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Jensen Huang says Nvidia has “fired up” H200 production in the expectation of resumed China sales and it is working on the “last details” with the US government (www.ft.com)
2026-1-7 China Nvidia

Samsung says it expects memory chip supply shortages to raise prices across the electronics industry, including potentially among its own consumer products (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 Samsung

Polymarket is disputing that the US mission to capture Nicolás Maduro constituted an “invasion”, refusing to pay out bets on a contract with $10.5M in wagers (www.ft.com)
2026-1-7

Chinese AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax are set to go public in Hong Kong on January 8 and 9, respectively; MiniMax has 210M+ users, and Zhipu has 8,000+ clients (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 China Hong Kong Startup AI

Sources: Discord files confidentially for a US IPO, working with Goldman and JPMorgan; Discord was valued at $15B in 2021, and rejected a $12B Microsoft offer (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 Microsoft IPO JPMorgan Goldman

Congressman Introduces Legislation To Criminalize Insider Trading On Prediction Markets (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7

GWI: LinkedIn's 2025 revenue rose to $17B from $7B in 2020 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once per day in 2025, from 3.9% in 2020 (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-7 LinkedIn

An AI-Generated NWS Map Invented Fake Towns In Idaho (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7 AI

A look at Kalshi and Polymarket's lucrative shift toward sports, as high-profile real-world bets raise questions about access, integrity, and US CFTC regulation (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 CFTC

As data center development pressures power grids, officials have proposed requiring data centers to power down or switch to a backup when blackout risks rise (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-7

An interview with Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu on his new role as Google's chief AI architect, Gemini 3, progress toward the goal of AGI, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-1-7 Google Interview AI

PitchBook-NVCA: global VC investments hit $512B in 2025 with AI accounting for 50%+; VC fundraising fell to a 10-year low of $118.6B, ~$100B less than in 2024 (siliconangle.com)
2026-1-7 AI

How Google's ambitious approach to training Gemini on text, code, audio, images, and video helped it stage a powerful comeback, triggering a Code Red at OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
2026-1-7 Google

Dutch fintech Bunq applies to become a US bank; the OCC conditionally approved national trust bank charters for several crypto firms in 2025, including Circle (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 Fintech Netherlands

The US FDA says it will limit regulation of non-medical wellness wearables and AI software, provided they don't make claims about disease diagnosis or treatment (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-7 AI

China unveils rules banning major platforms like Alibaba from forcing merchants into discounts or practices seen as disrupting market order, effective February (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 China Alibaba

Filing: Larry Page moved assets out of California ahead of the proposed CA wealth tax, meeting an end-of-2025 deadline; a source said he has left the state (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-1-7 Tax Asset California

Motorola unveils the Razr Fold, its first book-style foldable phone, with a 6.6" front display and an 8.1" 2K LTPO inner screen, expected to launch this summer (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7

Creator of Claude Code Reveals His Workflow (developers.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7

Lenovo introduces Qira, a system-level, cross-device AI assistant for both its computers and Motorola smartphones, arriving later this quarter (www.engadget.com)
2026-1-7 AI Lenovo

Sources: Chinese officials are reviewing Meta's purchase of Manus for possible technology export control violations (www.ft.com)
2026-1-7 China

Discord Files Confidentially For IPO (news.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7 IPO

OpenAI is reportedly getting ready to test ads in ChatGPT (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-7

NYC Wegmans Is Storing Biometric Data On Shoppers' Eyes, Voices and Faces (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7

How the huge data center buildout is heating up local politics in US towns across red and blue states on issues like water, electricity, and noise (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-1-7

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.2 “Codex-Max” for some users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-1-7

Utah Allows AI To Renew Medical Prescriptions (science.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7 AI

Nvidia Details New AI Chips and Autonomous Car Project With Mercedes (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7 AI Nvidia

Sources: Discord has filed confidentially for an IPO, working with Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 IPO JPMorgan Goldman

Google Will Now Only Release Android Source Code Twice a Year (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-1-7 Android Google

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