Sources: Anthropic plans to raise $10B led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue Management at a $350B valuation before the new investment, up from $183B in September (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-raising-10-billion-at-350-billion-value-62af49f4?st=kuwp8Q&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Cambodia extradites Chen Zhi, the chairman of online scam conglomerate Prince Group, to China; in October, the US DOJ seized $12B in bitcoin belonging to Chen (Gabriele Steinhauser/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/cambodian-scam-tycoon-wanted-by-u-s-extradited-to-china-b483e24c
Utah launches a pilot program with health-tech startup Doctronic to let AI systems handle routine prescription renewals for patients with chronic conditions (Politico) https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/artificial-intelligence-prescribing-medications-utah-00709122
Source: Ant Group's Ant International grew revenue by 20% to 25% in 2025 to an estimated $3.7B, or ~10% of Ant's total 2025 revenue, as it competes with Visa (Jing Yang/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ant-builds-mobile-payment-network-alternative-visa-mastercard
Polymarket agrees to its first media partnership to supply Dow Jones outlets, including the WSJ and Barron's, with real-time prediction market trading data (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
Sources: China told some local tech companies to temporarily halt purchase orders for Nvidia's H200 chips while officials deliberate on import conditions (Qianer Liu/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-tells-tech-companies-halt-nvidia-h200-chip-orders
Spotify launches Listening Activity on iOS and Android, letting users view friends' real-time listening via the sidebar alongside chats, as an opt-in feature (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks agrees to acquire accounting platform TRES Finance, sources say for $130M in cash and equity; TRES raised $11M in 2023 (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
London-based e-commerce logistics platform Swap raised a $100M Series C led by DST Global and Iconiq, after raising a $40M Series B in March 2025 (Axios) https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-deals/2026/01/07/swap-100m-series-c-e-commerce-operating-system
As Trump and Big Tech aim to build SMRs to win the AI race, a look at the issues they face; none of the 50 SMRs under development have a US operating license (Jamie Smyth/Financial Times)