Illicit crypto addresses received a record $154B in 2025, up 162% YoY, driven by sanctions evasion; Russia's A7A5 token transacted $93.3B+ in less than one year (Chainalysis) https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2026-crypto-crime-report-introduction/
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Illicit crypto addresses received a record $154B in 2025, up 162% YoY, driven by sanctions evasion; Russia
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Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
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Protege raises $30M to grow governed marketplace for AI training data - SiliconANGLE
Protege raises $30M to grow governed marketplace for AI training data - SiliconANGLE
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Protege, which offers an AI data platform to access high-quality, proprietary training data at scale, raised $30M from a16z, extending its $25M Series A
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The EU says it ordered X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok's nonconsensual image generation (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-commission-has-ordered-x-retain-all-grok-documents-until-end-2026-2026-01-08/
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The European Commission orders X to retain all internal docs and data relating to Grok until the end of 2026, after criticizing Grok
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Google makes Help Me Write, AI email summaries, and Suggested Replies free to all Gmail users; the features required a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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Gmail making Help Me Write, AI summaries, & Suggested Replies free for all
Besides previewing the future of Gmail, Google is making a number of AI features that previously required a subscription free...
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Google makes Help Me Write, AI email summaries, and Suggested Replies free to all Gmail users, after previously requiring a Google AI Pro or Ultra subscription
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Google rolls out an AI Inbox view for Gmail, showing users to-dos and summaries of topics rather than a traditional email list, first for US "trusted testers" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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Google is taking over your Gmail inbox with AI
AI Mode but for Gmail.
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Google rolls out an AI Inbox view for Gmail that shows users to-dos and summaries of topics rather than a traditional email list, first for US “trusted testers”
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Israeli data security startup Cyera raised a $400M Series F led by Blackstone Growth at a $9B valuation, up from $6B after raising $540M in June 2025 (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
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Exclusive: Cyera CEO Yotam Segev on raising $400 million and why the stakes in cybersecurity are getting higher | Fortune
Just six months after fetching a $6 billion valuation, cyber startup Cyera has raised $400 million at a $9 billion valuation.
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Israeli data security startup Cyera raised a $400M Series F led by Blackstone Growth at a $9B valuation, up from $6B after raising $540M in June 2025
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Sources: China is considering how to build fences around its AI know-how amid the AI race and is identifying standout companies to add to an export control list (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/china-warns-ai-startups-seeking-to-emulate-meta-deal-not-so-fast-17bdd28a?st=eVU2qt
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Sources: China is considering how to build fences around its AI know-how amid the AI race and is identifying standout companies to add to an export control list
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Sources and US tax lawyers: the IRS's planned audit of private equity and VC firms is faltering under President Trump, as many senior leaders leave the agency (Jesse Drucker/New York Times)
Push to Audit Private Equity and Venture Capital Falters Under Trump
Specialists have left the I.R.S. and audits have been abandoned since the president returned to office.
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Sources and US tax lawyers: the IRS
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Lego says its Smart Brick is "here to stay" but "does not mean that we're leaving our core proposition behind", after criticism of abandoning non-digital play (Tom Phillips/IGN) https://www.ign.com/articles/lego-says-smart-brick-is-here-to-stay-and-responds-to-questions-and-concerns-around-abandoning-non-digital-play
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Lego says its Smart Brick is “here to stay” but “does not mean that we
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Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood predicts "we'll see the first 100% AI-generated hit movie" within three years and discusses Roku's new $3/month Howdy streamer (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
Roku CEO on Cheap, Ad-Free Streamer, 'First 100% AI-Generated Hit Movie'
Roku CEO and founder Anthony Wood predicts big things for AI and Hollywood in the next three years.
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Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood predicts “we
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