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Cambio, creator of AI-powered commercial real estate software for institutional investors, raised an $18M Series A led by Maverick Ventures at a $100M valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/real-estat

Exclusive: Cambio Lands $18M At $100M Valuation For AI-Powered Commercial Real Estate Software
The startup, which has built AI-powered commercial real estate software for institutional investors, has raised $18 million in a Series A round at a $100 million valuation.

I just looked it up. The SF Westfield is somehow not in a named commercial district so the vacancy tax will not apply to it. Oops. https://www.sftreasurer.org/business/taxes-fees/commercial-vacancy-tax-cvt

Fury as Amazon Ring Cameras Are Hooked Up to ICE System
https://futurism.com/future-society/amazon-ring-cameras-ice

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves. https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/

The Fulu Foundation, a group founded by repair advocate and YouTuber Louis Rossmann, which pays out bounties to people who can remove user-hostile features on connected devices, is now offering a potential payout of $10,000 to encourage hackers and tinkerers to disable software features that require Ring devices to send data to Amazon.

A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon
The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware.

Trump Secretary Silent as Sons Poised to Make Bank From End of Tariffs (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/206882/trump-commerce-secretary-lutnick-sons-money-end-tariffs-supreme-court
http://www.memeorandum.com/260220/p126#a260220p126

For Canberra, this means safer, quicker responses. The cameras allow remote operators to judge smoke colour, plume height, wind conditions, terrain and accessibility - all before a fire truck leaves a station.
#ACTRFS #Canberra

Deepinder Goyal, CEO of Indian online food delivery service Zomato and its parent Eternal, steps down and will be succeeded by Blinkit CEO Albinder Dhindsa (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/eter

Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal hands over reins to Blinkit chief as quick commerce takes off | TechCrunch
Deepinder Goyal will remain on Eternal's board as its vice chairman.

Google announces a partnership with Sea to develop AI tools for Sea's Shopee, Southeast Asia's most dominant e-commerce platform, and Sea's gaming unit Garena (Stanley Widianto/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Sources: Apple is developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging that could be released as early as 2027 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-developing-ai-wearable-pin

Apple Developing AI Wearable Pin
Apple is developing an AI-powered wearable pin the size of an AirTag that is equipped with multiple cameras, a speaker, microphones and wireless charging, according to people with direct knowledge of the project. The device could be released as early as 2027, they said. Such a product would ...