Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: AI inference startup Baseten raised $300M led by IVP and CapitalG at a $5B valuation, more than doubling its valuation; Nvidia invested $150M  —  The move follows other investments from the chip giant to improve the delivery of artificial-intelligence services to customers

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI and ServiceNow sign a three-year deal to integrate OpenAI's models into ServiceNow's business software, including embedding OpenAI's AI agents  —  The AI model maker and business-software provider signed a three-year pact that underscores how AI agents are increasingly being embedded in corporate software

Shona Ghosh / Bloomberg:
At the WEF in Davos, Palantir CEO Alex Karp says that AI-driven job displacement will “make it hard to imagine why we should have large-scale immigration”  —  Artificial intelligence will displace so many jobs that it will eliminate the need for mass immigration …

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Netflix adds a real-time voting feature for its Star Search reboot, available on mobile, smart TVs, and streaming devices, but not on a browser  —  Netflix today is launching a new feature that will allow users to interact with live content through voting.  The streaming company said the option …

Bloomberg:
Demis Hassabis says Chinese AI companies are about six months behind leading western labs and the response to DeepSeek's R1 was a “massive overreaction”  —  Google DeepMind Chief Executive Officer Demis Hassabis said Chinese artificial intelligence companies haven't been able …