CNBC:
OpenAI raised $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation, up from $500B in a secondary financing in Oct.; Amazon invested $50B, Nvidia and SoftBank invested $30B each  —  OpenAI announced a $110 billion funding round on Friday, a financing that's more than double the size of its last raise a year ago …

ConcernedApe has announced Clint will become a marriage candidate in the Stardew Valley 1.7 update, and fans are not happy.

A new Pokémon Presents showcase is coming for Pokémon Day 2026. Here's when and where to watch the next Pokémon Presents livestream.

Washington Post:
Sources detail how the standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic escalated after discussions about using Claude during hypothetical nuclear missile attacks  —  Start-up Anthropic and the U.S. military are careening toward a clash over government use of artificial intelligence — and whether it should be allowed to kill.

Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters:
Tether says it has frozen $4.2B of its crypto token over links to “illicit activity”, including $3.5B since 2023 and $61M linked to pig-butchering scams  —  El Salvador-based stablecoin issuer Tether said it has frozen about $4.2 billion of its crypto tokens over links to …