Google launches Gemini Personal Intelligence, linking to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to provide context-aware responses, for paid users (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
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Gemini can look through your emails and photos to 'help' you now - but should you let it?
With Personal Intelligence, Gemini can tap into your Gmail, Photos, and YouTube. In short, you're giving it more of your data.
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Google launches Personal Intelligence, a Gemini feature that links to Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube history to tailor answers, for paid subscribers
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Sources: the Trump administration is weighing a substantial shift in its cyberstrategy, including by enlisting private companies to assist with cyberattacks (Adam Sella/New York Times)
U.S. Weighs Expanding Private Companies’ Role in Cyberwarfare
The proposal raises a host of questions about the legality and practicality of bolstering the involvement of the private sector in offensive cybero...
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Sources: the Trump administration is weighing a substantial shift in its cyberstrategy, including by enlisting private companies to assist with cyberattacks
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Dutch court hearing: Nexperia claims Chinese owner Wingtech pushed for tech transfers out of Europe and threatened execs; Wingtech criticizes Nexperia execs (Bloomberg)
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Nexperia Accuses Chinese Owner of Threats in Testy Chip Feud
Dutch chipmaker Nexperia BV claimed that Chinese owner Wingtech Technology Co. was pushing for technology transfers out of Europe and threatening e...
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Dutch court hearing: Nexperia claims Chinese owner Wingtech pushed for tech transfers out of Europe and threatened execs; Wingtech attacks Nexperia
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Belgian startup Aikido Security, which offers automated security guardrails for developers, raised $60M led by DST Global at a $1B valuation (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/technology/belgian-cybersecurity-startup-aikido-hits-unicorn-status-with-new-funding-round-2026-01-14/
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Belgium-based Aikido Security, which offers automated security guardrails for developers, raised a $60M Series B led by DST Global at a $1B valuation
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Source: Microsoft quietly becomes one of Anthropic's top clients and was recently on pace to spend nearly $500M/year for Anthropic to power Microsoft products (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-spending-anthropic-ai-pace-hit-500-million
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Source: Microsoft has become one of Anthropic
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Tel Aviv- and Boston-based IO River, which lets users manage multiple CDN and edge networks, raised a $20M Series A led by Venture Guides and New Era (Chris Metinko/Axios) https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/01/14/exclusive-io-river-raises-20m-to-manage-content-and-edge-networks
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Tel Aviv- and Boston-based IO River, which helps companies manage multiple CDN and edge networks, raised a $20M Series A led by Venture Guides and New Era
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UK police say they banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a soccer match in 2025 after Copilot hallucinated a fake West Ham-Maccabi match in an intelligence report (Tom Warren/The Verge)
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UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake
Copilot invented a football match that never happened
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UK police say they banned Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from a soccer match in 2025 after Copilot hallucinated a fake West Ham-Maccabi match in an intelligence report
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Pittsburgh-based Skild AI, which makes robotics foundation models, raised a $1.4B Series C at a $14B valuation, up from $4.5B after raising $300M in June 2025 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
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Robotics Startup Skild AI Valued Above $14 Billion in New Funding Round
Skild AI Inc., a fast-rising startup that makes software to help robots learn to complete tasks, has secured about $1.4 billion in a new funding ro...
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Pittsburgh-based Skild AI, which makes robotics foundation models, raised a $1.4B Series C at a $14B+ valuation, up from ~$4.5B in June 2025
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Airbnb hires Meta executive Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led generative AI and the Llama team after working at Apple, as its CTO, as it aims to integrate AI in its app (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
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Airbnb Names Meta’s Head of Generative AI as Chief Technology Officer
Airbnb Inc. has hired a former Meta Platforms Inc. executive as its new chief technology officer, as the short-term rental company is investing to ...
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Airbnb hires Meta executive Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led the generative AI and Llama team after working at Apple, as its CTO, as it aims to add more AI to its app
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Polymarket is hosting a growing number of contracts related to military conflicts, including China invading Taiwan; possible US strikes in Iran has $18M+ volume (Denitsa Tsekova/Bloomberg)
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Polymarket Steps Into Legal Gray Area by Hosting Trades on War
Even as prediction-market platforms have tested legal and regulatory norms like never before, most have drawn a line at one category: direct wagers...
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Polymarket is hosting a growing number of contracts tied to military conflicts, including China invading Taiwan; possible US strikes in Iran has $18M+ in trades
By Denitsa Tsekova / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.