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Marketing tech startup Applecart raised $100M in a minority funding round led by Blackstone's growth equity business, a source says at a ~$700M valuation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 Startup Equity

Sources: Sam Altman has been meeting with top investors in the Middle East, looking to raise at least $50B for OpenAI at a valuation of about $750B to $830B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22

Sources: AI chip startup SambaNova is seeking to raise $300M to $500M after talks to sell the company to Intel for about $1.6B, including debt, stalled (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 Intel Startup AI

Sources: Apple plans to revamp Siri this fall in iOS 27 and macOS 27 by turning it into the company's first AI chatbot, replacing the current Siri interface (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 IOS AI Apple chatbot

Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate hit $9B+ at the end of 2025, up from $4B in July 2025; Iconiq, Lightspeed, and Menlo are set to join its new funding round (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22

Ubisoft cancels six games and delays others amid a restructuring into five genre-specific “creative houses”; it expects net bookings of ~€1.5B for FY 2025-2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22

Sony launches the $230 LinkBuds Clip, open-style earbuds that sit outside the ear canal, with IPX4 water resistance and a 9 hour battery life, available now (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 Battery Sony

Upscale AI, which is building AI networking infrastructure, raised $200M led by Tiger, Premji Invest, and Xora Innovation at a $1B valuation to take on Cisco (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-22 AI Cisco

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

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

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

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

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

G42 CEO Peng Xiao says AI chip shipments from Nvidia, AMD, and Cerebras are set to arrive in the UAE within the next few months, as the UAE builds a 200MW hub (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 AI Nvidia AMD

Drone delivery startup Zipline raised $600M+, boosting its valuation to $7.6B, and says it has now completed 2M+ commercial deliveries of 20M different items (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 Startup Drone

Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $12B vs. $11.97B est., 325M paid subs, 2025 revenue up 16% to $45.2B, plans to increase content spend by 10% in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 Netflix 4Q

Greg Yang, one of the co-founders of xAI, is stepping down from the company after being diagnosed with Lyme disease (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21

At the WEF in Davos, Palantir CEO Alex Karp says that AI-driven job displacement will “make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 AI Davos Immigration

Demis Hassabis says Chinese AI companies are about six months behind leading western labs and the response to DeepSeek's R1 was a “massive overreaction” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 China AI

Filings: Michael Saylor's Strategy has bought more than $3B in Bitcoin since January 5, marking its biggest two-week purchase since December 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 Bitcoin

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is a blunder with “incredible national security implications”, calling it a “big mistake” and “crazy” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-21 China AI

Meta VP of Public Policy Simon Milner, the company's most senior Asia-Pacific policy executive, plans to leave after 14 years to retire from full-time work (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 Asia

Sources: UK and Chinese security officials set up a forum to discuss cyberattacks after hacking accusations, the first of its kind, to help prevent escalation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 China

Sources: China broadens its probe into Temu owner PDD, dispatching 100+ investigators to its Shanghai HQ, after staff exchanged physical blows with regulators (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 China Shanghai

French accounting software startup Pennylane raised $204M led by TCV, a source says at a ~$4.25B valuation, with participation from Blackstone, DST, and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 France Startup

A look at South Korea's Independent AI Foundation Model competition, which aims to find the best homegrown AI models, in a bid to compete with the US and China (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 China Korea AI

xAI has faced a growing outcry from global regulators over Grok's generation of non-consensual explicit photos, but has faced little regulatory action in the US (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20

Anthropic's Claude Cowork launch has revived fears about disruption that weighed on SaaS stocks in 2025; Morgan Stanley SaaS index is down 15% so far in 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 SaaS Morgan Stanley

Sources: Seoul-based AI chip designer FuriosaAI seeks to raise a $300M-$500M Series D to fund mass production of its 2nd-gen RNGD chip and is eyeing a 2027 IPO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-20 IPO AI

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