China launches a probe into competition among online food delivery platforms, aiming to curb price wars that have contributed to deflationary economic pressures (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-investigate-market-competition-among-food-delivery-platforms-2026-01-09/
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China launches a probe into competition among online food delivery platforms, aiming to curb price wars that have contributed to deflationary economic pressures
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China releases draft guidelines for governing online personal data collection, open for public consultation amid privacy concerns and companies' data misuse (Bloomberg) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-10/china-tightens-oversight-of-personal-data-gathering-on-internet
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China releases draft guidelines for governing online personal data collection, open for public consultation amid privacy concerns and companies
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A look at the global AI adoption in 2025; use in the global north grew nearly twice as fast as the south; the UAE leads with 64% of working-age adults using AI (Microsoft Corporate Responsibility)
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Global AI Adoption in 2025 – AI Economy Institute | Microsoft
Global adoption of AI continued to rise in the second half of 2025 as the digital divide between the Global South and Global North widens.
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A look at the global AI adoption in 2025; use in the global north grew nearly twice as fast as the south; the UAE leads with 64% of working-age adults using AI
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A look at Tether's role in Venezuela's economy, which puts it in a prime position to aid the U.S. as it seeks to find funds allegedly stolen by Maduro's regime (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/maduros-crypto-backed-oil-deals-put-tether-at-center-of-venezuela-money-drama-3fc53b29
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A look at Tether
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Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5 million users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses (Jackson Chen/Engadget)
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Instagram says accounts 'are secure' after wave of suspicious password reset requests
The leak may be responsible for Instagram users receiving plenty of emails requesting a password reset.
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Malwarebytes: a 2024 Instagram data breach exposed information on 17.5M users, including emails, phone numbers, and physical addresses
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A profile of Grubhub parent Wonder, which has raised about $2B and is rolling out robotic meal-assembly tech acquired from Sweetgreen for $186M in November 2025 (Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg)
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Do You Want Your Food Made by a Robot?
E-commerce mogul Marc Lore's Wonder is leaning into automation in a $2 billion effort to do to restaurants what Amazon did to shopping.
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A profile of Grubhub parent Wonder, which has raised about $2B and is rolling out robotic meal-assembly tech acquired from Sweetgreen for $186M in November 2025
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Morgan Stanley survey of audio habits in the US: 50% to 60% of listeners aged 18-44 reported listening to AI-generated music for 2.5 to 3 hours per week (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
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Morgan Stanley: Most Gen Zers and millennials in the US listen to about three hours of AI music a week
That’s enough AI music to last the run time of “Avatar.”...
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Morgan Stanley survey of audio habits in the US: 50% to 60% of listeners aged 18-44 reported listening to AI-generated music for 2.5 to 3 hours per week
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Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok due to the risk of AI-generated pornographic content, becoming the first country to deny access to the AI tool (Fransiska Nangoy/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/indonesia-temporarily-blocks-access-grok-over-sexualised-images-2026-01-10/
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Indonesia temporarily blocks Grok, citing the risk of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, becoming the first country to block the AI tool
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Stack Overflow recorded just 6,866 questions in Dec. 2025, about the same as in 2008; Stack Overflow now primarily makes money from enterprises and licensing (Claire Yubin Oh/Sherwood News)
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Stack Overflow’s forum is dead thanks to AI, but the company’s still kicking... thanks to AI
The platform is raking in millions of dollars in revenue, with AI an ironic new source of revenue....
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Stack Overflow
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Michael Burry, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, and Dwarkesh Patel on the future of AI, whether AI tools improve productivity, job losses due to AI, and more (The Substack Post)
The AI revolution is here. Will the economy survive the transition?
The man who predicted the 2008 crash, Anthropic’s co-founder, and a leading AI podcaster jump into a Google doc to debate the future of AI—and,...
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Michael Burry, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, and Dwarkesh Patel on the future of AI, whether AI tools improve productivity, job losses due to AI, and more
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