Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Sources: Nintendo plans to cut its Switch 2 production this quarter by 33%, from 6M to 4M units, after weaker-than-expected holiday demand, especially in the US  —  Nintendo Co. is cutting back the production of Switch 2 after demand for the $450 gaming console trailed the company's expectations during …

Reuters:
Chinese media: Alibaba's DAMO Academy unveils XuanTie C950, a 5nm, 3.2 GHz server chip, and claims it is “the highest performing RISC-V CPU in the world”  —  Alibaba (9988.HK) on Tuesday revealed its next-generation XuanTie C950 5-nanometer processor at an internal conference on Tuesday …

Tsubasa Suruga / Nikkei Asia:
Japan's Sakana AI launches Sakana Chat, its first consumer chatbot, marking a shift from its business focus as competition to localize generative AI intensifies  —  TOKYO — Japan's Sakana AI has launched its first consumer-facing chatbot, marking a shift from being a corporate-focused …

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
Munich-based Interloom, which aims to capture tacit knowledge for AI agents from businesses' operational records, raised a $16.5M seed led by DN Capital  —  Michael Polyani, the British-Hungarian philosopher, economist, and scientist, is perhaps best known today for coining the term “tacit knowledge.”

David Keohane / Financial Times:
SoftBank says its loan-to-value ratio, a measure of net debt against the value of its holdings, could exceed its 25% limit, as it commits another $30B to OpenAI  —  Masayoshi Son faces investor nerves with massive spending on AI investments  —  SoftBank is testing a key self-imposed borrowing limit …