Docs: Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits with families of teenagers who killed or harmed themselves after interacting with Character.AI's chatbot (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-chatbot-startup-google-to-settle-lawsuits-over-teen-suicides-fb41a063?st=r6MHVs
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Docs: Character.AI and Google agree to settle lawsuits with families of teenagers who killed or harmed themselves after interacting with Character.AI
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Sources: Anthropic plans to raise $10B led by Singapore's GIC and Coatue Management at a $350B valuation before the new investment, up from $183B in September (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-raising-10-billion-at-350-billion-value-62af49f4?st=kuwp8Q&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Sources: Anthropic plans to raise $10B led by Singapore
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Cambodia extradites Chen Zhi, the chairman of online scam conglomerate Prince Group, to China; in October, the US DOJ seized $12B in bitcoin belonging to Chen (Gabriele Steinhauser/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/cambodian-scam-tycoon-wanted-by-u-s-extradited-to-china-b483e24c
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Cambodia extradites Chen Zhi, the chair of online scam conglomerate Prince Group, to China; in October 2025, the US DOJ seized Chen
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Utah launches a pilot program with health-tech startup Doctronic to let AI systems handle routine prescription renewals for patients with chronic conditions (Politico) https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/artificial-intelligence-prescribing-medications-utah-00709122
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Utah launches a pilot program with health tech startup Doctronic to let AI systems handle routine prescription renewals for patients with chronic conditions
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Source: Ant Group's Ant International grew revenue by 20% to 25% in 2025 to an estimated $3.7B, or ~10% of Ant's total 2025 revenue, as it competes with Visa (Jing Yang/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ant-builds-mobile-payment-network-alternative-visa-mastercard
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Polymarket agrees to its first media partnership to supply Dow Jones outlets, including the WSJ and Barron's, with real-time prediction market trading data (Katherine Doherty/Bloomberg)
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Polymarket to Distribute Prediction Data to Dow Jones Outlets
Polymarket will supply Dow Jones with trading data under a new partnership, the latest in a string of deals between exchanges and media organizatio...
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Polymarket agrees to supply Dow Jones outlets like the WSJ and Barron
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Sources: China told some local tech companies to temporarily halt purchase orders for Nvidia's H200 chips while officials deliberate on import conditions (Qianer Liu/The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/china-tells-tech-companies-halt-nvidia-h200-chip-orders
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Sources: China has told some local tech companies to temporarily halt purchase orders for Nvidia
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Spotify launches Listening Activity on iOS and Android, letting users view friends' real-time listening via the sidebar alongside chats, as an opt-in feature (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
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Spotify is finally bringing your friends’ Listening Activity to mobile
Spotify is adding Listening Activity and Request to Jam to its mobile app.
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Spotify launches Listening Activity on iOS and Android, letting users view friends
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Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks agrees to acquire accounting platform TRES Finance, sources say for $130M in cash and equity; TRES raised $11M in 2023 (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
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Fireblocks acquires crypto accounting platform TRES Finance for $130 million | Fortune
This is the crypto infrastructure firm’s second acquisition over the past year.
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Crypto infrastructure provider Fireblocks agrees to acquire accounting platform TRES Finance, sources say for $130M in cash and equity; TRES raised $11M in 2023
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London-based e-commerce logistics platform Swap raised a $100M Series C led by DST Global and Iconiq, after raising a $40M Series B in March 2025 (Axios) https://www.axios.com/pro/supply-chain-deals/2026/01/07/swap-100m-series-c-e-commerce-operating-system
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London-based e-commerce logistics startup Swap raised a $100M Series C led by DST Global and Iconiq, after raising a $40M Series B in March 2025
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