Tech

The EU says it ordered X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual image generation (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-9

Google makes Help Me Write, AI email summaries, and Suggested Replies free to all Gmail users; the features required a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription (9to5google.com)
2026-1-9 Google AI

Google rolls out an AI Inbox view for Gmail, showing users to-dos and summaries of topics rather than a traditional email list, first for US “trusted testers” (www.theverge.com)
2026-1-9 Google AI

How to find and remove viral AI notetakers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-9 AI

Israeli data security startup Cyera raised a $400M Series F led by Blackstone Growth at a $9B valuation, up from $6B after raising $540M in June 2025 (fortune.com)
2026-1-9 Israel Startup

Microsoft Exchange Online outage blocks access to mailboxes via IMAP4 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Microsoft

Sources and US tax lawyers: the IRS's planned audit of private equity and VC firms is faltering under President Trump, as many senior leaders leave the agency (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-8 Trump Tax Equity

Sources: China is considering how to build fences around its AI know-how amid the AI race and is identifying standout companies to add to an export control list (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-8 China AI

Microsoft to enforce MFA for Microsoft 365 admin center sign-ins (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Microsoft

This refurbished Apple Mac Mini desktop is now $380 in this deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Apple

Lego says its Smart Brick is “here to stay” but “does not mean that we're leaving our core proposition behind”, after criticism of abandoning non-digital play (www.ign.com)
2026-1-8

Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood predicts “we'll see the first 100% AI-generated hit movie” within three years and discusses Roku's new $3/month Howdy streamer (variety.com)
2026-1-8 AI

Rubin Observatory Spots an Asteroid That Spins Fast Enough To Set a Record (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8

Sources: wealthy Californians are quietly mobilizing on WhatsApp and calls in a long-shot bid to oust Rep. Ro Khanna, who supports a controversial wealth tax (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-8 Tax WhatsApp

Sources: China's Salt Typhoon accessed the emails of staff on powerful US House committees, detected last December, and intercepted senior US officials' calls (www.ft.com)
2026-1-8 China

The Trump family's World Liberty Financial says its entity World Liberty Trust applied for a US banking license, which would let it issue the USD1 stablecoin (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-8 Trump

A profile of VC firm Index Ventures, which saw billions in gains from exits in 2025, including Figma, Scale AI, and Dream Games, as it looks ahead to succession (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-8 AI

Cambodia extradites Chen Zhi, the chair of online scam conglomerate Prince Group, to China; in October 2025, the US DOJ seized Chen's bitcoin worth nearly $12B (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-8 China Bitcoin Cambodia

A profile of Replit co-founder Amjad Masad, who was shunned in investor circles for his criticism of Israel's war in Gaza before Replit's AI agent took off (sfstandard.com)
2026-1-8 Israel AI

China says it will investigate Meta's $2B Manus acquisition to assess compliance with laws on export controls, tech import and export, and overseas investment (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-8 China

Ten Unexpectedly Fascinating Facts About Rain (listverse.com)
2026-1-8

Cisco warns of Identity Service Engine flaw with exploit code (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Cisco

CISA tags max severity HPE OneView flaw as actively exploited (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8

Sources: China plans to approve some imports of Nvidia's H200 chips as soon as Q1 2026 while still barring them from military use and critical infrastructure (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-8 China Nvidia

Big US hospital systems have become a proving ground for AI adoption; a survey finds that 27% of health systems are paying for commercial AI licenses (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-8 AI

How Bright Headlights Escaped Regulation (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8

Local governments across China are funding dozens of “robot training centers”, where human trainers mimic movements like folding clothes to teach the robots (restofworld.org)
2026-1-8 China Robot

The US FCC exempts some new models of foreign-made drones and critical components from an import ban, announced in December 2025, until the end of 2026 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-8 Drone Ban

Samsung says Ballie, a robot announced six years ago but never released, is an “active innovation platform” within the company helping inform other products (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-8 Samsung Robot

Sources: to hedge against Beijing approval risk, Nvidia is requiring Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, with no cancellations, refunds, or changes (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-8 China Nvidia

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