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Salesforce: online Black Friday sales grew 6% YoY to $79B globally, including $3B in US sales driven by AI agents; Adobe: US online sales rose 9.1% to $11.8B (Joan Verdon/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanverdon/2025/…

Black Friday Data Shows Online Sales Strong, Store Results Mixed
U.S. ecommerce sales jumped 9.1% on Black Friday according to Adobe, but the verdict is still out on how well physical stores performed.

An observational study of rotation and binarity of Galactic O-type #runaway stars: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2026/01/aa56646-25/aa56646-25.html -> ICCUB astronomers lead the most ambitious study of runaway massive stars in the Milky Way: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1114466

Find X9 Pro und weitere: Oppo-Smartphones kehren nach Deutschland zurück
Nach 3,5 Jahren Pause ist Oppo wieder in Deutschland aktiv. Der Online-Shop bietet Smartphones, Kopfhörer und Wearables an.
h…

Donald Trump On Race:
💥"And we just clean out that whole thing … I don’t know, something has to happen, but it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished, and people are dying there, so I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing in a different location where I think they could maybe live in peace for a change.
– 👉Suggesting Palestinian displacement onboard Air Force One, 25 January 2025
💥"Then it’s a group w…

2025 NFL season's 25 biggest stories: Shedeur Sanders, Sam Darnold, stunning firings headline wild ride

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nfl-season-25-biggest-stories/

Friday Links 25-24
I was busy last week, which means more links for today.
I really like the podcast with Charity Majors about teams, and it made me rediscover her blog.
Some interesting posts about security and LLMs and LLMs in general this week.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/10/fr

Friday Links 25-24
I was busy last week, which means more links for today. I really like the podcast with Charity Majors about teams, and it made me rediscover...

“Want to hold 5000 of something?” It’s always so cool to get a full reel of SMD parts. In this case, resistors

„Mantra, Mantra“ war doch damals dieser Kultfilm um den Ashram des berühmten Schweigers Till aus der Neembaum-Straße…

The regime wants to turn artists into performing monkeys (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/chuck-redd-trump-kennedy-center
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p9#a251230p9

I love this high quality screen but I miss the extra width from my old one. Was thinking of a second monitor but no one makes > 200 ppi small screens (21" or smaller) except as portable monitors.

Get comfortable cuz this is gonna take a while.
☑️ Daniel Dale Counts Down Donald Trump's 'Top 25 Lies of 2025'
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/cnns-daniel-dale-counts-down-donald-trumps-top-25-lies-of-2025/…

CNN’s Daniel Dale Counts Down Donald Trump’s ‘Top 25 Lies of 2025’
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale recounted 25 of Donald Trump's "top lies of 2025," although the journalist confessed it was hard to choose "only 25."

UK sugar tax to be extended to more soft drinks and milkshakes https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/nov/25/sterling-volatility-the-budget-rachel-reeves-german-economy-stagnating-…

Ukrainian extradited from Ireland on Conti ransomware charges
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ukrainian-extradited-from-ireland-on-conti-ransomware-charges/

Ukrainian extradited from Ireland on Conti ransomware charges
A Ukrainian national believed to be a member of the Conti ransomware operation has been extradited to the United States and faces charges that could get him 25 years in prison.

Genuinely not sure who's lazier: the people passing off chatbot output as their own writing, or the armchair AI experts spouting off on how 60 years of research by tens if not hundreds of thousands has produced nothing of any utility.

I love the use of redaction here.
https://www.trumpkennedycenter.org/

Brett Kavanaugh is trying to walk back “Kavanaugh stops.” Too late.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/brett-kavanaugh-stops-immigration-racial-profiling-ice.html

The White House launches a media bias tracker on its site for news reports the president disagrees with, citing outlets like The Washington Post, CNN, and more (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/28/trump-media-criticism/

Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker
A new White House webpage presents a “Hall of Shame” for news reports that the president disagrees with, coming after Trump voiced personal attacks on female reporters at ABC, CBS, the New York Times and Bloomberg.

RE: https://discuss.systems/@tobinbaker/115980857725075131
🔥🔥🔥

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-OralHist: 18 January - 25 January https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20139312/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-oralhist-18-january-25-january

Linux-Distribution AV Linux 25 alternativ mit Moksha-Desktopumgebung
Die Linux-Distribution AV Linux 25 bekommt alternativ Moksha-Desktop und aktualisiert die MX-Linux-Basis auf den Debian-Trixie-Stand.

If you're a YouTuber or have some other platform, please take a hint from Technology Connections and tell the truth to your audience.

My dreams are weird ya'll

RE: https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/115634589128655814
Citation needed. Oh, here it is: https://

#Rstats problems: Did you ever think that the dots for dotted lines are a bit too far apart per default? TIL that it's super easy to change this.
In #ggplot2, simply try something like:
scale_linetype_manual(
values = c(a = "dotted", b = "11")
)
The '11' means: 1 point for a dot, 1 point for a gap. Find out more here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25788945/how-to-define-more-line-types-for-graphs-in-r-custom-linetype

Immer wenn ich Berichte über Katherina Reiche lese, weiß ich gar nicht, ob sie korrupt, bösartig, inkompetent oder alles zusammen ist. Eines der letzten großen Rätsel der Menschheit.

🌽 The environmental costs of corn: should the US change how it grows its dominant crop?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/03/environment-corn-farming-trump-administration

The environmental costs of corn: should the US change how it grows its dominant crop?
Amid concerns over greenhouse gas emissions, the Trump administration has abolished climate-friendly farming incentives

@… 試すならこのへんからよろしくー

Airbus issues an order to revert 6,000 A320-series planes to old software, after an incident revealed that intense solar radiation corrupted flight control data (Nadeem Badshah/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/

Exomoon search with VLTI/GRAVITY around the substellar companion HD 206893 B: #exomoon candidate revealed by high-precision astrometry: https://observatoiredeparis.psl.eu/an-unprecedented-signal.html?lang=en

Week 13 NFL picks, odds, best bets from proven model: This 5-leg parlay pays nearly 25-1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/week-13-nfl-picks-odds-best-bets-parlay/

Federal agents engaged in widespread misrepresentations to justify use of force: Judge (ABC7)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chicago-federal-agents-engaged-widespread-misrepresentations-justify-use-force-judge-ellis-says/18224047/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p6#a251130p6

Samsung says it's partnering with Nvidia to build an "AI Megafactory" and deploy over 50K of Nvidia's most advanced GPUs to embed AI in its chipmaking process (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/10/30/sa

Samsung and Nvidia to build an AI Megafactory to transform semiconductor manufacturing - SiliconANGLE
Samsung and Nvidia to build an AI Megafactory to transform semiconductor manufacturing - SiliconANGLE

“Throughout our trip to Germany, most of the conversations I had with other survivors and their families reliably returned to fears and intergenerational traumas in the context of the Trump presidency; the rise of nationalism, authoritarianism and uncertainty in the U.S. and around the world. But although this was at the height of devastating reports of famine and genocide emerging from Gaza, everyone in our group, especially the Jews, seemed to make a concerted effort to avoid mention of Pa…

Remembering ‘Never Again for Everyone’ at Bergen-Belsen
At the height of the war in Gaza, a Jewish activist for Palestine accompanied his mother, a Holocaust survivor, to Germany for a ceremony to mark 80 years since liberation

If you want see some bad things happening to Nazis, this is a good read

:blobcatcool:

Amazon Employees for Climate Justice strike again! https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-employees-open-letter-artificial-intelligence-layoffs/?emci=8691…

Amazon Workers Issue Warning About Company’s ‘All-Costs-Justified’ Approach to AI Development
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice says that over 1,000 workers have signed a petition raising “serious concerns” about the company’s “aggressive rollout” of artificial intelligence tools.

The old Stone Temple Albums really hold up well. "Purple" still slaps.

Fedibirdの機能にいろいろ対応しているスマホアプリとしては、
■ iOS
:zonepane: ZonePane（ぞーぺん）
:dawn_appicon: Nightfox DAWN
:feather_app: feather
■ Android
:zonepane: ZonePane（ぞーぺん）
:subwaytooter: SubwayTooter
まずはこのあたりを試してみてほしいかな。
#fedibird #fedibird_info

Falcons hire Ian Cunningham as GM; NBA, MLB Power Rankings; Top 25 stories of 2025 NFL season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/falcons-hire-ian-cu…

Pixel Tablet: Google verlängert Update-Garantie um zwei Jahre
Google schenkt dem Pixel Tablet ein längeres Leben. Das Tablet erhält zwei weitere Jahre Updates bis 2028.
https://www.

Filing: Chinese AI startup MiniMax seeks to raise up to ~$538.5M in a Hong Kong IPO, offering 25.4M shares at a price range of ~$19.40 to ~$21.20 per share (Shivangi Lahiri/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…

RE: https://syzito.xyz/@OccuWorld/115813624307817114
Cue @… post on how the EU is leading the world on fig…

Homeland Security seeks emergency demolition of historic buildings in D.C. (Paul Schwartzman/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/12/30/homeland-security-plan-demolish-buildings-st-elizabeths/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p14#a251230p14

Please stop with the “do LLMs have fee-fees?” bullshit
This presupposes LLMs are alive which in turn means that for every prompt an LLM baby is born and after answering is snuffed out, dying horribly
Like the whale in the Hitchhiker’s Guide

Nightfox DAWNにも書いたけど、まだ公開されてないのだわ

Gas-Durst für den KI-Boom: Neue Rechenzentren gefährden deutsche Klimaziele
Der Global Oil and Gas Plant Tracker offenbart: Ein großer Teil der geplanten Gaskraftwerke hierzulande entfällt direkt auf die Versorgung von Rechenzentren.

In a time of crisis, Trump falls back on rants rather than unity (Karen Tumulty/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/30/trump-response-national-guard-attack/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p17#a251130p17

Lem Barney, Lions legend and Pro Football Hall of Fame CB, dies at 80 https://www.nfl.com/news/lem-barney-lions-legend-and-pro-football-hall-of-fame-cb-dies-at-80

:zonepane:
iOS番のぞーぺん、すごく良かったからストアのレビューでお勧めしてきたよ。みんなも書くと良いよ。
Misskey対応についてはフライングだけどな！
--
公式アプリでは物足りない人のための高性能サードパーティークライアント
★★★★★ 月・noellabo
公式アプリでは物足りない、痒いところに手が届くサードパーティクライアントが欲しいなら、ぜひZonePaneを試してほしい。
複数の対応 SNS （Bluesky、Mastodon、Misskey）の優れた特徴を引き出しながら、公式では実現していない便利な機能を付加し、複数のSNSと複数のアカウントをスムースに切り替えて同時に利用でき、必要ならクロスポストすることもできる。
これぞサードパーティー、というアプリである。
たとえば、未読管理（前回の続きから見たい）ができたり、ある投稿の前後を参照することも自在である。
みんな、こういうアプリが欲しかったのでは！？

Humanoider Roboter Optimus arbeitet nicht produktiv bei Tesla
Elon Musk hat eingestanden, dass der Roboter Optimus noch lerne und wenig produktiv sei. Ein verbesserter Nachfolger soll in Kürze vorgestellt werden.

Range, which uses AI to offer flat-fee financial planning services to mass affluent households, raised a $60M Series C led by Scale Venture Partners (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/11/25/range-flat-fee-invest…

Exclusive: Flat-fee advisor Range raises $60M for AI financial planning
The company offers flat-fee financial planning to mass affluents.

Trump Claims US Strike on 'Big Facility' Inside Venezuela (Magan Crane/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29/trump-claims-us-strike-on-big-facility-inside-venezuela
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p35#a251229p35

自分のための二次創作は、なかなか観測できないからね

Fritzboxen 7690 und 5690 bekommen FritzOS 8.20 und 6670 Cable 8.21
Fritz versorgt drei weitere Router mit aktueller Firmware. FritzOS 8.20 beziehungsweise 8.21 modernisieren unter anderem die Weboberfläche.

He reunited families separated under Trump. Now he's running for Congress. (Dan Diamond/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/29/jonathan-white-democrat-congress-maryland/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY0NDc4ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY1ODYxMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjQ0Nzg4MDAsImp0aSI6ImFkN2FiNzgxLTA5MWQtNDg0Yy1hOTM5LTk3MzliZWY4YzE4MiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI1LzExLzI5L2pvbmF0aGFuLXdoaXRlLWRlbW9jcmF0LWNvbmdyZXNzLW1hcnlsYW5kLyJ9.xFCSAu4WDT_-VR0ynHHy5ynVZxiiAlGLrNc7NXcDYb4&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p32#a251130p32

DMEA: Digital Health Messe wechselt Standort ab 2027
Die DMEA findet dieses Jahr zum letzten Mal in Berlin statt. Für den Standort Berlin wurde derweil eine neue Gesundheitsmesse angekündigt.
https://www.

ビア鯖はいいぞ

Anthropic expands its agentic plugins, which let enterprise users automate department-specific workflows, from Claude Code to its new general-use tool Cowork (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/30/anthropic-brings-agentic-plugins-to-cowork/

Anthropic brings agentic plug-ins to Cowork | TechCrunch
The company says you can use plug-ins to "tell Claude how you like work done, which tools and data to pull from, how to handle critical workflows, and what slash commands to expose so your team gets more consistent outcomes."

Weltraumteleskop James Webb: Neuer Rekord bei am weitesten entfernten Galaxien
Seit Jahren findet das Weltraumteleskop James Webb Überraschungen im frühen Kosmos. Nun hat es die Grenze des beobachtbaren Universums erneut verschoben.

以前の招待URLだけど、まだ余裕あるので、fedibird.comに登録したい人は使うといいよ。
QT: https://fedibird.com/@noellabo/115285536695435253

Grubhub plans to remove delivery and service fees on restaurant orders over $50 starting Feb. 2; Grubhub's US market share fell to ~4% in 2025 from 10% in 2023 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-…

Marktforscher: iPhone 16 ist 2025 das weltweit meistverkaufte Smartphone
Kein Xiaomi, Oppo oder Vivo: Apple und Samsung teilen sich die Plätze um die 10 am meisten abgesetzten Smartphones unter sich auf.

@… 記録されてないねえ。
Fedibirdの検索の拡張で、リアクション数やお気に入り数の多かった投稿を絞り込むことができるぐらいかなー。

The Q.ai acquisition could be Apple's second-largest ever and marks founder Aviad Maizels' second exit to Apple, which bought his startup PrimeSense in 2013 (Omer Kabir/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bjmwdmkizx

Apple acquires secretive Israeli AI startup Q.ai for $1.5 billion
The little-known company, led by PrimeSense founder Aviad Maizels, has been working on whispered speech and advanced audio technologies for wearable devices.

„Der nächste große Schritt“: GOG Galaxy soll offenbar auf Linux portiert werden
Bislang läuft die DRM-freie Spieleplattform GOG nur auf Windows und macOS. Für eine Linux-Version sucht die Firma nun nach einem neuen Entwickler.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0B58YZYMD

A San Francisco jury finds former Google engineer Linwei Ding guilty of stealing trade secrets related to AI chip technology to build a startup in China (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/ex-google-engineer-guilty-…

Ex-Google Worker Guilty of Stealing AI Tech for Chinese Firm (1)
A former Google engineer was convicted Thursday of economic espionage and trade secrets theft for taking hundreds of the company’s confidential documents on AI chip technology to build a startup in China.

heise | Wärmepumpen‑Kosten senken: Förderung, Netzentgelt und Umlagen-Befreiung im Check
Wärmepumpen werden nicht nur beim Kauf gefördert: Netzentgelt-Rabatt und Umlagen-Befreiung senken Stromkosten. Ein Überblick über Mechanismen und Fallstricke.

@… 今晩かなー。

Source: SpaceX and xAI are in talks to merge ahead of a planned IPO this year; under the proposed deal, shares of xAI would be exchanged for shares in SpaceX (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/musks-spacex-merger-talks-with-xai-…

Ist Moltbot der erste echte KI-Assistent? Warum das Tool für Wirbel sorgt
Moltbot soll sich Gespräche merken und proaktiv Aufgaben erledigen. Warum das Tool einen Hype in der KI-Szene erfährt und welche Risiken damit einhergehen.

„Cairn“: Klettertour ins Ich
The Game Bakers schickt die Spieler im Survivalabenteuer „Cairn“ auf eine erbarmungslose Klettertour. Hart, wunderschön und ziemlich melancholisch.
https://www.heise.de/news/Cairn-Klette…

Appfigures: Sora's app downloads dropped 32% month-over-month in December and 45% in January to 1.2M; consumer spending on the app fell 32% MoM as of January (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/openais-sora-app-is-struggli…

OpenAI's Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch | TechCrunch
New data suggests the app is seeing declines in both app downloads and consumer spending, as the early hype about the AI video social network wears off.

Fahrradmesse Eurobike schrumpft und setzt auf Neuanfang
Die Eurobike 2026 wird kleiner: Weniger Hallen, kürzere Dauer und namhafte Hersteller sagen ab. Der Veranstalter setzt dennoch auf einen Neuanfang.
https://www…

Social media app UpScrolled hits #1 on Apple's US app store following allegations that TikTok suppresses anti-ICE videos; its founder says it crossed 1M users (Conor Murray/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/si…

TikTok Competitor UpScrolled Hits No. 1 On App Store Following Allegations TikTok Suppresses Anti-ICE Videos
UpScrolled, a new social media platform that says it does not shadowban or censor users, ranks No. 1 on Apple’s U.S. app store as of Thursday—much higher than competitor TikTok, which is No. 27.

heise | heise Expertentalk: Eigene PV-Anlage – Von der Planung bis zur Förderung
Auf dem Weg zur einen PV-Anlage gibt es viele Stellschrauben, um das Beste rauszuholen. Im Live-Expertentalk beantworten wir Ihre Fragen dazu.

OpenAI has hired 7 employees from AI coding startup Cline, including Nik Pash, who left Cline after posting "imagine the smell" on X regarding an xAI hackathon (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Hires at Least Seven Staffers From Coding Startup Cline
OpenAI has recently hired more than a half dozen employees from Cline, a startup that develops an open-source, AI-powered coding assistant, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed. The hires could help OpenAI accelerate improvements for its Codex coding product, which it sees as a key tool to make its ...

Microsoft shares fell ~10% on Thursday following an earnings report that disappointed some investors, the stock's sharpest daily decline since March 2020 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/microsoft-market-cap-earnings.html

Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020
As investors sold shares of Microsoft on Thursday, the $3.2 trillion company dragged down the software complex and the S&P 500 index.

Elon Musks Unternehmensimperium könnte bald eine Neuordnung erfahren! 🚀
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11159813

Amazon reported hundreds of thousands of pieces of potential CSAM in AI training data to NCMEC in 2025; child safety officials say Amazon didn't give the source (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/amazon-found…

Paxos acquires Fordefi, a New York-based startup that helps customers store their digital assets, for $100M ; PitchBook: Fordefi was last valued at $83M (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/25/paxos-fordefi-acquisition-crypto-wallet-defi/

Stablecoin issuer Paxos to acquire wallet startup Fordefi for more than $100 million
Paxos provides crypto infrastructure for major institutions like PayPal and Mastercard.

Sources: bids for GroqCloud, Groq's AI inference platform, are expected to exceed $1B after Nvidia's $20B non-exclusive licensing agreement with Groq (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/nvidia-

OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/25/chatgpt-merges-chat-and-v…

ChatGPT just made voice mode even more capable - 9to5Mac
ChatGPT has an impressive voice mode that offers a very natural, conversational flow. The latest update to ChatGPT now combines...

The US Treasury has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa, reversing a designation imposed by the Biden administration in 2024 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/treasury-sanctions-intellexa-removed

Treasury removes sanctions for three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa
The Treasury Department on Tuesday took three people closely affiliated with the holding company behind Predator spyware off of a sanctions list, reversing their designation in 2024 by the Biden administration.

Kalshi and Polymarket have partnered with social media accounts purporting to be breaking news reporters, some of which have repeatedly posted false information (Jordy Fee-Platt/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6876922/2

Kalshi, Polymarket are partnering with X accounts claiming to be sports insiders
As Polymarket and Kalshi continue to grow in popularity, they have worked with social media accounts claiming to be breaking news reporters.

Sources: ByteDance plans to spend about $14B on Nvidia's AI chips in 2026, an increase of about 18% from 2025 (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3338191/bytedance-pour-u…

Exclusive | ByteDance to pour US$14 billion into Nvidia chips in 2026 as AI demand surges
Chinese unicorn’s computing needs have climbed across its portfolio of popular apps, cloud unit Volcano Engine and large language models.

SoftBank says it has completed a $22.5B investment in OpenAI, finalizing its up to $40B investment commitment announced in March and taking its stake to ~11% (SoftBank Group Corp.)
https://group.softbank/en/news/press/20251231

Completion of Additional $22.5 Billion Investment in OpenAI | SoftBank Group Corp.
SoftBank Group Corp. today announced that it has completed an additional investment of $22.5 billion in OpenAI on December 26, 2025 (U.S. time) at the second closing of The Company’s investment of up to $40.0 billion committed on March 31, 2025.

Filing: China's top DRAM maker CXMT plans to raise $4.2B in a Shanghai IPO; CXMT held a 4% global share in Q2 2025 and targets HBM production by the end of 2026 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/ch…

Meta says Manus, initially based in Beijing and Wuhan, will cut Chinese investor ties after the deal and "will discontinue its services and operations in China" (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Meta says AI startup Manus to cut China ties after acquisition
US tech giant says Manus will maintain current operations as it is integrated into Meta platforms

Driven by the AI boom, chipmakers posted $400B in sales in 2025; FactSet projects revenue for Nvidia, Intel, Broadcom, AMD, and Qualcomm to reach $538B in 2026 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/…

Coupang says it is offering $1B in compensation to all 33.7M customers affected by South Korea's biggest-ever data breach, after an ex-staffer accessed data (Shinhye Kang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

China's SMIC plans to acquire the remaining 49% stake in its SMNC unit for ~$5.8B, making the unit wholly owned, per a Shanghai Stock Exchange filing (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-smic-take-full-…

A profile of Klay, whose app will let users remake songs using AI; Klay has raised ~$10M and is the first AI startup to close deals with the three major labels (Abram Brown/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/secretive-startup-klay-jump…

Secretive Startup Klay Jumps Into the Fray Over AI Music
“So here’s a real surprise,” said Ary Attie, holding open a hidden door in the bowels of the Walker Hotel in the city’s Greenwich Village neighborhood. “There used to be a lot more cool, interesting places in New York—and there’s still a few left.” Attie, the 30-year-old founder of Klay, a new ...

Sources: Micron plans to invest $9.6B in Japan to build a production facility for next-gen HBM memory chips beginning in 2026, with shipments expected in 2028 (Ryo Mukano/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/s…

Micron to invest $9.6bn in western Japan to make AI memory chips
US company's decision enables Japan to secure domestic access to key components

Tesla's robotaxi service in Austin significantly trails Waymo, deploying an estimated 30 cars with safety drivers, vs. Waymo's 200 cars without human monitors (Jack Ewing/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/business/tesla-robotaxis-austin-…

Tesla Robotaxis Are Big on Wall St. but Lagging on Roads
Shares of Tesla have hit new highs on optimism about the company’s self-driving taxis. But experts say Tesla is far behind Waymo, which has a big head start.

Ofcom chief Melanie Dawes warns social media companies to prove their algorithms protect under-18s from seeing harmful content, or face enforcement action (Dan Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b45b35a1-d93b-44e7-ac4b-139bb20faab7

Corporate travel and expense management software maker Navan's shares fell 20% to $20, valuing it at $5B, after raising $923.1M in its IPO at a $6.2B market cap (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Filing: Gloo, a developer of AI tools for Christian churches with ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger as its head of technology, seeks an $873.4M valuation in its US IPO (Pritam Biswas/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/gloo-wi

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the 14,000-person layoffs were due to "culture" and "removing layers" from its internal structure, not really AI or financial factors (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/its-cultu…