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Meta's decision to deprioritize VR in favor of AI and internet-connected glasses has chilled the VR industry, leading to concerns about its future (www.cnbc.com)
25 days ago VR AI

Source: Databricks obtained $1.8B in fresh debt and now has over $7B in debt ahead of a potential IPO; it raised $4B+ in December at a $134B valuation (www.cnbc.com)
26 days ago IPO

Adam Presser, previously TikTok's head of operations and trust and safety, will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture; TikTok CEO Shou Chew will be a director (www.cnbc.com)
27 days ago

Intel reports Q4 revenue down 4% YoY to $13.7B, vs. $13.4B est., a $600M net loss, up from $100M in Q4 2024, offers soft Q1 guidance; INTC down 6%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
27 days ago Intel 4Q

Waymo launches its robotaxi service in Miami, its sixth market, initially covering a 60-square-mile area, and partners with Moove for fleet management (www.cnbc.com)
28 days ago

Blue Origin unveils TeraWave, a satellite communications network for enterprise, data center, and government customers, and plans to begin deployment in Q4 2027 (www.cnbc.com)
28 days ago 4Q

OpenEvidence, which is building “ChatGPT for doctors”, raised $250M led by Thrive and DST at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in October and $1B in February 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
29 days ago

Sensor Tower: Reels accounted for 50%+ of all Instagram ads in 2025, up from 35% in 2024; Reels accounted for 46% of time spent on Instagram in the US in 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
30 days ago Instagram Sensor

Cloudflare acquires AI data marketplace Human Native for an undisclosed sum, aiming to create a new system where AI developers pay creators for training content (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-16 AI

Replit launches Mobile Apps on Replit, which enables vibe-coding of iOS apps with integrated Stripe monetization (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-16 IOS Mobile

The Department of Commerce says the US and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement as part of which Taiwan will invest $250B in chip production capacity in the US (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-16 Taiwan

Amazon files an objection to Saks Global's bankruptcy financing plan, and says its $475M investment in the department store is now effectively “worthless” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-16 Amazon

AWS launches European Sovereign Cloud, creating a new parent company for its sovereign cloud that will be locally controlled in the EU and run by EU citizens (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-15 Europe

US Big Tech companies have been on an energy-related hiring spree; Workforce.AI says Microsoft has hired 570+ people with energy-related expertise since 2022 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-14 Microsoft Energy AI

Apple announces a multi-year deal to use Google's Gemini to power new Siri features later in 2026, saying Google's tech “provides the most capable foundation” (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-13 Google Apple

CrowdStrike buys identity management startup SGNL, in a deal valued at nearly $740M, to bolster identity security defenses on its flagship Falcon platform (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-9 Startup

China says it will investigate Meta's $2B Manus acquisition to assess compliance with laws on export controls, tech import and export, and overseas investment (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-8 China

X faces fresh probes in Europe, India, and Malaysia after Grok generated explicit images of women and children; the UK says it has requested related info from X (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-6 Europe India Malaysia

Starlink says it is providing free broadband service to new and existing customers in Venezuela through February 3, 2026 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-5 Venezuela

Ilya Lichtenstein, sentenced in Nov. 2024 to five years in prison for hacking Bitfinex, has been released early due to First Step Act, Trump's prison-reform law (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-3 Trump

Unsealed documents detail a US operation that stopped the alleged smuggling of $160M worth of Nvidia H100 and H200 GPUs to China between Oct. 2024 and May 2025 (www.cnbc.com)
2026-1-1 China Nvidia

Sources: SoftBank has completed its $40B investment in OpenAI (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-31

Despite Palantir's high trailing P/E ratio of ~450x, retail traders have poured billions of dollars into the stock, which is up ~3,000% in the past three years (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-27 Retail

Oracle stock fell 30% this quarter, its steepest drop since Q3 2001, when it slid ~34%, amid skepticism about its ability to open more data centers for OpenAI (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-27 Oracle

As startups flood the market with AI shopping agents, Amazon is playing defense by blocking agents' access to its site and investing heavily in its own tools (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-26 Amazon Startup AI

Nvidia has agreed to buy AI chip startup Groq for $20B in cash, according to Alex Davis, CEO of Disruptive, which led Groq's latest financing round in September (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-25 Startup AI Nvidia

Waymo, which paused its service during blackouts in San Francisco on December 20, says it is updating its fleet to improve navigation during widespread outages (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-24 San Francisco

Paramount says Larry Ellison “agreed to provide an irrevocable personal guarantee of $40.4B” for its WBD bid, after WBD's board raised concerns about the offer (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-23

Waymo resumes robotaxi service in San Francisco after a blackout, and says most active trips were completed before vehicles returned to depots or pulled over (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-22 San Francisco

A profile of Josh Woodward, the head of Google Labs who is credited with turning around the Gemini app, growing its MAUs from 350M in March to 650M by October (www.cnbc.com)
2025-12-21 Google

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