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The FTC releases a report saying Microsoft's $13B investment in OpenAI raises concerns that the company could extend its cloud computing dominance into AI (Bloomberg)
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An interview with Marc Andreessen on his evolution from a "normie Democrat" to a Trump supporter, and what he and others expect from the new administration (Ross Douthat/New York Times)
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Some congressional leaders who championed the TikTok law now want to delay the ban from going into effect, showing how much politics has shifted on the issue (NBC News)
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After SCOTUS upheld the TikTok law, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew appeals to Trump in a TikTok video to find a solution that keeps the app available in the US (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
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A look at efforts by Meta, YouTube, Snapchat, X, and Substack to attract TikTok's creators and users; Substack is offering a $25K "TikTok Liberation Prize" (The Hollywood Reporter)
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Google has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript to use Google Search, says to "better protect" Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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The US sanctions a China-based cybersecurity company involved in the Salt Typhoon hacks and a Shanghai-based hacker involved in the recent US Treasury breach (Caitlin Webber/Reuters)
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Sources: Shield AI, maker of software for autonomous aircraft and drones, is raising ~$200M from Palantir and others at a $5B valuation, up from $2.8B in 2024 (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times)
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Trump says he will "be making the decision" about TikTok and confirms he had a conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping about the app (CNN)
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Instabase, which lets companies process unstructured data from different document types, raised a $100M Series D led by Qatar's sovereign wealth fund (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
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SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, says free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)
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Sources: Chinese hackers breached US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's computer and accessed fewer than 50 unclassified files; two deputies were also hacked (Bloomberg)
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Lenovo acquires enterprise storage startup Infinidat and plans to turn it into its Israel development center; Infinidat raised $350M from TPG and others (Assaf Gilead/Globes Online)
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Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd will return to the company as CEO in mid-March, replacing current CEO Lidiane Jones, who is departing for "personal reasons" (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg)
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PitchBook: investors put $74.6B into US startups in Q4 2024, up from an average of $42B in the prior nine quarters, with $32B invested across just five deals (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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EU expands its X probe, asking for internal docs about X's recommendation algorithm, following complaints from German politicians about boosting the far right (Financial Times)
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An in-depth look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers test AI systems for risks and for capabilities that might become dangerous in the future (Billy Perrigo/Time)
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In a first, Samsung will pay 50%-100% of executive bonuses in stock starting January 2026, linking compensation to share performance amid chipmaking struggles (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
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Sources: Instagram and YouTube gear up to welcome TikTok users; two Meta employees say execs discussed resource allocation on January 15 to handle TikTok users (New York Times)
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A look at Pump.Fun, a service for launching memecoins that has generated $350M+ in revenue via a 1% trading fee in the 12 months since its launch in Jan. 2024 (Joel Khalili/Wired)
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