A profile of China's CXMT, whose $4.2B IPO goal would rank among the century's biggest chip debuts, as the state-backed company faces US and South Korean curbs (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/the-chinese-company-taking-on-the-worlds-memory-chip-giants-78dfea55?st=kSijaZ
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A profile of China
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Chinese AI executives say China is unlikely to eclipse the US in the AI race anytime soon, citing limited resources and US chip export curbs as key constraints (Bloomberg)
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China AI Leaders Warn of Widening Gap With US After $1B IPO Week
Some of China’s most prominent figures in generative artificial intelligence warned that the Asian nation is unlikely to eclipse the US in the gl...
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Chinese AI executives say China is unlikely to eclipse the US in the AI race anytime soon, citing limited resources and US chip export curbs as key constraints
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Naver, the largest South Korean buyer of Nvidia chips, is pitching its AI cloud services as an alternative for countries reluctant to use US or Chinese services (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
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Naver, the largest South Korean buyer of Nvidia chips, is pitching its AI cloud services as an alternative for countries reluctant to use US or Chinese systems
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Despite projections of memory shortages for PCs and phones, producers like Micron will proceed cautiously in adding new capacity, mindful of past downcycles (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai-is-causing-a-memory-shortage-why-producers-arent-rushing-to-make-a-lot-more-8dd15194?st=iKovcp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Despite dire projections of PC and phone memory shortages, producers like Micron will proceed cautiously in adding new capacity, ever mindful of past downcycles
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Qatar and UAE will join the Pax Silica coalition on January 12 and 15, respectively, expanding the US-led effort to secure AI and semiconductor supply chains (Jarrett Renshaw/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/qatar-uae-join-us-led-effort-bolster-technology-supply-chain-2026-01-11/
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The US says Qatar and the UAE will join Pax Silica on January 12 and January 15, respectively, expanding the US-led program to secure AI and chip supply chains
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A profile of SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, who has worked at the company since 2002, and is known as a customer emissary and Musk translator (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/business/gwynne-shotwell-spacex-5a2a0755?st=Bar35t&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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A profile of SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell, who has worked at the startup since 2002 and is known as a customer emissary and an Elon Musk translator
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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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Anthropic expands into healthcare a week after OpenAI launched a similar product
Anthropic launches Claude for Healthcare, expanding AI tools for clinicians, insurers, and patients.
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Anthropic debuts Claude for Healthcare, which offers HIPAA-ready tools for providers, insurers, and consumers, building on its Claude for Life Sciences offering
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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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Y Combinator veterans share how they raised $15 million to build an AI money manager
Two Y Combinator veterans behind a nine-figure exit have now raised $15 million, led by YC CEO Garry Tan, to build an AI-powered money manager.
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ATG, which is developing the AI-powered wealth strategist app Autonomous, emerges from stealth and raised a $15M pre-seed led by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan
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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) https://tech.eu/2026/01/08/clinical-voice-ai-startup-tucuvi-raises-20m/
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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 Kfund
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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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Instagram says it fixed the issue that sent password reset emails
Instagram says it fixed the issue that sent password reset emails and that there was no breach of its systems.
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Instagram denies a breach and says it fixed an issue that let an “external party” send password reset emails, after a report that 17.5M users
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