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Jio Platforms partners with Polygon Labs to integrate Web3 and blockchain services into Jio's apps and services; Jio Platforms has over 450M users in India (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk)

Jio Platforms partners with Polygon Labs to integr...

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An official says the Biden administration is "exploring options" to implement the law without causing TikTok to go dark for US users on January 19 (NBC News)

An official says the Biden administration is "expl...

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Sources: Satya Nadella and Brad Smith had lunch with Trump, Vance, and Musk at Mar-a-Lago on January 15; Microsoft says its two execs had a "Productive meeting" (Semafor)

Sources: Satya Nadella and Brad Smith had lunch wi...

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Germany-based Neura Robotics, which is building cognitive, humanoid robots for logistics and other sectors, raised a €120M Series B led by Lingotto Investment (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)

Germany-based Neura Robotics, which is building co...

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Chinese AI company MiniMax, which has raised ~$850M, debuts three LLMs, including a 456B-parameter model that it claims performs better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Chinese AI company MiniMax, which has raised ~$850...

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The US Commerce Department adds 25 China-based companies, including Alibaba-backed LLM developer Zhipu AI and chip designer Sophgo, to its restricted trade list (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)

The US Commerce Department adds 25 China-based com...

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During oral arguments, SCOTUS seemed open to a Texas law requiring age checks to view online porn, but could send the case back to a lower court (Lindsay Whitehurst/Associated Press)

During oral arguments, SCOTUS seemed open to a Tex...

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AI researcher François Chollet and Zapier co-founder Mike Knoop launch Ndea, an AI research and science lab focused on "developing and operationalizing AGI" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

AI researcher François Chollet and Zapier c...

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Sources: Nothing seeks to raise at least $100M in its Series C; it crossed $1B in lifetime sales, sold 7M devices to date, and doubled revenue to $500M+ in 2024 (Bloomberg)

Sources: Nothing seeks to raise at least $100M in ...

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BitMEX is fined an additional $100M for US Bank Secrecy Act violations between 2015 and 2020; it pleaded guilty in July 2024 and previously agreed to pay $110M (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

BitMEX is fined an additional $100M for US Bank Se...

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Block agrees to pay $80M to a group of 48 US state financial regulators that say it had insufficient policies for policing money laundering through Cash App (Pete Schroeder/Reuters)

Block agrees to pay $80M to a group of 48 US state...

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Donald Trump is considering issuing an executive order once in office that would suspend enforcement of the TikTok sale-or-ban law for 60 to 90 days (Washington Post)

Donald Trump is considering issuing an executive o...

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Aligned Data Centers, which specializes in AI-related infrastructure, raised over $12B, including $5B+ of new primary equity and $7B+ of new debt commitments (Rishi Kant/Reuters)

Aligned Data Centers, which specializes in AI-rela...

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DappRadar: NFT trading volumes in 2024 fell 19% YoY to $13.7B and sales counts fell 18% YoY to just under 50M, making 2024 the worst performing year since 2020 (Jesse Coghlan/Cointelegraph)

DappRadar: NFT trading volumes in 2024 fell 19% Yo...

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DoubleVerify says there is a jump in AI click farms, including a network of 200+ websites called Synthetic Echo, designed to siphon ad revenue from real outlets (Kate Knibbs/Wired)

DoubleVerify says there is a jump in AI click farm...

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Google says it has partnered with the AP to deliver a feed of real-time information to enhance the usefulness of results displayed in the Gemini app (Jaffer Zaidi/The Keyword)

Google says it has partnered with the AP to delive...

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The FTC sues John Deere, alleging it illegally drove up repair costs by making its software repair tool available only to its authorized dealers (Reuters)

The FTC sues John Deere, alleging it illegally dro...

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Nikita Bier, creator of apps like tbh and anonymous compliments app Gas, launches Explode, a freemium app to send disappearing texts and photos via iMessage (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Nikita Bier, creator of apps like tbh and anonymou...

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