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Vibe coding startup Emergent raised a $70M Series B led by Khosla and SoftBank Vision Fund 2, after a $23M Series A in September 2025, and claims 5M users (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/emergent-vibe-coding-funding-khosla-s…

Emergent, which lets anyone build an app in minutes with AI, has raised $70 million led by Khosla Ventures and SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
AI has made it possible for a novice to whip up apps from scratch. Emergent recently raised $70 million in funding from Khosla and SoftBank.

Japan Ruling Party Proposes Cutting Subsidies for Solar Projects | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/japan-ruling-party-proposes-cutting-subsidies-for-solar-projects

Cursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/19/cursor-ai-coding-startup-graphite-competition-heats-up/

Exclusive: Cursor acquires code review startup Graphite as AI coding competition heats up
By purchasing Graphite, Cursor, currently valued at $29 billion, gains more code review and debugging capabilities

»China bans U.S. and Israeli cybersecurity software over security concerns:
China has told domestic firms to stop using U.S. and Israeli cybersecurity software, citing national security concerns amid rising tech tensions.«
Not that China is wrong, but this is also part of their maintenance of power, just like the USA or Europe and Co.
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China bans U.S. and Israeli cybersecurity software over security concerns
China told domestic firms to stop using US and Israeli cybersecurity software, citing national security concerns amid rising tech tensions

USDA Secretary Says
All SNAP Recipients Must Reapply,
Dubiously Citing Fraud
“Forcing millions to reapply is a deliberate effort to shrink the program and leave families hungry,” said one lawmaker
https://truthout.org/articles/usda-sec

USDA Secretary Says All SNAP Recipients Must Reapply, Dubiously Citing Fraud
“Forcing millions to reapply is a deliberate effort to shrink the program and leave families hungry,” said one lawmaker.

Cursor's recent experiment involved running hundreds of AI agents for nearly a week to build a web browser, writing 1M lines of code across 1,000 files (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/19/scaling-long-running-a…

Scaling long-running autonomous coding
Wilson Lin at Cursor has been doing some experiments to see how far you can push a large fleet of "autonomous" coding agents: This post describes what we've learned from …

OpenAI unveils GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, saying it is "significantly better" at "long-horizon reasoning" and is the first model it has trained for Windows environments (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/op…

OpenAI's Codex Max solves one of my biggest AI coding annoyances - and adds dramatically faster performance
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is ready to take on your next massive coding job. Here's what's new.

Mating secrets revealed
https://fesummaries.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/bird-mating-secrets-revealed-in-europes-last-ancient-forest-cheating-birds-i…

Bird mating secrets revealed in Europe’s last ancient forest
Cheating birds in Europe’s last untouched forest show promiscuity may be a natural default Joanna Sudyka, Irene Di Lecce, Grzegorz Hebda, Patryk Rowiński, Robert Rutkowski, Anna Szczuka, Char…

Sources: TSMC plans to move chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab in summer 2026, in line with its push to accelerate US production by "several quarters" (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

TSMC to install cutting-edge 3-nm chip tools in Arizona next summer
Advanced chip production on track to start by 2027, ahead of the original schedule

Google launches Antigravity, an "agent-first" coding tool that leverages Gemini 3 Pro and third-party models, available in free public preview (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/822833/google-antigravity-ide-coding-agent-…

Google Antigravity is an ‘agent-first’ coding tool built for Gemini 3
Available in free preview now with Gemini 3 Pro, Google Antigravity supports browser control and provides proof of its work.