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Several Indian tech workers say they are buckling under deadline pressure and worry about layoffs, with many fearing conditions will worsen with the rise of AI (restofworld.org)
2026-1-28 India AI Layoffs

A look at “neolabs” such as Safe Superintelligence and Humans&, which give priority to long-term AI R&D over immediate profits; dozens have become unicorns (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-28 AI

ASML reports Q4 net sales of €9.7B, vs. €9.6B est., and €2.84B net profit, vs. €3.01B est., and says it expects China to account for 20% of its total 2026 sales (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-28 China 4Q

Ancient Martian Beach Discovered, Providing New Clues To Planet's Habitability (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28

Sources: Google's “cease and desist” letter forces Kantar and Barb to halt UK TV measurement service comparing YouTube viewership with linear TV and streamers (www.ft.com)
2026-1-28 Google YouTube

ASML reports Q4 bookings of €13.2B, beating analyst estimates of €6.32B, and projects its 2026 full-year sales of between €34B and €39B, compared with €35B est. (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-28 4Q

Sources: Hugging Face declined Nvidia's $500M investment offer at a $7B valuation in late 2025; Hugging Face says it does not want a single dominant investor (www.ft.com)
2026-1-28 Nvidia

AI Whistleblower Initiative says OpenAI recently updated its whistleblower policy, addressing 8 of 13 recommendations and going further than Anthropic's policy (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Sources: Elon Musk has proposed timing SpaceX's IPO with a rare planetary alignment and his June birthday; SpaceX seeks as much as $50B at a ~$1.5T valuation (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-1-28 IPO Elon Musk SpaceX

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 (en.yna.co.kr)
2026-1-28 Nvidia

Amazon Inadvertently Announces Cloud Unit Layoffs In Email To Employees (slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 Amazon Layoffs

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 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Sources: China approved its first batch of Nvidia H200 chips for import, covering several hundred thousand units, during Jensen Huang's visit to China this week (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-28 China Nvidia

Amazon partners with Harris Farm to offer fresh food delivery in Australia for the first time, starting in inner Sydney, free for Prime members on AU$100 orders (www.afr.com)
2026-1-28 Australia Amazon Sydney

Sources: Anthropic raises its revenue forecasts to $18B in 2026, $55B in 2027, and $148B in 2029, delaying its cash flow positive expectations by a year to 2028 (www.theinformation.com)
2026-1-28

US Government Lost More Than 10,000 STEM PhDs Last Year (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28

Court filings allege Anthropic, Meta, and other AI companies found ways to acquire books without authors' knowledge, including by downloading pirated copies (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-1-28 AI

Amazon appears to mistakenly alert some AWS employees about planned layoffs in an email invite to a Wednesday “Project Dawn” meeting about company efficiency (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-28 Amazon Layoffs

Memo: Tim Cook told employees that he is “heartbroken by the events in Minneapolis” and calls for a “deescalation” (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-28 Tim Cook

Apple Updates iOS 12 For the First Time Since 2023 (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 IOS Apple

Scientists Launch AI DinoTracker App That Identifies Dinosaur Footprints (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28 AI

Internal documents from 2025: Microsoft expects its annual water consumption to reach 28B liters by 2030, up from 7.9B liters in 2020 and 10.4B liters in 2024 (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-28 Microsoft

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-28

SoundCloud Data Breach Impacts 29.8 Million Accounts (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28

Sources: SoftBank is in talks to invest up to $30B more in OpenAI; SoftBank is already one of OpenAI's largest shareholders after investing $22.5B in December (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-28

OpenAI's ChatGPT ad costs are on par with live NFL broadcasts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28

Supreme Court To Decide How 1988 Videotape Privacy Law Applies To Online Video (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28

OpenAI Releases Prism, a Claude Code-Like App For Scientific Research (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-28

AdImpact: Meta spent $6.4M in November and December 2025 to run TV ads in eight US state capitals and DC, aiming to change negative opinions about data centers (www.nytimes.com)
2026-1-28

Chinese Mustang Panda hackers deploy infostealers via CoolClient backdoor (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-28 China

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