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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Security Startup Torq Raises Cash at $1.2 Billion Valuation
The Israeli cybersecurity startup Torq is planning to announce Sunday that it has closed a $140 million funding round, raising its valuation to $1....
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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
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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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Musk’s Grok AI Blocked in Indonesia, Malaysia Over Sexual Images
Indonesia and Malaysia restricted access to Elon Musk’s Grok AI over the weekend, becoming the first countries to ban the artificial intelligence...
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Malaysia becomes the second country to limit access to xAI
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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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Wing to expand drone delivery to another 150 Walmart stores | TechCrunch
The partnership will grow Wing's drone delivery service to more than 270 Walmart stores by 2027.
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Walmart plans to expand Wing, Alphabet
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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) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-11/walmart-teams-with-alphabet-for-ai-assisted-shopping-on-gemini
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Walmart partners with Google to offer AI-enhanced shopping, allowing users to purchase Walmart and Sam
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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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Google announces a new protocol to facilitate commerce using AI agents | TechCrunch
Google said that merchants can now offer discounts to users directly in AI mode results.
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Google unveils the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard that lets AI agents work across customer buying processes, from discovery to support
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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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Google introduces new personalized ads in its Gemini-powered AI Mode, letting advertisers offer exclusives for users preparing to buy a product
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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)
Apple-TSMC: The Partnership That Built Modern Semiconductors
Wafer demand model, node economics, and the shifting power dynamics as AI reshapes the foundry landscape
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A detailed look at the Apple-TSMC relationship: Apple
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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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Analysis: the AI investment boom represents ~1% of US GDP, roughly half the GDP share during the
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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) https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-proposes-forcing-smartphone-makers-give-source-code-security-overhaul-2026-01-11/
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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
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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)
How Markdown took over the world - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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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
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