Self-help gurus like Tony Robbins, Gabby Bernstein, and Matthew Hussey are charging up to $99 per month to access AI chatbots that promise personalized advice (Sara Ashley O'Brien/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/style/ai-self-help-chat-bots-tony-robbins-gabby-bernstein-0cf8b3b0?st=mJPksS&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Self-help gurus like Tony Robbins, Gabby Bernstein, and Matthew Hussey are charging up to $99 per month to access AI chatbots that promise personalized advice
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ASML hits a $500B+ market cap for the first time, the third European company to reach the milestone, after TSMC reported strong earnings; ASML is up 24% YTD (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/asml-soars-beyond-500-billion-value-after-tsmc-s-upbeat-outlook
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ASML hits a $500B+ market cap for the first time, the third European company to reach the milestone, after TSMC reported strong earnings; ASML is up 18% YTD
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WitnessAI, which intercepts employees' custom GenAI models usage and applies safeguards, raised $58M led by Sound Ventures, taking its total funding to $85M (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)
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WitnessAI Raises $58 Million for AI Security Platform
AI security firm WitnessAI has raised $58 million in strategic funding to accelerate its global go-to-market and product expansion efforts.
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WitnessAI, whose service helps organizations govern and protect their AI operations, raised $58M led by Sound Ventures, taking its total funding to $85M+
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The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get "tuned" API access; Google is already a member (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are paying up for β€˜enterprise’ access to Wikipedia
Another source of revenue for the Wikimedia Foundation.
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The Wikimedia Foundation says Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral joined Wikimedia Enterprise to get “tuned” API access; Google is already a member
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Yield Sec: the top 10 pirate sports streaming sites in the UK, largely funded by ads from unlicensed gambling operators, had 1.6B views in H1 2025, up 33% YoY (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)
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Illegal Sports Streaming in UK Soared 33% in First Half of 2025
Illegal sports streaming is surging in the UK, fueled by sites that are largely funded by advertising from unlicensed gambling operators, as fans s...
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Yield Sec: the top 10 pirate sports streaming sites in the UK, largely funded by ads from unlicensed gambling operators, had 1.6B views in H1 2025, up 33% YoY
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South Korea dropped Naver's and NCSoft's teams from its competition to develop its first sovereign AI model, as LG's, SK Telecom's, and Upstage's teams advanced (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/korea-cuts-naver-and-ncsoft-units-from-intense-sovereign-ai-race
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South Korea drops Naver
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AWS launches European Sovereign Cloud, creating a new parent company for its sovereign cloud that will be locally controlled in the EU and run by EU citizens (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
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Amazon's European sovereign cloud launch is a 'big bet,' AWS CEO Garman tells CNBC
The Amazon Web Services European Sovereign Cloud will be "physically and logically separate" from other AWS regions, the company said.
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AWS launches European Sovereign Cloud, creating a new parent company for its sovereign cloud that will be locally controlled in the EU and run by EU citizens
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TSMC projects capital spending in 2026 at between $52B and $56B, up 25%+ from 2025, and forecasts ~30% YoY revenue growth in 2026, both above analyst estimates (Bloomberg)
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TSMC’s Strong Outlook Fires Up Hopes of Sustained AI Boom
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is earmarking as much as $56 billion in capital spending for 2026, a stronger-than-anticipated projection th...
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TSMC projects $52B to $56B in 2026 capital spending, up 25%+ from 2025, and forecasts close to 30% YoY revenue growth in 2026, both above analyst estimates
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Scientists say that AI has become a powerful and rapidly improving research tool, and that whether it is generating ideas on its own is, for now, a moot point (Cade Metz/New York Times)
Can A.I. Generate New Ideas?
Systems like OpenAI’s GPT-5 are accelerating research in math, biology and chemistry. But there is a debate over whether it can do that work on i...
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Scientists say that AI has become a powerful and rapidly improving research tool, and that whether it is generating ideas on its own is, for now, a moot point
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Chinese chipmaker SpacemiT, whose RISC-V-based K1 chip is used in industrial systems, robotics, edge computing, and AI devices, raised an ~$86M Series B (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-15/chinese-chipmaker-spacemit-gets-86-million-in-fresh-funding
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Chinese chipmaker SpacemiT, whose RISC-V-based K1 chip is used in industrial systems, robotics, edge computing, and AI devices, raised an ~$86M Series B
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