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Filings: Meta has hired Bill McGinley, a veteran Republican operative and the former top lawyer for DOGE, as a lobbyist (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-9 Republican

OpenAI is rolling out a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to assist with medical reasoning and administrative tasks, at Cedars-Sinai and others (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-9

Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to raise about $2B, after raising more than $1.5B across a pair of rounds in September and October (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-9

Chinese AI startup MiniMax raises $619M in its Hong Kong IPO, at the top of the range; sources: its institutional offering was oversubscribed by 70x+ (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-9 China Hong Kong IPO Startup AI

Samsung appears to have shelved Ballie, a robot it announced six years ago but never released, calling it an “active innovation platform” within the company (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-9 Samsung Robot

A profile of VC firm Index Ventures, which saw billions in gains from exits in 2025, including Figma, Scale AI, and Dream Games, as it looks ahead to succession (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-8 AI

Sources: China plans to approve some imports of Nvidia's H200 chips as soon as Q1 2026 while still barring them from military use and critical infrastructure (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-8 China Nvidia

Samsung says Ballie, a robot announced six years ago but never released, is an “active innovation platform” within the company helping inform other products (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-8 Samsung Robot

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

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

Polymarket agrees to its first media partnership to supply Dow Jones outlets, including the WSJ and Barron's, with real-time prediction market trading data (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-8 Dow Jones

Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or “nudifying” images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of all Grok images are sexualized (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-8

Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or “nudifying” images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of Grok images are sexualized (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mobileye is acquiring Israeli humanoid robot startup Mentee Robotics in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $900M; Mentee was founded in 2022 and has raised $50M (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 Israel Startup Robot

Jensen Huang says he isn't concerned about a billionaires tax under consideration in California, and plans to remain in Silicon Valley (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 Tax California

Sandisk shares jump ~23% after Jensen Huang highlighted the need for memory and storage at CES; SNDK is up 40%+ in the first three trading sessions of 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7

Buyout firm Hg agrees to acquire enterprise financial software maker OneStream in an all-cash deal valued at ~$6.4B that is set to close in H1 2026 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7

Chinese robot vacuum maker Roborock unveils the Saros Rover, a concept robot vacuum with two wheel-legs to let it climb steps, as robotics dominates CES (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 China Robot

Razer plans to invest $600M in AI over “the next couple of years”, as the gaming peripherals maker unveils new AI products like headphones with built-in cameras (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 AI

Accenture agrees to acquire UK AI startup Faculty, which works with the UK government, for an undisclosed sum; Faculty CEO Marc Warner will become Accenture CTO (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-7 Startup AI

Boston Dynamics unveils a new iteration of its Atlas humanoid robot designed to work in Hyundai's plants starting in 2028, including at a factory in Georgia (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-6 Robot Boston Dynamics

Lyte, founded by ex-Apple Face ID engineers, emerges from stealth and raised ~$107M to develop tech to help robots see better and move more safely in the world (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-1-6 Apple Robot Face ID

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