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Esusu, which offers a rent reporting API to Zillow, banks, and others to help renters build credit scores, raised a $50M Series C at a $1.2B valuation (Krysta Escobar/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/esusu-funding-renters-credit-scores.html

Esusu, platform for renters to build credit scores, valued at $1.2 billion in new funding round
Esusu raises $50 million at a $1.2 billion valuation as it helps more renters build credit scores and gain access to mortgages and other financial products.

GOP leaders throw cold water on Trump's credit-card push (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/13/congress/trump-credit-cards-thune-johnson-00725061
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p147#a260113p147

Nearly 20 million affected by Prosper, 700Credit data breaches https://therecord.media/data-breaches-affecting-20-million-prosper-700credit

If Joe Biden's economy created only 130,000 jobs in a month
or inflation barely budged, as happened in January,
economists would have called it a disaster and demanded to know what the plan was.
Yet Trump who promised a booming economy and to end inflation, gets applause.
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If Joe Biden's economy created only 130,000 jobs in a month or inflation barely budged, as happened in January, economists would have called it a disaster and demanded to know what the plan was. Yet Trump who promised a booming economy and to end inflation, gets applause.

I finally deleted my Twitter account. Created in 2010, got a lot of security news value out of it until around 2022. Then something happened and I created an account on Mastodon and stopped posting at Twitter. Now the value became clearly negative, even for holding an old, inactive account.

Microsoft agrees to buy a record 2.85M soil carbon credits from Indigo Carbon linked to regenerative US agriculture; a source values the deal at $171M-$228M (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate…

Sources: xAI has created an enterprise AI sales group, but xAI's lack of experience in selling to big businesses is holding potential customers back (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/xai-uphill-battle-selling-grok-busine…

Why xAI Has an Uphill Battle Selling Grok to Businesses
Elon Musk’s xAI wants companies around the world to buy its Grok AI models as it tries to build a moneymaking business. To get there, xAI has created an enterprise AI sales group over the past half-year that has expanded to more than a dozen people. But xAI’s lack of experience in selling to big ...

Mike Johnson criticizes Trump's 10% credit card cap (Kate Santaliz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/13/mike-johnson-trump-credit-card-cap
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p83#a260113p83

The suspect believed to be behind the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada made a Roblox game simulating a mall shooting; Roblox says it removed the account (404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/tumbler-ridge-shooter-created-mall-shooting-simulator-in…

Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox
Roblox said it’s “committed to fully supporting law enforcement in their investigation.”

DTCC: credit default swaps tied to a handful of US tech groups have climbed 90% since early September, as investors seek ways to protect against an AI debt bust (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c5f9380e-df86-42a9-a387-a0d5e04ad45f