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Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare to offer HIPAA-ready tools for providers, insurers, and consumers, and expands its life sciences offerings (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
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January 11, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Anthropic announces Claude for Healthcare to offer HIPAA-ready tools for providers, insurers, and consumers, and expands its life sciences offerings (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
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ATG, which is developing the AI-powered wealth strategist app Autonomous, emerges from stealth and raises a $15M pre-seed led by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)
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January 11, 2026 at 9:55 PM
ATG, which is developing the AI-powered wealth strategist app Autonomous, emerges from stealth and raises a $15M pre-seed led by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider)
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Tucuvi, which develops AI agents that check in with patients and escalate cases to human teams when needed, raised a $20M Series A, led by Cathay and Leadwind (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
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January 11, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Tucuvi, which develops AI agents that check in with patients and escalate cases to human teams when needed, raised a $20M Series A, led by Cathay and Leadwind (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
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Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
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January 11, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Instagram says there was no breach and it fixed an issue that let an external party send password reset emails, after reports that 17.5M users' data was exposed (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
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Tel Aviv-based Torq, which operates an autonomous AI-powered security operations platform, raised $140M led by Merlin Ventures at a $1.2B valuation (Andrew Martin/Bloomberg)
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January 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Tel Aviv-based Torq, which operates an autonomous AI-powered security operations platform, raised $140M led by Merlin Ventures at a $1.2B valuation (Andrew Martin/Bloomberg)
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Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to Grok, joining Indonesia, over the chatbot's generation of sexual content (Bloomberg)
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January 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to Grok, joining Indonesia, over the chatbot's generation of sexual content (Bloomberg)
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Walmart to expand Wing, Alphabet's on-demand drone delivery service, to another 150 stores, bringing the total to 270+ stores, covering ~10% of US population (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
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January 11, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Walmart to expand Wing, Alphabet's on-demand drone delivery service, to another 150 stores, bringing the total to 270+ stores, covering ~10% of US population (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
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Walmart partners with Google to offer AI-enhanced shopping, allowing users to purchase Walmart and Sam's Club items directly on Gemini (Jaewon Kang/Bloomberg)
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January 11, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Walmart partners with Google to offer AI-enhanced shopping, allowing users to purchase Walmart and Sam's Club items directly on Gemini (Jaewon Kang/Bloomberg)
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Google unveils the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open standard that lets AI agents work across different parts of the customer's buying process (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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January 11, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Google unveils the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a new open standard that lets AI agents work across different parts of the customer's buying process (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Google is introducing new personalized ads in AI mode, powered by Gemini, which allow advertisers to offer exclusives for users preparing to buy a product (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
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January 11, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Google is introducing new personalized ads in AI mode, powered by Gemini, which allow advertisers to offer exclusives for users preparing to buy a product (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
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A detailed look at the Apple-TSMC relationship: Apple's annual spend at TSMC rose 12x, from $2B in 2014 to $24B in 2025, and once made up 25% of TSMC's revenue (SemiAnalysis)
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January 11, 2026 at 1:40 PM
A detailed look at the Apple-TSMC relationship: Apple's annual spend at TSMC rose 12x, from $2B in 2014 to $24B in 2025, and once made up 25% of TSMC's revenue (SemiAnalysis)
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Analysis: the AI investment boom represents ~1% of US GDP, roughly half the GDP share during the '90s dot-com boom and comparable to the mid-2010s US shale boom (Toby Nangle/Financial Times)
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January 11, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Analysis: the AI investment boom represents ~1% of US GDP, roughly half the GDP share during the '90s dot-com boom and comparable to the mid-2010s US shale boom (Toby Nangle/Financial Times)
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Documents and sources: India proposes security rules that would force smartphone makers to share source code, prompting quiet pushback from Apple and Samsung (Reuters)
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January 11, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Documents and sources: India proposes security rules that would force smartphone makers to share source code, prompting quiet pushback from Apple and Samsung (Reuters)
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A look at the history and rise of Markdown, which has been adopted across the tech industry in the decades since its quiet launch in 2004 by John Gruber (Anil Dash)
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January 11, 2026 at 7:01 AM
A look at the history and rise of Markdown, which has been adopted across the tech industry in the decades since its quiet launch in 2004 by John Gruber (Anil Dash)
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Investigation: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used two UK-registered companies to move ~$1B in stablecoins since 2023, evading international sanctions (TRM Insights)
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January 11, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Investigation: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used two UK-registered companies to move ~$1B in stablecoins since 2023, evading international sanctions (TRM Insights)
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Newly listed Chinese AI chipmakers Moore Threads, Biren, and MetaX had stellar stock market debuts, but none has sales above 10% of rival Cambricon (Financial Times)
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January 11, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Newly listed Chinese AI chipmakers Moore Threads, Biren, and MetaX had stellar stock market debuts, but none has sales above 10% of rival Cambricon (Financial Times)
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Analysis: global AI-related companies drove ~40% of benchmark convertible bond index returns in 2025, pushing the amount raised to $166.5B, the most since 2001 (Bloomberg)
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January 11, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Analysis: global AI-related companies drove ~40% of benchmark convertible bond index returns in 2025, pushing the amount raised to $166.5B, the most since 2001 (Bloomberg)
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Taiwan's data shows the US became its top export destination in 2025 over China, including Hong Kong, the first time since 1999, partly driven by AI tech demand (Hideaki Ryugen/Nikkei Asia)
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January 11, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Taiwan's data shows the US became its top export destination in 2025 over China, including Hong Kong, the first time since 1999, partly driven by AI tech demand (Hideaki Ryugen/Nikkei Asia)
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China launches a probe into competition among online food delivery platforms, aiming to curb price wars that have contributed to deflationary economic pressures (Reuters)
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January 11, 2026 at 5:50 AM
China launches a probe into competition among online food delivery platforms, aiming to curb price wars that have contributed to deflationary economic pressures (Reuters)
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China releases draft guidelines for governing online personal data collection, open for public consultation amid privacy concerns and companies' data misuse (Bloomberg)
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January 11, 2026 at 5:40 AM
China releases draft guidelines for governing online personal data collection, open for public consultation amid privacy concerns and companies' data misuse (Bloomberg)
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A look at the global AI adoption in 2025; use in the global north grew nearly twice as fast as the south; the UAE leads with 64% of working-age adults using AI (Microsoft Corporate Responsibility)
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January 11, 2026 at 2:15 AM
A look at the global AI adoption in 2025; use in the global north grew nearly twice as fast as the south; the UAE leads with 64% of working-age adults using AI (Microsoft Corporate Responsibility)
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A look at Tether's role in Venezuela's economy, which puts it in a prime position to aid the U.S. as it seeks to find funds allegedly stolen by Maduro's regime (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
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January 10, 2026 at 10:16 PM
A look at Tether's role in Venezuela's economy, which puts it in a prime position to aid the U.S. as it seeks to find funds allegedly stolen by Maduro's regime (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
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Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses (Jackson Chen/Engadget)
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January 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses (Jackson Chen/Engadget)
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A profile of Grubhub parent Wonder, which has raised about $2B and is rolling out robotic meal-assembly tech acquired from Sweetgreen for $186M in November 2025 (Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg)
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January 10, 2026 at 6:21 PM
A profile of Grubhub parent Wonder, which has raised about $2B and is rolling out robotic meal-assembly tech acquired from Sweetgreen for $186M in November 2025 (Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg)
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Morgan Stanley survey of audio habits in the US: 50% to 60% of listeners aged 18-44 reported listening to AI-generated music for 2.5 to 3 hours per week (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
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January 10, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Morgan Stanley survey of audio habits in the US: 50% to 60% of listeners aged 18-44 reported listening to AI-generated music for 2.5 to 3 hours per week (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
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