Tootfinder

The administration has done real damage to climate action,
experts say.
But in many ways, renewables are unstoppable.
https://grist.org/climate-energy/trump-is-trying-to-kill-clean-energy-the-market-has-other-plans/

Trump is trying to kill clean energy. The market has other plans.
The administration has done real damage to climate action, experts say. But in many ways, renewables are unstoppable.

IDC expects shipments of PCs could shrink by up to 9% YoY in 2026 due to global memory shortages, as demand from AI data centers continues to outstrip supply (Zak Killian/Tom's Hardware)

IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market
Memory shortages are expected to have a serious impact on the PC and smartphone market.

Fed Contender Hassett Says Market Is Ready for Trump Chair Pick (María Paula Mijares Torres/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-30/fed-contender-hassett-says-market-is-ready-for-trump-chair-pick
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p36#a251130p36

Sharing the benefits of grid-scale batteries and solar/wind by trading in western US. The current 15 minute market in California Now going to day ahead market.
(I think made possible with recent massive grid-scale batteries allows evening out of renewables)
California now runs 5pm-8pm electricity use on batteries. Turn off more plants cuz can plan for a full day.
Thoughtful article on wholesale electricity grid coordination markets. Sounds dry, but cool:

Wishing all our readers a peaceful weekend, but before you head out, don't forget to read today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--US ODNI ignores her remit and is investigating 2020 election fraud claims,
--US law enforcement are probing if WhatsApp employees can read users' messages,
--Popular AI app exposes millions of users' private messages,
--Darkweb market Empire Market creator pleads guilty,…

US ODNI drops her remit to investigate 2020 election fraud claims
US law enforcement are probing if WhatsApp employees can read users' messages, Popular AI app exposes millions of users' private messages, Darkweb market Empire Market creator pleads guilty, US seizes $400m in darknet crypto mixer Helix's assets, UK safety charity warns about The Com, much more

Kremlin deprived of oil and gas funds as exports plunge | Euractiv
https://www.euractiv.com/news/russia-is-losing-both-the-eu-market-and-its-gas-station-status/

From the IMF
"the Canadian economy remains much less integrated than its global footprint would suggest. Goods, services, and workers face significant barriers when moving across provincial and territorial lines—a fragmentation that affects productivity, competitiveness, and overall resilience"
Most of the benefits would flow to the smaller provinces
#Canpoli

Canada Can Grow Faster by Unlocking Its Own Market
Knocking down internal trade barriers could boost output in Canada by 7 perc

Source: the NFL won't allow prediction-market ads during Super Bowl LX on February 8, but sports betting ads are allowed, reportedly limited to six total ads (Ben Horney/Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/nfl-wont-allow-prediction-ma…

NFL Won’t Allow Prediction-Market Super Bowl Commercials
Prediction-market platforms have exploded in popularity and raised billions of dollars. But they’re not allowed to buy Super Bowl ads.

Top Articles of 2025: The Rental Housing Market Holds Strong
"The U.S. rental housing market remained strong and stable in 2025, with narrowing supply‑demand gaps, rising investment activity, and rent growth in line with pre‑pandemic levels."

Top Articles of 2025: The Rental Housing Market Holds Strong
The U.S. rental housing market remained strong and stable in 2025, spreading through the multifamily and single-family rentals sectors. Here’s a look at this year's top articles from Arbor Realty Trust, in case you missed them.

Insurance tech company Ethos raised ~$200M in its Jan. 29 IPO, selling 10.5M shares at $19 each; it reached a $1.1B market cap, below its 2021 $2.7B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/how-sequoi…

How Sequoia-backed Ethos reached the public market while rivals fell short | TechCrunch
The profitable life-insurance platform was one of the first major tech companies to test the 2026 public markets.

QB Power Rankings Week 18 https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-18-brock-purdy-best-kyler-murray-tua-tagovailoa

QB Power Rankings Week 18 https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-18-brock-purdy-best-kyler-murray-tua-tagovailoa

Russia’s fuel market reels as Ukrainian strikes and sanctions drive diesel prices higher despite export bans: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/29/russias-fuel-market-reels-as.html

Ah, yes, scale and market penetration, the two founding pillars of open source.
(Actually, I’m not even being sarcastic. Don’t confuse free software and open source. Open source is open as in “open for business” and “open for enclosure”. Free software is about free as in “freedom”. Very different things, even if, in both cases, the source is readily available.) @…

OpenForum Europe (@OpenForumEurope@mastodon.cloud)
Attached: 1 image @HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu gave a keynote address, lauding the EU as "the beacon of open source technology". Existing innovation must now be supported to reach scale, ensure financial sustainability and achieve wider market penetration.

ibm selling off 9.0.0.0/8 ? i would have thought they’d want to keep it for their cloud service
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01KDY17AENBWPQXEG3RSW7396R

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"IBM" transferred 9.128.0.0/16 (Taken from 9.9.10.0 - 9.128.255.255) to "Hotwire Communications" (Estimated Market Value: $851.97 K)

“The Australian Energy Market Operator estimates that by 2040, data centres will consume 12 per cent of electricity in Australia, and the federal Climate Change and Energy Department has said that growth will make emissions reduction goals harder to meet.”
Depaywalled link:

These corporations are too big to care about the consumer market. Why do we vote for politicians who enable their growth? This obviously leads to poverty and thousands of years of misery and servitude.

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@MuseumJoe/115990538855108334
I found this to be an extremely difficult market niche to make usefully profitable. Ultimately resigned myself to the wage slavery.
See, when they take the advice to heart, fix the dumb thing…

NFL Week 18 betting power ratings: How the market is treating starters resting, plus how all 32 teams stack up

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-18-betting-power-ratings…

Le secteur pétrolier et gazier russe, qui pendant les années 2010, finançait 50% du budget de l'État, ne contribuera plus que pour 22% cette année.
#Russie
https://www.

Stock Market Takes Warsh Nomination in Stride (Joe Rennison/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/politics/stock-market-kevin-warsh-fed.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p68#a260130p68

#macrumors forums is just as bad as #nostr
Filled with people who have APPL shares / Bitcoin wallets and let their opinions be ruled by their profits above all else.

Presented without comment
«Economic convergence, demography, labour markets: what progress have EU candidate countries made?
Candidate countries remain far from European Union averages in terms of GDP per capita and their demographic and labour market characteristics»
…

Economic convergence, demography, labour markets: what progress have EU candidate countries made?
Candidate countries remain far from European Union averages in terms of GDP per capita and their demographic and labour market characteristics

Different Corners II ▶️
不同的角落 II ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

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.

The AI bubble has now dragged the market of RAM into its whirlpool
https://www.theverge.com/news/828337/ram-memory-shortage-crunch-market-prices-central-micro-center

RAM prices are so out of control that stores are selling it like lobster
The RAM shortage is forcing stores like Central Computer and Micro Center to sell PC memory at market prices instead of advertising prices.

"AI" screening on job sites has people looking to network their way into jobs via dating apps
https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/25/12/29/2144201/tough-job-market-has-people-using-dating-apps-to-get-interviews …

Tough Job Market Has People Using Dating Apps To Get Interviews - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Most people use dating apps to find love. Tiffany Chau used one to hunt for a summer internship. This fall, the 20-year-old junior at California College of the Arts tailored her Hinge profile to connect with people who could offer job referrals or ...

A new investment thesis has spread through global markets at the start of 2026, as trading strategies long built on the primacy of the United States now opt for a new approach:
Sell America.
The sentiment started to take hold in financial circles after the shock of sky-high tariffs sent stocks and bonds into a tailspin last April,
but it has taken off recently as the Trump administration has pursued policies like attacks on the Federal Reserve’s independence and threats of …

Sell America Is the New Trade on Wall Street
Investors are increasingly souring on the United States, as illustrated by the declining dollar, the stalled stock market and rising government borrowing costs.

nice try, facebook market place organ harvester

Feds get second guilty plea in takedown of dark web Empire Market https://therecord.media/feds-second-guilty-plea

Ante el tremendo batacazo que se pegó ayer en bolsa #microslop https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/microsoft-market-cap-earnings.html yo me pregunto
¿qué vamos a d…

waka waka
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01KDRGDBS2K531S8R5EXJ9AMH8

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"The Prudential Insurance Company of America" (ARIN) transferred 48.176.0.0/13 to "Microsoft Limited [ORG-MA42-RIPE]" (RIPE) (Estimated Market Value: $12.58 M)

💨 What has gone wrong at Zipcar – and is UK car-sharing market dead?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/04/what-has-gone-wrong-at-zipcar-and-is-uk-car-sharing-market-dead

What has gone wrong at Zipcar – and is UK car-sharing market dead?
Vehicle hire firms have struggled to succeed in London but other European countries offer examples to follow

Solar, wind power and batteries are set to make life a misery for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market.
A Reuters Breakingviews prediction for 2026. https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/renewables-turn-lng-glut-into-sinkhole-2…

I hate to state the obvious, but your biggest advantage in the current job market is showing up and being human, imperfections and all.
Your goal is to connect with the human(s) on the other side.
If you're trying to game the system by regurgitating ChatGPT responses as your own, you've already surrendered your edge.

A.I. Is Causing Meltdowns in American Offices. It’s Only Getting Worse.
A.I. and ChatGPT were supposed to revolutionize work. They’re only creating chaos.

The Hill says it has "fortified" its breaking news team due to a "bonkers" US news cycle; Comscore says The Hill had 1.24B page views across 2025, up 7% YoY (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-ameri

The Hill is growing traffic in a declining market by investing in reporters
The Hill has “fortified” its breaking news team to make the most of a “bonkers” news cycle in US politics.

Shares of Chinese AI chip designer Shanghai Biren Technology (6082.HK)
opened 82.1% higher in their Hong Kong debut on Friday,
kicking off the financial hub's first listing of 2026.
The strong debut follows a blockbuster year for Hong Kong's equity market in 2025
and points to a likely wave of AI and semiconductor offerings this year
as China accelerates efforts to build domestic chip alternatives
in response to U.S. curbs on technology exports.

Russia attacks Kherson market, Chernihiv apartment building on Christmas Day, killing at least 2: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/25/russia-attacks-kherson-market-chernihiv.html

Graney: Raiders should see what Crosby is worth on open market https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-raiders-should-see-what-crosby-is-worth-on-open-market-3601004/

Washington's carbon market is proving climate policy can pay for itself—literally.
In just two years, it's generated $4.3 billion, with $2.8 billion already funding hybrid ferries, free transit, and other green projects. The best part? Over half the money goes to lower-income communities.

Washington carbon market generates billions for climate projects
Nearly $2.8 billion is set for state projects ranging from hybrid ferries to bicycle rebates.

Big Tech's dominance on the S&P 500 is becoming more extreme; the eight biggest tech stocks account for 60% of the gains since the market bottomed in April 2025 (George Steer/Financial Times)

Reading Tim O'Reilly's essay on the economic future of #AI, one sentence stands out:
"By product-market fit we don’t just mean that users love the product or that one company has dominant market share but that a company has found a viable economic model, where what people are willing to pay for AI-based services is greater than the cost of delivering them"
/Continued

What If? AI in 2026 and Beyond
The market is betting that AI is an unprecedented technology breakthrough, valuing Sam Altman and Jensen Huang like demigods already astride the world. The

Look, I know you invested big in Tesla in the hopes that we would become market leader in EVs and then we pissed away that lead to China shortly after becoming profitable, so you're not getting a return on your investment.
But, and hear me out. We're now going to do the exact same thing with humanoid robots.

"Tether is the treasury for Bitcoin and a coterie of related businesses. When Bitcoin crashes and people are panicking, they create Tether out of thin air to buy Bitcoin. That allows the game of musical chairs to continue. They simply cannot disclose how much reserves they have to back the peg because it is designed as an instrument of market manipulation."
Great comment from the FT

Urban Flexitarians Are Driving Japan’s Vegan Tuna Boom, Says New Report https://plantbasednews.org/news/alternative-protein/urban-flexitarians-japan-vegan-tuna-boom/

Urban Flexitarians Are Driving Japan's Vegan Tuna Boom, Says New Report
According to a new in-depth report by Future Market Insights, Japan’s vegan tuna boom is driven primarily by urban flexitarians

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/115632365784352544
German politicians fail to grasp the fundamental shift in the global car market. The world no longer wants yesterday's German cars; it wants the best, and it wants them now.

Cowboys Star George Pickens Named Free Agent Target for AFC Powerhouse https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-star-george-pickens-named-free-agent-target-for-afc-powerhouse

Anders gesagt: Seit Trumps Amtsantritt (und dem Jubel der Cryptobros über goldene Zeiten) ist Bitcoin um 22% gefallen.
Bitcoin Erases Year's Gain as Crypto Bear Market Deepens - Slashdot https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/11/17/024…

According to Mayor David Holt, the location being considered as a DHS holding facility is off market do that use after the owners stopped engaging with DHS on the contract.
#okc #dhs #ice

My guess is that Elon Musk has already mentally said goodbye to his car/EV production with Tesla and will be fully focusing on robots. So he doesn't care about losing the market, he is already elsewhere...
#Musk #Tesla

The January wildfires that ripped through Los Angeles forced the state to spend billions in disaster aid
-- and delay tax filings for LA residents.
The cost of Medi-Cal,
the state-run health insurance program for low-income residents, ballooned to $6 billion more than anticipated.
Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again tariff policies rocked the stock market,
which California heavily relies on for tax revenue.
And the state lodged a flurry of lawsuits again…

Your one-minute guide to California’s budget outlook this year
Spoiler alert: California’s deficit grows, uncertainty looms, and state leaders may have fewer options than before to tackle it.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmbientFocus
claire rousay:
🎵 discrete (the market)
#clairerousay
https://clairerousay.bandcamp.com/track/discrete-the-market-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6VbGoPL0B6BaR1FMjqkTdr

Preparing for May Market 2026
Sewing like the wind! Going through my stash of vintage automotive vinyl and trying to use new colors. Sewing machine tuned up and ready to go! Highly recommend my repair guy, Giovanni Estuardo Camaja. Save the dates to shop the May Market this Spring: May 1 – May 31, 2026 (Fridays – Sundays only, plus Memorial Day) 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Preparing for May Market 2026
Sewing like the wind! Going through my stash of vintage automotive vinyl and trying to use new colors. Sewing machine tuned up and ready to go! Highly recommend my repair guy, Giovanni Estuardo Cam…

'Small-market' Jaguars want to keep being ignored: 'We really don't care about the narrative' https://www.nfl.com/news/small-market-jaguars-want-to-keep-being-ignored-we-really-don-t-care-about-the-narrative

Cowboys Star George Pickens Named Free Agent Target for AFC Powerhouse https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-star-george-pickens-named-free-agent-target-for-afc-powerhouse

I had two interactions with used car dealers over the last month and both refused to even entertain negotiations. Both cars were priced over market value and the cars had sat on their lots for 60 days. 🤷‍♂️

Russia says a crypto regulatory framework will come into force July 1, 2027; it will ban privacy coins like monero and cap retail investor purchases at ~$4K (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/01/29

Russia plans to cap retail crypto buys at $4,000 as it brings digital assets into the legal fold
Qualified investors in Russia will face mandatory testing but gain unrestricted access to top tokens like BTC and ETH. Privacy tokens will be banned.

QB Stock Market Week 13: Drake Maye Has the Help He Needs, Josh Allen Does Not https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-13-drake-maye-has-help-he-needs-josh-allen-does-not

Sources: Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market powered by Kalshi to allow its clients to bet on events such as elections and sports (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/coinbase-launch-prediction-market-po…

Coinbase to Launch Prediction Market Powered by Kalshi
Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market to allow its crypto clients to bet on events such as elections and sports, according to two people familiar with the matter. The market will be powered by prediction market company Kalshi and will put Coinbase in a booming but increasingly ...

QB Stock Market Week 13: Drake Maye Has the Help He Needs, Josh Allen Does Not https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-13-drake-maye-has-help-he-needs-josh-allen-does-not

Ranking the top 50 NFL free agents for 2026: Early look at the stars who could hit the market in March

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/early-look-at-2026-nfl-free-agency-ranking…

QB Stock Market Week 13: Drake Maye is Taking All the Right Risks and Jalen Hurts Isn't https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-13-drake-maye-taking-all-right-risks-jalen-hurts-isnt

For more than a decade, Russia’s so-called #probiv market
– a term derived from the verb
“to pierce” or
“to punch into a search bar”
– has operated as a parallel information economy built on a network of corrupt officials,
traffic police,
bank employees and l
ow-level security staff willing to sell access to restricted government or corporate databases.
While l…

QB Stock Market Week 13: Drake Maye is Taking All the Right Risks and Jalen Hurts Isn't https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-13-drake-maye-taking-all-right-risks-jalen-hurts-isnt

Meta just bought into the enterprise market with its Manus deal, which may eventually help it expand into cloud offerings like those of its Big Tech peers (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/meta-manus-deal/

Manus: The Hands of AI Fate
Meta acquires an AI business model...

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan wears hijab in solidarity with Somalis as feds probe multibillion-dollar fraud scandal (Josh Christenson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/26/us-news/minnesota-lt-gov-peggy-flanagan-wears-hijab-at-somali-market-amid-multibillion-dollar-fraud-scandal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p43#a251226p43

Raiders Hit With Blunt Admission Over Colts’ Alec Pierce https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/colts-alec-pierce-blunt-admission/

Penske Media sues Google for allegedly monopolizing the digital ad market and depriving publishers of billions in revenue, following a 2025 US court ruling (Josh Dickey/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/public-polic…

Penske Media Sues Google Over Accusation of Digital Ad Market Manipulation
Penske Media Corp., the publisher of major entertainment and culture brands including Rolling Stone, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, sued Google on Monday, accusing the tech giant of illegally monopolizing the digital advertising market and depriving publishers of billions of dollars in revenue.

A co-creator of the dark web marketplace Empire Market pleads guilty to US drug conspiracy charges for facilitating $430M in illegal transactions in 2018-2020 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Motivated Jaguars use 'small-market' slights as fuel in AFC playoff-shifting win at Broncos

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jaguars-vs-broncos-jacksonville-nfl-p…

Counterpoint: India smartphone shipments were flat YoY at ~153M; Apple shipped 14M iPhones, raising its share of shipments to a record 9%, up from 7% in 2024 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/appl

Apple iPhone just had its best year in India as the smartphone market stays broadly flat | TechCrunch
Apple shipped a record 14 million iPhones in India in 2025 and gained market share.

The 'S&P 493' reveals a very different U.S. economy (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/sp500-stock-market-tech-nvidia/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYzOTYwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY1MzQyNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjM5NjA0MDAsImp0aSI6IjEzNGE2MWQ5LWY2YWItNGMzOS05YzVhLWU0MDhmZGNjZjZmMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9idXNpbmVzcy8yMDI1LzExLzI0L3NwNTAwLXN0b2NrLW1hcmtldC10ZWNoLW52aWRpYS8ifQ.cmGRw_oh0OgrMqArv-NAE_48U7LCXF3i_aXmHqxDQmk&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p1#a251125p1

Over the past four years, hedge funds have doubled their footprint in the U.S. debt market,
making the Cayman Islands
— where many hedge funds are officially based
— the place where the most U.S. debt outside the United States is held, according to the Fed.
Typically, people flock to Treasuries for safety in times of crisis.
Yet, driven in large part by hedge fund activity, the Treasury market went through unusual turbulence during recent shocks -- including th…

Opinion | America’s Debt Problem Is Worse Than You’ve Heard
The size of the national debt matters. But so does who America’s lenders are — and that is changing.

QB Stock Market Week 17: Caleb Williams Keeps Defying QB Logic https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-17-caleb-williams-keeps-defying-qb-logic

QB Stock Market Week 17: Caleb Williams Keeps Defying QB Logic https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-17-caleb-williams-keeps-defying-qb-logic

An MIT study finds that AI can replace 11.7% of the US labor market, or ~$1.2T in wages, based on the "Iceberg Index", which measures job automation potential (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/26/mit-study-

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.

The ‘S&P 493’ reveals a very different U.S. economy

A few trillion-dollar companies are powering the market’s gains.
Here’s what’s happening to most other businesses in the United States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/24/s…

The ‘S&P 493’ reveals a very different U.S. economy
A few trillion-dollar companies are powering the market’s gains. Here’s what’s happening to most other businesses in the United States.

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-…

Raiders vs New York Giants fight for No. 1 draft pick a cheap ticket on secondary market https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-vs-new-york-giants-fight-for-no-1-draft-pick-a-cheap-ticket-on…

Industry executives say nearly all major memory chipmakers are running at or near full capacity, with 2026 production slots almost "sold out" due to AI demand (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technolog…

Rampant AI demand throws the memory chip market into turmoil
Supply constraints spark warnings of price rises and launch delays for consumer electronics

Flying drones used during the Ukraine war have changed land battle tactics for ever.
Now the same thing appears to be happening under the sea.
Navies around the world are racing to add autonomous submarines.
https://www.theguardian.com…

Brian Flores becomes latest head coach candidate off the market https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/01/22/brian-flores-becomes-latest-head-coach-candidate-off-the-market/883…

Sources: Intel may start shipping a portion of Apple's lowest-end M chips as early as 2027; Apple is evaluating Intel's 18A process for the chip production (@mingchikuo)
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/1994422001952555318

郭明錤 (Ming-Chi Kuo) (@mingchikuo) on X
Intel expected to begin shipping Apple’s lowest-end M processor as early as 2027 There have long been market rumors that Intel could become an advanced-node foundry supplier to Apple, but visibility around this had remained low. My latest industry surveys, however, indicate that

Shares of Shenzhen-based OneRobotics opened flat in their HK debut after the Chinese home robotics maker raised $210M by selling 22M shares at about $9.50 each (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/markets/ipo/amazo…

Amazon supplier of household robots shares open flat on trading debut
OneRobotics raises $210mn to expand global market presence

Google's experience in India has become a proving ground to scale AI in education, as the country accounts for the highest global usage of Gemini for learning (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/india-is-teaching-google-h…

India is teaching Google how AI in education can scale | TechCrunch
With the highest global usage of Gemini for learning, India is emerging as a key market shaping Google's approach to AI in education.

Airtable unveils Superagent, a service that can deploy AI agents in parallel for tasks like market analysis, its first standalone product in its 13-year history (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/airt

Airtable jumps into the AI agent game with Superagent | TechCrunch
SuperAgent is Airtable's first standalone product in its 13-year history, and signals both the company's ambitions and the reality of the current AI moment: every serious software player is racing to prove they can deliver on agents.

Lou Gerstner, a former IBM CEO and chairman credited with turning the company around, died at 83; IBM's market value rose from $29B to ~$168B during his tenure (Patrick Oster/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

How Motorola, which spun out its struggling smartphone business in 2011, successfully refocused on critical communication equipment, giving it a $60B market cap (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)

Motorola Ditched RAZR Phone for Radios in $60 Billion Turnaround
Since spinning off its handset business, dealmaking has helped grow Motorola Solutions into a company worth more than $60 billion.

Coinbase pulls support from the US Senate's crypto market structure bill ahead of a key vote; CEO Brian Armstrong says there are "too many issues" with the bill (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/01/14

Coinbase exchange is pulling support from U.S. crypto market structure bill
CEO Brian Armstrong said there were "too many issues" with the bill as it's currently written.

Momentum Works: the GMV of the online food delivery market in Southeast Asia's six biggest economies grew 18% YoY to $22.7B in 2025, and Grab accounted for 55% (Dylan Loh/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/food-beverag…

Grab's ASEAN food delivery share rises to 55% in 2025: survey
Sea's ShopeeFood beats Foodpanda to No. 2 as rivalry sharpens

Waymo launches its robotaxi service in Miami, its sixth market, initially covering a 60-square-mile area, and partners with Moove for fleet management (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/waymo-launches-robotaxi-service-in-miami-…

Waymo launches robotaxi service in Miami, extending U.S. lead
Miami represents the sixth market for Waymo, which is owned by Google parent Alphabet.

Sources: C3.ai is in talks to merge with Automation Anywhere, which would go public in the deal; C3.ai's market cap is now ~$1.7B, a tenth of its 2020 valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/c3-ai-talks-merge-startup-autom…

C3.AI in Talks to Merge with Startup Automation Anywhere
C3.AI, founded by tech industry veteran Thomas Siebel, is in talks to merge with privately held startup Automation Anywhere, which will effectively go public in the deal, according to people familiar with the discussions. C3.AI, which sells AI to large companies and government agencies, was the ...

Tether launches USAT, a US-regulated stablecoin issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, marking the company's direct return to the US market that it left in 2018 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

Sources: Nvidia has allocated ~70% of its 2026 HBM4 demand to SK hynix; Counterpoint estimates SK hynix will account for 54% of the global HBM4 market in 2026 (Kang Yoon-seung/Yonhap News Agency)
https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20260128002800320

ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet says the company plans to cut 1,700 jobs, or 4% of its workforce, mainly in its Tech and IT organizations; ASML jumps 5% pre-market (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A look at Chinese food delivery giant Meituan's subsidy war with Alibaba and JD.com, leading Meituan to a big Q3 loss and internal debate over global expansion (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ab22c799-6370-4f8c-9256-d5bfd28e0aa1

‘It’s been an expensive year’: Meituan counts cost of China’s delivery wars
Competition from Alibaba and JD.com for fast-growing instant retail market has hit the Beijing-based group

Paolo Ardoino says Tether now holds ~140 tons of gold, worth ~$23B, has been buying one to two tons a week, and plans to keep doing so for the next few months (Jack Ryan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Global smartphone shipments rose 2% YoY in 2025, with Apple capturing the top position at a 20% share and 10% YoY growth, ahead of Samsung's 19% market share (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-sm…