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Saturday, January 31, 2026

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Waymo Finalizes $16bn Funding Round, Securing $110bn Valuation Milestone (9)

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Bitcoin slips below $80k amid liquidity woes and mounting investor fears (31) hot

Chaotic liquidity crunch sparks market collapse
Panic sentiment and technical breakdowns rock investors
Big players maneuver amid Bitcoin turbulence
Ancillary issues: market ranking, mining woes, and Ether falls

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Apple revamps its online Mac purchasing experience (8)

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SpaceX plans massive satellite constellation to fuel AI demand (18) hot

FCC filings outline orbital data center plans
Musk’s AI merger and rival visions emerge
Emergency satellite fixes amid orbital challenges

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WhatsApp encryption controversy sparks inquiry amid vague lawsuit claims (5)

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OpenAI and Nvidia’s $100 Billion Deal Remains in Doubt (24) hot

Stalled deal reports: Investors await definitive investment updates.
CEO pushback: Firm denies deal halt, affirms major investment.

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Waymo finalises $16bn funding round at $110bn valuation

ft - Google’s robotaxi start-up brings in new investors amid global roll out and competition from Elon Musk’s Tesla

#startups #robotics #google #selfdriving #robotaxis #cars #tesla #business #alphabet #automotive

Alphabet’s Waymo eyes $16B round to crush Tesla robotaxis

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Waymo nears $16 billion funding round to reach $110 billion valuation

4 wks / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Waymo Eyes $16B Raise at Roughly $110B Valuation

4 wks / eweek / eWEEK Staff

Alphabet’s robotaxi startup Waymo looks to raise $16B at $110B valuation

4 wks / siliconangle / Mike Wheatley

Google’s Self-Driving Car Arm on Road to $110 Billion Valuation

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Waymo is reportedly finalizing a new funding round that will value the robotaxi company at $110 billion.

4 wks / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Waymo reportedly raising a $16 billion funding round

4 wks / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign

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Waymo finalises $16bn funding round at $110bn valuation

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BTC drops below $80,000 following $1.6 billion in monthly ETF outflows, third-worst month on record

Zack Abrams / theblock - The price of Bitcoin briefly traded below Microstrategy's cost basis for the first time since October of 2023 as top cryptocurrencies dropped on Saturday.

#blockchain #fintech #crypto #stockmarket #bitcoin #economy #crypto

Ancillary issues: market ranking, mining woes, and Ether falls (4)
Big players maneuver amid Bitcoin turbulence (2)
Chaotic liquidity crunch sparks market collapse (5)
Panic sentiment and technical breakdowns rock investors (5)
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Strategy’s bitcoin purchases briefly underwater as cryptocurrency tests April 2025 lows

4 wks / sherwood / Luke Kawa

Crypto stocks slide in pre-market trading as bitcoin stabilizes around $77,000

4 wks / coindesk / James Van Straten

Bitcoin ETF holders, sitting on paper losses, may throw in the towel

4 wks / coindesk / Omkar Godbole

Bitcoin's crash exposes painful truth – crypto market still dances to BTC's tune

4 wks / coindesk / Omkar Godbole

The hidden reason bitcoin didn't rally as gold and silver went berserk

4 wks / coindesk / Shaurya Malwa

Bitcoin Derivatives Signal Elevated Stress Following Market Rout

4 wks / decrypt / Akash Girimath

Bitcoin briefly falls near $74,000 as thin liquidity keeps traders on edge

4 wks / coindesk / Sam Reynolds

Bitcoin holds below $80,000 as January prediction contracts miss liquidation-driven slide: Asia Morning Briefing

4 wks / coindesk / Sam Reynolds

'This is absolutely INSANE': Bitcoin’s weekend crash exposes the cracks beneath crypto’s latest boom

4 wks / coindesk / Aoyon Ashraf

Bitcoin Drops 40% in Four Months. Bloomberg Blames Absence of Buyers and Belief https://slashdot.org/story/26/02/01/2146224/bitcoin-drops-40-in-four-months-bloomberg-blames-absence-of-buyers-and-belief?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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Bitcoin Falls Below $80K Amid Wait on Crypto Legislation

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Bitcoin Drops 40% in Four Months. Bloomberg Blames Absence of Buyers and Belief

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Bitcoin's 'hopium' for bulls may be over and this weekend's slide could be just the beginning

4 wks / coindesk / Oliver Knight

Apple Changes How You Order a Mac

Joe Rossignol / macrumors - Apple recently updated its online store with a new ordering process for Macs, including the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro.There used to be a handful of standard configurations available for each Mac, but now you must co…

#ecommerce #apple #business #iphone #pricing #ux #macbook #technology #gadgets #updates

Apple updates Mac store to offer iPhone-style step-by-step ordering

4 wks / dataconomy / Kerem Gülen

Apple redesigns its Mac buying experience with a new build-to-order configurator

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Apple's online store now lets you build a new Mac exactly the way you want

4 wks / engadget / Jackson Chen

Apple has quietly updated the way that users buy and configure Macs on the online Apple Store, giving customers a process that’s closer to buying an iPhone or iPad.

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Apple Changes How You Order a Mac

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Apple Switches to Build-to-Order Systems on Its Web Site

4 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

Online Apple Store makes buying a Mac more like buying an iPhone

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Apple Changes How You Order a Mac

4 wks / macrumors / Joe Rossignol

SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of a million satellites to power AI needs

Jackson Chen / engadget - Elon Musk and his aerospace company have requested to build a network that's 100 times the number of satellites that are currently in orbit. On Friday, SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch a million satell…

#ai #techpolicy #space #genai #aerospace #broadband #telecommunications #elonmusk #satellite

Emergency satellite fixes amid orbital challenges (1)
FCC filings outline orbital data center plans (7)
Musk’s AI merger and rival visions emerge (3)
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Emergency satellite fixes amid orbital challenges

Starlink uses emergency fix to block Russian drones using its devices to bomb Ukraine — company looking for permanent solutions to stop unauthorized use of its service

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FCC filings outline orbital data center plans

SpaceX formalizes plan to build 1 million satellite Orbital Data Center System — FCC filing sketches out plans, but over-packed orbits could be limiting factor

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SpaceX seeks federal approval to launch 1 million solar-powered satellite data centers | TechCrunch

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SpaceX seeks federal approval to launch 1 million solar-powered satellite data centers

4 wks / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

SpaceX wants to put 1 million solar-powered data centers into orbit

4 wks / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

SpaceX Asks to Put One Million Data Centers in Orbit. The Math Says Otherwise.

4 wks / implicator / Harkaram Grewal

SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of a million satellites to power AI needs

4 wks / engadget / Jackson Chen

Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1m satellites into orbit

4 wks / bbc

Musk’s AI merger and rival visions emerge

Musk's Star Wars vision: SpaceX to launch million AI supercomputers. What will they do? - India Today

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Musk’s SpaceX–xAI Merger Plan Puts Orbital Data Centers at the Center of the AI Infrastructure Race - FinTech Weekly

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China's Gigawatt-Class Orbital AI Data Centers and Space Tourism Challenge Musk's SpaceX Plans in - spacetime24.com

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SpaceX seeks FCC approval for 1 million AI data center satellites

4 wks / dataconomy / Emre Çıtak

SpaceX wants 1m extra satellites

4 wks / advanced-television / Colin Mann

SpaceX seeks FCC approval to launch 1 million data center satellites

4 wks / reddit / /u/app1310

SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a constellation of up to 1 million solar-powered satellites that it said

4 wks / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

someone tell elon the ai is supoosed to do the paperclip thing, you’re not supposed to do it for them www.theverge.com/tech/871641/...

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This will not end well. www.theverge.com/tech/871641/...

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Muskrat and other rich men and their obsession with trashing space www.engadget.com/science/spac...

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WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption Allegations Questioned By Some Security Experts, Lawyers

EditorDavid / slashdot - Several security experts have "questioned the lack of technical detail" in that lawsuit alleging WhatsApp has no end-to-end encryption, reports the Washington Post:"It's pretty long on accusations and thin on any sort of evidence," Matthew Green, a crypto…

#cybersecurity #techpolicy #meta #us #apps #instantmessaging #encryption #litigation #digitalprivacy

WhatsApp’s Privacy Promise Under Federal Scrutiny After Whistleblower Allegations Surface

4 wks / reddit / /u/Haunterblademoi

US Government Also Received a Whistleblower Complaint That WhatsApp Chats Aren't Private

4 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

US authorities reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages | A lawsuit filed last week alleges tech firm ‘can access virtually all’ private communications, a claim the company has denied

4 wks / reddit / /u/Hrmbee

WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption Allegations Questioned By Some Security Experts, Lawyers

4 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

US reportedly investigate claims that Meta can read encrypted WhatsApp messages

4 wks / ycombinator

The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice

Berber Jin / wsj - Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has privately played down the likelihood the original deal will be finalized, although the two companies will continue to have a close collaboration.

#ai #chips #nvidia #gpu #openai #genai #stockmarket #business #acquisitions #huang

CEO pushback: Firm denies deal halt, affirms major investment. (7)
Stalled deal reports: Investors await definitive investment updates. (8)
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CEO pushback: Firm denies deal halt, affirms major investment.

Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company’s $100B OpenAI investment has stalled

4 wks / reddit / /u/Logical_Welder3467

Nvidia CEO Calls OpenAI Rift 'Nonsense,' Confirms Massive Investment

4 wks / iclarified

Nvidia CEO denies he’s ‘unhappy’ with OpenAI

4 wks / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

NVIDIA is still planning to make a 'huge' investment in OpenAI, CEO says

4 wks / engadget / Cheyenne MacDonald

Nvidia CEO Denies OpenAI's $100B Investment from Nvidia is 'Stalled'

4 wks / slashdot / EditorDavid

Nvidia strongly denies concerns about OpenAI deal

4 wks / techzine / Mels Dees

Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company’s $100B OpenAI investment has stalled

4 wks / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

Stalled deal reports: Investors await definitive investment updates.

Nvidia's $100 Billion OpenAI Deal Is Dead. The Relationship Isn't.

4 wks / implicator / Maria Garcia

Nvidia's plan to invest $100 billion in OpenAI appears unlikely — Jensen reportedly criticizing OpenAI's business decisions in private discussions

4 wks / tomshardware

NVIDIA’s $100 Billion Mega-Deal With OpenAI Is in Danger as Jensen Believes the Company Has Grown ‘Sloppy’ While Rivals Surge Ahead

4 wks / wccftech / Muhammad Zuhair

Nvidia reportedly puts $100 billion OpenAI deal "on ice"

4 wks / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI has stalled, WSJ reports

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The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice

5 wks / reddit / /u/esporx

The $100B Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice

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The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice

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Nvidia CEO Says New OpenAI Investment May Be Largest Yet

4 wks / reddit / /u/BusyHands_

Nvidia’s not investing $100 billion in OpenAI because the chip designer doesn’t want to pay the OpenAI valuation tax

4 wks / sherwood / Luke Kawa

OpenAI-Nvidia $100B Deal is Now ‘On Ice’

4 wks / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Nvidia CEO Says Firm Never Committed to $100 Billion OpenAI Investment

4 wks / pymnts / PYMNTS

Cannot express how often this deal was reported as done despite it never being realistic. People said for months that Nvidia gave OpenAI $100bn! Months! They thought me mad for suggesting otherwise. It’s the beginning of history! [contains quote post or

4 wks / bsky / @edzitron.com

NVIDIA and the Case of the Missing $100B OpenAI Investment

4 wks / spyglass / M.G. Siegler

AI’s Fundraising Frenzy Continues

4 wks / wsj / Kate Clark

Nvidia boss insists 'huge' investment in OpenAI on track

4 wks / techxplore

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that a recent report of friction between his company and OpenAI was “nonsense.”

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