Tech

Sensor Tower: consumers spent $85B on apps globally in 2025, up 21% YoY, and, in a first, more money went on non-game mobile apps than on games, driven by GenAI (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-21 Mobile Sensor

The BBC confirms a “strategic partnership” with YouTube to produce exclusive content, including news and kids shows, a landmark deal for the UK broadcaster (variety.com)
2026-1-21 YouTube

Lightning AI merges with data center operator Voltage Park to create an “AI cloud” with a $2.5B valuation, managing 35,000+ Nvidia GPUs across six data centers (www.forbes.com)
2026-1-21 AI Nvidia

Ukrainian-founded language learning marketplace Preply raised a $150M Series D led by WestCap at a $1.2B valuation; the startup has a 150-person office in Kyiv (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-21 Startup Ukraine

Israeli startup DataRails, which offers financial planning and analytics tools, raised a $70M Series C led by One Peak at an estimated $600M to $700M valuation (en.globes.co.il)
2026-1-21 Israel Startup

At Davos, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth says Superintelligence Labs delivered its first high-profile AI models internally this month and the models are “very good” (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21 AI Davos

Chinese AI startup Zhipu says it is limiting GLM Coding Plan access after strong demand, taking only 20% of its current daily new subscriptions from January 23 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 China Startup AI

GlobalWafers Chair Doris Hsu says the Taiwanese silicon wafer maker is preparing for phase two of its Texas plant, after unveiling plans to invest an extra $4B (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21 Taiwan Texas

Berlin-based Cloover, which makes software to help install solar, home batteries, and heat pumps, raised $22M from Lowercarbon and others and $1.2B in debt (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 Germany Solar

How Ukraine and Russia both rely on the same Chinese drone suppliers, whose tech is vital to the war; China officially bans sensitive drone tech exports to both (www.ft.com)
2026-1-21 Russia China Drone Ukraine

US colleges like Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech are using AI to streamline admissions; Virginia Tech says AI that scores essay questions saved ~8,000 hours (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 AI Virginia

Sources: OpenAI begins offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, initially charging per ad view, not per ad click, and asks them for <$1M commitments (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-21 chatbot

Snap Settles Social media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of Landmark Trial (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21

As Taiwanese chipmakers push localization to secure supply chains, suppliers to the steel, plastics, and display industries are moving into Taiwan's chip sector (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-1-21 Taiwan

10 Widespread Historical Myths and the Texts That Started Them (listverse.com)
2026-1-21

Aurora Watch In Effect As Severe Solar Storm Slams Into Earth (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21 Solar

Galaxy Digital plans to launch a hedge fund in Q1 2026 investing up to 30% in crypto tokens and the rest in financial stocks; sources say it has raised $100M (www.ft.com)
2026-1-21

A programmer estimates his typical day of coding with Claude Code is equivalent to running the dishwasher an extra time, much more energy than a “median query” (www.simonpcouch.com)
2026-1-21 Energy

Bengaluru-based Amagi, an ad tools provider for broadcast and streaming TV, fell below its listing price in its India market debut after raising $196M in an IPO (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-21 India IPO

Thoma Bravo co-founder Orlando Bravo says the slump in software company valuations over threat of AI-driven disruption is creating a “huge buying opportunity” (www.ft.com)
2026-1-21 AI

Payments using facial recognition are growing in South Korea as the tech improves; South Korean fintech app Toss has scaled its “Facepay” service to 1M+ users (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-1-21 Korea Fintech Facial Recognition

The Gates Foundation and OpenAI plan to invest $50M to use AI to ease the impact of chronic staff shortages in 1,000 primary health clinics in Africa by 2028 (www.ft.com)
2026-1-21 AI Africa

Apple wins dismissal of parts of a class action alleging it violated CA privacy law by collecting user data from its apps despite users believing they opted out (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2026-1-21 Apple

China's Cyberspace Administration requires firms to file their AI tools in a public algorithm registry, creating a detailed map of the country's AI ecosystem (www.wired.com)
2026-1-21 China AI Algorithm

Signal's Meredith Whittaker says deeper integration of AI agents into devices is “perilous” for encryption, since agents need access to lots of data across apps (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 AI

OpenAI says it will cover the costs of developing energy-related infrastructure at its Stargate data centers to ensure they don't raise consumers' utility bills (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 Energy

Barret Zoph says Thinking Machines Lab fired him only after learning he was leaving, and at no time did the company cite his performance or unethical conduct (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-21

Era of 'Global Water Bankruptcy' Is Here, UN Report Says (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-21

Multiple Apple services, including Apple TV, the App Store, and iCloud have been experiencing outages since 6:48 PM ET, according to Apple's system status page (www.macrumors.com)
2026-1-21 Apple

Analysis: the Trump family has generated about $1.4B from crypto projects since Trump's inauguration a year ago, making up about one-fifth of their fortune (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 Trump

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