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Articles from www.wsj.com

A profile of DeepSeek creator Liang Wenfeng, a math geek who founded hedge fund High-Flyer in 2015 and had to apologize to investors about returns in 2021 (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-29 Mathematics

Cancer research startup Manas AI, founded by Reid Hoffman and researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee, raised $24.6M to focus on breast and prostate cancer and lymphoma (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-28 Startup AI

A look at China's booming crypto market, with Chinese traders using VPNs, overseas shell companies, and peer-to-peer networks to circumvent China's crackdown (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-27 China

Betting data from Illinois, New Jersey, and Colorado shows how parlays are driving revenue growth for FanDuel, DraftKings, and other US sports betting companies (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-27

Sources: DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng told Chinese Premier Li Qiang in a Jan. 20 meeting that US export controls on advanced chips to China were still a bottleneck (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-26 China

Despite assurances, advertisers worry Meta's tools may not prevent ads from appearing near offensive content as the new content moderation approach takes effect (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-26

Chinese self-driving company WeRide aims to make more inroads overseas in 2025; WeRide operates in nine countries and secured new deals in Switzerland and Japan (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-25 China Japan Switzerland

In email to X staff, Musk says “user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even”; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-25

ShopMy, which lets brands run influencer marketing efforts, raised a $77.5M Series B led by Bessemer and Bain, sources say at a $410M valuation vs. $80M in 2024 (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-25

Zuckerberg says Meta is building an AI engineer that will “start contributing increasing amounts of code to our R&D efforts” and is planning a 2GW+ data center (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-25 AI Zuckerberg

Sources: Trump's aides and Elon Musk became annoyed with Vivek Ramaswamy's outspokenness and some were angered by his H-1B comments, leading to his DOGE ouster (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-23 Trump Elon Musk H1B

Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI were arguing over Microsoft's ability to fulfill OpenAI's computing needs, in the months leading up to the Stargate announcement (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-23 Microsoft

China suggests it is willing to work with Trump to keep TikTok operating in the US, after previously saying it would block any forced TikTok sale (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-21 Trump China

US drone makers are wary of working with Taiwanese companies, fearing China's retaliation and being caught in a crossfire if US-China tensions rise under Trump (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-21 Trump China Taiwan Drone

A look at UK hedge fund Man Group's ArcticDB, an open-source tool used internally and by customers like Bloomberg to analyze daily stock trading data and more (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-20

A profile of Sulinna Ong, Spotify's head of editorial, whose team curates thousands of playlists and discovers new artists to complement Spotify's algorithms (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-20 Algorithm Spotify

A profile of smart ring maker Oura, which was founded in 2013 in Oulu, Finland and has grown to a $5.2B company by focusing on overall health than fitness alone (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-19 Finland

A group of 18 former European heads of state call on the EC to break up Google's advertising tech business, claiming it erodes Europe's media landscape (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-18 Europe Google

Sources: Meta's Community Notes won't apply to paid ads, but will be enabled for organic content, which includes brands' and influencers' unpromoted posts (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-17

Earnest Analytics: ~60% of paid Gemini users kept their subscriptions six months after signing up, better than Perplexity but lagging behind ChatGPT and Claude (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-17

Sources: Zuckerberg met with Trump on Friday, in part to mediate a 2021 lawsuit Trump brought against Meta over his account suspension after the Jan. 6 riot (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-14 Trump Zuckerberg

A look at Troodi, a mental health chatbot built by AI startup Elomia Health for Troomi's child-focused phones, with thousands of teen users across the US (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-14 Startup AI chatbot

Donald Trump Jr. is joining prediction-market startup Kalshi as a strategic adviser; CFTC called Kalshi “an online casino” in a December filing (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-14 Trump Startup CFTC

Blackstone invests $300M in DDN, which helps organizations store and analyze large amounts of data more efficiently for AI and HPC, at a $5B valuation (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-9 AI

AMD invests $20M in drug-discovery company Absci, which will move toward greater use of AMD's GPUs; Absci has 470+ AI chips, most of which are from Nvidia (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-9 AI Nvidia AMD

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg demanded a review at Meta after his 2023 knee surgery post on Facebook initially got anemic attention; Meta downplays the significance (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-8 Facebook Zuckerberg

Sources: Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2B in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners that would value it at $60B (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-8

Uber and Lyft are embracing autonomous vehicle operators like Waymo, May Mobility, and others, after abandoning their own self-driving car programs (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-6 Uber Autonomous Car

A look at Chinese hackers' attacks on US infrastructure and telecoms; sources: Charter, Consolidated Communications, and Windstream networks were also breached (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-6 China

Influencer marketing company Later acquires Mavely, which pays commissions to social-media creators for the sales they generate, for $250M in cash and stock (www.wsj.com)
2025-1-4

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