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GlobalWafers Chair Doris Hsu says the Taiwanese silicon wafer maker is preparing for phase two of its Texas plant, after unveiling plans to invest an extra $4B (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21 Taiwan Texas

The EC introduces draft revisions to the EU's Cybersecurity Act to phase out equipment from high-risk suppliers in critical sectors, a move criticized by Huawei (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21

A Massachusetts judge grants a preliminary injunction blocking Kalshi from letting state residents bet on sports through its online platform (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21

The US FTC plans to appeal to revive its case accusing Meta of bolstering an illegal monopoly by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp; Meta won the case in 2025 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21 Instagram WhatsApp

OpenAI rolls out age prediction on ChatGPT globally to identify users under 18 and apply automatic content protections as it prepares to introduce adult content (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21

Substack challenger Beehiiv expects to nearly double its annual revenue to $50M in 2026; it now has over 40,000 MAUs, including nearly 15,000 paying subscribers (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21

Ukraine says it plans to share nearly four years of combat data, including millions of hours of drone footage, with allies to help train AI models (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21 AI Drone Ukraine

Legal AI startup Ivo, which aims to reduce hallucinations by breaking legal reviews into 400+ tasks, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a $355M valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-21 Startup AI

Atlantic Council: China-led cross-border digital currency platform mBridge, still a prototype, has processed 4,000+ cross-border transactions totaling $55.5B (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-18 China

Grid operator PJM plans to require large data centers to either bring their own power generation or curtail electricity use to prevent a large-scale outage (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-17

Vietnam's military-run telecom company Viettel begins construction of the country's first chip plant, with trial production expected to start by late 2027 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-17 Vietnam

Source: Italian police searched the offices of the country's data protection agency, one of EU's most proactive regulators, as part of a corruption probe (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-16 Italy

Italy's competition regulator opens two investigations into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard over sales practices it claims were “misleading and aggressive” (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-16 Italy Microsoft

TikTok plans to roll out a new age detection system, which analyzes profile information to predict whether a user is under 13, across Europe in the coming weeks (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-16 Europe

AI video startup Higgsfield raised an $80M Series A extension from Accel and others at a $1.3B+ valuation, and reports a $200M annualized revenue run rate (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-16 Startup AI

India's Supreme Court rules Tiger Global's $1.6B Flipkart stake sale to Walmart in 2018 is subject to taxes, a ruling that may shape future cross-border deals (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-16 India Tax Walmart

Microsoft agrees to buy a record 2.85M soil carbon credits from Indigo Carbon linked to regenerative US agriculture; a source values the deal at $171M-$228M (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-15 Microsoft

TSMC reports Q4 net profit up 35% YoY to a record ~$16B, handily beating estimates, as it benefited from surging demand for AI chips (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-15 AI 4Q

Bitchat, a P2P messaging app launched by Jack Dorsey, has emerged as a key lifeline for people in Uganda and Iran facing government-imposed internet shutdowns (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-15 Iran P2P Uganda

Elon Musk claims he's “not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok” and that Grok's operating principle is to “obey the laws of any given country” (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-15 Elon Musk

Belgian startup Aikido Security, which offers automated security guardrails for developers, raised $60M led by DST Global at a $1B valuation (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-15 Startup Belgium

Sources: Chinese authorities told domestic companies to stop using cybersecurity software made by ~12 US and Israeli companies due to national security concerns (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-14 China Israel

Sources: Chinese officials told customs agents that Nvidia H200 chips are barred from China and instructed local tech companies not to buy them unless necessary (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-14 China Nvidia

Defense Unicorns, which provides open-source air-gapped software to the US DOD, raised a $136M Series B led by Bain Capital, bringing its valuation to $1B+ (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-14

Filing: the US greenlights Nvidia H200 exports to China; the chips will be tested by a 3rd-party lab to confirm their AI capabilities before they can be shipped (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-14 China AI Nvidia

Nvidia denies that it asked Chinese customers to pay upfront for H200 chips, saying it “would never require customers to pay for products they do not receive” (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-13 China Nvidia

SK Hynix will invest ~$12.9B to build an advanced chip packaging plant in South Korea to meet rising memory chip demand, targeting completion by the end of 2027 (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-13 Korea

Italy's antitrust authority says it reduced the record fine imposed on Amazon in 2021, from €1.13B to €752M, after a recalculation (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-13 Italy Amazon

Document: Meta said last week that it would exclude Italy from its ban on rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp, after an order from the country's antitrust authority (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-13 Italy AI chatbot WhatsApp Ban

Crypto custody company BitGo aims to raise up to $201M in its IPO on the NYSE at an up to $1.96B valuation, selling 11.8M shares at $15 to $17 per share (www.reuters.com)
2026-1-13 IPO

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