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Chinese autonomous trucking company DeepWay raised ~$173M ahead of its planned Hong Kong IPO, filed in November 2025; DeepWay reported ~$215M in H1 2025 revenue (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-26 China Hong Kong IPO

Sources: SoftBank halts talks about a ~$50B acquisition of US data center operator Switch, a setback to Masayoshi Son's goal to roll out Stargate infrastructure (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-26

Sources: Samsung enters the final qualification phase to supply its HBM4 chips to Nvidia, and targets mass production in February; Samsung's shares jumped 3.2% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-26 Samsung Nvidia

A deep dive into Apple's AI strategy reset, as it prepares to announce a Gemini-powered personalized Siri next month and a reimagined chatbot-like Siri at WWDC (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-26 AI Apple chatbot

Elliptic: ruble-backed stablecoin A7A5 surpassed $100B in transactions in under a year, but demand cooled and daily volume fell from a peak of $1.5B+ to ~$500M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-25

Sources: Grab's planned acquisition of GoTo has hit a snag over Indonesian carrier Telkomsel's unwillingness to sell its ~2% stake in GoTo at current valuations (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-24 Indonesia

Solos Technology sues Meta and EssilorLuxottica, alleging they willfully violated several patents that cover “core technologies in the field of smart eyewear” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-24

Sources: China deepens its probe into Meta's Manus acquisition in December to investigate cross-border currency flows, tax accounting, and overseas investments (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-24 China Tax

Sources: Richard Socher's Recursive is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $4B pre-money valuation to build self-improving superintelligent AI (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-24 AI

Source: smart ring maker Oura plans a tender offer for early investors at a 25% discount to its $11B valuation from Series E, aiming to stay private longer (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-24

R&D firm Merkle, which sold Farcaster, says it plans to repay VCs the $180M they invested in the social media project, and says Farcaster is not shutting down (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-24

Sources: China has told Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance that they can prepare orders for Nvidia's H200 chips, suggesting Beijing is close to approving imports (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-24 China Alibaba Tencent Nvidia

Sources: UBS plans to make cryptocurrency investing available for some private banking clients in Switzerland, starting with bitcoin and ether (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 Bitcoin Switzerland Cryptocurrency

Google invests an undisclosed sum in Sakana AI, valued at $2.6B in November 2025, to boost Gemini's presence in Japan; Sakana AI gains access to Google's LLMs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 Japan Google AI

Malaysia lifted its temporary ban on Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot after xAI added safety measures; Grok remains subject to continuous monitoring by authorities (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 AI chatbot Malaysia Ban Elon Musk

Sources: Fei-Fei Li's World Labs is in discussions with investors to raise hundreds of millions at a valuation of $5B; World Labs was last valued at $1B in 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23

Apple accuses the European Commission of “political delay tactics”, as the EC seems to be preparing to blame Apple for the shutdown of the Setapp app store (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 Europe Apple

Analysis: the top US tech companies spent $109M on DC lobbying in 2025, topping $100M for the first time; Meta spent $26.29M, Amazon $17.78M, and Google $13.1M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 Google Amazon

LiveKit, which offers tools for building voice, video, and physical AI models, including for ChatGPT's voice mode, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 AI

Sources: Apple expanded the job of hardware chief John Ternus to manage design teams at the end of 2025, solidifying his status as a leading CEO candidate (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 Apple

Inferact, founded by the creators of vLLM to create a commercial AI product for cross-hardware efficiency, raised a $150M seed led by a16z at an $800M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 AI

Mistral's CEO says claims that Chinese AI startups lag behind the US are a “fairy tale,” and China's open-source tech is “probably stressing” US CEOs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 China Startup AI

Circana: the Switch 2 ended December and 2025 as the US' best-selling video game hardware, offsetting declines among rivals to lift overall hardware spend by 9% (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23

Austin-based Neurophos, which develops a photon-based “Optical Processing Unit” to replace GPUs in AI training, raised $110M led by Bill Gates' Gates Frontier (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-23 AI Bill Gates

How Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Nvidia, as well as startups and university research teams, spent millions of dollars to develop AI weather forecasting tools (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 Google Microsoft Startup AI Nvidia

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

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

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

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

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

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