Thursday, January 15, 2026




In Detail Full day, Thursday, January 15, 2026, Timezone: America/Chicago


Social media companies purge 4.7mn accounts after landmark Australia ban

ft - First data released on impact of blocking access for children as other countries monitor progress

#techpolicy #government #internet #australia #media #censorship #contentmoderation #safety #digitalprivacy

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OpenAI, Microsoft Lose Last Chance to Avoid Trial With Musk

Robert Burnson / bloomberg - OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft failed to escape a trial over Elon Musk’s claims that Sam Altman’s startup betrayed its founding mission as a public charity when it took billions in funding from a software giant and made plans to operate as a for-profit busines…

#microsoft #openai #aiethics #genai #business #judiciary #law #elonmusk #litigation

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TSMC (TSM) Stock: Surges on Landmark U.S.–Taiwan Trade Deal and Massive U.S. Expansion Plans

Yasmin Werner / parameter - TLDR TSMC jumps 4.44% as U.S.–Taiwan trade deal reshapes global chip strategy New trade pact cuts tariffs to 15% and boosts TSMC’s U.S. fab ambitions $500B investment framework positions TSMC for massive U.S. expansion Semiconductor trade deal reduces unc…

#semiconductors #chips #tsmc #stockmarket #business #supplychain #us #asia #manufacturing #technology

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Democrats Blast SEC Over Crypto Retreat, Justin Sun’s Alleged China Ties

André Beganski / decrypt - House Democrats have accused the SEC of selectively enforcing laws against crypto firms, while spotlighting Tron founder Justin Sun.

#blockchain #crypto #techpolicy #government #us #scam #law #litigation #sec #crypto

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DDR5 RAM prices now over 4x higher since September 2025

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#hardware #semiconductors #chips #business #supplychain #pricing #economy #manufacturing #technology #memory

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Ripple CEO Breaks Silence on Coinbase’s Sudden Withdrawal from Key Bill

Maxwell Mutuma / parameter - TLDR Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse expressed surprise over Coinbase’s strong rejection of the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act. Garlinghouse acknowledged the concerns raised by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong regarding tokenized stocks and stablecoin rewards.…

#blockchain #crypto #techpolicy #politics #government #finance #governance #law #sec #crypto

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‘Heinous’: Musk’s AI Grok facing probe

news.com.au - Millions of accounts were deactivated in the wake of Australia’s social media ban, but it’s an “even more potentially catastrophic” threat that has the watchdog worried.

#techpolicy #aiethics #genai #government #apps #censorship #elonmusk #grokai #safety #advertising

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ASUS Stops Producing Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB

BeauHD / slashdot - Reports suggest ASUS has effectively ended production of NVIDIA's RTX 5070 Ti and 5060 Ti 16GB GPUs due to a severe memory crunch driven by AI infrastructure demand, even as NVIDIA insists it's still shipping all GeForce SKUs. YouTube channel Hardware Unb…

#ai #hardware #gaming #semiconductors #nvidia #gpu #manufacturing #technology #asus #memory

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Ashley St. Clair Sues Elon Musk’s xAI Over Grok Sexual Images

Madlin Mekelburg / bloomberg - Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, sued the billionaire’s artificial intelligence company for harassment, accusing xAI’s Grok chatbot of generating sexually explicit images of her without her consent.

#ai #dataprivacy #aiethics #genai #law #contentmoderation #xai #grokai #litigation #digitalprivacy

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TSMC's $56 Billion Bet Says the AI Bubble Hasn't Popped

Harkaram Grewal / implicator - TSMC's Q4 profit jumped 35% to a record $16 billion. CEO C.C. Wei declared "AI is real" and backed it with $56 billion in 2026 capex, the largest semiconductor investment in history. Intel and Samsung are scrambling to catch up. They're not close.

#ai #semiconductors #chips #tsmc #stockmarket #earnings #business

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Some of the largest AI players are now paying Wikipedia for the data they already use

Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Wikipedia has signed Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity as paying partners for its Enterprise API, but not every website can offset the traffic losses caused by AI systems.The article Some of the largest AI players are now paying Wikipedi…

#ai #ml #meta #amazon #microsoft #genai #business #wikipedia #api #copyright

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How Activists in Iran Are Using Starlink to Stay Online

Adam Satariano,Paul Mozur,Sheera Frenkel / nytimes - Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout in Iran, smuggling in Starlink satellite internet systems and making digital shutdowns harder for the authorities to enforce.

#techpolicy #government #internet #asia #censorship #telecommunications #satellite #starlink #digitalprivacy

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OpenAI Prepares to Add Data Centers, Robotics and Consumer Devices

PYMNTS / pymnts - OpenAI is reportedly lining up suppliers to support a major product expansion over the next few years. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup has put out a request for proposals from companies that manufacturer in the United States and offer components …

#ai #robotics #hardware #openai #business #datacenter #supplychain #us #manufacturing #gadgets

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Verizon just had a big outage. Here's what we know

John Ruwitch / npr - Verizon says a software problem caused the glitch and they are conducting a postmortem, but experts say outages are "a fact of life" these days.

#software #mobiletech #networking #business #broadband #internet #wireless #technology #patching #bugs

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Taiwan Pledges $250 Billion in U.S. Spending in Exchange for Lower Tariffs

Amrith Ramkumar / wsj - Under the agreement, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing will add new factories to its cluster in Arizona as part of a $250 billion investment in the U.S., the Commerce Department said.

#semiconductors #techpolicy #chips #tsmc #tariffs #business #supplychain #us #asia #manufacturing

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Amazon's New World: Aeternum MMO will go offline January 31, 2027

Anna Washenko / engadget - Today, Amazon shared more details about the final chapter of its game New World: Aeternum. The company announced in October that it would wind down support for the MMO, with the Nighthaven season to be its last. New World will be delisted and no longer av…

#gaming #amazon #entertainment #business #culture #community #videogames

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Spotify Raises Premium Price to $12.99/Month in the U.S.

iclarified - Spotify is increasing the monthly cost of its Premium subscription for customers in the United States. The streaming giant has begun notifying subscribers that the price for an individual plan is rising by one dollar, pushing the monthly fee from $11.99 t…

#streaming #business #us #pricing #music #economy #spotify #advertising

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iPhone 18 Pro Launching Later This Year With These 12 New Features

Joe Rossignol / macrumors - While the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max are not expected to launch for another eight months, there are already plenty of rumors about the devices.Below, we have recapped 12 features rumored for the iPhone 18 Pro models, as of January 2026:The same o…

#mobiletech #innovation #apple #iphone #ios #camera #ux #technology #gadgets #smartphone

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Cloudflare Acquires Human Native

FinSMEs / finsmes - Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), a San Francisco, CA-based connectivity cloud company, acquired Human Native, an AI data marketplace that connects creators and AI developers. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. The acquisition will enable AI developers…

#ai #cloud #datascience #dataprivacy #aiethics #genai #business #acquisitions #cloudflare

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Unreleased Apple Display Appears in China Energy Label Database

iclarified - A regulatory filing in China has revealed an unreleased Apple display with the model number A3350. The entry appeared in the China Energy Label Center database today with a filing date of January 15, 2026.Continue ReadingSpotlight Deal:Samsung's 32-Inch M…

#hardware #apple #china #business #manufacturing #technology #gadgets #updates

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Senate Crypto Regulation Markup Fizzles Over Stablecoin Yield Debate

PYMNTS / pymnts - Getting crypto markets legislation passed in the U.S. is becoming as volatile as crypto markets themselves. Thursday (Jan. 15) was supposed to be a big day for the digital asset sector. The Senate Banking Committee, which oversees the Securities and Excha…

#blockchain #fintech #crypto #techpolicy #banking #politics #government #finance #law #sec

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