Defense Unicorns, which provides open-source air-gapped software to the US DOD, raised a $136M Series B led by Bain Capital, bringing its valuation to $1B+ (Aishwarya Jain/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/defense-unicorns-valued-1-billion-latest-funding-round-2026-01-13/
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Defense Unicorns, which provides open-source air-gapped software to the US DOD, raised a $136M Series B led by Bain Capital, taking its total valuation to $1B+
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Source details how Apple's Gemini deal works: new Siri features launching in spring and at WWDC, Apple can finetune Gemini, no Google branding, and more (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-using-gemini-give-chatgpt-like-answers
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A source details how Apple
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Under new licensing requirements, the US Commerce Department says exports of Nvidia's H200 chips and AMD's MI325X chips will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis (Bloomberg)
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US Clears Path for Nvidia to Sell H200s to China Via New Rule
The Trump administration moved closer to allowing Nvidia Corp. to sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips to China by issuing revised criteria ...
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Under new US licensing requirements, the Commerce Department says it will review exports of Nvidia
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Liftoff, which helps companies place ads in mobile apps, files for a US IPO, reporting a $25.6M net loss on $491.6M in revenue in the nine months up to Sept. 30 (Natalia Kniazhevich/Bloomberg)
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Blackstone-Backed Mobile Ad Company Liftoff Files for US IPO
Liftoff Mobile Inc., a company that helps place ads within mobile applications and lets publishers manage their inventory, filed for a US initial p...
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Liftoff, which helps companies place ads in mobile apps, files for a US IPO, reporting a $25.6M net loss on $491.6M in revenue in the nine months up to Sept. 30
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Google announces MedGemma 1.5 with improved medical imaging support, and MedASR for medical dictation, both available on Hugging Face and Vertex AI (Google Research)
Next generation medical image interpretation with MedGemma 1.5 and medical speech to text with MedASR
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Google releases MedGemma 1.5, offering improved medical imaging support, and MedASR, fine-tuned for medical dictation, both on Hugging Face and Vertex AI
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President Trump renominates Sean Plankey to be the next director of CISA, which has been running without a full-time chief since Trump's return to office (John Sakellariadis/Politico) https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/13/sean-plankey-cisa-director-nomination-00726303
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President Trump renominates Sean Plankey to be the next director of CISA, which hasn
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As part of its Reality Labs cuts, Meta is closing three VR gaming studios and will stop developing new content and features for its VR fitness app Supernatural (Jay Peters/The Verge)
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Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts
More VR studio closures.
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As part of its Reality Labs cuts, Meta is closing three VR gaming studios and will stop developing new content and features for its VR fitness app Supernatural
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Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras is in talks to raise ~$1B, valuing the startup at $22B before the new investment, up from an $8.1B valuation in September 2025 (The Information) https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chipmaker-cerebras-talks-raise-1-billion-22-billion-valuation
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Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras is in talks to raise ~$1B, valuing the startup at $22B before the new investment, up from an $8.1B valuation in September 2025
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Filing: the US greenlights Nvidia H200 exports to China; the chips will be tested by a 3rd-party lab to confirm their AI capabilities before they can be shipped (Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/us-eases-regulations-nvidia-h200-chip-exports-china-2026-01-13/
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The US gives a formal green light to sales of Nvidia
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Polygon buys crypto startups Coinme and Sequence for a total of $250M+, as it seeks to bolster its stablecoin and fintech infrastructure and compete with Stripe (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
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Polygon Labs buys two crypto startups for $250 million as it looks to compete with Stripe | Fortune
The longtime blockchain developer bought cash-to-crypto company Coinme and wallet infrastructure firm Sequence.
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Polygon buys crypto startups Coinme and Sequence for a total of $250M+, as it seeks to bolster its stablecoin and fintech infrastructure and compete with Stripe
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