SK Hynix doubles 2025 profit as AI memory shortages drive earnings beat
cnbc - South Korea's SK Hynix on Wednesday posted record quarterly revenue and profit, to beat estimates.
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Düsseldorf-Based Co-Reactive Raises €6.5M To Decarbonise Cement Production
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Düsseldorf-based Co-reactive, a ClimateTech startup targeting large-scale decarbonisation of the construction industry, has raised €6.5 million in Seed funding to scale its CO₂ mineralisation technology. The round was led by HTGF, with backing from NRW.Ba…
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Amazon Inadvertently Announces Cloud Unit Layoffs In Email To Employees
BeauHD / slashdot - Amazon appears to have prematurely acknowledged layoffs inside AWS after an internal email referencing "organizational changes" and "impacted colleagues" was mistakenly sent to cloud employees. CNBC reports: "Changes like this are hard on everyone," Colle…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Responds After ICE Shootings in Minneapolis
Joe Rossignol / macrumors - Apple CEO Tim Cook has responded to events in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after two people were shot and killed by U.S. federal immigration agents this month.In an internal memo to Apple employees, obtained by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Cook said he is "heartbr…
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Apple Plans to Keep iPhone 18 Prices Steady Despite Rising Component Costs [Kuo]
iclarified - Apple is facing a significant increase in component costs, particularly for memory, but the company reportedly plans to absorb those expenses rather than pass them on to consumers with the iPhone 18. TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says A…
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Anthropic Close to Finalizing Fundraising Deal at $350 Billion Valuation
PYMNTS / pymnts - Anthropic is close to finalizing a fundraising deal in which it will raise $20 billion and be valued at $350 billion, the Financial Times reported Tuesday (Jan. 27), citing unnamed sources. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup doubled the amount it wa…
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Crypto Payments Startup Mesh Hits $1 Billion Unicorn Valuation
Andrew Hayward / decrypt - Mesh, which lets businesses take crypto payments across networks, added $75 million to its war chest, achieving “unicorn” status in the process.
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TikTok’s US Handover Spirals Into Chaos
Chris Hauk / idropnews - TikTok’s transition to US ownership hits a crisis as server outages, censorship claims over a Minneapolis shooting, and a Gavin Newsom probe drive users to UpScrolled.Read More...
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Google’s Low-Cost AI Plus Plan Launches in 35 New Countries Including the US
Laurent Giret / thurrott - Google's AI Plus is coming to the US and 34 other new countries today, and it's available at just $3.99/month for the first two months for new subscribers.The post Google’s Low-Cost AI Plus Plan Launches in 35 New Countries Including the US appeared first…
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Pinterest layoffs today: 15% of jobs cut as social media giant is latest to cite shift to AI
Michael Grothaus / fastcompany - Nike isn’t the only household corporate name to announce significant layoffs this week. Just a day after the sporting goods giant announced layoffs, citing a further embrace of automation, social media giant Pinterest has announced it will cut jobs. The d…
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Amazon To Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores
msmash / slashdot - Amazon is closing all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores in a shift to focus on its online same-day delivery service and new big-box retail stores. From a report: The e-commerce giant said Tuesday that some of its shuttered Amazon-branded b…
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Brickanta closes $8M round to expand AI use in construction planning
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Stockholm-based Brickanta, an agentic AIplatform for the construction industry, has closed an $8 million seed fundinground led by Northzone. The round includes participation from global sportsfigures,...
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With Clue and Lovehoney as partners, Evaro secures €21 million to expand NHS-licensed embedded health services
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Evaro, an NHS-licensed digital healthcare platform serving over 2 million patients, today announced it has closed a €21 million ($25 million) Series A funding round to expand across treatment areas (women’s health, men’s health, and longevity medicine), c…
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GoCanopy Raises €2.1M To Launch AI Platform For Institutional Real Estate Investors
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Paris-based GoCanopy, an AI-powered operating system for institutional real estate investors, has raised €2.1 million in Seed funding to enhance its platform and support international expansion. The round was led by ISAI, with participation from BNP Parib…
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Micron builds $24 bn Singapore chip fab as AI demand soars
techxplore - US chip firm Micron said Tuesday it was building a $24 billion plant in Singapore to help meet soaring AI-driven demand that has caused a global shortage of memory components.
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Ricursive Intelligence nabs $300M to speed up chip design with AI
Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Ricursive Intelligence Inc., a startup that plans to use artificial intelligence to speed up chip development, has raised $300 million in funding at a $4 billion valuation. Lightspeed led the Series A investment. Recursive disclosed in its funding announc…
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Meta to test premium subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp
cnbc - Meta Platforms is set to test new subscription models across its apps, including Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp in the coming months.
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‘Humanity needs to wake up’ to dangers of AI, says Anthropic chief
ft - Dario Amodei posts 20,000-word essay detailing potentially catastrophic risks from powerful AI in years to come
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TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture
cnbc - TikTok's daily average U.S. app uninstalls have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared to the previous three months, Sensor Tower told CNBC.
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Target, UnitedHealth, 3M, General Mills CEOs finally spoke up about ICE after weeks of silence. Here’s what they said
Grace Snelling / fastcompany - For weeks, the leaders of Minnesota’s most prominent businesses have remained tight-lipped as thousands of ICE agents have flooded the Twin Cities, where those agents have raided residential neighborhoods, detained employees from local businesses, and tak…
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