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An interview with Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz, who expects a 2025 profit of $170M to $200M, about the company's $300M round that pushed its valuation above Rippling's (Matt Durot/Forbes)
Matt Durot / Forbes : An interview with Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz, who expects a 2025 p…
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X plans a Handle Marketplace for Premium+ and Business subscribers to search for and request inactive usernames; rare handles can cost from $2,500 to $1M+ (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
Terrence O'Brien / The Verge : X plans a Handle Marketplace for Premium+ and Bu…
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A look at the Crylock ransomware scheme, orchestrated by a Russian couple who targeted as many as 400,000 victims and earned over €64M in BTC over eight years (Financial Times)
Financial Times : A look at the Crylock ransomware scheme, orchestrated by a Russia…
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OpenAI's Broadcom deal shows how the AI startup is diversifying its chip suppliers, including Nvidia chips for training and Broadcom chips for inference (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : OpenAI's Broadcom deal shows how the A…
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A profile of Anton Pavlovsky, CEO of Kyiv-based Headway Inc, which develops gamified educational apps and has 160M users across its five-product portfolio (Martina Di Licosa/Forbes)
Martina Di Licosa / Forbes : A profile of Anton Pavlovsky, CEO of Kyiv-based Headwa…
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US military has adopted an aggressive push to embrace AI; the top US Army commander in South Korea says "Chat and I" have become "really close lately" (Business Insider)
Business Insider : US military has adopted an aggressive push to embrace AI; the to…
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Shares of bitcoin mining companies pivoting to AI and HPC infrastructure have soared in 2025, with a fund tracking mining firms up 150% year-to-date (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg : Shares of bitcoin mining companies pivoting to AI an…
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WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants of OpenAI, Perplexity, others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch : WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-pu…
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Astra Nova, which develops no-code tools that enable creators to launch blockchain-based entertainment experiences, raised $48.3M (CoinDesk)
CoinDesk : Astra Nova, which develops no-code tools that enable creators to launch …
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Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being a decade away, why reinforcement learning is terrible, superintelligence, his AI education startup Eureka, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast : Q&A with Andrej Karpathy on AGI still being…
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Sources: Revolut is nearing the completion of a $3B fundraising round that values the company at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Sources: Revolut is nearing the completion of a $3B fundraising round t…
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Email: Ron Conway, a close friend of Marc Benioff for 25+ years, stepped down from the Salesforce Foundation board, citing Benioff's comments supporting Trump (Heather Knight/New York Times)
Heather Knight / New York Times : Email: Ron Conway, a close friend of Marc Benioff…
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Apple and NBCUniversal announce an Apple TV and Peacock Premium bundle for $14.99 per month, a 30% discount over the individual subscriptions (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : Apple and NBCUniversal announce an Apple TV …
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Coinbase launches Coinbase Business, a stablecoin payment platform to let businesses send and receive USDC; Coinbase shares USDC yield revenue 50/50 with Circle (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
Ian Allison / CoinDesk : Coinbase launches Coinbase Business, a stablecoin payment …
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Sources: Anthropic is on track to meet an internal goal of $9B in annual revenue run rate by the end of 2025 and is targeting $20B to $26B for 2026 (Reuters)
Reuters : Sources: Anthropic is on track to meet an internal goal of $9B in annual …
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