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Tether froze $544 million in suspected illicit proceeds at Turkey’s request, part of its efforts to help governments crack down on the use of crypto in alleged crimes (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 7, 2026

Bloomberg: Tether has frozen $544 million in suspected illicit proceeds at the request of Turkey, as part of its efforts…

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Tesla says it agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI for preferred stock as part of xAI’s Series E, despite a shareholder vote in November that failed to gain approval (Kara Carlson/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 28, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Is AI killing software? — With Bret Taylor The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind…

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UPS to cut 30,000 more jobs as part of Amazon turnaround plan

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 27, 2026

A worker drives a United Parcel Service (UPS) truck on October 28, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.Mario Tama | Getty…

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TikTok users in the US have been presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app’s ownership transition and now enable precise location tracking (Reece Rogers/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 24, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI’s $50 Billion Fundraising, AI Ad Game Theory, Apple’s AI Wearable Pin The Big Technology…

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Ubisoft cancels six games, delays others as part of restructuring into five genre-specific games "creative houses"; it expects net reservations of ~€1.5 billion for the 2025-2026 financial year (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 21, 2026

Benoît Berthelot / Bloomberg: Ubisoft cancels six games and delays others as part of restructuring into five genre-specific ‘creative houses’;…

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Meta and Garmin show first demonstration of using Meta’s wrist neural band inside a car to control an infotainment system, as part of Garmin’s Unified Cabin (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 6, 2026

Featured Podcasts Invest like the best: Reed Hastings – Building Netflix The leading destination for learning about business and investing.…

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Fueled in part by U.S. tech companies, governments around the world are rushing to deploy GenAI in schools and universities, even as agencies such as UNICEF urge caution (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 4, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Meta’s AI Agent Plan, Grok’s Perversion, The Prison of Financial Mediocrity The Big Technology Podcast…

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Amazon, Microsoft and Google have pledged a total of $67.5 billion in Indian investments since October, 80% of those in December, as part of an AI spending spree in India (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 26, 2025

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Where is all the AI-driven scientific progress? The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin…

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Alphabet agrees to acquire data center company Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus existing debt, as part of its efforts to expand its AI data center footprint (Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 22, 2025

Bloomberg: Alphabet agrees to acquire data center company Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus its existing debt, as part…

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Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking and focus on search tools, part of a push to add business customers, after Comet launches on Android (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 16, 2025

Featured Podcasts Uncapped with Jack Altman: Saam Motamedi from Greylock Partners Conversations with people I admire about things that really…

Families of Tiananmen victims barred from visiting graves on anniversary – Radio Free Asia

Kazakhstan, Russia move forward with $16.4 billion nuclear power plant project – The Diplomat

Nepali PM confuses mandate with immunity – The Diplomat

Moscow’s new military partner has something Russia needs more than its allies – The Diplomat

How Japan is gradually rebalancing its foreign policy – The Diplomat

Ulta Beauty (ULTA) First Quarter 2026 Results

Markets in ‘greed’ mode as AI companies prepare for IPOs

Victoria’s Secret (VSXY) Q1 2026 Results

Prices of Audemars Piguet watches stable after collaboration with Swatch

McDonald’s MCD unveils its growth strategy

Democrats will force vote to kill Trump’s slush fund and immunity program

Trump’s ballroom is dead and his battleships may be sunk

Massive defeat for Trump as his militarization fund dies

Democrats figured out how to kill Trump’s weapons fund

It’s time for the 25th Amendment as Trump thinks the latest dementia screening was an intelligence test

GitLab lays off 350 employees, or 14% of its workforce, as it evolves into an AI-driven enterprise software development platform and exits 22 countries (Dean Seal/Wall Street Journal)

London-based Gigaton, which develops AI to automate industrial control systems for cement, steel, glass and chemical plants, has raised a $26 million Series A round (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)

Researchers at the University of Toronto say they have developed an open-source AI-powered ‘worm’ that exploits known vulnerabilities and tailors attacks to each computer (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to fall below $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)

a CoreWeave-linked data center raised $900 million via five-year junk bonds, priced at par for a 7.5% yield, as the industry increasingly shifts to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

Browsing: part

Tether froze $544 million in suspected illicit proceeds at Turkey’s request, part of its efforts to help governments crack down on the use of crypto in alleged crimes (Bloomberg)

Tesla says it agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI for preferred stock as part of xAI’s Series E, despite a shareholder vote in November that failed to gain approval (Kara Carlson/Bloomberg)

UPS to cut 30,000 more jobs as part of Amazon turnaround plan

TikTok users in the US have been presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app’s ownership transition and now enable precise location tracking (Reece Rogers/Wired)

Ubisoft cancels six games, delays others as part of restructuring into five genre-specific games "creative houses"; it expects net reservations of ~€1.5 billion for the 2025-2026 financial year (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

Meta and Garmin show first demonstration of using Meta’s wrist neural band inside a car to control an infotainment system, as part of Garmin’s Unified Cabin (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Fueled in part by U.S. tech companies, governments around the world are rushing to deploy GenAI in schools and universities, even as agencies such as UNICEF urge caution (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

Amazon, Microsoft and Google have pledged a total of $67.5 billion in Indian investments since October, 80% of those in December, as part of an AI spending spree in India (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

Alphabet agrees to acquire data center company Intersect for $4.75 billion in cash, plus existing debt, as part of its efforts to expand its AI data center footprint (Bloomberg)

Perplexity updates its iPad app to improve multitasking and focus on search tools, part of a push to add business customers, after Comet launches on Android (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)