Filings: X's UK revenue fell 58.3% YoY from Β£69.1M in 2023 to Β£28.9M in 2024; pre-tax profits fell from Β£2.2M in 2023 to Β£767,000 in 2024 (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
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X UK revenues drop nearly 60% in a year as content concerns spook advertisers
Elon Musk-owned site reports plunging profits amid outcry over use of AI tool Grok to create sexually explicit imagery
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Filings: X
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Meta strikes a 20-year deal to buy 2,600+ MW of nuclear power from Vistra, and announces deals to back new reactor projects from TerraPower and Oklo (Jennifer Hiller/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-unveils-sweeping-nuclear-power-plan-to-fuel-its-ai-ambitions-65c56aac
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Meta signs deals with nuclear power providers Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo to buy power and support new reactor projects, securing up to 6.6GW of power by 2035
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How Craigslist has stayed relevant for users as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds or public profiles (Jennifer Swann/Wired)
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Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projectsβ€”eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online ...
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How Craigslist has stayed relevant as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds, public profiles, or ratings
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X limits Grok's image generation and editing to paying subscribers after widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery (Helena Horton/The Guardian)
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Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
Editing function to be limited to paying subscribers after X threatened with fines and regulatory action
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Grok says image generation and editing are now limited to paid subscribers, after outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery
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Omdia: global humanoid robot shipments rose more than 5x YoY in 2025 to ~13K units; China accounted for the vast majority, led by AgiBot shipping ~5,168 units (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-08/chinese-firms-dominated-global-humanoid-robot-shipments-in-2025
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Omdia: global humanoid robot shipments rose more than 5x YoY in 2025 to ~13K units; China accounted for the vast majority, led by AgiBot shipping ~5,168 units
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Chinese humanoid robotics companies dominated CES 2026, but a wide gap remains between choreographed demonstrations and real-world deployment (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-08/china-s-humanoid-bots-were-everywhere-at-america-s-top-tech-show?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NzkyNjU2OSwiZXhwIjoxNzY4NTMxMzY5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUOElHSkNLSVAzSkYwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNTc5RDIwMDZBQjQ0RjRDODkwMTU0M0U0ODMxNkJCNiJ9.2Op83h6MhKSlMLY8eHdaKa21ipb9sn0wgZn4nl6jqkc
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Chinese humanoid robotics companies dominated CES 2026, but a wide gap remains between choreographed demonstrations and large-scale, real-world deployment
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Artemis Analytics: total stablecoin transaction volumes rose 72% YoY to a record $33T in 2025, led by Circle's USDC at $18.3T and Tether's USDT at $13.3T (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)
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Stablecoin Transactions Rose to Record $33 Trillion, Led by USDC
Stablecoin transactions reached unprecedented heights last year, buoyed by favorable policy in the US under pro-crypto President Donald Trump.
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Artemis Analytics: total stablecoin transaction volumes rose 72% YoY to a record $33T in 2025, led by Circle
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Chinese AI startup MiniMax jumped as much as 54% in its Hong Kong debut on Friday, after raising ~$619M in its IPO priced at ~$21.17 per share (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-08/ai-firm-minimax-set-for-hong-kong-debut-after-619-million-ipo
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Chinese AI startup MiniMax
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Source: Lambda, which rents access to AI chips and is backed by Nvidia, is in talks to raise $350M+ led by Mubadala Capital, ahead of an IPO planned for H2 2026 (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-backed-cloud-provider-lambda-talks-raise-350-million-ahead-ipo
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Source: Lambda, which rents access to AI chips and is backed by Nvidia, is in talks to raise $350M+ led by Mubadala Capital, ahead of an IPO planned for H2 2026
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Seattle-based Spangle AI, which makes AI tools for online retailers to build custom storefronts, raised a $15M Series A led by NewRoad at a $100M valuation (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
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Former Amazon execs raise $15M for agentic commerce startup that uses AI to generate custom storefronts
Spangle co-founders Maju Kuruvilla (left) and Fei Wang. (Spangle Photo) Spangle AI, a new Seattle startup that helps online retailers build customized
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Seattle-based Spangle AI, which offers AI tools for online retailers to generate custom storefronts, raised a $15M Series A led by NewRoad at a $100M valuation
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