Memo: JPMorgan's asset management unit cuts ties with proxy advisory firms to use its AI-powered Proxy IQ platform to assist on US votes, an industry first (Jack Pitcher/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/jpmorgan-cuts-all-ties-with-proxy-advisers-in-industry-first-78c43d5f?st=o1hChU&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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London-based data center company GTR raised $1.5B from KKR and ~$400M from Oak Hill to develop its facilities in England, Barcelona, Zurich, and Tel Aviv (Financial Times)
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London-based data center startup GTR raised $1.5B from KKR and ~$400M from Oak Hill to develop its facilities in England, Barcelona, Zurich, and Tel Aviv
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Intel spinout and enterprise AI company Articul8 raised over half of a $70M Series B at a $500M pre-money valuation and expects the round to close in Q1 2026 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
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Intel spinout Articul8 raises more than half of $70M round at $500M valuation | TechCrunch
Articul8's valuation for its current funding round marks a roughly fivefold increase since its Series A.
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Intel spinout and enterprise AI startup Articul8 raised over half of a $70M Series B at a $500M pre-money valuation and expects the round to close in Q1 2026
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Roblox expands mandatory age estimations for chat features to all regions using Persona's tech, after a rollout in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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Roblox now requires an age check if you want to chat
After a user’s age has been verified, they’ll be able to chat with others in similar age groups.
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Roblox expands using Persona
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WBD's board unanimously rejects Paramount's amended $108.4B acquisition offer, saying the bid still has "significant" risks compared to Netflix's $83B offer (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
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Warner Bros. Discovery Rejects Paramount's Amended $30 Per Share Bid Over 'Insufficient Value' and 'Lack of Certainty'
The board says the revised $108.4 billion bid continues to offer "significant costs, risks and uncertainties" compared to its $83 billion deal with...
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Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or "nudifying" images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of Grok images are sexualized (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
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Musk’s Grok AI Generated Thousands of Undressed Images Per Hour on X
Elon Musk’s X has become a top site for images of people that have been non-consensually undressed by AI, according to a third-party analysis, wi...
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Researcher: Grok generated ~6,700 sexually suggestive or “nudifying” images per hour on X between January 5 and January 6; 85% of all Grok images are sexualized
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Filing: Samsung plans to acquire $1.73B of its stock for employee and executive compensation, as part of a performance-linked scheme introduced in October 2025 (Kyu-seok Shim/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/samsung-electronics-buy-173-billion-its-shares-employee-compensation-2026-01-07/
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Filing: Samsung plans to acquire ~$1.73B of its stock for employee and executive compensation, as part of a performance-linked scheme introduced in October 2025
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Jensen Huang says Nvidia has "fired up" H200 production in the expectation of resumed China sales and it is working on the "last details" with the US government (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
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Jensen Huang says Nvidia has “fired up” H200 production in the expectation of resuming China sales and it is finishing the “last details” with the US government
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Samsung says it expects memory chip supply shortages to raise prices across the electronics industry, including potentially among its own consumer products (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-07/samsung-warns-of-price-hikes-as-rising-memory-costs-affect-all
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Samsung says it expects memory chip supply shortages to raise prices across the electronics industry, including potentially among its own consumer products
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Polymarket is disputing that the US mission to capture Nicolás Maduro constituted an "invasion", refusing to pay out bets on a contract with $10.5M in wagers (Financial Times)
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Polymarket is disputing that the US mission to capture Nicolás Maduro constituted an “invasion”, refusing to pay out bets on a contract with $10.5M+ in wagers
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