedly Replacing Siri Interface With Actual Chatbot Experience For iOS 27 (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-1-22 IOS Apple chatbot

Spotify Lawsuit Triggered Anna's Archive Domain Name Suspensions (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-22 Spotify

Zendesk ticket systems hijacked in massive global spam wave (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-22

X unveils Bluesky-like “Starterpacks” to help users find accounts that match their interests, curated by X and rolling out in the coming weeks (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-22

Layoffs hit Vimeo for the second time since September 2025, when it laid off 10% of its workforce; Bending Spoons acquired Vimeo for around $1.38B in November (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-22 Layoffs

Apple Developing AI Wearable Pin (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-1-22 AI Apple

Sources: Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East, looking to raise at least $50B for OpenAI at a valuation of about $750B to $830B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22

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