Talos, which develops digital asset trading infrastructure, raised a $45M extension from Robinhood and others to its $105M Series B, at a $1.5B valuation (Will Canny/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/
US offered Ukraine 15 years of security guarantees, Zelenskyy says (Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraine-peace-plan-to-national-referendum-us-security-guarantees/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p25#a251229p25
Germany-based Quantum Systems, which sells surveillance drones that are being used by Ukraine, raised €180M, tripling its valuation to €3B since May (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
Not going backwards is a win.
Given Donald Trump's fraught relationship with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, that's important.
The Mar-a-Lago meeting did not materially move things forward
but nor was there a bust-up like that Oval Office moment in February.
There were however some notable takeaways.
First, Zelenskyy's facial expressions...
Five Constitutional Amendments Trump Is Ignoring in Minnesota (Pema Levy/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/constitutional-violations-minnesota-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260128/p100#a260128p100
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
A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving
was instead deported to Honduras
in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19,
had already passed through security at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20
when she was told there was an issue with her boarding pass,
said attorney Todd Pomerleau.
The Babson College student was then detained by immigration off…
Despite Palantir's high trailing P/E ratio of ~450x, retail traders have poured billions of dollars into the stock, which is up ~3,000% in the past three years (Alex Harring/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/25/palantir-retail-investors-valuation-karp.html<…