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Trump Administration Pushes Out Key Officials Focused on China Tech Threat (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-pushes-out-key-officials-focused-on-china-tech-threat-cd2dde3f?st=r3TjX5&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p85#a260123p85

Arm-Based Windows 11 PCs Can Now Download and Play Games from the Xbox App https://www.thurrott.com/games/331882/arm-based-windows-11-pcs-can-now-download-and-play-games-from-the-xbox-app

Amazon unveils its Autonomous Threat Analysis system, born from a 2024 internal hackathon, to use AI agents competing in teams to identify vulnerabilities (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-autonomous-threat-analysis/

Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting
Born out of an internal hackathon, Amazon’s Autonomous Threat Analysis system uses a variety of specialized AI agents to detect weaknesses and propose fixes to the company’s platforms.

Complaint by Coupang's U.S. investors may turn data leak probe into trade flash point
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-01-23/business/tech/Compl…

Complaint by Coupang's U.S. investors may turn data leak probe into trade flash point
U.S. investors in Coupang sought intervention in the Korean government's probe of the e-commerce giant over a data leak, potentially escalating the domestic investigation into an international trade conflict.

Trump’s pledge to raise the global baseline tariff rate from 10% to 15% is reverberating across markets, with investors now weighing whether a recent rally in overseas equities can hold.
In a post on TruthSocial, Trump said he would immediately increase the worldwide tariff rate to 15% following a Supreme Court decision related to trade authority. He also signaled that additional, “legally permissible” tariffs could be introduced in the coming months, reinforcing a more aggressive trade…

Kolanovic warns of reversal in overseas stocks after Trump signals tariff hike — Seeking Alpha
President Donald Trump’s pledge to raise the global baseline tariff rate from 10% to 15% is reverberating across markets, with investors now weighing whether a recent rally in overseas equities can hold.

A look at the growing reliance of US data centers and the Pentagon on Chinese batteries, a dependence increasingly viewed as a national security threat (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

The Pentagon and A.I. Giants Have a Weakness. Both Need China’s Batteries, Badly.
As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China’s battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.

The US says China is engaging in unfair trade practices in the chip sector, but holds off on imposing additional tariffs on chip imports at least until mid-2027 (Jordan Fabian/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and

US Holds Off on New Chinese Chip Tariffs Amid Trump-Xi Truce (1)
The US accused China of engaging in unfair trade practices in the semiconductor sector, but is declining to impose additional tariffs on chip imports until at least mid-2027.

IBM shares fall 12% after Anthropic outlined in a blog post how Claude Code can automate the exploration and analysis phases of COBOL modernization (Pia Singh/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/ibm-is-the-latest-ai-casualty-…

IBM is the latest AI casualty. Shares tank 13% on Anthropic programming language threat
COBOL is a computer language used for business data processing and IBM is a leader in that area.

Source: Binance considers reintroducing stock tokens after removing them in 2021; OKX, Kraken, Bitget, and others are expanding their tokenized stock offerings (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/crypto-exchanges-want…

Crypto Exchanges Want to Trade U.S. Stocks Everywhere
Some of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges are racing to let their customers trade crypto tokens that seek to track U.S. stocks, creating a parallel market that’s beyond the reach of U.S. regulators. Binance is exploring reintroducing stock tokens on its exchange after having removed them in ...

Hashrate Index: China's bitcoin mining market share rebounded to 14% by the end of October, making it the world's third-largest miner despite China's 2021 ban (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bitcoin-mining…