Tech

Apple unveils Apple Creator Studio, a “groundbreaking collection” of creative apps like Final Cut, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro for $12.99/month or $129/year (9to5mac.com)
2026-1-14 Apple

Microsoft Pledges Full Power Costs, No Tax Breaks in Response To AI Data Center Backlash (it.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Microsoft Tax AI

Deepgram, which is building enterprise voice-recognition tech, raised a $130M Series C led by AVP at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $215M (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-14

Sources: Meta plans to lay off ~10% of its 15,000-employee Reality Labs division, disproportionately affecting those working on VR headsets and Horizon Worlds (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-14 VR

Latin American VC funding rose 14.3% YoY in 2025 to $4.1B, with early-stage investment up 31.9% YoY to nearly $2B and late-stage/growth deals reaching $1.63B (news.crunchbase.com)
2026-1-14 U.S. Latin America

Microsoft changes its data center approach, pledging to pay its power costs, reject tax breaks, and replenish more water than it uses, amid local opposition (www.geekwire.com)
2026-1-14 Microsoft Tax

Trump Says Microsoft To Make Changes To Curb Data Center Power Costs For Americans (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-14 Trump U.S. Microsoft

Crypto scams received $14B+ on-chain in 2025, up from 2024's $12B and potentially rising to $17B+ as more wallets are found; impersonation scams jumped 1,400% (www.chainalysis.com)
2026-1-14

Salesforce makes Slack's new AI-powered Slackbot generally available, helping users answer workflow questions, draft documents, schedule meetings, and more (www.zdnet.com)
2026-1-14 AI Salesforce Slack

Target employees confirm leaked code after ‘accelerated' Git lockdown (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-14

IDC: in Q4 2025, global PC shipments rose nearly 10% YoY to 76.4M units, helped by Windows 10 end-of-support and OEMs pulling forward inventory amid tariffs (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-14 4Q

Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone and other execs discuss the challenges Netflix faces in streaming live events, after broadcasting 200+ live events since March 2023 (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-14 Netflix

Boston- and Tel Aviv-based Converge Bio, which uses AI trained on molecular data to help pharma and biotech companies develop drugs, raised a $25M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-13 AI Biotech

Sources: OpenAI plans a 60-second Super Bowl ad during NBC's broadcast, the second straight year of doing so; ad buyers say clients pay $8M+ for just 30 seconds (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-13

NYC-based Proxima, which uses AI to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised an $80M seed led by DCVC, with participation from Nvidia and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-13 AI Nvidia

Make tax time easier with H&R Block Deluxe + State 2025 in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-13 Tax

Warhammer maker Games Workshop says it banned its staff from using AI in its content or designs and it is taking a “very cautious” approach to protect its IP (www.ft.com)
2026-1-13 AI

Interviews with Spotify founder Daniel Ek on his CEO exit, and new co-CEOs Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström, who face algorithmic fatigue and angry artists (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-13 Spotify

Sources: Google will start developing and making high-end Pixel phones like the Pro and Fold from scratch in Vietnam in 2026; the Pixel A remains in China (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-1-13 China Google Vietnam

A profile of Eric Migicovsky's Core Devices, a five-person company that he says is “not a startup” and aims to be “sustainable”, as it builds new Pebble devices (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-13 Startup

Researchers Beam Power From a Moving Airplane (mobile.slashdot.org)
2026-1-13

The US House passes a bipartisan bill to expand US export controls to restrict Chinese companies' remote access to US AI chips from data centers outside China (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-13 China AI

PJM, the nonprofit operator for a 13-state power grid across the US, expects 4.8% average annual power growth over the next decade driven by the AI boom (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-13 AI

Researchers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and others are studying LLMs like living things, not just software, to uncover some of their secrets for the first time (www.technologyreview.com)
2026-1-13

You Can Now Reserve a Hotel Room On the Moon For $250,000 (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-13

A look at WhatsApp's enormous global reach and influence, and how the messaging app became the dominant platform for everyday conversation worldwide (www.newyorker.com)
2026-1-13 WhatsApp

Microsoft warns Chinese companies, especially DeepSeek, are winning AI adoption outside the West, gaining significant market share in the Global South (t.co)
2026-1-13 China Microsoft AI

Sources: Balderton cashed out ~$2B of its Revolut stake in the past year, turning an early £1M bet into a historic European VC win; its fifth fund returned 25x (t.co)
2026-1-13 Europe

The NYC token, launched by ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$100M after suspicious liquidity activity (decrypt.co)
2026-1-13 New York

Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice rose 54% in its Hong Kong debut after raising ~$600M in its IPO, and reported H1 2025 profit of ~$84M, up 14% from H2 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-13 China Hong Kong IPO

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