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Fyodor Lukyanov: Trump's Venezuela move may have just earned him a Nobel peace prize (www.rt.com)
2026-1-7 Trump Venezuela Nobel

Congressman Introduces Legislation To Criminalize Insider Trading On Prediction Markets (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7

US threatens greater control over Western Hemisphere (www.rt.com)
2026-1-7

Merz tells Zelensky to stop young men from leaving Ukraine (www.rt.com)
2026-1-7 Ukraine

GWI: LinkedIn's 2025 revenue rose to $17B from $7B in 2020 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once per day in 2025, from 3.9% in 2020 (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-7 LinkedIn

Facing protests and new Threats from Trump, is the Iranian Regime on its last legs? (www.juancole.com)
2026-1-7 Trump Iran

Trump's anti-Climate Policies are Driving up Insurance Costs for Homeowners (www.juancole.com)
2026-1-7 Trump Climate Insurance

Vietnam on the Nile? With Chinese investment, Egypt turns to Solar Panel Manufacturing (www.juancole.com)
2026-1-7 China Manufacturing Solar Vietnam Egypt

Ugly Charts of US Auto Sales, 2025: Stellantis, Nissan Flirt with Catastrophe. GM, Ford, Honda Sales Rise but far below Peaks. Toyota & Hyundai-Kia Set Records (wolfstreet.com)
2026-1-7 Honda Toyota Ford Nissan

An AI-Generated NWS Map Invented Fake Towns In Idaho (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7 AI

A look at Kalshi and Polymarket's lucrative shift toward sports, as high-profile real-world bets raise questions about access, integrity, and US CFTC regulation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 CFTC

As data center development pressures power grids, officials have proposed requiring data centers to power down or switch to a backup when blackout risks rise (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-7

An interview with Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu on his new role as Google's chief AI architect, Gemini 3, progress toward the goal of AGI, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-1-7 Google Interview AI

PitchBook-NVCA: global VC investments hit $512B in 2025 with AI accounting for 50%+; VC fundraising fell to a 10-year low of $118.6B, ~$100B less than in 2024 (siliconangle.com)
2026-1-7 AI

How Google's ambitious approach to training Gemini on text, code, audio, images, and video helped it stage a powerful comeback, triggering a Code Red at OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-7 Google

Dutch fintech Bunq applies to become a US bank; the OCC conditionally approved national trust bank charters for several crypto firms in 2025, including Circle (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 Fintech Netherlands

The US FDA says it will limit regulation of non-medical wellness wearables and AI software, provided they don't make claims about disease diagnosis or treatment (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-7 AI

China unveils rules banning major platforms like Alibaba from forcing merchants into discounts or practices seen as disrupting market order, effective February (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 China Alibaba

Filing: Larry Page moved assets out of California ahead of the proposed CA wealth tax, meeting an end-of-2025 deadline; a source said he has left the state (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-7 Tax Asset California

Motorola unveils the Razr Fold, its first book-style foldable phone, with a 6.6" front display and an 8.1" 2K LTPO inner screen, expected to launch this summer (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7

In Venezuela, the real challenges for the US are just beginning (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-1-7 Venezuela

Creator of Claude Code Reveals His Workflow (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7

Silver Miners are Printing Money (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-1-7 Silver

Bondi reviewer Richardson has already said our security laws are no good (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-1-7

A Bondi royal commission would let the intelligence community speak, and expose some polite fictions (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-1-7 Intelligence

In seizing Maduro, US signals a willingness to act decisively (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-1-7

China vs America: Dan Wang and his sceptics (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-1-7 China U.S.

Lenovo introduces Qira, a system-level, cross-device AI assistant for both its computers and Motorola smartphones, arriving later this quarter (www.engadget.com)
2026-1-7 AI Lenovo

Sources: Chinese officials are reviewing Meta's purchase of Manus for possible technology export control violations (www.ft.com)
2026-1-7 China

Discord Files Confidentially For IPO (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7 IPO

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