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#heiseshow: CES 2026, Blackout in Berlin, Stack Overflow
In der #heiseshow: Die CES 2026 mit ihren Highlights, der Stromausfall in Berlin und Stack Overflow kämpft gegen den KI-bedingten Nutzerschwund.

Sources: OpenAI last fall set aside RSUs worth 10% of the company, which was valued in October at $500B; it has already awarded about $80B in vested equity (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-reserves-50-billion-sto…

OpenAI Reserves $50 Billion for Stock Grant Pool
OpenAI last fall set aside an employee stock grant pool worth 10% of the company, which was valued in October at $500 billion, according to two people with knowledge of the plans. The $50 billion pool of restricted stock units should last for roughly five years and should rise in value as the ...

Au Niger, comment le stock d’uranium convoité par la Russie s’est retrouvé dans une impasse
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2026/01/08/au-niger-comment-le-stock-d-uranium-conv…

Au Niger, comment le stock d’uranium convoité par la Russie s’est retrouvé dans une impasse
Un convoi de camions chargés de 1 000 tonnes de concentré d’uranium avait quitté la mine d’Arlit, le 27 novembre. Alors qu’elle devait rejoindre le port de Lomé pour transiter vers un vraquier russe, d’après des sources étatiques françaises, la cargaison demeure bloquée à l’aéroport de Niamey.

Searches for Light #DarkMatter and Evidence of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering of Solar #Neutrinos with the #LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment: https://lz.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/12/LZ_Paper_Preprint_WS2025_v6.0_20251208.pdf / New Results from the LZ Dark Matter Experiment (recording of a talk): https://sanfordlab.org/lz-2025-result -> LZ Sets a World’s Best in the Hunt for Galactic Dark Matter and Gets a New Look at Neutrinos from the Sun’s Core: https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/12/08/lz-sets-a-worlds-best-in-the-hunt-for-galactic-dark-matter/

TIL: The German Tech Stack
https://technologie.deutschland-stack.gov.de

WhatsApp: Funktion in Beta vereinfacht Schutz vor Cyberangriffen
In der aktuellen Beta-Version des beliebten Messengers Whatsapp können erste Nutzer erweiterte Sicherheitseinstellungen mit einem Klick aktivieren.

Swedish investment firm EQT agrees to invest $930M in Douzone Bizon, a South Korea-based provider of ERP and business software to SMBs, for a 37.6% stake (Atharva Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Several of Asia's top tycoons and conglomerates are joining the data center race as tech giants plan $240B in APAC hyperscale expansion over the next five years (Jonathan Burgos/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanburgos/2…

The Asian Billionaires Riding The Data Center Boom
The buildout of AI infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific is in high gear. Masayoshi Son and Mukesh Ambani are among the region's wealthiest taking the lead.

Zurich-based DeepJudge, which builds customized search indexes for law firms that plug into AI tools like ChatGPT, raised a $41M Series A at a $300M valuation (Alicia Park/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/2025…

Meet The Ex-Google Researchers Building AI Search For Law Firms
Legal tech startup DeepJudge has raised $41 million to build out customized search engines for law firms.

A16z captured 18% of all US venture capital allocated in 2025 and now manages $90B in assets, vs Sequoia Capital's $56B and General Catalyst's $43B (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20

A16z’s $15 Billion Fund Vacuumed Up A Fifth Of Venture Dollars Raised Last Year
Andreessen Horowitz has raised $15 billion for five new growth and venture funds in one of the largest-ever fund raises for a venture capital fund.