OpenAI Reports Over $20 Billion Estimated Revenue for 2025 Amidst Wider AI Adoption
Prabhanu Kumar Das / medianama - OpenAI's projected revenue has gone up from $2 billion in 2023 to over $20 billion in 2025, with compute capacity tripling each year as AI adoption entered the embedded stage from the experimentation stage. The post OpenAI Reports Over $20 Billion Estimat…
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Is Bermuda Ready for a Fully Onchain Economy? Coinbase Joins Forces
Maxwell Mutuma / parameter - TLDR Bermuda has partnered with Coinbase and Circle to transform its economy into a fully onchain system using blockchain technology. The initiative will integrate digital asset infrastructure across government, businesses, and consumers in Bermuda. Stabl…
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Asus Confirms It Won't Launch Phones in 2026, May Leave Android Altogether
msmash / slashdot - Asus won't release any new smartphones this year, and that may signal the brand's exit from the Android space altogether. From a report: Asus Chairman Jonney Shih confirmed the news at an event in Taiwan on Jan. 16. According to a machine-translated versi…
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New York Stock Exchange Developing 24/7 Tokenized Trading Platform
PYMNTS / pymnts - The New York Stock Exchange is reportedly creating a venue for round-the-clock tokenized stock trading. The exchange (NYSE) plans to combine its technology that matches sellers and buyers with private blockchain networks, to allow for the trading of token…
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OpenAI Will Soon Test Ads On ChatGPT
barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) / seroundtable - OpenAI announced on Friday it will begin testing ads in the ChatGPT responses in the coming weeks. The ads will show on the free product and low-cost subscription tier, ChatGPT Go. The ads will show under the main response and not influence the answers Ch…
Editor: Let's be real here: this was as inevitable as it was risky. The big risk is what it does to consumer's perception of trustworthiness - how will OpenAI structure their ads product so that users don't feel like their ChatGPT responses are compromised or suspect? How do you accept a product recommendation when you're not sure whether the AI is incentivized to recommend a particular product?
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Anzen Industries Secures $2.2M Funding In Pre-Seed Round
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - UK-based deeptech startup Anzen Industries has raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding, led by LocalGlobe and Creator Fund, with support from strategic angel investors across the UK, EU and US, including Konstantin von Unger and early-stage investor Cory …
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German VC Ananda Impact Ventures completes €73 million first close to back European impact startups
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Munich-based VC Ananda Impact Ventures has secured €73 million in the first close of its fifth Core Impact Fund, well above its €50 million target and securing the largest first close in the firm’s 16-year history in order to invest in frontier tech from …
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Spot bitcoin ETFs see $1.4 billion inflows in best week since October
Timmy Shen / theblock - The inflows signal renewed institutional demand for bitcoin as a long-term asset, even amid short-term volatility, an analyst said.
Editor: Is BTC finally getting to a place where it can function as a value store alongside gold?
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Hamburg-based one.five raises €14 million to solve the product-market-fit problem in packaging
Rahul Raj / eu-startups - one.five, a Hamburg-based company building AI-powered solutions for packaging product development, has raised €14 million in Series A funding to scale its proprietary AI platform and data foundation. The round was led by Dr Hans Riegel Holding (shareholde…
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Baidu’s Apollo Go Launches Largest Fully Driverless Commercial Robotaxi Operation in Abu Dhabi
pandaily - Apollo Go has officially launched its first overseas fully driverless robotaxi service in Abu Dhabi, aiming to build the city’s largest autonomous fleet by 2026.
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Micron (MU) Stock: Edges Lower on Warning of Prolonged HBM and DRAM Shortages
Newton Kitonga / parameter - TLDRs; Micron says AI-driven memory shortages could last well beyond 2026, pressuring near-term sentiment. High-bandwidth memory demand is crowding out supply for PCs, smartphones, and automakers. Massive US and Asia investments aim to rebalance DRAM and …
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Vanagon Ventures Raises €20M To Support Europe’s Deep-Tech Pre-Seed Startups
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Vanagon Ventures, a Munich-based venture capital firm, has announced the final close of its €20 million Fund I, created specifically to support deep tech and AI startups at the pre-seed and seed stages. Vanagon intends to invest up to €500,000 per company…
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