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Arm creates a “Physical AI” unit to focus on robotics and automotive sectors, as part of a reorganization that includes “Cloud and AI” and “Edge” business units (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-8 AI Robot

Google and Character.AI Agree To Settle Lawsuits Over Teen Suicides (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8 Google AI

Samsung expects Q4 operating profit up 208% YoY to ~$13.8B, vs. ~$12.3B est., and revenue up 23% to ~$64.2B, as demand for AI servers lifted memory chip prices (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-8 Samsung AI 4Q

Trump family's World Liberty Financial says its entity World Liberty Trust has applied for a US banking license, which would let it issue the USD1 stablecoin (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-8 Trump

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Encouraging Users To Connect Their Medical Records (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8

California Lawmaker Proposes a Four-Year Ban On AI Chatbots In Kids' Toys (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8 AI chatbot Ban California

OpenAI says ChatGPT won't use your health information to train its models (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8

New GoBruteforcer attack wave targets crypto, blockchain projects (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Blockchain

Sources: Larry Page bought two Miami estates in December and January for a combined $173.4M; Sergey Brin is also said to be in discussions to buy a Miami home (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-8

JPMorgan Chase Reaches a Deal To Take Over the Apple Credit Card (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8 Apple JPMorgan

Bose Open-Sources Its SoundTouch Home Theater Smart Speakers Ahead of End-of-Life (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8

WhatsApp rolls out new group chat features: member tags that show user roles, text stickers generated from any word, and custom event reminders (techcrunch.com)
2026-1-8 WhatsApp

Alphabet surpassed Apple in market cap for the first time since 2019 after its shares closed up 2.5% on Wednesday, valuing it at $3.89T vs. Apple's $3.85T (www.barrons.com)
2026-1-8 Apple Alphabet

Critical jsPDF flaw lets hackers steal secrets via generated PDFs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8

Lux Capital raised $1.5B for its ninth fund, the largest in its history, to back companies focusing on fields like breakthrough science and national security (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-8

Warner Bros Rejects Revised Paramount Bid, Sticks With Netflix (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8 Netflix

ChatGPT is losing market share as Google Gemini gains ground (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Google

Sources: JPMorgan Chase has reached a deal to take over the Apple credit card program from Goldman Sachs; JPMorgan plans to launch a new Apple savings account (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-8 Apple JPMorgan Goldman Credit Card

Power Bank Feature Creep is Out of Control (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8

New Dietary Guidelines Abandon Longstanding Advice on Alcohol (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health, which lets users import medical records and other data from health apps into ChatGPT, initially available to a small group (www.axios.com)
2026-1-8

Samsung's Rolling Ballie Robot Indefinitely Shelved After Delays (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8 Samsung Robot

Transform your photos in seconds with the $20 Luminar Mobile photo editor (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8 Mobile

Docs: Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits with families of teenagers who killed or harmed themselves after interacting with Character.AI's chatbot (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-8 Google AI chatbot

The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8

Sources: Anthropic plans to raise $10B led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue Management at a $350B valuation before the new investment, up from $183B in September (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-8 Singapore

Logitech Options+, G HUB macOS apps break after certificate expires (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8

How Aviation Emissions Could Be Halved Without Cutting Journeys (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-8

Cambodia extradites Chen Zhi, the chairman of online scam conglomerate Prince Group, to China; in October, the US DOJ seized $12B in bitcoin belonging to Chen (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-8 China Bitcoin Cambodia

Max severity Ni8mare flaw lets hackers hijack n8n servers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-8

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