Zack Zwiezen / Kotaku:
Rockstar confirms “a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach”; ShinyHunters demand a ransom  —  Well known hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached the GTA 6 developers cloud servers  —  More bad news for Rockstar Games.

Ryan Mac / New York Times:
A verified @elonmusk TikTok account posted its first video, promoting SpaceX and Tesla and hitting 2M+ views; a verified Instagram account is yet to post  —  A verified account with the @elonmusk handle also recently showed up on Instagram, as the billionaire prepares to take his rocket company SpaceX public.

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC:
OpenAI plans to open its first permanent London office with a 500+ staff capacity; in February, OpenAI said it would make London its largest non-US research hub  —  OpenAI has announced it's opening its first permanent London office with a capacity of over 500 team members …

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
The Trump family's World Liberty Financial faces an investor revolt; Justin Sun accuses WLFI of building a “backdoor” that could be used to blacklist investors  —  World Liberty Financial Inc., a Trump family crypto venture, is facing an investor revolt that includes billionaire backer Justin Sun …

Andy Kemp / Gallup:
For the first time, 50% of employed US adults say they use AI at work a few times per year or more; leaders are more likely to see AI's impact as positive  —  Employees report productivity gains with AI but not fundamental shifts in how work gets done.  —  For the first time in Gallup's measurement …